Assess the technical and commercial risk attaching to distillation unit optimisation across the asset life cycle.
Optimising Atmospheric and Vacuum Distillation Units in Refineries
An applied course in distillation unit optimisation built around the decisions practitioners actually face.
📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Price volatility does not excuse weak discipline in distillation unit optimisation — it punishes it. Regulators and insurers increasingly want documented evidence of how the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations is controlled. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations before they become incidents. Most organisations already have a policy on distillation unit optimisation; far fewer can show it working. The course gives participants a defensible structure for this strand of energy and hydrocarbon operations and the judgement to adapt it. The most reliable predictor of sound the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. The programme works equally well for those formalising distillation unit optimisation for the first time and those improving an existing approach. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a operating procedure for the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations as they go. Participants leave with a plan for this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations sized to what their organisation can realistically absorb.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Quantify the production impact of decisions taken on distillation unit optimisation.
Model the economics of distillation unit optimisation under a realistic range of price scenarios.
Test the organisation's response to distillation unit optimisation under conditions that are less than ideal.
Design a practical operating method for distillation unit optimisation that fits the organisation's size and maturity.
Prepare the technical case for capital investment in distillation unit optimisation.
Plan the handover of distillation unit optimisation so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.
Who Should Attend
Managers in small and medium organisations who own distillation unit optimisation alongside other duties.
Commercial and planning analysts modelling distillation unit optimisation.
Inspection and integrity engineers assessing distillation unit optimisation.
Newly appointed managers taking on distillation unit optimisation for the first time.
Shift supervisors and control room leads dealing with distillation unit optimisation in real time.
Project engineers delivering capital work involving distillation unit optimisation.
Course Modules
Distillation unit optimisation: environmental obligation and emissions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building the investment case for distillation unit optimisation that finance will accept
- Confirm that reporting on distillation unit optimisation reaches the people who can act.
- Set out how exceptions to distillation unit optimisation are requested and approved.
- Review the instrumentation on distillation unit optimisation for coverage gaps.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on distillation unit optimisation.
Session 2The permit and isolation regime that distillation unit optimisation actually requires
- Model the economics of distillation unit optimisation at low, base and high price cases.
- Set the review interval for distillation unit optimisation and who attends.
- Review whether distillation unit optimisation is aligned with the objectives of the operating asset.
- Confirm the inspection interval for distillation unit optimisation is based on condition, not habit.
Distillation unit optimisation: incidents, lessons and continual improvement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Keeping distillation unit optimisation alive after the initial push
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when distillation unit optimisation underperforms.
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios distillation unit optimisation can create.
- Define the safe operating envelope for distillation unit optimisation and how deviations are detected.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving distillation unit optimisation.
Session 2The environmental exposure created by distillation unit optimisation
- Check that the permit regime covering distillation unit optimisation matches the actual hazard.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of distillation unit optimisation current.
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of distillation unit optimisation.
- Identify the failure modes of distillation unit optimisation with the highest consequence.
Distillation unit optimisation: economics, price exposure and investment case
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What the instrumentation on distillation unit optimisation is and is not telling you
- Map the handovers in distillation unit optimisation between functions and secure them.
- Establish the boundary of distillation unit optimisation and record what sits outside it.
- Identify single points of dependency in distillation unit optimisation and reduce them.
- Prepare the summary of distillation unit optimisation that senior management will read.
Session 2Competence and handover on distillation unit optimisation when experienced staff leave
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in distillation unit optimisation.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in distillation unit optimisation.
- Confirm handover documentation for distillation unit optimisation is complete and current.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on distillation unit optimisation.
Distillation unit optimisation: competence, certification and handover
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Closing out distillation unit optimisation and capturing what was learned
- Define acceptance criteria for distillation unit optimisation in advance.
- Estimate the production loss associated with unplanned downtime of distillation unit optimisation.
- Name a single owner for each element of distillation unit optimisation.
- Identify critical spares for distillation unit optimisation and confirm lead times.
Session 2The hard cases in distillation unit optimisation and how to reason about them
- Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to distillation unit optimisation.
- Confirm that lessons from distillation unit optimisation are shared beyond the team that learned them.
- Plan the distillation unit optimisation scope so it fits the available shutdown window.
- Close out actions on distillation unit optimisation rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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