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The topics covered in the class put a real world perspective on the simple day to day accounting that goes on here. You don’t realize how much goes into this one number, how many working interests, how many royalty owners, how many overrides, how many contracts, all feed into this one number.
Mark Moreno,
MBA student
from EnCana
enrolled in
the Oil and Gas Accounting course
Denver Business Journal
4/27/07 A.11




Proposed MS in Global Energy Management

Please note: this is a proposed program. If approved by the Regents of the University of Colorado the program is proposed to begin in January of 2009 . The Master of Science (MS) in Global Energy Management (GEM) is designed to educate future leaders in global energy management and support management succession for the energy industry worldwide. As a major energy hub for the U.S. and Canada, Denver is positioned to create the synergy needed for this successful venture.

The Curriculum

The curriculum and its content are tailored by the GEM Advisory Board and Business School faculty to collaboratively meet the needs of the energy industry worldwide. Top faculty with industry expertise together with industry leaders will deliver the curriculum. Courses meet physically the first week (40 hours) each term with the remainder of the coursework completed online. Students will work in teams – problem solving real world energy issues. As a cohort program the semester long courses are structured on a calendar quarter basis. Students can complete the entire program in eighteen months.

Core courses

  • 21st Century Global Energy Issues and Realities
  • Global Energy Economic and Geography
  • Environmental, Regulatory, Legal & Political Environment in the Energy Industry
  • Renewable and Alternative Energy: Opportunities & Challenges
  • Leadership and Decision Making in the Global Environment
  • Energy Accounting in the Global Markets
  • Financial Management and Hedging in the Global Environment
  • People Management in the Global Energy Environment

Electives (students select four electives) choices include:

  • Land Management & Energy Contracts
  • Organizational Behavior in the Energy Industry
  • Integrated Information Management for Energy Firms
  • Energy Marketing
  • Advanced Financial Management in the Energy Industry
  • Energy Asset Management
  • Production and Supply Chain Management for the Energy Industry

Please note. This is a proposed program.

Your next steps

Download and print a copy of the Global Energy Management brochure today (4.2MG)

For more information contact GEM@ucdenver.edu.