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American Energy’s Oilfield Basics Announces Dominion Energy’s David Marks’ Addition to Course Catalogue
American Energy’s Oilfield Basics Announces Dominion Energy’s David Marks’ Addition to Course Catalogue.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n ALLENTOWN, PA, Aug. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE – American Energy Partners, Inc. (“American Energy”) (PINK: AEPT), a diversified energy company, is excited to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Oilfield Basics is expanding its online course catalogue again. The newest addition, entitled “Introduction to Natural Gas Trading,” authored by David Marks, a 40-year veteran of the energy industry continues to enrich Oilfield Basics’ existing course library.  An authority on this topic, Marks' background includes contract origination and negotiation, pipeline logistics, term marketing and day trading, project management, teaching, and business development. Marks has 40 years’ experience in the oil & gas industry, beginning with Geosource (Houston) and Wildrose (Calgary) where he spent 12 years managing seismic exploration crews across North America in 29 states and Canadian provinces. David has spent the last 26 years marketing natural gas, commercial services, and gas technologies, beginning with Consolidated Natural Gas, and including Allegheny Energy and Dominion Energy.  Marks currently manages a portfolio of more than 240 Appalachian Basin producers at Dominion Energy Field Services in Pittsburgh. Through Dominion, David is a member of OOGA, IOGA WV, PIOGA, and SOOGA and is a subcommittee chairman for PIOGA in Wexford PA. He also serves as a consultant to municipalities and energy brokers, and promotes natural gas usage for transportation fuel, power generation, and for conversion to synthetic natural gas-based products. He has previously held positions on the Gas Industry Standards Board and currently works as Appalachian Supply Coordinator at Dominion Energy. This roughly two-hour-long course by Marks will help students, industry members, and investors better understand what natural gas trading is: the price drivers (such as production, weather, economic factors, storage inventory, regulations, etc.), settlements, maximizing profits, minimizing costs, the common terms and technologies, and more.  Marks gave his own description of the course:  “‘Introduction to Natural Gas Trading’ is a discussion focused on buying and selling natural gas in the short term.  This course explains the fundamentals that drive demand, s...