The program is designed around a classic IHRDC business workshop which focuses on the exploration, development and gas market opportunities of a sizeable gas prospect in Asia. The setting is an undeveloped but highly populated hypothetical country on the South China Sea called Singnam. Participants, divided into teams, make the real-life technical and financial decisions that confront managers in the international gas business today, while exploring and developing the prospect over a simulated 20-year period. Approximately one-half of the program is devoted to workshop sessions.

Participants are challenged to explore for, develop and market gas reserves in Singnam. They make decisions on where the discovered reserves are to be allocated based on the financial analysis of a variety of downstream market opportunities, each with its own set of economics and risk. Market opportunities include LPGs, local gas distribution, combined-cycle power plants, ammonia plants, LNG exports, methanol and gas pipeline export projects.