COURSE OVERVIEW:

This comprehensive course, focusing on company Final Product Storage, Loading and Transport Systems Design, delves deeply into the integrated engineering, safety and operational aspects of handling refined hydrocarbon products from tank farm to export and distribution. Participants will learn how to interpret, review and enhance design specifications related to aboveground storage tanks, product transfer lines, loading bays, truck filling racks and marine loading systems.

The course will walk through the full value chain, from understanding product properties and design envelopes, to selecting appropriate storage technologies, developing safe and efficient loading configurations, and integrating instrumentation, control and protection systems. Emphasis is placed on company guidelines, applicable international codes and standards (such as API, NFPA, IEC), and industry best practices for safe, reliable and environmentally compliant operation.

Through practical exercises and case studies inspired by company terminals and depots, participants will apply design concepts to real-world scenarios, review typical design packages, and learn how to identify and correct weaknesses in existing storage and loading systems.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

After completion of this course, the participants will be able to:

1. Interpret and review company and international requirements for final product storage, loading and transport systems, and apply them to new designs and modifications.
2. Define design bases and key parameters for different product types, and select appropriate storage tank configurations, materials and ancillary systems.
3. Develop safe and efficient designs for truck, rail and marine loading systems, including loading arms, gantries, hose systems, vapour recovery and overfill protection.
4. Design product transfer and pipeline systems between process units, tank farms and loading terminals, ensuring hydraulic adequacy, operability and integrity.
5. Specify measurement, metering and custody transfer systems to ensure accurate accounting, loss control and product quality assurance.
6. Integrate safety, automation, emergency shutdown and fire protection requirements into product storage and loading facility designs.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

-Process, project and design engineers

-Operations and terminal supervisors

-Facilities, mechanical and piping engineers

-HSE, risk and loss prevention engineers

-Maintenance and inspection engineers

TRAINING COURSE METHODOLOGY:

A highly interactive combination of lectures and discussion sessions, as well as case studies, will be managed to maximize the amount and quality of information, knowledge, and experience transfer. The course will be intensive but practical and highly interactive. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions and motivating everybody to find the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their questions and to share in developing the right answers using their analysis and experience. There will also be some indoor experiential activities to enhance learning. Course material will be provided in PowerPoint, with necessary animations, learning videos, and general discussions.

The course participants shall be evaluated before, during, and after the course.

COURSE CERTIFICATE:

National Consultant Centre for Training LLC (NCC) will issue an Attendance Certificate to all participants completing a minimum of 80% of the total attendance time requirement.