2008 Courses : REFINING - PETROCHEMICALS - CHEMICALS

REFINING - PETROCHEMICALS - CHEMICALS - ENGINEERING

2008 Courses

REFINING - PETROCHEMICALS - CHEMICALS - ENGINEERING
2008 Courses

Index


	INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS ENERGY ECONOMICS
	INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS
	•	Short MBA on energy management
	•	International oil summit
	•	International gas summit
	•	Energy and sustainable development in Africa
	ENERGY ECONOMICS
	•	Overview of the natural gas industry
	•	International crude oil and products trading
	•	Gas trading
	•	Economics of the oil and gas business sectors
	•	LNG economics


	DOWNSTREAM ECONOMICS - MANAGEMENT IN THE OIL INDUSTRY
	DOWNSTREAM ECONOMICS
	•	Planning and economics of refinery operations
	•	International refining economics
	•	Refining operations planning and linear programming
	•	Bitumen manufacturing, marketing and technology
	•	Lubricants business course
	•	Marketing and sales of petrochemicals
	•	Petrochemical economics
	•	Marketing in the oil industry
	•	The fundamentals of retail marketing
	•	Site facility management
	•	Retail site management
	•	Downstream module
	MANAGEMENT IN THE OIL INDUSTRY
	•	Price risk management in the oil & gas markets
	•	Econometrics and forecasting
	•	Economic modeling and analysis in the petroleum industry


	NATURAL GAS
	•	Natural gas: production, treatments, transport, end uses
	•	Liquefied natural gas (LNG)
	•	Gas-to-liquids technologies


	REFINING (general) AND APPLIED CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
	•	Refining processes and petroleum products
	•	Fundamentals of petroleum refining processes
	•	Introduction to refining
	•	Base oil refining
	•	Recent developments in oil refining technologies
	•	Refining technology
	•	Process engineering applied to refining and petrochemical operation
	•	Applied chemical engineering for the refining and petrochemical industries
	•	Reactor engineering
	•	Practice of PROII/PROVISION simulation software
	•	Distillation: operation and troubleshooting
	•	Distillation column internals


	REFINING PROCESSES
	•	Refining module 1: Processing of light cuts and middle distillates
	•	Refining module 2: Processing of heavy cuts
	•	Refining module 3: Utilities and environment in refineries and petrochemical plants
	•	Atmospheric and vacuum distillation
	•	Catalysts in the refining and petrochemical industries
	•	Catalytic reforming - Isomerization
	•	Hydrotreatment processes
	•	Fluid catalytic cracking - Operation and troubleshooting
	•	Fluid catalytic cracking - Detailed plant analysis
	•	Alkylation
	•	Ether production MTBE or ETBE
	•	Hydrocracking
	•	Visbreaking
	•	H2S removal and sulfur recovery processes
	•	Hydrogen manufacturing plant - Steam refoming


	PETROCHEMICALS
	•	Petrochemicals - Olefins and aromatics
	•	Base chemicals and polymers manufacturing
	•	Commodity polymers - Manufacturing


	PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND ANALYSIS
	•	Petroleum products
	•	Current and future automotive fuels
	•	Analytical methods and techniques applied to crude oil and petroleum products
	•	Properties, formulation, transfer and storage of petroleum products
	•	Automation of refinery offsite operations


	ROTATING EQUIPMENT
	•	Centrifugal pumps and positive displacement pumps
	•	Reciprocating compressors: operation, maintenance, troubleshooting
	•	Centrifugal compressors and steam turbines: selection, sizing, performance and operation
	•	Gas turbine technology
	•	Operation, maintenance and inspection of rotating machinery
	•	Centrifugal compressor operation
	•	Steam turbine operation
	•	Practical approach to machinery vibration signature analysis


	THERMAL EQUIPMENT
	•	Heat exchangers - Routine operation and troubleshooting
	•	Design of heat exchangers, reboilers, condensers and air coolers
	•	Introduction to heat exchangers - Design software
	•	Furnace operation
	•	Furnaces: safe operation and optimization
	•	Boiler operation
	•	Vapor compression refrigeration


	STATIC EQUIPMENT - INSPECTION - CORROSION
	•	Process equipment technology
	•	Process plant inspection plan
	•	Metallic and non metallic materials and strength of materials
	•	Corrosion and corrosion prevention
	•	Practical knowledge of cathodic protection
	•	Non destructive testing - Inspection and welding
	•	Application and control of anticorrosion paints and systems


	OPERATION - PROCESS CONTROL
	•	Commissioning and start-up operations of process units
	•	Operator's basic training
	•	Comprehensive training for new operators (operator certification)
	•	Foremen refining training
	•	Technical proficiency course for foremen
	•	Module 1: Thermodynamic properties of fluids applied to industrial processes
	•	Module 2: The flow and pumping of liquids
	•	Module 3: Compression and expansion of gases in steam turbines and compressors
	•	Module 4: Heat transfer - Thermal equipment
	•	Module 5: Implementing chemical reactions and catalysis in industrial processes
	•	Module 6: Distillation, absorption and stripping
	•	Process control


	SAFETY - ENVIRONMENT
	•	Safety - Health - Environment: implement a management system
	•	Implement process hazard reviews (HAZOP, what-if, check-list)
	•	Safety in refinery and petrochemical plant operation
	•	Safety in maintenance and construction works
	•	Pollution and rehabilitation of soils and groundwater contamined by hydrocarbons


	PROJECT MANAGEMENT MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT
	•	Project management: contracts, schedules, procurement, construction
	•	Managing revamp, small and medium size projects
	•	Estimation and cost control
	•	Maintenance management - Equipment availability control
	•	Turnaround management: keys for success
	•	Turnaround preparation