COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Basic Petroleum Chemistry. It covers the composition of crude oil including physical and chemical properties of petroleum; the hydrocarbon structures and classifications as well as non-hydrocarbon components in crude oil; the crude oil measurement techniques and the basics of petroleum refining chemistry; the physical and chemical properties of crude oil fractions; and the thermal and catalytic cracking processes, reforming and isomerization chemistry as well as desulfurization and hydroprocessing technologies. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the petrochemical chemistry and feedstock processing including laboratory techniques in petroleum chemistry; the  thermodynamics and reaction kinetics in petroleum chemistry; the polymerization and alkylation reactions in refining; the corrosion chemistry in oil and gas processing; the water chemistry and emulsions in oil production; the carbon capture and sustainable chemistry in oil & gas including air and water pollution from petroleum processing; handling and storing petroleum chemicals; the hazardous waste management in oil and gas industry; the fire and explosion chemistry in oil and gas facilities; and the future trends in petroleum chemistry.