Petroleum Refining & Petrochemicals for Non-Technical Personnel - Virtual Learning
Course Methodology
This training course will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented, including:
- Lectures
- The Use of PowerPoint presentations
- Short videos to reinforce specific points and relate the material to the real world
- Case studies and exercises that will be augment the seminar
- Discussions in a highly interactive programme that will offer and encourage the participants to advance their opinions and ideas
Course Objectives
By the end of this Petroleum Refining & Petrochemicals for Non-Technical Personnel training course, participants will:
- Comprehend the basic differences between exploration, and refining and petrochemicals
- Understand the basics of the various refining and petrochemical processes
- Examine the fundamental differences in various refinery types, their complexity and impact on their profitability
- Identify the basics of the different building blocks of petrochemicals
- Appreciate that aromatic based petrochemicals are important to the polymer industry even though the refining industry is trying to minimize these in gasoline due to its toxic properties
- Appreciate that olefinic and aromatic petrochemical precursors are specialty chemicals produced by the refining processes from refineries of high complexity numbers
Target Audience
This Petroleum Refining & Petrochemicals for Non-Technical Personnel training course is specifically designed to be of substantial benefit to non-technical personnel within the Oil and Gas Industries. This Gulf Rowad training course is also suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Non-technical professionals assigned to positions in refineries and petrochemical plants, corporate offices, suppliers and other interrelated companies
- Support Personnel including Environmental professionals, Accountants, Business managers, Administrative and legal staff, Sales and marketing personnel, Insurance representatives, Personnel managers, Financial professionals and other professionals who desire a better understanding of subject matter
- Newly-hired refinery or petrochemical plant personnel and current semi-technical personnel who require further training
- Other support staff who have an interest in increasing their understanding of Petroleum Refining & Petrochemicals production and operations
- Business Development Managers, Corporate Planning professionals and business analysts switching disciplines who are required to have a better understanding of this stimulating field
- Energy industry journalists and reporters
- Professional personnel such as legal, banking, insurance, finance dealing with oil supply, Petrochemicals, refining and transportation
Target Competencies
Organisational Impact
- Recognized and respected certification for the delegates attending
- Assurance that the seminar is delivered by a quality training organization using a very experienced instructor
- Field engineers and staff with a deeper understanding and a better capability to critically analyze the methodologies employed within the industry
- Managers who have a broader overview and understanding of the structure and operations of the oil and gas production
- Comprehend that countries with abundant gas reserves that are utilized for petrochemical production have a competitive edge against their naphtha based competitors particularly during high crude oil prices (above $70/bbls)
Personal Impact
- Develop an appreciation and understanding of the origins of oil and gas
- A deeper insight of oil chemistry
- Appreciate that natural gas utilized for petrochemical production has a competitive edge against naphtha based petrochemicals at times of high crude oil prices
- Recognition of the different types of feedstock and their origins
- Enhance the participant’s awareness about influential parameters in an oil and gas field development plan
- A basic understanding of the principles of the mechanics of petrochemical production distribution, marketing and uses
Course Outline
Origin and Nature of Petroleum
- Chemistry of Fossil Fuels
- Basic Petroleum Geology
- Origins, Formation and Trapping of Oil & Gas
- Exploration and Production Methods
- Transportation Logistics
- Seminar Exercise - Estimation of Reserves
Overview of Refining
- Classification of Hydrocarbons
- Surface Processing of Oil and Gas
- Refinery Types and Complexity
- Hydroskimming, Cracking and Coking Refineries
- Refining Margins and Profitability
- Seminar Exercise - Netback & Complexity Factors
Refinery Process Operations
- Physical Separation – Crude and Vacuum Distillation
- Chemical Conversion Processes, Gasoline Production
- Hydrotreating, Catalytic Reforming, Alkylation, and Isomerization
- Residue Reduction I: Cat Cracking, Hydrocracking, Visbreaking, Hydrocracking
- Residue Reduction II: Coking, Asphalt and Residual Fuel
- Seminar Exercise - Blending
Petrochemicals I - Production and Uses
- Production and Segregation of Olefinic and Aromatic Compounds
- Olefin based Compounds
- Ethylene
- Propylene
- Butadiene
- Isobutylene
- Aromatic based Compounds
- Benzene
- Toluene
- Xylene
Petrochemicals II - Production and Uses
- Commoditization of Natural Gas
- Natural Gas based Compounds
- Ammonia
- Methanol
- Gas to Liquid Technologies
- Case Study - Petrochemical Production – Major Companies
- Seminar Roundup and Discussions
2026 Schedule & Fees
| Date | City | Language | Price | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Jun - 02 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 28 Jun - 02 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 05 Jul - 09 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 05 Jul - 09 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 12 Jul - 16 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 12 Jul - 16 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 19 Jul - 23 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 19 Jul - 23 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 26 Jul - 30 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 26 Jul - 30 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 02 Aug - 06 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 02 Aug - 06 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 09 Aug - 13 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 09 Aug - 13 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 16 Aug - 20 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 16 Aug - 20 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 23 Aug - 27 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 23 Aug - 27 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 30 Aug - 03 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 30 Aug - 03 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Sep - 10 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Sep - 10 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Sep - 17 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Sep - 17 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Sep - 24 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Sep - 24 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Sep - 01 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Sep - 01 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 04 Oct - 08 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 04 Oct - 08 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 11 Oct - 15 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 11 Oct - 15 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 18 Oct - 22 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 18 Oct - 22 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 25 Oct - 29 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 25 Oct - 29 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 01 Nov - 05 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 01 Nov - 05 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 08 Nov - 12 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 08 Nov - 12 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 15 Nov - 19 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 15 Nov - 19 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 22 Nov - 26 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 22 Nov - 26 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 29 Nov - 03 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 29 Nov - 03 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Dec - 10 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Dec - 10 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Dec - 17 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Dec - 17 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Dec - 24 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Dec - 24 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Dec - 31 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Dec - 31 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
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