Refinery Integration and Adaptation

What are the Goals?

By the end of this Refinery Integration and Adaptation training course, participants will learn to:

• Identify the scale of challenge
• Understand the technical & operational aspects integration/adaptations concept
• Analyse the various models adapted by successful refiners from around the world
• Improve on skills to build on current capabilities
• Develop economics of their current complexes

Who is this Training Course for?

This Refinery Integration and Adaptation training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Planners
• Business Development Managers
• Corporate Planning Professionals
• Transportation and Urban Planners
• Energy Professionals
• Government Regulators
• Sales and Business Development Professionals
• Equity Analyst and Bankers
• Joint Venture Officers

Daily Agenda

Day One: Reinventing the Refinery: The Old Model

• The fundamental working of a typical refinery
• Processes and fuels
• Scale of the sector
• Why it became such a big sector
• Some of the biggest complexes and their working
• Market capacity and demand centres
• Crude spreads and margins
• Traditional markets and their working dynamics

Day Two:

• Refinery schedules
• Economy of fuels
• Capacities of refineries (Fuels)
• Future demand and consumption in various markets
• Economics of petrochemicals
• Pros and cons of the petrochemical market
• Complexities and logistics of integration vs non-integrations

Day Three: Commercial Strategies and Business Development

• Fluidised catalytic cracker
• Refinery flexibilites
• Advantage of feedstock and location
• Cost of integration
• CAPEX estimates
• Financial/Debt structure assumptions
• Forecasts in the market
• NPV / IRR / Valuation
• Polymers and their chemistry
• Poly ethylene and poly propylene

Day Four:

• Economic drivers for base chemicals and polymers
• Risks of diversification
• Strategy development
• Forecasts and planning
• Regional optimization of capacity and utilization
• Sensitivity analysis of
• Oil cost
• Gas cost
• Catalyst cost
• Capacity utilization
• Economy of scale

Day Five: Environment and Sustainability

• Refinery and the changed model of green economy
• Green credentials
• Carbon auditing of refinery processes
• Carbon pricing and trading
• Carbon capture and utilization
• Blending
• Creation of sustainable fuels and chemicals
• Competition and strategy ​