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.

Benefits of connecting
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.


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.
Who should connect
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.

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

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.


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.
Courses
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
Speakers

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
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
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.
Request a meeting
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.

Andy Scorer
Head of EA Academy

Paul Youdell
Lead Teacher





