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 Oil & Gas Refinery Process, Design, & Operation

Introduction

 Oil & Gas Refinery Process, Design, & Operation

Course Objectives

By the end of this oil and gas refinery process, design, and operation course, participants will:

• Understand the fundamental principles of the oil and gas refinery process.
• Learn about the design, including the basis of design in oil and gas and the operation of oil and gas refinery units.
• Acquire knowledge of various refining technologies and methods.
• Develop skills in optimizing oil and gas operations with an emphasis on operational excellence in oil and gas.
• Familiarize with safety and environmental regulations in refining.

Targeted 

• Process Engineers, Technologists, Oil and Gas Operators, and Supervisory personnel who engage in refining activities and wish to deepen their understanding of refinery processes.
• Refinery scheduling staff, blending staff, and crude oil buyers who actively participate in the economically vital activities of oil and gas operations.
• Engineering and operations personnel and Technical sales team members who require comprehensive knowledge of the broad scope of refinery operations will find this course particularly beneficial.
• Professionals involved in selling equipment or supplies to the oil and gas refinery industry or those engaged with economic evaluations of such operations

Course content:

Unit 1: Introduction to petroleum refining and crude oil composition:

• Market drivers for the refining industry.
• A  of refinery products and processes.
• The chemical constitution of crude oil.

Unit 2: Properties and classification of crude oil:

• API gravity.
• Pour point.
• The concentration of various contaminants.
• Distillation and boiling points.
• Crude assay.
• Characterization factors.
• Elemental analysis and ternary classification of crude oils.

Unit 3: Overall refinery flow:

• Desalting and distillation.
• Light ends unit.
• Catalytic reformer.
• Catalytic hydrotreatment.
• Conversion of heavy gas oil.
• Conversion and processing of vacuum gas oils.
• Processing and conversion of vacuum distillation residue.
• Paths for upgrading heavy oil.

Unit 4: Separation processes:

• Atmospheric and vacuum distillation units.
• Distillation methods.
• Distillation terminology.
• Fractionation in light ends unit (LEU).
• Deasphalting.
• Gradient solubility model.
• Dewaxing.

Unit 5: Thermal conversion processes:

• Chemistry of thermal cracking.
• Thermal reactivity considerations in processing.
• Visbreaking.
• Coking.

Unit 6: Thermal conversion processes:

• Chemistry of thermal cracking.
• Thermal reactivity considerations in processing.
• Visbreaking.
• Coking.

Unit 7: Catalytic conversion processes:

• Chemistry of thermal cracking.
• Catalytic cracking processes.
• Catalytic hydrocracking.
• Catalytic reforming.
• Chemistry of catalytic reforming.
• Catalytic reforming processes.
• Alkylation.
• Polymerization.
• Isomerization.

Unit 8: Finishing processes:

• Hydrogenation.
• Hydrotreatment.
• Hydrodesulfurization.
• Hydrodenitrogenation.
• Hydro demetallation.
• Hydrotreatment processes.
• Product blending.

Unit 9: Supporting processes:

• Gas processing unit.
• Sulfur recovery.
• Hydrogen production.
• Wastewater treatment.
• Environmental regulation of refineries.

Unit 10: Past and future of petroleum refining:

• Refinery evolution.
• Future trends in petroleum refining.

Unit 11: Natural gas processing:

• Shale gas.
• Natural gas liquids.
• Natural gas composition and specifications.
• Natural gas processing.