Alphatania is the training branch within Gas Strategies Group of Gas Information & Solutions. It offers customised courses as well as a wide range of public training courses and company tradings, consisting of lectures by industry experts, case studies, open discussions and debates on current topics and issues.

Open Programmes

Liquefied Natural Gas - The Commercial Imperatives
2 - 6 November 2009 Golden Tulip Apollo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 22 - 26 February 2010 Perth, Australia; 7 - 11 June 2010 Barcelona, Spain
This introductory level LNG course broadly covers the features of the LNG Industry, taught by active industry consultants. Areas discussed include, upstream gas production, shipping, receiving terminals, LNG projects and their structures to LNG markets, contracts, financing and finishing with short term trading. The course is primarily aimed at those who have recently moved into the LNG industry or have an interest in expanding their knowledge of the sector.

Introduction to Gas and Power
20/05/2011 to 20/05/2011 London (UK)
This course provides a solid grounding in the natural gas industry, outlining the main commercial drivers through the gas chain. The discovery and production of natural gas will be discussed, as well as the organisation of gas markets and getting gas to the customer, llustrating how the distribution systems work. The importance of markets and contracts, the effect of distance and the need for infrastructure, financing and the rationale for joint venture projects are all outlined, along with basic electricity facts, and an account of the different types of electricity generators.

The Gas Chain 
23rd - 27th May 2011, Barcelona, Spain 
28th November - 1st December 2011, Munich, Germany
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the gas chain for the relative newcomer to the gas business which will also be invaluable to those changing roles within the gas industry.

Global Gas Markets
11th - 13th April 2011, Singapore
9th - 11th May 2011, Madrid, Spain
7th - 9th December 2011, London, United Kingdom
Global Gas Markets is an excellent, 3-day, high level training course on the commercial mechanisms of the global natural gas business. Global Gas Markets will give you a thorough understanding of the way competitive international gas markets function and will enable you to work, trade, transport and participate commercially in a successful way.

The Fundamentals of Commercial Gas Storage
28th - 30th March 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands
26th - 28th September 2011, Barcelona, Spain
This new training programme helps market participants to understand the storage business and how to generate and capture value from it, as the European Gas Markets liberalise. Interactive discussions will punctuate the programme and reinforce the delegates’ understanding of issues being addressed, particularly about: the storage market in Europe: the quantity of storage needed and different countries’ requirements; marketing and buying storage capacity; valuing storage and storage services.

Competition and Regulation European Summer School for Executives (CRESSE)
CRESSE aims to establish a link between the new theories underlying competition & regulatory economics and the everyday practice. To do so, it presents the most recent developments in economic theory, empirical analysis and legislation in these policy areas by adopting a (mostly) non-technical and case-study based approach. CRESSE is designed for Executives of Antitrust and Regulation Commission, Ministries, International institutions as well as private energy companies affected by regulation.
The Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) will organise the Sixth Annual Competition and Regulation European Summer School and Conference (CRESSE) which will take place from the 24^th of June to the 8^th of July, 2011 in the seaside resort of Ixia in Rhodes, Greece.
The sixth CRESSE Conference is on "Advances in the Analysis of Competition Policy and Regulation" and will take place from the 1^st - 3^rd of July, 2011.

Full-time Thaught Master Degrees and Associated Diplomas

Master of Science (MSc) in Energy Studies and Associated Diplomas
full time
This MSc/Diploma can be without specialisation and can be tailored on participant's aspiration by choosing one of the following specialisations:
Energy Economics
Energy and the Environment
Energy Finance
Energy Policy
Energy Regulation
International Oil and Gas Management
Oil and Gas Economics
The Geopolitics of Energy

Master of Laws (LLM) and Associated Diplomas
full time
CEPMLP offers 11 different LLM/Diplomas. The most relevant to energy regulation are:
Energy Law and Policy
Environmental Law and Policy
International and Comparative Nuclear Law and Policy

Master in Business Administration (MBA)
full time
CEPMLP offers different MBA. The most relevant to energy regulation are:
Oil and Gas Management
Energy Industry Management

Flexible Learning
This new programme of study involves a combination of intensive on-campus and off-campus study introduced for academic year 2008/09. CEPMLP offers different Flexible Learning programme. The most relevant to energy regulation is:
LLM in International and Comparative Nuclear Law and Policy


Distance Learning
Existing part-time degree programmes are also enhanced by offering components in the form of specially designed distance learning modules. These modules will correspond to the equivalent on-campus courses in the degree programmes. CEPMLP offers either a Master of Laws degree (LLM) or a Master of Business Administration (MBA).
The most relevant to energy regulation are:
LLM in Resources Law and Policy
MBA in Oil and Gas Management

The list of the 2011 CEU courses is available online on the University home page.

Geopolitics of Energy Transition
3 November 2011
The purpose of this course is to bring participants up to date with the most important geopolitical and economic developments and their relation to and impact on the development of international energy markets. The course aims to intensify knowledge of and insight into the interlinkages and drivers of the international energy markets at the political, policy and corporate level. The course is characterised by an integrated approach to energy training - combining attention for the notion of security of energy supply, market and price developments and the environment - and offers lectures on energy demand and supply developments, on the changing geopolitical landscape, on the most important energy consuming and producing countries and their international relations. This one day course is developed for participants working in the energy sector or related professions.

Shifting gravity in EU fuel mix
23 May 2011
This energy training aims to shed light on some issues. It aims to turn attention to the internal EU dimensions of the sustainable energy agenda in relation to wider energy mix implications. The goal of the training is to acquire a deeper understanding of synergies and possible conflicts between EU energy policy targets. Also, participants will learn about possible future scenarios for the EU and the way they influence the realisation of energy policy targets, gain further insights into the complexities involved with respect to external EU energy policies and discuss internal and external EU energy policies throughout the training.

Information about seminars and conferences organised by the Institute are listed on its home page.

The Energy Delta Institute (EDI) is an International Business School and Research Centre for Natural Gas. EDI performs research and professional training, focused on all economical, managerial and geopolitical facets of the gas value chain, also with the cooperation of business and academic parties.
It offers training programmes for executives, flexible programmes and tailor-made versions of programmes ( see the EDI programmes overview).

Executive Master of Finance & Control of Energy Industry (EMFC-EI)
The Executive Master of Finance & Control of Energy Industry (EMFC-EI) consists of five two week sessions and a Master thesis and has a fast-track (on-campus, off-campus) structure. Prominent experts from a.o. Shell, PricewaterhouseCoopers and University of Groningen will act as lecturers.

Gas Strategy Course
6 - 10 June 2011
Gas Market Liberalization and Regulation Course
6 - 10 June 2011
Large Gas Projects Course 
16 - 20 May 2011

Specific Programmes
Following this link you can check the calendar of the executive specific programmes organised by the Delta Institute. Among them, there are:

Master Class Sales & Purchase Strategies in Liquid Markets
Gas Transport & Shipping Course
Master Class Developments in LNG

and many more.

Customized Programmes
All of EDI’s short-tracks can also be delivered as in-company courses. In addition EDI can deliver or on several occasion already has delivered short track programmes that can be organized as in-company programmes and if there is sufficient interest from different players also as an open enrolment course.
The most relevant to energy regulation are:
Gas Contracting
Liquefied Natural Gas
Dispatching
Pipeline Integrity Management Systems
Health, Safety and Environment
Energy Law
Gas for the Power sector
Transport, Planning, Modelling
Developments of sour gas fields
Lifecycle Management
Security Risk Management

Please find here ERRA Training Calendar 2010 - 2011 and the Current ERRA events 2011.

Moreover, here you find the structure of ERRA training programmes, which are divided into Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced levels.

ERRA also organises E-learning courses and courses for Commissioners only.

Erasmus Master Course on Economics and Management of Network Industries (EMIN)
two academic years
This Erasmus Master Course has the objective of training highly qualified professionals, able to manage and regulate efficiently network industries and infrastructures, either in companies' staff, in consulting teams or in public entities like ministries, development or regulatory agencies.
The approach of the programme is: International, in terms of global representation of faculty and students; Interdisciplinary, covering engineering, economics, law, policy and finance; Integrated, relying on both teaching and research.
This Erasmus Mundus program will deliver a multiple diploma. Students will receive the diploma of each university where they have studied given the requirements of each University: the French Master of “Economics, Technology and Territory" degree, the Spanish Master “Electricity Sector” degree and the Dutch Master of Science in “Engineering and Policy Analysis” degree.

MSc Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis & Management (SEPAM)
Two years (full time)
This two-year programme is aimed at educating engineers who can contribute to the design and management of infrastructures and related services. The programme focuses on decision making processes which rise above the level of a single organisation and which occur at the interface of the public and private sectors. SEPAM seeks to offer students the capability to transfer technical knowledge obtained in bachelor programmes into the worlds of management and operations, especially in such multi-actor sociotechnical environments as transport, logistics, energy, industry, water and ICT.

Master of Science Engineering and Policy Analysis (EPA)
Two academic years (full time)
The EPA is an international programme offered in English that focuses on policy processes regarding large-scale technical systems for utilities management and industrial innovation. It aims to provide participants with interdisciplinary knowledge and practical skills in areas such as problem structuring, systems analysis, policy and decision modelling and support, analysis of multi-actor networks, economics and management. Consistenly with the interdisciplinary approach, the Faculty includes mathematicians, technologists, economists, lawyers and social scientists.
The EPA is part of the Erasmus Mundus programme.

Annual training
The course reviews the basic theory of energy regulation with a special attention to the EU regulatory experience and it is open to staff of energy companies and of energy regulators. The course is a sequence of 4 Blocks (3 residential in Florence and 1 elearning).

FSR Summer Schools

Summer School on Regulation of Energy Utilities
27 June - 1 July 2011, Florence
A two week residential introductory course that reviews the basic theory of energy regulation with a special attention to the EU regulatory experience and it is open to staff of energy companies, energy regulators from around the world but also to university graduate, doctoral students and other stakeholders.

Summer School on EU law
20 - 24 June 2011, Florence
The training in EU Energy Law & Policy will be designed to develop a sound knowledge of recent developments in EU energy law for staff of energy regulatory authorities, international organizations, utilities and law firms.

Master in Economics and management of network industries
Two years
Organised by Universit Paris-Sud 11 (Facult Jean Monnet), Universit Pontificada Comillas of Madrid and Universit Technische Universiteit de Delft (Netherlands), in partnership with the University Institute Europen de Florence, this master is part of the Erasmus Mundus programme. The purpose of the course is to form professionals highly qualificated, capable to manage and regulate effectively the industries of reseaux and their infrastructures. To obtain its diplome of Master, every student will have to choose between three complementary options and two or three types of specialisation.

Short Course on Regulation
Monday 4 April - Friday 8 April 2011
The course covers regulatory theory as well as practice at all stages of the regulatory process of utility, financial and other sectors: law and rule-making risk management, institutional frameworks and enforcement. The interdisciplinary approach considers regulation from the perspectives of economists, lawyers, sociologists, political scientists and others.
This Course is also available as Three-Day 'Client' Edition.

MERN Training and Guided Study Programme (TAGS): details not yet available.

Utility regulation
7 - 11 March 2011
 This course examines the economics underpinning the regulatory process and its application in the UK and internationally. Key modules look at how price controls are set, RPI – X regulation and its alternatives, the cost of capital, comparative efficiency, the process of liberalisation and policing competitive markets. Through plenary sessions, case studies, practical workshops and discussion, the course—now in its second decade—will equip partecipant with a solid understanding of economics principles and concepts, and give you an economics toolkit for use in your day-to-day work.

SMi have had an established portfolio of Pharmaceutical, Defence, Energy, Finance and PPP/PFI events running since 1993. They are at the forefront of linking businesses with information, organising over 150 Conferences, Workshops and Masterclasses every year.

For a list of the upcoming activities consult the SMI events page.

MSc in Renewable Energy Flexible Training Programme (REFLEX)
REFLEX provides a fully integrated training programme covering mechanical, electrical, chemical, marine, environmental engineering, and energy management associated with renewable energy systems. It combines distance learning with intensive school weeks, involving academic staff from different faculties under the co-ordination of the School of Marine Science & Technology. First delivered in 2005, the programme offers MSc, Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate qualifications, delivered by a combination of distance learning and intensive schools. In addition, all modules are available as stand alone Continuing Professional Development (CPD) modules.

MSc in Renewable Energy, Enterprise & Management (REEM)
First delivered in 2008, the MSc in Renewable Energy, Enterprise and Management (REEM) provides fully integrated renewable energy management and enterprise training in order to deliver a broad view of the renewable energy industry. It is designed to be highly flexible, allowing postgraduate students to study renewable energy and business enterprise subjects either full-time or part-time, and to study whilst remaining in full-time employment. Students on this programme will learn how to start up and develop a business in the Renewable Energy sector, with the opportunity to trade.
MSc, Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate may be achieved, and all modules are available as stand alone Continuing Professional Development (CPD) modules.

INFRATRAIN
Every October WIP organizes the Autumn Shool INFRATRAIN, a Series of Events in "Applied INFRAstructure Research and Policy TRAINing", aiming to promote the training of junior researchers and young professionals from ministries, regulatory agencies and the private sector. INFRATRAIN is designed as a forum covering the theoretical and applied topics most relevant for modern European infrastructure policy. Last edition was dedicated to the issue of "Trends in Infrastructure Modeling and Policy". Teaching methods combine keynote lectures, training sessions, seminars and workshop.

INFRADAY
Conference on Applied Infrastructure Research

No details available at the moment.