PROJECT ECONOMIC EVALUATION AND INVESTMENT DECISIONIntroduction, capital investment decision, petroleum economics, project costs estimate, project costs monitoring, project financing

ENERGY INDUSTRY FUNDAMENTALS
Energy vs global economy, long term perspectives, which energy mix? Energy national subsidies, some geopolitical considerations

CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGES
What is science telling us? Economic consequences for energy and industries, carbon capture and storage, what implications for oil companies?

OIL INDUSTRY FUNDAMENTALS
General considerations, resources, reserves, peak oil & peak gas, oil production and consumption, oil upstream economics, oil prices, oil industries stockholders

GAS INDUSTRY FUNDAMENTALS
General considerations, resources, reserves, production, consumption, markets, the gas chain components and their economics, gas prices vs gas markets, evolution of gas markets vs liberalization and globalization, example of a challenging project

UNCONVENTIONAL HYDROCARBONS
Different categories of unconventional hydrocarbons, potential resources, major challenges, oil sands, extra heavy oil, shale oil, shale gas, unconventional hydrocarbons in the US

RENEWABLES
Global remarks on renewable energy sources, wind energy, solar energy, biomass energy, geothermal energy, marine energy

HYDROPOWER
Generalities, hydropower in the world, hydropower in France

COAL INDUSTRY FUNDAMENTALS
Coal fundamentals, coal international trade, coal and the US

NUCLEAR INDUSTRY FUNDAMENTALS
Nuclear energy, uranium resources, uranium prices, the world nuclear industry, future evolution, what long term changes in the world energy mix?
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