Program Overview

Objectives of This Program:

• Provide participants with an essential understanding of the key issues in the global oil industry, in the context of demand/supply and oil market trends.
• Enhance appreciation of the main factors affecting your particular field/expertise in a broader context.
• Help put fast-moving oil markets into perspective.
• Stimulate sharp inspiration and creative solutions for overcoming the challenges facing the oil world.

Who Should Attend?

• Senior analysts in corporate/trading functions who are looking to broaden their knowledge, particularly from a regional/sector focus into a global context.
• Planners and managers who are keen to put their own operations/policies into perspective.
• Senior operators/traders aiming to develop their activities into a wider planning/management role.
• Thought leaders looking for further stimulus.

• Challenges, opportunities, and future trends in the global oil economy.
• Oil demand: Current parameters and outlook.
• Oil supply: Current parameters and outlook.
• Supply/demand drivers in a global context.
• Importance of new E∓P technology.
• Significance of policy changes on demand.
• Main factors affecting the refining industry.
• Key trends in crude/products trade flows.
• Pricing issues and challenges.

• Implications for upstream/downstream sectors.
• Oil companies’ planning and strategic alliances.
• Joint ventures: risks and opportunities.
• IOCs and NOCs: Differences in focus/strategies.
• Key producer/consumer government policies.
• Adjusting strategies and business outlooks to increased oil market uncertainties and volatility.
• Reflections, conclusions and opportunities in an exciting rapidly-changing sector.