Petroleum Refining Course
This course equips participants with essential skills for operating and optimizing petroleum refining processes, focusing on distillation units, safety, and troubleshooting to enhance efficiency and compliance.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Petroleum Refining Course provides practical knowledge on crude distillation, CDU/VDU operations, and fractionation column behaviour to maintain product specifications and unit stability. You will learn how crude properties, furnace performance, pressure control, and instrumentation impact yields, safety, emissions, and troubleshooting, with straightforward steps, practical tools, and skills applicable right away in everyday operations.
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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 meet 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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