Course 07 of 20 · LNG Desk Academy

Scheduling & Annual Delivery Programmes

Stage B, Contract and operational execution. Level 4 of 10.

Building and amending an annual delivery programme, including nomination windows, rolling schedules and slot rights.

120 chapters · 12 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 05, Course 06

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How a chapter is sized

One chapter is one idea taken to the point of use

Each chapter is a single self-contained explainer of 8 to 10 narrated minutes, covering one idea to the point where you can use it.

Chapters run in order. Each one assumes only what the chapters before it taught, and capability belonging to a later course is named and deferred rather than half-covered.

Curriculum

12 modules · 120 chapters

Open any module for its full chapter list, in teaching order.

M0 The Delivery Programme as an Instrument Ch 1-10
  1. What a Twenty-Year Contract Cannot Deliver
  2. The Annual Rhythm of a Cargo Business
  3. Who Sits at the Programme Table
  4. From Annual Quantity to a Cargo Count
  5. What the Programme Fixes and What It Leaves Open
  6. The Vocabulary Programme Work Depends On
  7. Where a Delivery Plan Quietly Fails
  8. The Papers a Programme Lives In
  9. Why Agreement Beats Entitlement Here
  10. How the Programme Discipline Is Taught Here
M1 The Annual Negotiation Cycle Ch 11-20
  1. The Negotiation Calendar Before the Year Begins
  2. What the Seller Brings to the Table
  3. What the Buyer Wants Instead
  4. The Evenness Requirement and How It Bends
  5. Seasonal Shaping as a Negotiated Favour
  6. The Information Each Side Will Not Share
  7. When the Parties Cannot Agree
  8. Negotiating Across Several Years at Once
  9. The Proposal Document and How to Read It
  10. A Worked Annual Round, Offer to Signature
M2 Constructing the Programme Itself Ch 21-30
  1. Laying Out the Year on One Sheet
  2. Spacing Liftings Across the Calendar
  3. Parcel Size and the Hull It Implies
  4. Placing the Flexibility Range Around Each Line
  5. The First and Last Liftings of the Year
  6. Placing a Make-Up Lifting in the Plan
  7. Nominal Dates Against Real Ones
  8. Testing a Draft Before You Sign It
  9. Who Signs the Programme and What That Means
  10. A Programme Assembled from Stated Inputs
M3 The Ninety-Day and Rolling Schedules Ch 31-39
  1. The Tiers Beneath the Annual Plan
  2. The Ninety-Day Outlook and Its Purpose
  3. Refreshing the Rolling Schedule Each Month
  4. What Becomes Firm, and When
  5. Tracking Drift Between Plan and Schedule
  6. The Schedule a Seller Keeps Against the One a Buyer Keeps
  7. Notice Periods Stacked Against One Another
  8. Communication Discipline Between Two Schedulers
  9. A Rolling Schedule Carried Through Three Months
M4 Nomination Windows and Narrowing Ch 40-50
  1. The Delivery Window as a Programme Object
  2. Window Width as a Commercial Variable
  3. The Narrowing Ladder, Step by Step
  4. Who Narrows Under FOB and Who Under DES
  5. Serving a Nomination Notice That Stands Up
  6. Declaring Laydays Inside the Window
  7. Narrowing When You Do Not Yet Know
  8. Revising a Notice Once Served
  9. Arriving Early, Arriving Late
  10. The Narrowing Calendar for a Whole Year
  11. A Declaration Made Against the Clock
M5 Slots and Berths as Programme Constraints Ch 51-61
  1. The Jetty at the Liquefaction End
  2. Tank Heel and the Pressure to Lift on Time
  3. The Loading Queue and Who Goes First
  4. The Receiving Terminal Slot Calendar
  5. The Annual Slot Round at the Import End
  6. Matching Each Lifting to a Slot at Both Ends
  7. A Slot You Hold and Cannot Use
  8. Returning or Reshuffling a Slot Inside the Year
  9. Third-Party Terminals and Borrowed Access
  10. When the Two Ends Disagree About a Date
  11. A Slot Clash Resolved Across Three Parties
M6 Vessel Availability Against the Programme Ch 62-71
  1. The Fleet Plan as a Mirror of the Year
  2. How Many Liftings One Ship Can Serve
  3. Assigning a Hull to a Programme Line
  4. Where Term Charter Cover Runs Out
  5. Dry Dock in the Delivery Calendar
  6. Vessel Approval as a Yes or No Gate
  7. Who Provides the Ship and Why It Changes Everything
  8. A Vessel Delay Feeding Back Into the Plan
  9. Shared Hulls Across Several Programmes
  10. A Fleet Fitted to a Year of Liftings
M7 Maintenance and Turnarounds in the Plan Ch 72-81
  1. Planned Unavailability as a Programme Input
  2. Train Maintenance and the Cargoes It Removes
  3. The Major Turnaround and Its Long Shadow
  4. Declaring Maintenance Into the Programme
  5. Upstream Works That Reach the Jetty
  6. The Import Terminal's Own Shutdown
  7. Two Maintenance Calendars That Must Not Collide
  8. Maintenance That Slips
  9. Unplanned Outages at the Programme Level
  10. A Year Shaped Around a Turnaround
M8 Amending the Programme In-Year Ch 82-92
  1. The Amendment Mechanism Itself
  2. Consent Standards and What They Actually Require
  3. A Right to Move Against a Request to Move
  4. Deferring a Lifting Within the Year
  5. Pulling a Lifting Forward
  6. Deferral Across the Year Boundary
  7. Cancelling Against Deferring
  8. The Cascade One Move Creates
  9. Moving a Cargo Across a Pricing Month
  10. Documenting an Amendment So It Holds
  11. Amendments Negotiated From Weakness
M9 Swaps, Substitutions and Missed Windows Ch 93-103
  1. Why Two Buyers Trade Dates
  2. Arranging a Time Swap Step by Step
  3. Substituting a Different Source Cargo
  4. Swapping With a Party Outside the Contract
  5. Pricing a Favour Between Counterparties
  6. When the Seller Has No Cargo for the Window
  7. When the Vessel Does Not Arrive
  8. The Waiting Clock at Either End
  9. The Remedy Ladder Short of a Claim
  10. What a Missed Window Costs the Relationship
  11. A Missed Window Worked From Both Sides
M10 Programmes Across Several Contracts Ch 104-112
  1. The Seller's Master Programme
  2. Allocating Scarcity Between Buyers
  3. The Buyer's View Across Several Suppliers
  4. Fitting Spot Cargoes Around Term Liftings
  5. Governing Programme Changes Internally
  6. Holding the Programme in a Trading System
  7. Measuring Programme Performance
  8. What a Programme Cannot Fix
  9. Where the Programme Hands Over
M11 A Year Built, Agreed and Twice Amended Ch 113-120
  1. The Worked Year, Part One: The Inputs
  2. The Worked Year, Part Two: The Draft Programme
  3. The Worked Year, Part Three: The Agreed Plan
  4. The Worked Year, Part Four: The First Amendment
  5. The Worked Year, Part Five: The Second Amendment
  6. The Worked Year, Part Six: Outcome Against Plan
  7. A Second Year Under a Tighter Fleet
  8. The Habits That Survive the Year

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