OESA
Guides
Short explanations for students who want to understand energy, offshore and shipping: the concepts, where the figures come from and how to read them. Every guide links to its sources.
All guides
- Reading the Norwegian shelf: fields, discoveries, licences and operatorsProduction licences, operators, licensing rounds, well names, discoveries, fields and resource classes explained, with links to Sodir's FactPages and FactMaps.
- Oil and gas prices: Brent, WTI, TTF and Henry HubWhat Brent, WTI, TTF and Henry Hub are, which units they are quoted in, how to convert between them, and what moves prices. With links to EIA, ICE and CME.
- The freight market: Baltic indices, ship sizes and routesHow freight is priced: charter parties, TCE and Worldscale, ship sizes from VLCC to Handysize, the Baltic indices and what drives rates.
- How to assess a new discoveryHow to read a discovery announcement and think about volumes, infrastructure, cash flow, NPV, breakeven and petroleum tax – with a worked example.
- Careers in energy, offshore and shippingWhere the jobs in energy, offshore and shipping are, when to apply for summer jobs and internships, how to apply, and what working offshore requires.
- Glossary: energy, the shelf and shippingShort explanations of terms about the Norwegian shelf, oil and gas prices and shipping: from appraisal well and PDO to Brent, TTF, BDI, TCE and Worldscale.
The guides are written by OESA students to explain concepts and how things fit together. They are not investment advice. Figures that are not definitions carry a source and a date; if you find an error, let us know at styret@oesa.no.