Crude Oil Selection

1. Crude market outlook and demand
2. Crude oil value chain
3. Cost of crude oil production
4. How the crude oil market works?
5. Benchmark or marker crudes
6. OPEC crude basket

1. Availability
2. Environmental issues
3. Long-term economic viability
4. Light/heavy crude oil spread
5. Challenges in processing
6. Elements of successful processing

1. Hydrocarbons, elements, and metals
2. Rearranging of molecules
3. Combustion of hydrocarbons
4. Classification of crude oils
5. Tight and shale crude oils
6. Opportunity crudes

1. Feedstock flexibility
2. Key elements of the crude oil selection process
3. Basic criteria for crude oil selection
4. Crude selection strategy
5. Crude oil selection parameters
6. Crude oil contaminants
7. Crude oil's carbon footprint

1. Asphaltenes and crude oil stability
2. SARA analysis
3. Asphaltene destabilisation
4. Asphaltene precipitation and deposition cycle
5. Prediction of asphaltene stability
6. Impact on processing

1. Management of Change process
2. Stakeholders
3. Elements of the crude oil evaluation process
4. Comparison of the main operational parameters
5. Environmental feasibility of crude oil processing
6. Economic evaluation process

1. Importance of Crude oil assay
2. Key elements of Crude oil assay
3. Types and formats
4. Data generation
5. Laboratory and generic data
6. Crude oil assay data interpretation

1. Importance of blending strategy
2. Principles and rules of blending
3. Lookalike crude oils
4. Types of crude oil blending
5. Blending ratio
6. Crude switching

1. Crude compatibility and crude contaminants
2. Types of crude compatibility
3. Asphaltenes
4. Stability of blends
5. Laboratory testing of crude stability
6. Crude instability and incompatibility

1. Crude oil compatibility matrix
2. Crude blending matrix
3. Crude basket
4. Master table of evaluated crudes
5. Case study – Additives stabilisers

1. Key elements of refining economics
2. Profitability of refinery
3. Crack spread
4. Gross refinery margin
5. Planning and scheduling
6. Crude segregation

1. Introduction
2. The general principle of operation
3. Blending
4. Treatment
5. Refinery performance
6. Refinery complexity

1. Options for resid upgrading
2. Delayed coking
3. Solvent deasphalting
4. Visbreaking
5. Resid fluid catalytic cracking
6. Resid hydrotreating and hydrocracking

1. Objective
2. Crude oil assay
3. Compatibility test
4. Approval for processing
5. Post-evaluation report
6. Conclusion – essential steps of the crude selection process (wrap up)

Course summary and discussion