COURSE OVERVIEW:

This course provides participants with a clear and practical overview of refining process yields from the crude oil feed to the finished petroleum products. It introduces how crude oil properties, refinery configuration, and operating conditions affect the distribution of products such as LPG, naphtha, gasoline, kerosene, diesel, and fuel oil.

Participants will learn the fundamentals of crude distillation, key conversion processes, and the main supporting operations that influence yields and product quality. The course explains how process adjustments, unit constraints, and blending decisions impact daily production and overall refinery performance.

Special attention is given to the relationship between process yields and refinery economics. Participants will see how yields link directly to margins, how small operational changes can improve the product slate, and how operations personnel can support refinery optimization objectives through disciplined operation and monitoring of key process variables.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

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

1. Describe the overall refining value chain from crude oil receipt to finished products and explain how process yields are generated at each stage.
2. Explain how crude oil properties and crude selection influence primary distillation yields and downstream processing requirements.
3. Identify the main refinery process units and describe their roles in changing boiling range, quality and yields of products.
4. Understand the basic process routes for motor fuel production (gasoline, diesel and jet fuel) and how these routes affect the final product slate.
5. Recognize the importance of supporting operations such as blending, utilities, hydrogen supply and product quality control in achieving target yields.
6. Relate key operating variables (temperature, pressure, cut points, recycle rates, etc.) to changes in process yields and product distribution.
7. Describe the basic principles of refinery economics and how yields impact profitability, margins and operating decisions.
8. Contribute to yield optimization efforts by applying simple concepts, checks and best operating practices in their day-to-day roles.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

-Operations professionals

-Panel and field operators

-Shift supervisors and lead operators

-Junior process and production engineers

-Laboratory and technical support staff

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.