Course dates:  January 16 to April 2, 2008

Course length: 12 weeks, One Evening per Week.

Audience: Technical and non-technical: financial analysts, property owners, etc.

Instructor(s): Sproule's senior engineers, geologists and geophysicists

Course Topics:

• Determination of petroleum reserves
• Forecasting production
• Estimating capital and operating costs
• Calculation of royalties and mineral taxes
• Forecasting hydrocarbon prices
• Application of income taxes
• Time value of evaluations for project economics
• Investment ranking
• Purchases, sales and mergers of oil and gas assets
• Lending by financial institutions

Course contacts:

• For further information, including course fees, or to register, please contact the Business and Professional Team at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Continuing Education, (403) 220-2988.