Design permit and isolation controls covering the work involved in product mix optimisation.
Optimising the Petroleum Product Mix to Maximise Economic Return
An applied course in product mix optimisation built around the decisions practitioners actually face.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 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 product mix optimisation — it punishes it. Deferred maintenance and deferred decisions on this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations both accrue interest. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations and revise it on evidence. The programme converts product mix optimisation from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations, not for observers of it. What blocks progress on this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. Mature organisations treat product mix optimisation as a standing capability rather than a project that finishes. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. The programme closes with an action plan for the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline that each participant writes for their own organisation.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Handle the trade-offs in product mix optimisation between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.
Document decisions about product mix optimisation in a form that remains useful after the people change.
Quantify the production impact of decisions taken on product mix optimisation.
Capture and act on lessons from incidents and near misses involving product mix optimisation.
Build a concise operating procedure for product mix optimisation that colleagues can follow without further explanation.
Integrate product mix optimisation with the wider process safety management system.
Who Should Attend
Consultants and service company personnel supporting clients on product mix optimisation.
Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by product mix optimisation.
Operations and production engineers responsible for product mix optimisation.
Consultants and advisers supporting clients on product mix optimisation.
Facility and plant managers accountable for product mix optimisation.
Process safety and technical safety specialists reviewing product mix optimisation.
Course Modules
Product mix optimisation: technical fundamentals and operating envelope
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The environmental exposure created by product mix optimisation
- Confirm handover documentation for product mix optimisation is complete and current.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on product mix optimisation.
- Establish the boundary of product mix optimisation and record what sits outside it.
- Compare the cost of product mix optimisation with the cost of its absence.
Session 2What the instrumentation on product mix optimisation is and is not telling you
- Collect evidence on the present handling of product mix optimisation before proposing changes.
- Verify isolation points for product mix optimisation are proven and documented.
- Establish the alarm philosophy applying to product mix optimisation and remove nuisance alarms.
- Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to product mix optimisation.
Product mix optimisation: contracts, contractors and service delivery
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The cost of product mix optimisation and how to present it
- Set out how exceptions to product mix optimisation are requested and approved.
- Check that the permit regime covering product mix optimisation matches the actual hazard.
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of product mix optimisation.
- Record what was learned when product mix optimisation did not go as planned.
Session 2Deciding between life extension and replacement for product mix optimisation
- Check that records of product mix optimisation answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in product mix optimisation.
- Benchmark the organisation's product mix optimisation against comparable operations.
- Agree what will be standardised in product mix optimisation and what will not.
Product mix optimisation: process safety, permits and isolation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Closing out product mix optimisation and capturing what was learned
- Define the trigger that would require product mix optimisation to be redesigned.
- Confirm that lessons from product mix optimisation are shared beyond the team that learned them.
- Set escalation thresholds for product mix optimisation that work out of hours.
- Map the handovers in product mix optimisation between functions and secure them.
Session 2The permit and isolation regime that product mix optimisation actually requires
- Identify the failure modes of product mix optimisation with the highest consequence.
- Define the safe operating envelope for product mix optimisation and how deviations are detected.
- Review the instrumentation on product mix optimisation for coverage gaps.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in product mix optimisation.
Product mix optimisation: incidents, lessons and continual improvement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in product mix optimisation and what to ignore
- Remove steps in product mix optimisation that add effort without adding assurance.
- Model the economics of product mix optimisation at low, base and high price cases.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around product mix optimisation are understood.
- Set out the decisions in product mix optimisation that require sign-off and by whom.
Session 2Reading condition data on product mix optimisation before failure, not after
- Review incident and near-miss history involving product mix optimisation.
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios product mix optimisation can create.
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on product mix optimisation.
- Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to product mix optimisation.
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- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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- Workshop or Program Participation
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
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- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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