Course description
EMI's Natural Gas Fundamentals
Attend DTN's Natural Gas Fundamentals course and get a thorough understanding of the entire natural gas industry, from well head to burner tip.
You’ll learn the mechanics and nuances of exploration and production, the pipeline transportation infrastructure and storage as well as the buying, selling and marketing of natural gas.
This course is worth 7 CPE credits and 3 EMI credits.
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Training content
This intensive one-day course describes the industry from the four major functions:
- Origins and destinations of natural gas
- Exploration through distribution
- Buying, selling, marketing
- Transportation
This course intertwines the relationships of:
- Market macro and micro fundamentals
- Purchasing and selling methodology
- Producing and marketing
- Understanding of the various market relationships that impact the everyday aspects of the business
You’ll examine topics such as:
- Physical properties of natural gas
- Where natural gas is found
- How natural gas is measured
- Where have we been and where are we going: the history and future of natural gas in North America
- The major consumers of natural gas: from home use to manufacturing
- Exploration: the role of geologists and technology
- Drilling: onshore and offshore
- Production, treatment, compression, and processing
- Gathering, storage, and transmission
- Transportation: construction, safety, operations
- Overview of natural gas marketing processes
- Distribution: how natural gas gets to the burner tip
- Gas industry standards board
- The “players” who make the industry work: suppliers - marketers - brokers -local distribution companies - industrial and commercial end users
- Natural gas futures and OTC derivatives
- Transportation and how it works
- Storage usefulness and seasonal peaking and and balancing needs
- Market centers (hubs): services provided
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