Improving Refinery Profit Margins

21 - 23 March 2011

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Course Topics:

• Economic environment and demand prospects
• Refined product specifications
• Crude oil quality and assay interpretation
• Process unit technology and economics
• Product blending techniques
• Refinery planning processes
• Utilisation of linear programming
• Price hedging techniques
• Refinery investment economics
• Energy and other cost factors

Course Dates and Venues

LONDON, 21-23 MARCH 2011

Course Tutors

Peter Jones graduated in Chemical Engineering in 1970 and joined Mobil at their Coryton refinery where he undertook assignments in process engineering, computer control, scheduling and economics, supply operations and process unit operations supervision.

Learning Outcomes

The ‘Improving refinery profit margins’ course focuses upon the manner in which refinery profit margins may be maximised.

It is intended to assist analysts, engineers and marketers to understand the inter-relationships between the numerous factors which may be manipulated to maximise refinery profitability given the economic constraints acting upon the refinery and the physical constraints of the refinery facilities themselves. To this end an examination of crude oil and refined product quality is essential, together with the more important refinery processes.