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Fundamentals of Petroleum Refining


A Two-Day Classroom Seminar (CPE Approved)

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This seminar provides technical and non-technical professionals with a basic understanding of how crude oil is refined into useful products. Participants will obtain a practical, process education that will enable them to

• improve their communications with their internal and external business contacts,

• appreciate the complexity of manufacturing useful products from crude oil,

• speak to the driving forces and issues impacting the refining industry, and

• what it takes for a refiner to be a competitive and profitable source of energy.

Each participant will bring a new perspective to their workplace responsibilities as soon as they return from the seminar.

What You Will Learn
  • About available crude types and their quality trends
  • How to judge the refining value for crude oil
  • Options for configuring refineries along with the associated strengths and weaknesses
  • Diversity of product yield and property distributions from different refinery schemes
  • Product specifications that must be met to satisfy refinery customers
  • What equipment is required for reliable, safe, environmentally-sound performance
  • How heat must be managed for efficient, profitable refinery operations
  • The array of chemical processes which are employed to refine crude oil
  • Specific process technologies commonly found in petroleum refineries
  • Typical discharges or wastes resulting from refinery production
  • Contributors to refinery profitability and what tools help refiners capture opportunities
What You Will Also Learn
  • Market drivers that influence customer product demand and refinery production goals
  • Assurance and control practices that help ensure product quality consistency
  • Typical terminology commonly used to discuss petroleum refining operations
  • Refinery energy consumers versus energy generators
Seminar Agenda
  • Overview of crude oil as a refinery feedstock, crude reserves and logistics, hydrocarbon composition, crude oil characterization, oil quality trends
  • Refinery diversity, global distribution, various manufacturing configurations, processing complexity
  • Refinery production, product slate options, important product properties and typical quality specifications, product blending, quality assurance and control
  • Critical components for product manufacturing, equipment needed to transport and deliver process streams to their proper destinations, equipment needed to heat or cool process streams for additional processing or storage
  • Process applications, an overview of the processes utilized to manufacture refinery products, processes include vaporization, condensation, combustion, distillation, extraction, absorption, stripping, filtration, crystallization, and reaction
  • Typical operating units, specific plants and equipment operated to convert crude oil into useful refined products, scope will include fuel, chemical and lubricating oil manufacturing as well as refinery auxiliary units, reaction chemistries will be reviewed, process control schemes will be discussed
  • Overview of refinery emissions; various water, solid and air discharges from refineries will be discussed
  • Refining economics; terminology, profitability contributors and decision tools will be reviewed
Hotel and Seminar Information
This two-day seminar will be held at the hotels listed below or can be conducted on-site at your facilities. The seminar will start promptly at 8:00 AM and will finish at 4:30 PM on the first day. On the second day, the seminar will resume at 8:00 AM and will finish at 2:30 PM. The program includes continental breakfast, lunch, and coffee/cookie breaks. Attendees also receive a professionally produced seminar manual that can serve as a valuable office reference. Dress is casual for all seminars
COVID 19 Information: Please click here for the PGS Covid-19 policy. You can confirm each hotel's specific COVID 19 policy using the link(s) provided below.
Registration Fee and Discounts
The price for this comprehensive two-day seminar is $1,595 (USD).
Register online or Call (843) 212-4038.
  • Additional attendees and government employees receive a 10% discount.
  • Register 4 or more attendees and receive 20% Off. Special pricing is available for groups of 5 or more.
    If you want attendees to pay with separate credit cards or have other questions, please call (843) 212-4038 for assistance.
Payments and Cancellations
Payment is due prior to the start of the seminar by Visa, Master Card, American Express, or corporate check. Seminar fees will be charged to your credit card at the time of registration unless other arrangements have been made. Please make checks payable to "PGS Energy Training" 26 Teal Lane • Hilton Head Island, SC 29926. Cancellations will result in a credit that is good for 2 years which can be transferred to a colleague. Substitutions may be made at any time. For more information on PGS policies regarding administrative matters and complaint resolution, please contact our offices at (843) 212-4038.
CPE Credits in Specialized Knowledge

This live group seminar is eligible for 12.0 CPE credits. Be aware that state boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. As of January 1, 2002, sponsored learning activities are measured by program length, with one 50-minute period equal to one CPE credit. One-half CPE credit increments (equal to 25 minutes) are permitted after the first credit has been earned in a given learning activity. You may want to verify that the state board from which your participants will be receiving credit accept one-half credits.

PGS Energy Training is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org. CPAs interested in attending any seminars should contact our offices for details on CPE credits granted and any prerequisite requirements.
PGS Energy Training is registered with GARP as an Approved Provider of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits. If you are a Certified FRM or ERP, please record this activity in your Credit Tracker at http://www.garp.org/cpd. Please inform PGS Energy Training that you are a GARP CPE participant upon seminar registration.

The Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) is a not-for-profit membership association dedicated to preparing professionals and organizations for making better-informed risk decisions. GARP's membership represents more than 150,000 risk management practitioners and researchers at academic institutions, banks, corporations, government agencies, and investment management firms in 195 countries and territories. GARP administers the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and Energy Risk Professional (ERP) Exams – certifications recognized by risk professionals worldwide. Visit www.garp.org/cpd.
Who Should Attend

Those professionals dealing with the business of petroleum refining will benefit from this seminar, for example: equipment manufacturers wanting equipment and process knowledge to support their business, technical and sales representatives seeking to identify new applications for their technologies, technical service engineers beginning work in the refining industry, process engineers wanting an insight into the design of facilities with multiple operating units, operating and business planning/professionals wanting to gain the process knowledge for facility optimization.

Types of companies that typically send representatives to seminar include petroleum refiners, catalyst and chemical suppliers, equipment developers/designers/manufacturers, equipment inspection service providers, industry consultants, environmental agencies.

Prerequisites and Advance Preparation

An understanding of chemical nomenclature and reaction chemistry would be helpful as well as familiarity with petroleum refinery terminology and units of measure. In general, attendees should come prepared to share what they want to learn prior to returning to their workplace.

Why Choose PGS?

PGS seminars are known for their clear explanations and in-depth content. Register for a PGS class today, and join the over 10,000 energy professionals who have already attended one of PGS's proven programs.

Program Level & Delivery Method
Intermediate level. CPE delivery method is "Group-Live."