EA Academy

Training solutions for the energy market

Unlocking insight: From analysis to synthesis


Empower delegates to move from knowing what happened to understanding why and drive innovation that adds value to your organisation.

Our Academy delivers courses tailored to your needs.


Our programmes offer a comprehensive insight into the factors shaping key commodity markets, blending interactive discussions, case studies, and practical exercises to explore market dynamics and the wider trading environment. 


With a strong focus on real-world applications and participant experience, each session is designed to deliver a thorough and engaging learning experience.

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Courses we can deliver for you


We provide detailed knowledge of supply – demand dynamics and their impact on commodity markets, learning how trading activities affect various stakeholders across the energy sector, supported by expert in-house analysis.

Targeted, market-leading intelligence training


Our Academy caters from new energy markets participants who are learning how to unpack the complexity of markets, to seasoned analysts who want to deepen their knowledge on a specific topic. Energy Aspects Academy can help meet the full range of your training needs.

Energy Markets Essentials


EME courses provides comprehensive, cross-commodity training that equips both those who are new to the energy industry and those who want to diversify their commodity knowledge within your organisation. You can select the sectors you need to build a foundation in how energy markets function and trade.


Courses typically span from one day to 10 days; each module is delivered within one day apart from Crude oil and Oil products that are two days.

EA Academy Market Essentials session

Biofuels

  • Price forecasts
  • Supply and demand balance
  • Trade flows
  • Production capacity
  • Inventory levels

Crude oil

  • Upstream
  • Refining
  • Understanding crude prices
  • Supply and demand balance
  • Midstream, shipping and trade flows

Emissions

  • Carbon market forecasts
  • Emission allowance prices
  • Regulatory changes
  • Trading volumes
  • Cap-and-trade updates

LNG and gas

  • Pipeline flows
  • Storage inventories
  • Spot and forward prices
  • Demand forecasts
  • Production data
  • Shipping movements

Power

  • Generation capacity
  • Renewable output
  • Price projections
  • Demand trends
  • Interconnector flows

Trading and quant

  • Understanding the basics
  • Expressing fundamental views and trading with a balance
  • Physical vs paper trading
  • Quant analysis

Long term

  • Energy transition latest
  • Cross-commodity perspectives
  • Fuel and sector specific views
  • 2050 supply and demand forecasts
  • Market realities vs strategies

Shipping and cargo tracking

  • Introduction to shipping
  • Oil tankers
  • Pricing: dirty vs clean
  • Floating storage
  • Port restrictions and lightering
  • Cargo tracking analysis

Oil products

  • Supply and demand balance/pricing dynamics for:
  • Distillate
  • Gasoline
  • Jet
  • NGLs
  • Fuel oils

Methanol

  • Supply and demand balances
  • Annual trade flows
  • Price forecasts
  • Derivative and feedstock analysis
  • Capacity and utilisation
EA Academy Energy Markets Masterclass

Reacting to market dynamics


Develop practical skills in market analysis, news impact, and data problem-solving.



Gain hands-on expertise in commodity markets with our dynamic course, where you’ll explore:

  • The core fundamentals driving each market.Learn to interpret and react to real-world news impacts.
  • Tackle interactive exercises using a specially designed commodity balance workbook filled with realistic data challenges. 
  • Through collaborative problem-solving, you’ll develop the skills to analyse market dynamics, understand the reasons behind market movements, and make informed decisions with confidence. 

Energy Markets Masterclass


These topic-specific courses are designed for those who want to develop a nuanced expertise in a specific aspect of the market.


Masterclasses will take place over multiple days, depending on the

subject matter.


Examples of our specialist modules include:

  • Refining:
  • Refining deep dive: crude quality & economics
  • Global refining trends and changes
  •  Maritime analytics:
  • Cargo Tracking
  • Lab session: Crude oil and diesel arbitrage
  •  Alternative data:
  • TankWatch
  • Truck Traffic Indices
  • LNG Construction Monitor
  • Oil Field Flare Monitor


All masterclass modules are curated and maintained by our analysts.

EA Academy Customised Workshops
EA Academy Energy Markets Masterclass

Customised workshops


Our tailored training programmes for an organisation that would benefit from a personalised workshop. 



The EA Academy team will work with you to design a session that will cater to the content, venue, and timeframe that fits your needs.


Energy Markets Essentials


Energy Markets Masterclass

Masterclass sessions are available on request

Customised workshops

Customised workshops are built around a schedule that suits you

Standard pricing: From $500 per person

Agenda/ Programme


Below you can view a programme of the topics that are covered at an Energy Markets Essentials course, or click here to view a full agenda from one of our previous courses.

  • Crude oil and refining

    Crude oil production

    • Production basics
    • Global production
    • US shale
    • Conventional production

    Refining

    • Why crude quality matters
    • Refinery complexity
    • Changes in global refining
    • Refinery economics

    Midstream, shipping and trade flows

    Storage 

    • Pipelines
    • Waterborne

    Understanding crude prices

    • Crude benchmarks 
    • Understanding flat price and structure
    • Major regional and quality spreads
    • Introduction to trading

    Interactive activities


  • Oil products

    Distillate

    • Global and regional supply, demand and trade flows
    • Storage and seasonality
    • Pricing and trade

    Jet

    • Global and regional supply, demand and trade flows
    • Pricing and trade

    Gasoline

    • Global and regional supply, demand and trade flows
    • Specifications
    • Pricing and trade

    Fuels 

    • Global and regional supply, demand and trade flows
    • Pricing and trade

    NGLs

    • Global and regional supply, demand and trade flows
    • Pricing and trade

    Interactive activities


  • Natural gas, power and emissions

    Natural gas overview

    • Gas value chain
    • Supply and end use

    North American gas market

    • Shale’s impact on production
    • Local demand and LNG exports
    • Regional trade flows and pricing

    European gas market

    • Production and imports
    • Regional power demand
    • Trade flows and pricing

    Global LNG

    • LNG trade flows
    • Asian demand
    • Exports and regasification

    LNG freight markets

    • Shipping fleet and rates

    Emissions

    • Legislation
    • Carbon markets and pricing

    Interactive activities


  • Trading

    Introduction to trading

    • Oil industry overview
    • Trading terminology
    • Exchanges and benchmarking

    Understanding the basics

    • Vanilla trading instruments
    • Term structure and spreads

    Expressing fundamental views

    • The relationship between balance and price
    • Exercise: building a tradable balance

    Physical trading

    • How physical trading works
    • Trading operations, logistics and finance
    • Introduction to hedging
    • Understanding arbitrage
    • Example of physical trading

    Paper trading 

    • Paper trading participants
    • Breaking down speculative length
    • Risk management and drawdowns

    Interactive activities


Amrita Sen Energy Aspects

Dr Amrita Sen

Founder and Director of Market Intelligence


Amrita is a leading authority on global energy markets and adviser to central bankers, OPEC+ ministers, and CEOs worldwide.

Richard Bronze Energy Aspects

Richard Bronze

Executive Director and

co-founder


Richard is a specialist in Middle East and Nort

Africa energy markets and frequent contributor to leading industry publications.

Chris Corda Energy Aspects

Chris Corda

Head of Markets




Chris oversees all global research teams for liquids, power, and gas, with nearly 20 years of experience across both buy and sell sides.

Speak with our team about how EA Academy can support you.


We can discuss your learning goals, the markets or commodities you want to focus on, and the format that works best for your team. From Energy Markets Essentials to specialist masterclasses and customised workshops, we’ll help you find the right training solution.

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Andy Scorer

Head of EA Academy

Paul Yodell - EA Academy

Paul Youdell 

Lead Teacher