Course Description
For energy and mining companies, sanctions compliance moved from a legal formality to an existential risk. Ownership structures, shipping routes, payment chains and long-standing counterparties all became compliance questions — and getting one wrong can cost market access, banking relationships and the licence to trade.
This course develops practical sanctions compliance capability for the extractive and energy sectors. Participants learn the sanctions landscape and the major regimes, ownership and control analysis including the 50% rule, screening of counterparties and vessels, secondary sanctions exposure, licensing and wind-down, and how to build a sanctions programme that withstands scrutiny from banks, regulators and counterparties.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the sanctions landscape and major regimes
- Understand designation, targeted and sectoral sanctions
- Conduct ownership and control analysis, including the 50% rule
- Screen counterparties, vessels and cargoes
- Understand secondary sanctions and extraterritorial reach
- Apply licensing, exemptions and wind-down provisions
- Build and test a sanctions compliance programme
- Respond to potential breaches and investigations
How the course is delivered
The course combines sanctions frameworks with practical ownership analysis and screening exercises using realistic corporate structures. Participants work through designation scenarios, control analysis and escalation decisions.
The programme is aimed at energy and mining companies rather than financial institutions, and addresses the commercial reality of long-standing counterparties and complex ownership.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Compliance and legal professionals in energy and mining
- Commodity trading and marketing staff
- Finance, treasury and banking relationship managers
- Procurement and supply chain professionals
- Executives with sanctions exposure
Daily programme
- Sanctions and how they work
- Major regimes and authorities
- Types: designation, sectoral, targeted
- Exposure for energy and mining
- Ownership and control analysis
- The 50% rule and aggregation
- Screening counterparties and beneficial owners
- Vessel, cargo and route screening
- Secondary sanctions and extraterritorial reach
- Facilitation and circumvention risk
- Licensing and exemptions
- Wind-down and divestment
- Building a sanctions compliance programme
- Testing and audit
- Breach response and investigations
- Case study workshop and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
