The Underground Gas Storage Course lasts five days, and consists of lectures, dialogues and practical assignments with two main focus points:

1. Technical and planning aspects of underground storages.

2. Commercial market related issues, i.e. regulatory regimes, tariffs, valuation, viewpoints from a practical experience of both UGS operators and users.

The key lecturer in this course is the international underground gas storage expert, Mr Hans Plaat, a former Shell executive. To guarantee both high quality and a varied programme, he will be supported by lecturers from a carefully selected group of gas companies who are directly involved in underground storage, and by lecturers from the academic network, governmental bodies and prestigious consulting firms, including Centrica, Logica CMG, Shell, the University of Groningen (Energy Law).