Oil and Gas Technology for Non Petroleum Professionals

Overview:

Introduction:

This training program offers a comprehensive program tailored for individuals outside the petroleum industry. It is designed to bridge the gap for non-technical professionals, it also equips participants with the expertise needed to thrive in various roles within the oil and gas sector.

Program Objectives:

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Develop an appreciation and understanding of the origins of oil and gas.

• Understand the basics of refining and petrochemicals.

• Appreciate the basic differences between exploration, and refining, and petrochemicals.

• Identify the basics of the different building blocks of petrochemicals.

• Examine the basics of different refinery types and complexity.

Targeted Audience:

• Non-technical professionals assigned to positions in refineries and petrochemical plants, corporate offices, suppliers, and other interrelated companies.

• Support Personnel including Environmental professionals, Accountants, Business managers, Administrative and legal staff, Sales and marketing personnel, Insurance representatives, Personnel managers, Financial professionals, and other professionals who desire a better understanding of the subject matter.

• Newly-hired refinery plant personnel and current semi-technical personnel who require further training.

Program Outlines:

Unit 1:

Origin and Nature of Petroleum:

• Chemistry of fossil fuels.

• Basic petroleum geology.

• Origins, formation, and trapping of oil & gas.

• Exploration and production Methods.

• Transportation.

Unit 2:

Overview of Refining:

• Classification of hydrocarbons.

• Surface processing of oil and gas.

• Refinery types and complexity.

• Hydroskimming, Cracking and Coking Refineries.

• Refining Margins and Profitability.

• Netback & Complexity Factors.

Unit 3:

Refinery Process Operations:

• Physical separation – Crude and Vacuum Distillation.

• Chemical conversion processes, Gasoline Production.

• Hydrotreating, Catalytic Reforming, Alkylation, and Isomerization.

• Residue Reduction I: Cat Cracking, Hydrocracking, Visbreaking, Hydrocracking.

• Residue Reduction II: Coking, Asphalt, and Residual Fuel.

• Blending.

Unit 4:

Petrochemicals I - Production and Uses:

• Olefin based compounds.

• Ethylene, Propylene, Butadiene, Isobutylene.

• Aromatic based compounds.

• Benzene, Toluene, Xylene.

Unit 5:

Petrochemicals II - Production and Uses:

• Natural Gas based compounds.

• Ammonia.

• Methanol.

• Gas to liquid technologies.

• Case study - Petrochemical production – Major Companies.