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Petroleum Products: Specifications, Properties, and Market Demand

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10/08/2025 - 14/08/2025 DUBAI

Introduction

Petroleum Products: Specifications, Properties, and Market Demand

 

Objectives

By the end of this training seminar, you will be able to:

  • Grasp the main characteristics of petroleum products and their relevance for end-users.
  • List the key properties for automotive fuels (now and in the future).
  • Identify recent changes and future trends for the petroleum products’ specifications, markets and demand
  • Identify the main trends of fuel evolution due to new regulations and/or new motor technologies.
  • Understand how the main properties of each petroleum products are measured, checked, and controlled using standard quality control tests.
  • Understand the tests significance and accuracy of the methods.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This GLOBAL FRANCHISE training course is targeted at professionals new to the energy industry, and those in refineries needing to better understand and respond to the rapid changes in the Petroleum products’ Properties, Specifications, Market & Demand.

This course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will especially benefit:

  • Engineers, Technical Managers and Technicians from laboratories in plant and research centers
  • Technicians, Engineers, Managers and Commercial or Technical Staff whose activities are related to the production, storage, purchasing, marketing or use of petroleum products
  • Laboratory Technicians, Engineers and Managers in the refining industry interested in improving their knowledge of petroleum products
  • Technicians and Engineers from the process and operation units in refining, petrochemical and engineering companies
  • Laboratory Technicians and Engineers involved in ensuring the quality of petroleum products
  • Technicians and Engineers from all industries concerned by motor fuel evolution: car makers, refining, fuels traders, agro-fuels manufacturers
 
 Course Outline

DAY 1

Introduction to the Petroleum Products

  • Origin of Hydrocarbons
  • Types & Composition of Crude Oils
  • Pretreatment of Crude Oils
  • Crude Assay & Crude Oils Properties
  • Petroleum Products and Refinery Configuration
  • Fuel specification, energy consumption and CO2 emission in oil refineries

DAY 2

Petroleum Products: Markets, Trading and Demand

  • Petroleum Products: markets, trading and demand
  • Current consumptions
  • Overview of how consumption changed by market sector
  • Changes in demand & consumption - Automotive fuels
  • Demand for automotive fuels
  • The automotive vehicle fleet
  • Gasoline v/s Gas Oil
  • Future demand for gasoline and gas oil
  • Consumption of automotive fuels - Income and price

DAY 3

Quality Standards & Specifications of Petroleum Products

  • Volatility specifications
  • Combustion specifications:
  • Cold condition behavior and flowing specifications for:
  • Pollution and corrosiveness specifications:
  • Stability specifications
  • Asphalts specifications
  • Lube base oil specifications 

DAY 4

Standard Quality Control Tests of Petroleum Products (I)

  • Tests Related to Volatility
  • Tests Related to Combustion
  • Tests Related to Storage & Flowing
  • Tests Related to Air Pollution
  • Tests Related to Corrosiveness

DAY 5

Standard Quality Control Tests of Petroleum Products (II)

  • Tests Related to Stability of Motor Gasoline, Turbine Fuels & Distillates:
  • Tests Related to Asphalts
  • Tests Significance & The Accuracy of Test Methods
  • ISO17025 overview
  • Specifications of Petroleum Products by Country

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