Blockchain technologies can greatly transform key economic sectors including the energy, agriculture, supply chain mgmt., transport & financial services industries.

Blockchain’s business benefits include reducing data & contract disputes. This is made possible via consensus, validity, uniqueness, & immutability.

Broadly speaking, blockchains are defined as either public or private. Both feature shared, distributed and cryptographically secured ledgers.

Delve into four different blockchain platforms: the original Bitcoin platform, Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric & Corda.

R3 is an enterprise software firm that builds and maintains the Corda blockchain platform.

Energy Block Exchange (EBX) is GuildOne’s blockchain business network for transactions in the energy (or oil and gas) sector.

This module will look at the oil and gas sector, how it works (in very high-level terms) and why it is particularly well suited to blockchain solutions.

Royalties are payments made by oil & gas companies (i.e. producers) to landowners or other rights holders for the right to extract oil & gas from their land.

A joint venture (JV) is an agreement that joins together two or more parties who agree to work together for the purpose of executing a particular business pursuit.

Authorization for Expenditures (AFEs) are a tool for the management of JV expenses.

There are a number of reasons to adopt blockchain but that doesn’t mean that it is right for every company.