The Natural Gas Trading and Risk Management Training Course from the Imperial Corporate Training Institute is developed for professionals engaged in fast-moving, high-value energy markets and to successfully engage with the trading dynamics, commercial decisions, and risk-mitigation strategies. In a global gas economy where markets can shift overnight based on market volatility, geopolitical events, and/or changing demand the goal of the course is to prepare participants to act with confidence, accuracy and commercially driven thinking. The program does not explain through academia; it draws from practical deals, understandings of market structures, price exposures, trading instruments, corporate risk frameworks, and real industry-aligned practices received from leading trading houses and gas businesses.
The training places the corporate sector into the spotlight, as participants learn how their decision-making as traders impacts cash flows, profitability, operational stability and strategic growth. Participants will use case-based learning, scenario simulations, and the experience of real trading decisions to better navigate the physical and financial gas markets, understand the impacts on supply chain, assess portfolio risk and optimize trading instruments from a commercial perspective to meet the clients corporate performance goals. By the end of the training course participants leave with the tools to engage with traders, risk teams, senior executives, regulators, and clients with increased commercial and analytical clarity.
Objectives:
The primary objectives of this training course are:
- Gain in-depth knowledge about natural gas (NG) market structures, drivers of price, and corporate trading environments.
- Be able to access, assess, and evaluate trading opportunities using commercial, technical, and financial indicators.
- Improve decision making for buying, selling, hedging, and managing exposure across various gas markets.
- Provide risk frameworks utilized by global trading companies, such as market, credit, reputational, and operational risks.
- Provide participants with the capabilities to develop and analyse physical and paper trading portfolios using a corporate approach.
- Increase participant confidence when dealing with real world trading, view contracts, and pricing.
- Continue to develop capabilities in trading tools, market data platforms, and analytical indicators for fast corporate decision cycles.
- explain fully working with storage strategies, LNG optimization, transportation markets, and pipeline scheduling.
- Proposed techniques for managing trading desk performance, report structure, and monitoring trade risk.
- Strengthen communication skills to interact more effectively with senior management, trading partners and risk committees.
Target Audience
This course is perfect for those working corporate positions in the oil and gas sector, particularly in roles such as trading, operations, supply, finance, analytics, risk, and corporate strategy. The Natural Gas Trading and Risk Management Training Course at Imperial Corporate Training Institute is designed for:
- Natural gas traders, energy traders, LNG traders, and portfolio optimization teams.
- Risk management professionals, such as market risk, credit risk or enterprise risk personnel.
- Oil and gas commercial managers and corporate decision-makers.
- Market analysts, quantitative teams, and business intelligence and forecasting personnel.
- Finance, treasury, and investment teams supporting gas trading activity.
- Transportation logistics, pipeline operations, gas scheduling, and LNG cargo professionals.
- Corporate strategists, procurement teams, and business development executives.
- New entrants to the natural gas trading world looking for corporate aligned exposure.
- Anyone needing a strong commercial understanding of natural gas markets and risk strategies.