Course Outline

• Oil& Gas Industry
• Difference between Petroleum Refining vs. Petrochemical Industry
• Overview of the most important operations and products
• Market insight (supply/demand) as well as (production/consumption)
• Several Petroleum Refineries around the World
• Unit Operations & Processes
• Refining and Fractionation
• Atmospheric Distillation Column
• Vacuum Distillation
• Hydrotreating (Hydrogenation)
• Blending
• Reforming
• Isomerization
• Alkylation
• Steam Cracking
• Fluid Catalytic Cracking
• Gas Sweetening (Hydrodesulfurization)
• Coking
• Components
• Fuel Gas / Natural Gas
• Liquified Petroleum Gases (LPG)
• Propane, Butane
• Sulfur / Hydrogen Sulfide
• Gasoline / Automotive Gas Oil
• Naphtha Cuts (Light/Heavy)
• Kerosene
• Diesel
• Gasoil
• Lubricants
• Vacuum Residues
• Asphalt
• Coke