IN-PERSON CLASSROOM SEMINARS

• A detailed understanding of all parts of the natural gas value chain, infrastructure components and how the natural gas industry operates across the value chain spectrum.
• What natural gas is, how it is created, the different "types" of natural gas based on various factors and sources, terminology, measurements and conversions.
• The essential of understanding how gas is used, by whom and what are demand drivers and related issues.
• The basics of natural gas production, drilling techniques and economic and market issues around production operations in different types of production basins that impact supply availability.
• What does the unprecedented growth of unconventional gas supplies mean for the future of natural gas production and how will it change infrastructures and prices.
• The issues and dilemmas the industry faces in obtaining supply from traditional and frontier basins as well as unconventional supply sources.
• New Shale Gas dynamics and Market and Infrastructure impacts.
• The basics of gas gathering operations, market and regulatory issues.
• What gas processing is, how is operates, NGL extraction flows, the importance of the "frac-spread" and related economic issues in today's market.
• The importance of gas quality issues and the economic, operational and regulatory concerns about gas quality and the different concerns along the value chain about gas quality and interchangeability.
• The keys parts of natural gas pipelines, how pipelines operate, who the pipeline players are and the significant issues pipeline face in a changing market.
• The basics of Gas Transportation commercial operations, capacity management, the scheduling process, locational basis differentials and changes in the national pipeline grid due to paradigm changes in supply sources.
• The importance of storage, the different types, operations and why storage development is a "hot" issue.
• How LNG storage and import terminals work and environmental and other concerns
• Significant LDC physical plant-related operations, how they work, LDC economic and rate worries and regulatory trends in today's market.
• Who regulates what, where, how and why and how FERC policy, major Orders and regulations have evolved into today's "open access" environment.
• How natural gas delivery and storage is regulated across the value chain and how it evolved to today's "open access" environment.
• Significant FERC regulatory initiatives, policies and Orders that have transformed the industry and currently "hot" policy and regulatory issues that may significantly change how the industry operates and the information it collects and disseminates.
• The impacts of FERC's policies on pipelines, expansions and capacity management.
• Evolving State regulatory concerns, issues and the changing role of state regulators.
• Overview of regulated rate components and rate design and new rate and policies on the horizon.
• The fundamentals of Certificate and Rate Proceedings and how to understand capacity matters and pipeline tariffs, transportation services, agreements and rates.

This live group seminar is eligible for 6.5 CPE credits. Be aware that state boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. As of January 1, 2002, sponsored learning activities are measured by program length, with one 50-minute period equal to one CPE credit. One-half CPE credit increments (equal to 25 minutes) are permitted after the first credit has been earned in a given learning activity. You may want to verify that the state board from which your participants will be receiving credit accept one-half credits.