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Petrochemicals III: Refinery & Petrochemicals Interface - Processes, Economics and Integration

Get an indepth understanding of the refining and petrochemical businesses by gaining a comprehensive overview of refinery operations, the major raw materials used for making petrochemical building blocks and the benefits/challenges of integration.

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Benefits to you and your company:

Understanding how refineries operate, their economics and how they fit with petrochemicals will help you appreciate their effect on the pricing and trade of chemicals you are dealing with.

The course will give you insights into the upstream industries that provide the raw materials for making petrochemical building blocks, as well as what can be expected in the future, ensuring that you are fully aware of their effect on your business.

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By the end of the course, you will learn about:

     
  • Understand how the oil refining industry operates starting from the basics about crude oil.
  • Learn about the key refinery processes such as the atmospheric distillation, reforming and cracking.
  • Find out how feedstocks for petrochemicals such as naphtha and propylene are produced in a refinery, the technologies and operating parameters.
  • Gain insight into refining and petrochemical economics and margins, integration benefits and challenges.
  • Understand how feedstocks from refineries fits in with alternative routes for petrochemicals such as natural gas, coal and bio-based raw materials.

Hands on practice:

During the course you will also have an opportunity to put some of the learning into practice. Exercises and group discussions will help reinforce the information given in presentations and help you see how the different value chains interact.

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Morning

REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

Welcome & Introduction

Petroleum Refining Process Overview

  • Crude oil & its characteristics
  • Pre-treatment steps
  • Introducing the atmospheric distillation column
  • Saturated gas plants
  • Naphtha and reforming process
  • Hydro-treaters/li>
  • Residual fuel upgraders
  • Typical refinery flow diagram
  • Refinery complexity

REFRESHMENTS

Crude Oil Characteristics & Evaluation of Refining Margins

  • Evaluation of crude oils & assays
  • The atmospheric distiller operations
  • Cut points & side streams
  • Refinery products & characteristics
  • Spreads and margins

Naphtha: Feedstock for the Gasoline and Petrochemical Industry

  • What are naphtha streams?
  • Naphtha splitters
  • Chemistry of the reforming process
  • Role of catalytic reformers
  • Technologies & operating parameters
  • Reformates and aromatics (route to petrochemicals)
  • Products dispositions

LUNCH

Afternoon

Hands on problems

  • Exercise 1: Crude Oil Planning / Margins Analysis
  • Exercise 2: Reformer yields and octane economics

Petrochemical Building Blocks and Refinery Petchem Integration

  • Naphtha to olefin and aromatic building blocks
  • Typical aromatics economic problems
  • Steam cracking explained
  • What affects steam cracker operating margins
  • Integration versus standalone petrochemical operations/li>
  • Refinery & petrochemical interface issues
  • Regulatory changes and its impact on petrochemicals

REFRESHMENTS

A Review of Alternative Routes to Petrochemicals

  • Natural gas and coal as feedstocks
  • The role of syngas
  • Green routes to petrochemicals
  • Bioethanol to make ethylene, PE, PVC
  • Other bioprocesses to petrochemicals

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Larry Tan

Larry has been in the oil and petrochemical industries for 28 years starting with Mobil Oil Singapore and has been involved in the many different facets of the refining business: process engineering, refinery operations, R&D (USA) before moving on to Corporate Planning... read more

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  • Experienced sales and marketing staff new to the petrochemicals business.
  • Buyers of commodity petrochemicals.
  • Purchasers in end-user industries using and consuming petrochemicals.
  • Support functions and services providers to this sector.
  • Personnel in the banking and financial sectors.
  • Technical staff looking for a broader overview of the petrochemical business.
  • Previous attendees to the introduction course or experienced people looking for a refresher course.

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