Who:

Interested industry personnel. Participants should have taken Economic Considerations for Land Deals or a similar course dealing with economic evaluations, including discounted cash flow and NPV analysis.

What:

The course will prepare participants to contribute effectively to the decision-making process for investment opportunities in oil and gas exploration, development and acquisitions. Economic evaluation and strategy formulation techniques are presented ranging from the project-specific to the corporate-wide perspective. Using case studies, the instructor will discuss the following topics:

1. Probability and Risk Analysis
2. Property Valuation for Acquisition and Drilling
3. Land Sale Economics and Strategy
4. Portfolio Analysis and Corporate Strategy

Registration Fee includes beverages and snacks.

Instructor(s):

Jeffrey W.C. Arsenych

Mr. Arsenych is co-founder of Ravenwood Energy Corp., a Calgary-based private oil and gas company.  Prior to Ravenwood Resources, he was President/CEO and co-founder of Neutrino Resources Inc., an oil and gas company created in August, 1993 and sold in July, 1998 for $83 million after growing production to over 4,000 BOE per day.  He remained as Chairman/CEO of Neutrino until July 1999.  In conjunction with Neutrino, Mr. Arsenych co-founded Bridgetown Energy Corp. in 1995 and fostered its early growth until 1997 when Neutrino and Mr. Arsenych sold their equity to the remaining directors of Bridgetown.

Mr Arsenych brings over 26 years of experience in land management, deal negotiations, economic evaluations, corporate finance, and strategic planning with several Canadian oil and gas companies.  Mr. Arsenych is a graduate of the University of Regina with a Bachelor of Arts degree and the University of Western Ontario, Ivey School of Business with a Masters degree in Business Administration.  For 10 years, he was a part-time Sessional Instructor in petroleum economics and strategy at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Management, and taught a core course in the Petroleum Land Management Program.  He is a founding director of private companies in the cogeneration, biodiesel, and oil technology fields.  He is also a director of Light Up The World Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes lighting solutions using sustainable, renewable energy for communities in the developing world.

He is also President & CEO of CTI Resources Corp., a private company that is creating businesses around various new technologies for the energy industry.  The first project of the company is the processing of sludge in Russia to recover oil using a proprietary demulsification technology.  Other oil recovery projects are underway in Canada and South America.  The company is also pursuing oil sands development using proprietary extraction and upgrading technologies.

Schedule:

Main Event: 2012-05-23 08:30:00 - 2012-05-23 16:30:00

Main Event: 2012-05-24 08:30:00 - 2012-05-24 16:30:00