Course: Petroleum Economics

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Course title Petroleum Economics
Course code KGE/XPEC
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Exercise
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Mansurbeg Howri, Ph.D.
  • Jirásek Jakub, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
  • Spirov Pavel, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Introduction to financial reporting for oil companies. Capital budgeting: Cash flow analysis, with emphasis on after-tax cash flows. Risk analysis: Probability theory and methods. Market theory: Supply and demand, oil price models, product prices. The national economy.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes

Knowledge: Students should have a basic understanding of the principal economic framework for the petroleum sector. This includes financial reporting, capital budgeting, risk, markets and macroeconomics. Skills: Students should know how to evaluate projects by using net present value, risk models and optimization techniques and to use market models. General competence: Students should have a general theoretical understanding of economics in order to work towards profitable strategic goals for oil companies, government agencies and petroleum related companies.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Written exam
Recommended literature
  • A. P. H. Van Meurs. (1981). Modern Petroleum Economics. Van Meurs & Associates.
  • J. G. Speight. (2011). An Introduction to Petroleum Technology, Economics and Politics. Wiley.


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