Oil Market: Trading, Pricing & Future Oil Markets
Explore oil market dynamics, including trading strategies, pricing mechanisms, and global influences. Understand supply-demand trends, geopolitical impacts, and future oil market developments shaping investment opportunities and energy sector transformations.
Course Curriculum
| Section 01: Crude Oil: A Unique Raw Material | |||
| Introduction | 00:04:00 | ||
| A marker price | 00:02:00 | ||
| Different strategies | 00:02:00 | ||
| Section 02: International Oil Trade | |||
| Introduction | 00:01:00 | ||
| The 1970s : Long term contracts | 00:02:00 | ||
| The 1980s : The development of spot markets | 00:02:00 | ||
| The netback contracts | 00:05:00 | ||
| The 1990s : The development of financial markets | 00:02:00 | ||
| Section 03: Prices on the Oil Markets | |||
| Introduction | 00:01:00 | ||
| The different types of agreements | 00:03:00 | ||
| Crude oil price setting mechanism | 00:02:00 | ||
| Product price setting mechanism | 00:02:00 | ||
| Section 04: Trading On the Oil Markets | |||
| Barter agreements | 00:01:00 | ||
| Single cargo sales | 00:02:00 | ||
| Long term contracts | 00:02:00 | ||
| Section 05: The Spot Markets | |||
| Definition | 00:02:00 | ||
| Spot markets in the world | 00:02:00 | ||
| Operators on the spot markets | 00:01:00 | ||
| The balance between crude oil and product prices | 00:02:00 | ||
| Section 06: Spot Crude Oil Prices | |||
| Spot transactions | 00:02:00 | ||
| The Brent market | 00:02:00 | ||
| The Brent crude oil | 00:01:00 | ||
| Price transparency | 00:03:00 | ||
| Indexing crude oil prices : The adjustment factor | 00:03:00 | ||
| Indexing crude oil prices : Reference indices | 00:02:00 | ||
| Indexing crude oil prices : The price timing | 00:06:00 | ||
| The limitation of the system | 00:03:00 | ||
| Section 07: Petroleum Products Price Setting Mechanism | |||
| Example #1 : The Rotterdam products market | 00:03:00 | ||
| How prices are reported | 00:02:00 | ||
| Section 08: The Physical Futures Markets | |||
| The forward market | 00:03:00 | ||
| The principle of cover | 00:02:00 | ||
| Speculation | 00:01:00 | ||
| The players on the forward markets | 00:01:00 | ||
| Dated Brent and 15 Day Brent | 00:05:00 | ||
| The limitations of the forward markets | 00:01:00 | ||
| Section 09: The Financial Futures Markets | |||
| The historical development of the petroleum exchanges | 00:03:00 | ||
| Futures contracts | 00:01:00 | ||
| How the markets work : Generalities | 00:02:00 | ||
| How the markets work : The clearing house | 00:01:00 | ||
| How the markets work : The deposit | 00:01:00 | ||
| How the markets work : The margin call | 00:01:00 | ||
| The participants | 00:04:00 | ||
| Pricing structures : Backwardation and Contango | 00:02:00 | ||
| The limitations of the futures markets | 00:07:00 | ||
| Section 10: Derivative Products: Swaps and Options | |||
| The definition of an option | 00:01:00 | ||
| Example of the use of an option : Call option | 00:02:00 | ||
| Example of the use of an option : Put option | 00:01:00 | ||
| The cost of an option | 00:02:00 | ||
| The definition of a swap | 00:01:00 | ||
| Example of the use of a swap | 00:04:00 | ||
| Section 11: Course Conclusion | |||
| Course conclusion | 00:02:00 | ||
| Assignment | |||
| Assignment -Oil Market: Trading, Pricing & Future Oil Markets | 00:00:00 | ||


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