LNG Markets, Pricing, and Investments (CLASSROOM) - LNGME
Course Schedule
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Price* |
Registration Deadline** |
1–3 Dec 2025
Register
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8:00am-4:00pm
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Houston, TX
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USD4,315 (LNGME-AHOU25-12)
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31 Oct 2025
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*Prices do not include VAT, GST, or any other local taxes. All applicable taxes will be added to the invoice.
**Please register by the deadline to help us ensure sufficient attendance and avoid postponing the course.
Course Summary
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is reshaping the global energy landscape with its growing role in energy security, power generation, and decarbonization strategies. Yet its pricing, trading, and investment strategies remain complex and evolving. This course offers professionals a comprehensive understanding of LNG value chains, market dynamics, pricing mechanisms, and financial understanding to make decisions under uncertainty.
By combining market fundamentals, environmental and policy considerations, and corporate financial strategies, participants will develop skills to handle LNG commercial negotiations, investment decisions, and managing risks.
This course highlights:
- LNG market structure, trading growth, and regional supply-demand
- Natural gas chemistry, plant infrastructure, and product quality specs
- Environmental and policy drivers shaping LNG’s global role
- Commercial practices, contracts, and marketing strategies
- Forward pricing, derivatives, and hedging instruments in LNG
- Modelling project investment decisions and focusing on value drivers
- Fundamental and strategic analysis for LNG valuation
Upon completion, delegates will be able to:
- Analyze LNG production, processing, and trading within the natural gas value chain
- Interpret global market trends and regional LNG dynamics
- Evaluate environmental and regulatory factors shaping LNG economics
- Understand contract structures, pricing formulas, and commercial risk
- Apply corporate finance principles to LNG project appraisal and capital structuring
- Perform project-level valuation using Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), and scenario-based approaches
- Assess financing structures and risk-return trade-offs in LNG investments
- Develop hedging strategies using futures, options, swaps, and netback optimization
Who Should Attend?
This course is for anyone involved in the process of decision making. It is Ideal for professionals involved in investment analysis, financial modelling, risk assessment, and strategic planning:
- LNG marketers, project developers, and financial analysts
- Strategy consultants and planners in gas and energy sectors
- Corporate finance and treasury professionals in energy firms
- Risk managers and contract negotiators
- Regulators and policymakers overseeing gas trade and infrastructure
Course Content
LNG Fundamentals and Global Context
Focus: Building foundational understanding of LNG across scientific, technological, and strategic dimensions.
- Global energy landscape and transition dynamics
- Natural gas fundamentals: chemistry and physical properties
- LNG technologies: liquefaction, regasification, and infrastructure bottlenecks
- Gas quality and specifications: calorific value, impurities, and sales metrics
- Supply-demand outlook: global LNG trends and export growth
- Value chain economics: positioning, cost structures, and logistics
LNG Markets, Climate Strategy, and Commercial Dynamics
Focus: Positioning LNG within climate policy, competitive energy markets, and global trading environments.
- Role of LNG in climate policy and energy mix competitiveness
- Regulatory incentives and emissions targets
- Strategic logistics: storage, transport, and infrastructure constraints
- Market access in emerging demand centers
- Sales strategies and long-term offtake agreements
- Evolution of LNG trading: spot vs. term markets, global hubs
- Price formation and benchmarks: Brent, Henry Hub, and TTF
Investment Strategy, Risk Modelling, and Project Finance
Focus: Equipping participants with financial and strategic tools for LNG investments and project evaluation.
- Investing in LNG projects: key value drivers
- Project finance models and capital planning
- Investment appraisal: NPV, IRR, payback, sensitivity analysis
- Hedging LNG positions with futures and options
- Real options: modelling project flexibility and delay strategies
- Scenario planning for long-term exposure and contract dynamics
- Case study: Investment analysis of a mid-scale Floating LNG project
