TRAINING COURSES AND SEMINARS

Growing global competitiveness in the refining products’ market requires an in-depth knowledge of fuel technology processes, global quality standards, and quality monitoring procedures. As the global market turns to clean fuels and more stringent specifications, the environment in which refiners operate is becoming more and more challenging.

This course offers a comprehensive overview of white and black products blending processes, covering refining processing and technology aspects, crude quality impact, specifications, quality giveaway, additives selection, blending economics, testing and troubleshooting. Additionally, the course gives a perspective on how the blending process fits into the operation of an integrated oil company. Case studies are used to illustrate the relative importance of each aspect of the blending process.

The FCC unit of a refinery has often been deemed to lose importance due to changing/varying fuel demands and crack spreads in the market (summer gasoline demand, diesel gap in Europe etc.). However in recent years, the FCCU has become more and more important. Due to challenges the industry is facing, the FCCU is actually growing in importance based on its ability to convert almost any hydrocarbon into higher valued liquid products. With the advent of the petrochemical industry growing year after year, the FCC has also grown in importance as fuel supply for the petrochemical industry (resid-to-chemical).

This course will provide you with the most important fundamentals of FCC and also with operational modes and troubleshooting cases.

To be fit for purpose fuels should fulfill quality standards related to the specific regional or national market requirements. Specifications or quality standards comprise lists of quality parameters specific for each fuel. Fuel quality management is one of the most important tasks of refiners, therefore, understanding of how to manage the quality parameters for each fuel is of utmost importance.

The course presents a comprehensive and detailed overview of specification standards for fuels, emission standards, quality control and certification of products procedures, the impact of ultra-low sulphur fuels production, test methods differences and how to approach a dispute in fuels’ quality. Additionally, the course gives an overview of the key quality parameters of gasoline and diesel fuel with corresponding test methods and how to locate and solve quality issues. Case studies are used to illustrate the relative importance of each aspect of the fuel quality management process.

The FCC unit of a refinery has often been deemed to lose importance due to changing/varying fuel demands and crack spreads in the market (summer gasoline demand, diesel gap in Europe etc.). However in recent years, the FCCU has become more and more important. Due to challenges the industry is facing, the FCCU is actually growing in importance based on its ability to convert almost any hydrocarbon into higher valued liquid products. With the advent of the petrochemical industry growing year after year, the FCC has also grown in importance as fuel supply for the petrochemical industry (resid-to-chemical).

This course will provide you with the most important fundamentals of FCC and also with operational modes and troubleshooting cases.

The discussion around industry 4.0 is often diluted and misinterpreted by the use of unclear definitions and multiple key words. To shed more light onto a fundamentally changed business world or how it most likely will look like, this workshop aims to explain some of the pre-requisites and tools on how to create a more agile environment.

This first part of the course will provide you with an explanation of what digitalization means and how a traditional industry like the oil business can charter its course in that direction. Examples will demonstrate the learning journey and intensify the lessons learned experience.

Digitalization/Digital transformation can be attained via a more efficient team organization and/or by applying additional tools to create a new and more agile working environment.

The second part of this course will provide you with a short introduction on what digitalization means (for more details – see Digitalization I) and will concentrate on a brief insight into data analyses types & tools, the application of AR & VR. Examples will demonstrate the learning journey & intensify the lessons learned.

Motor gasoline and diesel fuel as the most widespread fuels globally, face substantial challenges due to more stringent specifications and market requirements. Blending components and blending procedures, quality giveaway, bio components blending and additive treatment are continuously in the focus of refiners.

This course presents a comprehensive and detailed overview of the gasoline and diesel fuel blending process, covering refining processing and technology aspects, crude quality impact, global specifications, blending recipes, quality giveaway, bio blending, additive selection, blending economics and testing. Additionally, the course gives a perspective on how the blending process fits into the operation of an integrated oil company. Case studies are used to illustrate the relative importance of each aspect of the blending process.

Digitalisation and agile, self-learning teams are buzzwords in today’s business world. An efficient and people-oriented change management programme including necessary tools like team or personal coaching is a prerequisite and a fundamental basis in order to motivate teams and organizations and successfully drive efficient change management. The aim is to move the organization towards being even more agile or just to enhance efficiency and profitability. Many change management initiatives suffer from poor motivation of people involved or fail because of resistance to change.

This course will provide you with an overview on how to address a change and will introduce you to a successful way of change management. The tools learned will be practiced in small groups to intensify the lessons learned experience.

Digitalisation and agile, self-learning teams are buzzwords in today’s business world. Business Coaching (i.e. team or personal coaching) is a pre-requisite tool and a fundamental basis in order to make teams and organizations more agile and thus more able to survive today’s disruptive markets and environments. Coaching is often interpreted as training. The secret of efficient coaching is to create a pull model instead of a push model, i.e. start with the individual team Member.

An environment for intrinsic motivation instead of old-fashioned “management by order” has to be created.

This course will provide you with an overview of the most efficient Business Coaching tools and how to apply them. The learned tools will be practiced in small groups to intensify the lessons learned experience.

Environmental requirements, quality regulations, emission standards, energy efficiency improvements and new engine technologies have been responsible for remarkable changes in quality of fuels and consequently in the role of fuel additives. A dynamic of these changes is a continuous process which goes along with the development of the new generations of fuels.

Additives are mixed in small amounts into fuels to improve the product’s properties or to introduce new properties. This course is focused on the fuel additives’ selection process for all major refinery products. It covers additive fundamentals and their impact on the quality of products, the importance of the selection process, compatibility of additives, testing and interpretation of the results. Additionally, the course gives a perspective on how additives fit into integrated refinery processes. Case studies are used to illustrate the importance of each aspect of the additive selection process