Learning Platform - "Trade Compliance & Surveillance"

Course: Commodity Value Chain

About the “Commodity Value Chain” online training programme

This training covers the fundamentals of the ‘commodity & energy value chain’. It touches on the basics of the physical flow of commodities. Attention is given to production, storage, transport and consumption and related capacities.

Course contents

This training covers the following topics:

• The value chain
  • Physical flow
  • Security of supply
• Activities in the chain
  • Production
    • Exploration & production of fossil fuels (extraction)
    • Power generation
    • Production facilities
  • Storage
    • Security of supply
    • Storage facilities
    • Storage system operators
  • Transport
    • Transport facilities
    • Transmission system operators
    • Balancing & the nomination process
  • Consumption
    • Consumption & consumption facilities
• Relevant terminology
  • Upstream, midstream & downstream activities
• Pricing
  • Availability of capacity as price driving factor
  • Merit order
  • Weather circumstances