Course Info
Code IND01-127
Duration 5 Days
Format Classroom
Course Summary
Understanding and maximising the successes of your refinery process is essential to your petroleum business. The expectations of oil-focused companies in regard to environmental considerations are becoming tighter and more highly regulated.
This means that the costs to produce refined oil are becoming higher, while the expectation from consumers is that prices should be lower. This requires refinery process yields optimisation in order to make the most money from the oil yield while providing a refined and high-quality product to maintain custom and sales.
To fully optimise your operation, it’s important to discuss your feedstock, operating conditions, systems, and technology to maximise your profits and still meet global demand.
The changes in refinery regulations and the developments in environmental conservation require oil companies to delve deeper into their operations to gain a fundamental understanding of the software and machinery changes required of them to successfully produce and sell crude oil products in the new market and make the best use of the bottom of the barrel prices with high expectations.
- To understand the complexities of oil refinement.
- To drive the oil refining process with profit in mind.
- To develop an understanding of the best systems and technology to move forward in the petroleum industry.
- To apply the changes in refinement processing to optimise your operation.
- To understand the environmental effects of oil production and work to reduce them.
- To appreciate the needs of the consumer and reduce costs in production to meet their price expectations.
- To develop a forward-thinking framework to increase profits through development.
- To create system automation to monitor production and waste.
- To communicate to the wider organisation the benefits of being conscious of waste in production and oil refinery.
This course is designed for anyone involved in optimising the refinery process in oil production or aiming to create continuous improvement plans for the operation. It would be most beneficial for:
- Engineers
- Business Owners
- Operations Managers
- Blending Employees
- Scheduling Employees
- IT Professionals
- Technicians
- Sales Personnel
- Account Managers
- Crude Oil Buyers
- Supervisors
This course uses a variety of adult learning techniques to aid full understanding and comprehension. Participants will review the full refining process to understand the intricacies and importance of oil refinement in today’s market. They will run through a cost-benefit analysis of their own operational processes and understand where cost savings could be made.
Each participant will be provided with innovative ideas, tools, and techniques which could aid the petroleum production operation and understand the reasoning that prices need to be reduced in the market to stay competitive. An open discussion will raise topics of environmental considerations and waste disposal and will discuss how these things will affect their wider business processes. Participants will leave the course with ideas and a greater understanding of how to increase yield and tighten processes in order to stay ahead in today’s competitive petroleum market.
Course Content & Outline
- Understanding the origins of oil and its characteristics.
- The properties of crude oil and how these affect your refining process.
- Crude oil products against market trends.
- Understanding Gasoline, Kerosene, and Fuel oil differences.
- Petrochemical feedstocks and what they mean to you.
- Refineries and their complexity.
- Training new employees on refinery processes.
- Developing interrelationship processes.
- Developing your crude oil processes.
- Desalting feedback and design.
- Atmospheric distillation and vacuum distillation.
- Oil Processing systems and thermal processing.
- Delayed coking, fluid coking, and flexicoking.
- Visbreaking and insights.
- Fluid catalytic cracking and change.
- Hydrocracking and cat-cracking procedures.
- Isomerisation, alkylation, hydrotreating.
- Catalytic reforming.
- Product specification blending and reforming.
- Optimising your operation.
- The intricacies of producing hydrogen.
- GTL highlights.
- Gas plant refineries.
- How to treat acid gas.
- Developing your sulphur recovery plan
- Real-world case studies on refinery development.
- What works and what doesn’t?
- Planning based on your budget.
- Increased cost analysis.
- Your economic evaluation to develop your pricing strategy.
- Cost estimation projects.
- Asphalt residue and removal.
- Residue reduction and waste removal.
- Evaluation of your forecasting.
- Continuous improvement into the future.
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