Instructor: Brady Rodgers, PE

Fee: $175; Includes: refreshments, workbook, and PDH certificate

Topics:

• Common metrics – ROR, NPV, payout, P/L, discounting
• How should operations affect economics & visa versa?
• Using economics to make decisions
• AFE Economics – Preparing, approving, and trouble shooting
• Presenting Economics - Tornado charts, cash flow analysis, comparing projects
• Reserves & Production Estimates in Economics
• Risk analysis
  • Quantifying risk for drilling, operations, safety, exploration, and development
  • Risk vs. Certainty
• Portfolio Economics
  • How to compare projects
  • How to build a portfolio of oil and gas projects
• Acquisition & Divestiture Economics

Questions you will be able to answer at the end of the class:

• How can I compare my project’s value to other projects in the company?
• Is a horizontal well more economic than a vertical?
• What does my boss want to see in my economics?
• What affects my projects value the most? Costs, Reserves, Timing, Technology, etc?
• What is the value of more data – seismic, well data, reservoir simulation, waiting for performance?

Who should take this class?

• Engineers, Geoscientists, and Landmen involved in capital projects
• Techs preparing economics
• Managers approving investments
• Accountants
• Investors considering oil and gas opportunities

The Instructor

Brady Rodgers is a petroleum engineer experienced with oil companies of all sizes, from major E&Ps, private startups, and international operators overseas. He has built multiple exploration and development portfolios for companies both in the US and Europe. He regularly consults to E&Ps, Wall Street hedge funds, private equity firms, and management advisors such as McKinsey & Company. Mr. Rodgers has completed graduate studies in Global Energy Management (M.S.) and MBA courses at DePaul University’s Center for Strategy, Execution, and Valuation. He actively advises clients on E&P investment decisions.