1/5/2019
00:00
N/A
Free
The 3-day training course is pitched to appeal to professionals with a large range of technical and commercial backgrounds and varying levels of experience seeking insight to the broad range of asset valuation techniques required across the industry.
Dr David A. Wood B.Sc. Ph.D
Dr. Wood is an experienced consultant, with more than 30 years of international oil and gas experience, and provides technical, fiscal and contractual advice, technical and management training to a wide range of oil, gas and energy entities. He has extensive, economic, financial, fiscal operations, project, risk and strategic management experience with many international energy organizations and assets.
Industry experience includes Phillips Petroleum, Amoco (Africa, Europe & UK) and Canadian independents (South America, Africa, Middle & Far East) with three years based in Colombia and four years based in Dubai. From 1993 to 1998 he was he was UK Managing Director for Lundin Oil & then Morrison Petroleum responsible for a broad portfolio of assets and a staff of more than 100.
For the past decade he has worked as an independent international consultant and expert witness. He has published an extensive body of work on diverse energy related topics including: the international energy markets, performance modelling of fiscal designs, petroleum economic analysis, enterprise risk & portfolio simulation, LNG, GTL and gas supply, deep-water exploration and production techniques, corporate performance, portfolio and strategy management, mergers & acquisitions, negotiations & project management.
He is actively involved in diverse professional training, research, publication and development programmes. He is a member of the Energy Institute (MEI) and the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain and associate editor of the Journal of Natural Gas Science & Engineering.
About this course:
Valuation of upstream, midstream and downstream assets is an essential requirement of decision making for the oil and gas industry. This course discusses the key variables and issues associated with petroleum asset valuations and provide an appreciation of how to assess the key uncertainties involved.
The course is pitched to appeal to professionals with a large range of technical and commercial backgrounds and varying levels of experience seeking insight to the broad range of asset valuation techniques required across the industry.
In addition the course provides details of the micro-economic issues facing oil and gas asset operators.
The course incorporates a sequence of short exercises and case studies to reinforce the tools and techniques discussed.
Who should take this course?
This course is designed for a multi-disciplined audience with diverse oil and gas, financial, petroleum economics, technical, strategic planning, risk management and operational backgrounds.Course content addresses issues and skills relevant to professionals working within oil and gas companies, government agencies (national oil and gas companies and ministries) and the support and service sectors to the industry.
Course overview:
Day One – Basic analysis and valuation techniques
- The need for oil and gas asset valuations and petroleum economics
- Project cash flow and income components
- Distinguishing cash flow and other measures of profitability
- Petroleum resources and reserves categories and their valuation
- Discounting and time-value considerations
- Forecasting field production profiles and decline mechanisms
- Rates of return of investments
- Payout times and breakeven points
- Profit to investment ratios
- Capital budgeting techniques and yardsticks
- Which oil and/or gas price forecasts should be used to value assets?
Day Two – Constructing asset valuation models
- Valuing Incremental Investments
- Inflation, buying power, money of the day and real values
- Applying inflation indices Upstream fiscal terms and agreement types
- Production sharing and cost recovery
- Funding criteria: the cost of capital
- Hurdle rates of return and appropriate discount rates
- Asset finance alternatives used by the oil and gas industry
- Equity and debt cash flow analysis
- Manipulating the present value formula, annuities and levelised costs
- Sensitivity, scenario and simulation techniques
- Probabilistic methodology and techniques for valuation and risk analysis
- Components of Monte Carlo simulation models
- Gross product worth and refining margins
Day Three – Dealing with uncertainty, hedges, options and portfolios
- Valuations incorporating risk and opportunity analysis
- Decision analysis, decision trees & flexibility
- Subsurface risk in oil and gas fields
- Above-ground uncertainties impacting oil and gas assets
- Risked valuation of a farmout opportunity using a decision tree
- Valuing a deepwater oil and gas field development
- Hedging oil and/or gas price: evaluation of paper instruments
- Real options and complex decision analysis techniques
- Investment analysts’ perspectives of oil and gas company values
- Extrapolation of balance sheet metrics to estimate oil company values
- Valuation and risk analysis software suitable for oil and gas assets
- Risked valuation and optimisation of petroleum asset portfolios
- Diversification as a risk reduction tool
Contact details
Training Team: webtraining@energyinst.org, +44 (0)20 7467 7178