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Base Oils Training Course Series I In-person

8:30 Registration and Refreshments

9:00 – 10:00 Base Oil Strategy – and Why Crude Matters

  • Global refining – What are base oils? Who makes them?
  • Crude types, pricing, and valuation
  • Crude for base oils vs. fuels refining

10:00 – 10:45 Base Oil Refining: Solvent Processing

  • Base oil definitions and terminology
  • Historical manufacturing: solvent processing
  • Example: Arab Light 95 VI via solvent processing

10:45 – 11:00 Break / Open Forum

11:00 – 12:00 Base Oil Refining: Hydroprocessing

  • Hydroprocessing terms and general overview
  • Newer technology: hydroprocessing
  • Example: Arab Light 95 VI via hydroprocessing

12:00 – 13:00 API Base Oil Groups & Qualities

  • The API base oil groups: I, II, III, IV and V
  • Quality comparison of the different API Groups
  • Discussion: are the API Groups still relevant today?

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 14:45 Refining Strategies: Hybrid Processes

  • Shared solvent processing + hydroprocessing
  • Shared fuels and base oil hydrocracking

14:45 – 15:30 Base Oil Demand (Finished Lubricants + Process Oils)

  • Correlating base oils to finished lubricants
  • Transportation, industrial and process oil segments
  • Base oil quality trends within each sector

15:30 – 16:00 Break / Open Forum

16:00 – 17:00 Future Trends – Disruptive Scenarios

  • Gas-To-Liquids (GTL) Base Oils
  • Here come Electric Vehicles – a forecast

17:00 End of Base Oils I programme