EKT Interactive - Energy Industry Training

03/01/2025

Internship season already? Apparently it's time to start thinking about it.

https://ektinteractive.com/oil-101-this-week-internship-season/

12/12/2022

https://youtu.be/0wC1vLi6PMM

What is Petroleum?

This question gets searched thousands of times a month, so here's a short explainer. Remember, if you're searching for these types of questions about the energy industry, EKT Interactive - Energy Industry Training has the answers.

Learn more with our Energy 101 course series - Oil 101, Power 101, Renewables 101.

What is Petroleum?Learn more at:https://ektinteractive.comhttps://courses.ektinteractive.comThe word ‘petroleum’ is made up of the latin parts ‘petra’, meani...

12/09/2022

https://ektinteractive.com/history-of-oil/
Our History of the Oil Industry page is one of our most visited web pages. Part of getting started or getting ahead in any industry is knowing the history and putting context into the present.

History of Oil - This history of oil page presents a timeline of the modern oil and gas industry from early discoveries to today's unconventional oil era.

11/30/2022

https://youtu.be/lvZ4xl-ANQo

What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or SPR? With the SPR in play due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we thought a little explainer of the history and purpose of the SPR might be useful.

What Is The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)?Learn more at:https://ektinteractive.comhttps://courses.ektinteractive.comThe Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or S...

11/30/2022

What is the difference between Upstream and Downstream in oil and gas? This term gets searched thousands of times a month. One of the things we've learned as a learning community is to never assume what people know and to remember that there are always people just starting their journey in the energy industry.

We made a video answering this question years ago, but it was in need of an update (not that the answer has changed, but our own journey in video production sure has!) So here is an updated video to answer this common question...

What is the difference between upstream and downstream in oil and gas?Upstream vs downstream is a term that people search for in google thousands of times a ...

11/18/2022

Russia's invasion of Ukraine put the SPR in play to cushion the disruption in oil supplies. What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or SPR? Well, he's a little explainer video.

https://youtu.be/lvZ4xl-ANQo

What Is The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)?Learn more at:https://ektinteractive.comhttps://courses.ektinteractive.comThe Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or S...

10/04/2022

The Hedge, a new podcast about risk management in energy markets from EKT Interactive - Energy Industry Training.

The Hedge Podcast - Episode 1 - An Introduction - The Hedge discusses risk management and volatility in energy markets.

09/30/2022

https://ektinteractive.com/

New Courses, New Website, New Content.

We've been busy making a new home for our energy industry courses which now include fundamentals of the power and renewables sectors.

08/29/2022

Upstream vs Downstream.

Upstream vs Downstream - What is the difference between upstream and downstream in oil and gas? Here's an answer to this common question.

08/26/2022

was in the news this week. Here's a quick look on what got us to this point, and what to expect going forward.

https://ektinteractive.com/insight-lng/

Today (Aug 22, 2022), global financial markets were in a frenzy.  European power prices spiked causing a ripple effect that saw equities and the Euro plummet.   US energy prices were mixed as natural gas joined the global party but crude oil dropped. The point however, is that natural gas is beco...

08/26/2022

Insight on key events and trends from EKT Interactive - Oil and Gas Training. - from oil and gas to power and renewables.

https://ektinteractive.com/insight/

Insight: Energy - Insight on the energy industry from EKT Interactive. From oil and gas to power and renewables, the energy transition is upon us.