Course Outline

• Obtain a clear overview of the processing background and how feedstocks develop through intermediates and into finished products
• Understand how the development of plastics has driven the advances in the industry, moving from an also-ran driver to the major destination for so much of the worldwide petrochemical tonnage
• Review the feedstock picture and study how changes in feedstock have changed the geography of the industry
• We will examine the drivers and economics of the industry