Industry training

This one-day workshop starts with a focus on specifications, blending and valuation followed by fundamentals of refining planning and optimisation; factors that affect refinery profitability, margin calculations, as well as trends in refining and product demand. Delegates attending this course will...

This highly interactive workshop is a great introduction to exchange traded futures contracts. Delegates will leave with an in-depth knowledge of futures contracts and markets - specifically those related to energy. This introductory one-day course includes a trading simulation and a...

This course allows delegates to experience this fascinating and complex field first hand. Long thought as a difficult topic, options are broken down so they are fully understood. This full day workshop covers everything from premium valuation to advanced trading strategies...

Understanding and identifying how to limit price risk exposure is a complex task. This two-day course will provide attendees with a forum to maximize hedging efficiencies and limit price risk exposure. Delegates will build a portfolio of industry techniques for managing...

Course Outcome After completing Biofuels- An Introduction, students will be equipped with a basic understanding of the following: global petroleum supply-demand situation the need for biofuels corn ethanol process, challenges, and economics biodiesel process, challenges, and economics sugarcane ethanol process, challenges, and economics...

Course Description Fuel derived from renewable resources present an attractive alternative to petroleum, with benefits ranging from reduced green house gases to reduced dependency on foreign oil. Fuels derived from terrestrial or aquatic biomass provides a unique alternative to food based energy crops....

Course Description Fuel derived from renewable resources present an attractive alternative to petroleum, with benefits ranging from reduced green house gases to reduced dependency on foreign oil. "Cellulose Ethanol" is a new course that provide students with an overview of the cellulose...

Course Description Smaller can mean better. Nanotechnology is science at the molecular level. Like biotechnology and information technology, it is a growth industry with the potential to greatly change the world in which we live. Biomedical Nanotechnology is a course that investigates...

Course Description Biomedical Polymers is a course that provides the most recent development of biomedical polymers and their applications and covers a variety of biomedical areas such as in cardiovascular, dental, orthopedic, ophthalmologic and wound healing research. We will investigate polymer biocompatibility,...

Course Description Biotechnology is the use of biological processes, organisms, or systems to manufacture products intended to improve the quality of human life. Fundamentals of Biotechnology is a course that examines biotechnology, such as medical processes (i.e. getting organisms to produce new...

Course Description Manufacturing is the process of converting raw materials, components, or parts into finished goods that meet a customer's expectations or specifications. Such finished goods may be used for manufacturing other, more complex products, such as aircraft, household appliances or automobiles,...

Course Description Nonwovens are all around us- from absorbent wipes to landscape materials. This platform of fabric materials, which evolved out of the textile industry, requires no knitting or weaving. These materials are made from long fibers, bonded together by chemical, mechanical,...

Course Description Packaging is defined as "all products made of any materials of any nature to be used for the containment, protection, handling, delivery and preservation of goods from the producer to the user or consumer." Packaging serve many purposes, including physical...

Course Description This course provides a basic understanding of the validation process as required by the Food and Drug Administration of the United States for drugs manufactured in the United States and all imported drugs. This course also reviews applicable definitions and...

Course Description Quality Control (QC) ensures that products and services are designed and produced to meet or exceed customer expectations. "Quality Control" is a course that introduces the basics for understanding, developing, and implementing a quality control program. We review several key...

Course Description "Statistics: An Introduction for Beginners" is a course specifically designed for students who desire a basic working knowledge of statistics. The basic ideas of descriptive statistical methods are presented, including frequency distribution, measures of location and variation. The course also...

Course Description Welcome to Six Sigma! Six Sigma is a business and data-driven, disciplined approach to minimizing defects in any type of process (be it manufacturing or services). Popularized in the mid-90's by companies such as Motorola and GE, Six Sigma has...

This course covers the latest practical developments in credit and counterparty risk in energy and commodity markets. We will explore how to identify, quantify and mitigate credit and counterparty risk from derivatives and long term contracts. Case studies will illustrate practical...

This course provides an overview of energy derivatives and physical markets as well as the main instruments traded in those markets. We will explore the main differences between physical and paper transactions and also between exchange-traded and OTC products. We will...

Energy Derivatives Pricing, Hedging and Risk Management (DPH2) builds on the concepts and instruments presented in Energy Derivatives Markets, Instruments and Hedging (DPH1) and provides an overview of Energy derivatives Pricing and Risk Management. We will start with a review of...