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Some things you might want to research

  • Know relevant pricing questions in today's market (why is crude trading at such a significant discount in West Texas vs. Cushing) and broader questions (why WTI trades a discount to Brent

  • Rank the three energy verticals by beta lowest-to-highest

  • What caused the price crash in 2014

  • Understand how upstream valuation works and is different from traditional valuation.

  • It probably wouldn't hurt to have a high-level understanding of midstream valuation and what investors look for in an MLP. Also, capital structure is very important, so that might be another topic to look into

  • Have a high level knowledge of a couple major deals that have taken place recently - ideally transactions that the shop you're interviewing with advised on (Encana/Newfield, Chesapeake/Wildhorse, BP/BHP, Diamondback/Energen, and maybe some of the big MLP rollups like Energy Transfer or Western Gas).

  • Names and locations of major basins in the lower 48

  • Understand how the reserve booking process works and why proved or proved developed reserves are important when benchmarking upstream peers against one another

  • Recent activist investor activity within the space

These are all just off the top of my head. You can probably find a more comprehensive list elsewhere on WSO.

 

Great list but just to add a few things:

  • Know how to walk through a NAV model and how it differs from DCF.
  • Know why we use NAV vs DCF (we assume life of the well goes to 0)
  • Relevant prices of oil benchmarks
  • Know constraints on benchmarks such as pipeline capacity in Canada.
  • Know a few relevant deals (Transmoutain/KinderMorgan/Canadian Government)
 

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