Petrochemicals: Origins, Links, Processing, Key Products:

• Hydrocarbons from Petroleum and Natural Gas
• Oil & Gas Processing, Feedstock Sources
• Main industrial reactions, processes, products and co-products
• Olefins and their derivatives
• Aromatics and their derivatives
• Methane and its derivatives

Global and Regional Petrochemicals:

• Facts and Figures
• Review of key Global Trends
• Regional and Global Shifts

A Responsible Industry:

• Responsible Care, Product Stewardship, Product Risk Assessment
• REACH, Pollution Prevention
• Energy Taxation, Emission Trading

Economics:

• Links to macro-economy and other industries, cyclicality, global and regional dynamics
• feedstock: types, underlying cost, pricing, yields, regional specifics, supply/demand, past and current, recent and new trends
• Capital expenditure and operating cost
• Economy of scale and integration
• Cost curves, marginal economics, s/d economics, leaders/laggards profitability
• “Right & Wrong” time of building assets
• Structures and restructuring, M&As: past and current

Winning Leadership in Petrochemicals Operation:

• Portfolio Strategy and Management: commodity vs. specialty
• Recent Challenges facing chemical industries
• Fit-for-purpose business models and units: marketing, cost, supply chain, operations…
• Account Management principles, organizational, practical aspects, case studies
• People & organization: The influence model with its 4 building blocks of change

Today’s HC Enterprise and the World - Shell as an example:

• Sustainability & Triple Bottom Lines , reputation management
• Recent public positioning

Business and Project Development:

• Opportunity identification and realization
• New market and customer development
• Investment decision process
• Asset & project development and execution

Operational Excellence in Manufacturing:

• Principles and practices
• Case Study

Stakeholders:

• Realities, Interests, Interactions
• Producers, customers, service providers, intermediaries, authorities, supporters and challengers.

IOCs, NOCs, Independents in Petrochemicals:

• Ownership, interests, synergies, operating models and evolutions.
• High Level Structures of modern Petrochemicals Enterprises: Different Models

Partnerships and Joint Ventures:

• Option or must?
• Benefits and challenges
• Risks and mitigations
• Decision tree
• Case study

Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategy, Planning , Performance Monitoring & Appraisal:

• Cascading and evergreen process
• Alignment of people and business goals
• Goal setting and appraisal
• KBAs / KPIs
• Effective governance and communication
• Case study: generic, real, tools & techniques

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