Course Description
This course will present an overview of the modern, integrated petroleum refinery as well as safety techniques. Each refining process will be presented, covering operating description and conditions, feedstock and catalyst selection, product yields, and the relationship between process parameters, unit performance, and product output and properties.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Provide an understanding of refinery processes and operations
- Understand the refining processes, materials, pressures, and temperatures
- Link the aspects of production
- Identify major health and safety hazards associated with working in the petrochemical industry
- Educate workers on the actions they must take to minimize risk of illness and injury to self and others
Who Should Attend?
- Engineers
- Process operations professionals
- Petroleum & chemical professionals
- Oil & Gas Treatment technicians.
- Those who are interested in the field
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One:
- Overview of the petroleum refinery
- Refinery classification, organization & process flow
- Crude oil distillation fundamentals
- Refinery product slate
- The composition of the gasoline pool
- Gasoline and distillate properties
- Gasoline reformulation options
Section Two:
- Hydrotreating of petroleum
- Hydrotreating catalysts
- Chemistry and process flow
- Hydrocracking of petroleum
- Hydrocracking catalysts, chemistry & process flow
- Hydrocracker yields and product properties
Section Three:
- Isomerization
- Catalysts, chemistry & operating conditions
- Isomerization yields and product properties
- Catalytic reforming
- Reforming catalysts
- Fluid catalytic cracking
Section Four:
- The Safety Culture
- Writing Safety Policies and Programs
- Working with Contractors
- Hierarchy of Control Strategies
- Employee and Management Involvement in Safety
Section Five:
- Safety Management system (SMS) and Wellsite Analysis
- Hazard Prevention and Control
- Safety Education and Training
- Conducting On-The-Job Training
- Steps to Identify OSHA Requirements