Founded on March 5th, 1874, the French Gas Association (L’Associationon Française du Gaz) is one of the oldest gas associations in the world. Its role is to promote the interests of the ever-changing gas industry. It provides technical, economic, legal advice and training to the professionals of the gas branch.
Its training department, AFG Compétences & Formations (CFAFG), which became an independent subsidiary on december 11th, 2006, has served gas industry for over 30 years. CFAFG has become the international reference in gas training in technical, managerial, economic and legal fields.

Our objectives
Keep up with changes and evolution competences of all professionals of the gas chain: transmission, storage, distribution,utilization, management, trading …
Recommend individual professional training according to the trade evolution,
Optimize companies’ performances, by offering customized offers,
Develop the skills of the gas industry players by increasing their expertise and know-how,
Teach new knowledge, while considering the companies’ specific needs,
Guarantee the level of expertise expected by the technicians, the engineers and the managers.
Offer technical and managerial skills to the gas professionals.

Our trainingmethod develops:
demonstrative, participative and interactive teaching methods,
experience of a real-life situation in France and abroad: technical visits: regasification and peak shaving plant, compression (or) plant or manufacturing, storage station, gas material factory, and practical work on gas equipment

in-house trainings
A network of 300 speakers is selected among engineers and experts of gas companies, professional consultants,
academic and legal experts from the most prestigious French Universities.

Our expertise
Training Engineering and Teaching Engineering:
- Feasibility study
- Carry out your individual professional training by offering custom-made coaching Replies to tender offers
- Development of technical, organizational, strategic, managerial training projects in France and aboard
- Create teaching courses
Consulting and Financial Engineering:
- Facilitate the relationship with training institutions
- Optimize of our clients’ resources by proposing financial solutions

A complete Training offer delivered in your language (French, English, Russian, Chinese…)
Training courses are designed to engineers, technicians, executives from gas companies.
Our training courses are up to date. We analyse and forecast your needs and expectations. We are closest to your requirements by proposing you specialised course in order to keep the things confidential.

"CFAFG’s training courses are a real springboard for anyone
wishing to acquire further skills."
A Manager from Beijing Gas Group.

Certificate Course
Gas Engineering and Management Advanced Master
This post graduate degree course was created 20 years ago in a partnership with l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, to improve the engineer’s training or develop potential in a company.
It’s provided in French.
The advanced Master is aimed to young graduates with Master’s degree level and executives wishing to improve their skills as experts or high-level managers.

Master Degree in Management, Organization, Strategy and information Systems (MOSIS):
The cycle has been created in a partnership with the University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne and Le Collège des Ingénieurs.
It is entirely provided in English. Its objective is to help trainees to acquire the managerial skills necessary for team management applied to gas industries, and understand the legal and social environment of the gas world.
The Master Degree is aimed at executives from international gas companies, with a Bachelor Degree recognized by a European or an American University.
Training courses covering all the trades and fields of the gas chain:
- Standard course
- In-house training
- On demand course
Organization of European and international strategic seminars for the decision makers of industry energy.

Why choose AFG Compétences & Formations?
For the High quality of its services and its client’s satisfaction from the analysis of his needs to the participant’s assessment.
High level trainings: trough the AFG (Association Française du Gaz), AFG Compétences & Formations has a professional team, a variety of teachers and lectures experienced in their fields.
Its expertise in training, teaching and financial engineering: our team provides a diagnosis and customized solutions.
A reactivity based on a proven methodology
Innovation is part of our priorities: We have implemented the necessary tools to define new training approaches, to defect the competences and morrow’s stakes.
A global network of skills and cooperation: AFG Compétences & Formations is the leader in gas – oriented training on an international level.

“The very professional side of the given trainings, associated with constructive exchanges between trainers and trainees, the whole framed by a dynamic and listening to our needs team of CFAFG, make of it a complete tool for a daily concrete efficiency.”
Future manager of GDFSuez
(Advanced Master 2006-2007)