Petroleum Refining Course
This course equips participants with essential skills for operating and optimizing petroleum refining processes, focusing on crude distillation units (CDU/VDU), fractionation, safety, and troubleshooting to ensure product quality, unit stability, and regulatory compliance.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Petroleum Refining Course provides a practical understanding of crude distillation, CDU/VDU operation, and fractionation column behaviour so you can keep products on spec and units stable. Learn how crude properties, furnace performance, pressure control, and instrumentation affect yields, safety, emissions, and troubleshooting, with clear steps, useful tools, and focused skills you can apply immediately in daily operation.
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Develop skills
- Crude assay interpretation: predict CDU/VDU yields and key operating limits.
- Furnace and heater control: optimise duty, draft, and coking risk on heavy crudes.
- Fractionation tuning: adjust pressure, reflux, and pumparound to hit product specs.
- Safety and upset response: manage H2S, corrosion, flaring, and emergency actions.
- Systematic troubleshooting: use trends, alarms, and lab data to fix off-spec streams.
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