This intensive 2-day course will provide participants with a solid all round grounding in the technologies, concepts, methods and language used in upstream oil and gas projects. The technical and commercial building blocks of oil and gas projects will be examined, and how a venture progresses; from the point of acquiring a license, through exploration, appraisal, concept selection and the development phase, into production, late field life and...

This course contrasts the technical and commercial differences between LNG and natural gas to point out benefits and constraints that arise from the LNG option. It will examine the technical process of producing LNG, plant design considerations, global comparisons along with the design of regasification terminals. A description is given of the elements in the “gas chain” which apply to LNG and of drivers that would lead to optimisa...

Organizations know they can save millions in IT budget dollars with Hadoop, but many do not know where to begin. Attend this complimentary webinar from Informatica & Appfluent to learn: best practices to your optimize data warehouse infrastructure how to pinpoint dormant data in your systems methods to Identify data and ETL processing for offload how to determine which data and processing are causing system bottlenecks

The Global Iron Ore and Steel Conference always attracts the most respected market experts from across the world, who give their views and opinions into the industry opportunities, challenges and threats. The program for 2014 will be the industrys key platform to discuss pressing concerns such as: The outlook and analysis of global iron ore market, demand/supply and price trends for the coming year. The perspective on iron ore industry from pr...

This year's summit assembled dozens of heads of transfer pricing in some of the world's largest corporations and an audience in excess of 280 international delegates. It featured new keynote speeches from OECD (Joseph Andrus) HMRC (Peter Steeds), United Nations (Michael Lennard) and tax authorities in addition to industry-led presentations, interactive panel debates and technical workshops, making this much more than just a premium networking...

LNG Series: Course 1 – Course Level: Basic/Foundational First in our LNG training series, this basic level introductory course will benefit those who have no background in LNG, and who need an appreciation of how the LNG business works and how they contribute to the big picture. The international LNG industry has seen growing since its inception. Natural gas is liquefied to enable transportation where pipelines are impossible or uneconom...

The 9th Annual Structured Commodity Finance 2014 brings together the widest cross-section of industry players from producers, banks, traders, insurers, lawyers, and other key commodities players. You will hear from over 50 expert commodities speakers. Many of the leading players, including commodity producers have already signed up to share their knowledge and expertise at this industry forum. The unique format of over 16 sessions / panel deba...

Informa's National Emergency Relief Summit will examine how to improve services provided as emergency relief to Australias most vulnerable populations. The Inaugural National Emergency Relief Summit 2014 presents policy-makers and industry leaders at the local, state and national level with the opportunity to discuss how to improve the many services provided as emergency relief to Australias most vulnerable populations. This two-day conference...

This course will provide participants with a fundamental grounding in the Australian gas industry, covering the key technical, commercial and contract aspects of the industry. The course begins with a short review of upstream activities including how natural gas (conventional and coal seam methane gas) is formed, how it is found and produced. A study of the gas transportation network will outline the movement of gas flows around the country, i...

The Inaugural Child Online Safety & Protection Conference will focus on policies, programs and practices for protecting childrens privacy rights and ensuring their safety online. Cyber-bullying is an issue of increasing concern and educational institutions mustimplement prevention strategies and policies to safeguard against it.Featured Topics:Child protection & privacy LawsDeveloping a framework for online protectionCyber-safety ...