Summary
Production planning and scheduling are interdependent processes that help you to organise your operations. They determine the key aspects and flow of your manufacturing and refining practices and procedures.
This course will provide an overview of planning and scheduling production for petroleum refinement. A key area of focus will be understanding and developing refinery flowsheets. These flowsheets illustrate all sectors of the refining process and are used to identify and understand changes and impacts of crucial operating variables on your operations.
- Understand the planning and scheduling tools available for refinery operations.
- Improve operations and facilities using appropriate scheduling and production plans.
- Use refinery flowsheets to optimise product movement, storage, and exchange.
- Develop risk assessment skills.
- Planners and Schedulers working in the oil and gas sector
- Petroleum, Process, and Maintenance Engineers
- Managers and Supervisors in the oil and gas sector
This course uses a variety of adult learning styles to aid full understanding and comprehension.
Participants will review case studies to highlight key areas of importance and possible areas for faults.
They will be supplied with the best tools required to carry out learning exercises to improve their skills. Participants will analyse the examples to gain a thorough understanding of how these skills, techniques and methods apply in the workplace.
Course Content & Outline
- Outline the role of planning and scheduling in refinery operations.
- Identify the type of crude: light and sweet, heavier and sour.
- Describe types of refinery configurations: hydroskimming and complex.
- Discuss crude oil scheduling ranges.
- Examine capacity utilisation rates for different types of crude.
- Discuss process safety management issues in oil and gas operations.
- Outline the required information for moving and storing products.
- Describe the data produced by a crude oil assay.
- Identify the characteristics of intermediates.
- Describe the properties and yields of oil fluid.
- Review the types of process units.
- Discuss the essentials of oil and gas utilities.
- Identify product specifications.
- Discuss emerging trends in the production of fuel.
- Review environmental challenges.
- Describe the impact of crude costs on blending.
- Assess the netback benchmark.
- Identify attributes and needs using problem formulation.
- Analyse a refinery-wide flowsheet.
- Discuss the applicability of the simplified form of the material balance equation.
- Estimate oil demands and supplies.
- Outline the value of product inventory and quality controls.
- Identify capacity constraints and controls.
- Review the availability of feed.
- Outline the process of moving and exchanging petroleum products.
- Discuss marginal oil and gas supplies and movements.
- Identify best practices for developing a refinery flowsheet.
- Review the use of linear programming in downstream refinery planning.
- Discuss software solutions for developing refinery flowsheets.
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