• Refinery unit managers
• Refinery technical personnel
• Planning and scheduling specialists
• Trading and blending personnel
• Crude trading specialists
• Laboratory supervisors and technical personnel
• Sales, marketing and product trading specialists
• Professionals looking for business benefits from managing the crude selection process

Upon completion of the course you will improve the efficiency of your organisation by:

• Understanding the complexity and the impact of a crude selection process
• Ability to build the crude basket
• Ability to generate and interpret Crude Oil Assay
• Evaluation of crude processing – technology and economy
• Performing the process simulation and simplified unit capacity calculation
• Understanding the environmental concerns of crude oil processing
• Understanding the crude oil processing impact on the quality of the finished products

• The morning session (09:00-12:15) will consist of theory, basic principals and background.
• The afternoon session (13:00-16:30) will cover case studies. The interaction and discussion will be encouraged.
• The course is designed for a maximum of 15 participants, minimum is not set
• Prerequisite knowledge – basic to intermediate
• The course language is English.

• Presentation with case studies and references
• Certificate
• Free consulting service in the scope of the course for all participants for six months after finishing the course

Online course

1.390 € for the 3-day course per participant

• The fee covers trainer fees, training materials and completion certificate

Group Discount

• We offer a discount of 20% for three or more participants from the same company.

Early-bird fee
1.190 € for the 3-day course per participant

• The discount is available for registration 20 days before starting date of the course

Day1

• Introduction – energy outlook and demand
• Energy sources
• Crude oil – introduction
• Composition and classification
• Sources and production
• Basic crude oil chemistry
• Carbon distribution
• Crude oil refining – basics
• Opportunity crudes and where lays theopportunity
• Introduction to crude oil selection process
• Elements of selection process
• Challenges of crude oil selection
• Basic crude oil contaminants
• Asphaltenes
• Case study and group discussion – Importantcriteria for crude oil selection

Day 2

• Crude oil evaluation process
• Key elements of the evaluation process
• Crude oil preselection process
• Crude oil assay – introduction
• Crude oil assay – types and formats
• Crude oil assay – data generation
• Laboratory and generic data
• Products’ quality data
• True boiling point (TBP distillation curve)
• Crude oil assay – data interpretation
• Crude oil blending – introduction
• Principles and rules of blending
• Blending strategies
• Compatibility of crude oils
• Compatibility testing and commercial solution options
• Case study and group discussion – Crude blending and compatibility of crudes

Day3

• Compatibility of crudes – influence on refinery equipment and finished product stability
• Additive treatment
• Crude oil compatibility matrix
• Crude oil blending matrix
• Building the crude basket
• Master table of evaluated crude oils
• Economic evaluation
• Key elements of refinery economics
• Planning and scheduling
• Refinery processes and crude oil
• Options for residue upgrading
• Case study: Crude selection process – real case
• Course summary and discussion

PDL-1 Refining Processing and Blending Course