Crude Oil Selection
Team Account users: 1110€
28 Credits
Dates for Fall 2023 to be released
3 Day Course
Sanda Telen
VILT2002
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Course Objective
“To help participants understand the importance and complexity of the crude oil selection process, and its impact on the processing technology, refining assets and the quality of finished products.”
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About the course
Instructor-led
3 Days
To be released
English
Limited seats
VILT2002
The refining industry has changed noticeably over the past years, with an ample supply of opportunity crudes available. Considering that crude oil purchasing represents approximately 85% of a refiner’s cost structure, it is a key factor in achieving profitability goals. There are many challenges in the processing of opportunity crudes, however, by respecting the general rules of the selection process, risks can be considerably decreased.
This training course is focused on the crude oil selection process and its impact on refinery processing and the quality of finished products. It provides practical guidance on the building, interpretation and significance of the crude basket, crude oil assay generation and interpretation, yields, economics, crude blending, compatibility, stability, environmental impact, and post-evaluation process. Additionally, the course gives perspective on how crude oil quality impacts the refinery assets and refining processes.
The course consists of online live sessions with the instructor spread across a 3 day period. All training content is provided through your EngineeringTrainer account. These live sessions will include plenty of opportunity to interact with the instructor through asking questions and discussion of the case examples.
After the course you maintain 1-year unlimited access to the course, including any new course material. This allows you to perform modules again should you need to refresh your knowledge.
Meet your instructor
Sanda Telen, PhD
Managing Director and Founder at Oilcon Oil&Energy Consulting
Technical consultant - Advanced Technologies and Product Development
Program & Details
Welcome to the course
Your instructor
How to use this course
Personal Certificate requirements
Crude market outlook and demand
Crude oil value chain
Cost of crude oil production
How the crude oil market works?
Benchmark or marker crudes
OPEC crude basket
Availability
Environmental issues
Long-term economic viability
Light/heavy crude oil spread
Challenges in processing
Elements of successful processing
Hydrocarbons, elements, and metals
Rearranging of molecules
Combustion of hydrocarbons
Classification of crude oils
Tight and shale crude oils
Opportunity crudes
Feedstock flexibility
Key elements of the crude oil selection process
Basic criteria for crude oil selection
Crude selection strategy
Crude oil selection parameters
Crude oil contaminants
Crude oil's carbon footprint
Asphaltenes and crude oil stability
SARA analysis
Asphaltene destabilisation
Asphaltene precipitation and deposition cycle
Prediction of asphaltene stability
Impact on processing
Management of Change process
Stakeholders
Elements of the crude oil evaluation process
Comparison of the main operational parameters
Environmental feasibility of crude oil processing
Economic evaluation process
Importance of Crude oil assay
Key elements of Crude oil assay
Types and formats
Data generation
Laboratory and generic data
Crude oil assay data interpretation
Importance of blending strategy
Principles and rules of blending
Lookalike crude oils
Types of crude oil blending
Blending ratio
Crude switching
Crude compatibility and crude contaminants
Types of crude compatibility
Asphaltenes
Stability of blends
Laboratory testing of crude stability
Crude instability and incompatibility
Crude oil compatibility matrix
Crude blending matrix
Crude basket
Master table of evaluated crudes
Case study – Additives stabilisers
Key elements of refining economics
Profitability of refinery
Crack spread
Gross refinery margin
Planning and scheduling
Crude segregation
Introduction
The general principle of operation
Blending
Treatment
Refinery performance
Refinery complexity
Options for resid upgrading
Delayed coking
Solvent deasphalting
Visbreaking
Resid fluid catalytic cracking
Resid hydrotreating and hydrocracking
Objective
Crude oil assay
Compatibility test
Approval for processing
Post-evaluation report
Conclusion – essential steps of the crude selection process (wrap up)
Course summary and discussion
Results
After this course, you...
have an appreciation of the complexity and the impact of a crude selection on the refining process and the quality of finished products
able to generate and interpret the Crude Oil Assay
know how to build the crude basket
understand the principles of crude blending and crude compatibility
have seen how to manage crude contaminants and the role of additives
can perform an evaluation of crude processing – technology and economy aspects
are able to perform the process simulation and simplified unit capacity calculation
understand the environmental concerns associated with crude oil processing
are knowledgeable about the impact of the crude oil processing on the quality of the finished products
Who should attend this course
Refinery unit managers
Refinery technical personnel
Planning and scheduling specialists
Trading and blending specialists
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.
Prerequisites:
This course is suitable for a range of personal and there are no specific prerequisites. Some affinity with crude oil processing is beneficial
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
This course consists of 6 instructor-led live sessions which consist of presentations, demonstrations, discussions and worked cases. During each session, participants can ask questions to the instructor (through the chat or microphone) which will be answered in the session.
Access to the course
After your purchase is confirmed the course will be available in your EngineeringTrainer account, where you will find the course welcome chapter and instructions on how to join the live sessions. Sessions are held using the software Microsoft Teams and a log-in link is provided for each session through the EngineeringTrainer portal. Live sessions can be joined using any device, including tablets and mobiles.
The live sessions for this course take place at the following times (all times are 24hr clock):
Session 1 Day 1, 9:00 to 12:00 CET
Session 2 Day 1, 13.15 to 15:15 CET
Session 3 Day 2, 9:00 to 12:00 CET
Session 4 Day 2, 13:15 to 15:15 CET
Session 5 Day 3, 9:00 to 12:00 CET
Session 6 Day 3, 13:15 to 15:15 CET
These sessions will include breaks at regular intervals
A personal digital certificate will be made available to each participant upon full attendance.
Example Certificate:
FAQ
This course consists of 6 instructor-led live sessions which consist of presentations, demonstrations and discussions of questions. During each live session participants can ask questions to the instructor (through chat or microphone) which will be answered.
Please note that for privacy reasons no recordings of the live sessions are made or provided.
The training material used in the live sessions, for example the slides or exercises, will be available in the EngineeringTrainer portal for a year after the date of the training allowing you to refresh your knowledge or review material if needed.
No, course content is not available for download.
The training material used in the sessions, for example the slides or exercises, will be available in the EngineeringTrainer portal for a year after the date of the training allowing you to refresh your knowledge or review material if needed.
Please note that for privacy reasons no recordings of the live sessions are made or provided.
Yes, interactive Q&A sessions are part of the live sessions in this course and allow you to interact with the instructor and ask questions.
To respect the privacy of the participants the live sessions will not be recorded, and as such the live sessions cannot be played back. Therefore it is important for all participants to block the time slots of the live sessions in their calendars and be present.
No software licenses are provided as part of this course.
Yes, this course qualifies for PDH hours as per the NCEES CPC Guidelines.
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