Petroleum Refining Course
Master CDU/VDU operation, furnace and column control, crude properties, safety, and troubleshooting. This Petroleum Refining Course gives oil and gas professionals practical tools to improve reliability, product quality, and plant performance.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Petroleum Refining Course gives you a practical understanding of crude distillation, CDU/VDU operation, and fractionation column behavior 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: optimize 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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