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Energy Value Creation

Why Attend

This training course aims to provide the knowledge and skills to analyze and evaluate investment decisions— to distinguish value-creating from value-destroying ventures. Finding energy resources is an uncertain business. Historically, many ventures failed, yet some successful projects also led to business success and significant value creation. Then, what is a good project opportunity?

Overview

Course Outline

Schedule & Fees

Course Methodology

Instructor-led training that uses interactive learning methods, including class discussion, small group activities, and role-playing

Course Objectives

Understand the principles of finance and economic decision analysis in the energy business; Gain skills in effective formulation of investment decisions; Understand the challenges of investment under uncertainty; Gain skills in using analytical tools, including probabilities and decision trees; Apply the knowledge and skills to the analysis of value-creating decisions

Target Audience

Day 1 Analysts working on feasibility analysis of energy projects; Engineers involved in the investment decision process; Managers with responsibility or interest in the investment decision process; Decision-makers within corporations or government bodies; Individuals interested in expanding their skills and knowledge in the field of energy value creation

Target Competencies

n/a

Day 1

PRINCIPLES OF CORPORATE FINANCE AND VALUE CREATION 

  • Introduction to Energy Value Chain

  • Analysis of decision making and corporate objectives

  • Understanding uncertainty in Energy Projects

  • Modelling Uncertainty

  • Using probability to encode uncertainty

  • Economic Consideration: Informed Analysis for value-creating decisions

Day 2

FROM UNCERTAINTY TO VALUE 

  • Comparative Analysis of Value

  • Comparisons of Value Across Time

  • Comparison of value across various levels of uncertainty

  • Risk vs Uncertainty: Theory and Practice

  • Principles of Discounted Cash Flow

Day 3

PROJECT CASH FLOWS, UNCERTAINTY, AND RISK 

  • Technical and Market Risks

  • The Effect of Diversification

  • Risk-Return Tradeoffs

  • The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

  • Discounting Risk Premiums

Day 4

PROJECT APPRAISALS 

  • Uncertainty, risk, and financial return at Project and Portfolio Level

  • Financing Leverage and its Effect

  • General Investment Analysis, Energy Markets, and Prices

  • Estimation of the Discount Rate

  • Introduction to certainty-equivalent approach to investment analysis

Day 5

CHALLENGES IN THE ENERGY LANDSCAPE 

  • Managerial flexibilities and uncertainty

  • Energy commodities and exchanges, market instruments to hedge risk

  • Decision trees as a modeling and communications tool

  • An integrated approach to valuation and analysis of value creation

  • Future Challenges: environmental issues, emission taxes, and emission markets

$1475

Nairobi

Country: Kenya

Duration: One week

Date: 29 Sep–03 Oct 2025

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$2875

Accra

Country: Ghana

Duration: One week

Date: 27 Apr–01 May 2026

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