Petrochemical Engineering Training Course

Course Overview

This comprehensive professional development program is designed for Government regulators, Refinery professionals, Business development managers, Compliance officers, Law professionals, Tax and finance advisors, Corporate planning professionals, and Auditing personnel responsible for implementing petrochemical engineering excellence across KBC Advanced Technologies Petro-SIM and COILSIM1D process simulation-driven refinery-petrochemical integration for an Indian greenfield complex, Saudi Aramco and SABIC joint venture crude-to-chemicals conversion of 20 million tonnes per year with Hengli Petrochemical refinery-PX complex achieving 42 percent crude barrel chemical conversion, and Sinopec SMTO methanol-to-olefins technology commercialization with 260 Chinese patents and 23 international patents generating CNY 5.94 billion in incremental output in multi-organizational contexts. The program addresses proven practices in KBC Petro-SIM digital twin molecular management and feedstock allocation optimization, Dr. RJ Chang of IHS Markit crude-to-chemicals COC strategic reconfiguration from hydro-skimming and cracking through olefin and polymer production, and Sinopec SMTO alternative feedstock route commercialization reducing dependence on imported crude oil by producing ethylene and propylene from coal-derived methanol where KBC Advanced Technologies partnered with an Indian refinery constructing a greenfield refinery-petrochemical complex deploying a process simulation model built once and reused across all engineering phases covering crude selection and feed allocation to downstream petrochemical units and energy integration optimization with KBC suggesting implementing Petro-SIM process simulator along with COILSIM1D simulation and optimization software and developing a digital twin of the integrated refinery using high-fidelity process models to drive optimization through molecular management with the C5 stream redirected to the gasoline pool and the raffinate stream redirected to the steam cracker furnace delivering USD 6 million per year in savings, Dr. RJ Chang confirming that Saudi Aramco and SABIC announced formation of a joint venture to convert 20 million tons per year of oil to produce about 9 million tons of chemicals representing approximately 45 percent conversion of oil to chemicals with the project driven by Saudi Arabia’s goal to better monetize its oil assets to produce higher-value chemicals instead of fuels and to diversify its chemical feedstock away from its decreasing NGL supply and that Hengli Petrochemical China started building a 20 million tons per year crude oil to 4.5 million tons per year PX project with 42 percent conversion to all chemicals while Petro Rabigh and Sadara as state-of-the-art well-integrated refinery-petrochemical complexes already produce 17 to 20 percent naphtha for chemicals per barrel of oil, and Sinopec developing its proprietary SMTO technology over a decade of continuous R&D becoming the first company in the world to independently commercialize MTO conversion at scale with the technology generating CNY 5.94 billion approximately USD 913 million in incremental output over three years and reducing China’s dependence on imported crude oil by producing ethylene and propylene from domestically available coal-derived methanol.​

The curriculum integrates Crude Oil and Refining, Petrochemical Value Chains, Petrochemical Markets, Refinery Economics and Petrochemicals, Petrochemicals Tools and Processes, Feedstock in the Petrochemicals Industry, Project Analysis, and Petrochemical Methods to provide comprehensive coverage of petrochemical engineering principles, refinery-petrochemical integration and crude-to-chemicals and MTO technology methodologies, and value chain economics and business strategies and legal and environmental frameworks integration domains for achieving petrochemical engineering excellence.

Why This Course Is Required?

KBC Petro-SIM digital twin molecular management and feedstock allocation optimization represents a critical competency where KBC confirmed that originally the operator sent C5 recycle from a cracked gasoline hydrotreater unit in the steam cracker complex to the steam cracker furnace and to meet the production target raffinate from the aromatics extraction unit was sent to the gasoline pool first and the remaining to the cracker furnace but that KBC challenged this scheme based on rigorous site-wide refinery petrochemicals model optimization and proposed changing the path for the C5 stream to the gasoline pool and the raffinate stream to the steam cracker with the integrated framework including process-level molecular management and carbon-level simulation delivering USD 6 million per year in savings. Crude-to-chemicals COC strategic reconfiguration demands specialized knowledge where Dr. RJ Chang of IHS Markit confirmed that COC is defined as a refinery configured to produce greater than 40 percent per barrel of oil to chemicals and that COC elevates petrochemical production to the refinery scale representing a roughly four-times increase from current world-scale petrochemical plants and that COC due to its large scale is expected to significantly change the global supply and demand balance of major petrochemicals with hydrocracking becoming one of the most important processes due to its ability to crack and add hydrogen and remove sulfur and produce naphthas and achieve high conversion. Sinopec SMTO alternative feedstock route commercialization requires professionals with MTO technology expertise where Sinopec secured 260 Chinese patents and 23 international patents becoming the first company in the world to independently commercialize MTO conversion at scale and demonstrating how MTO technology converting methanol derived from coal or gas or biomass into ethylene and propylene reduces dependence on imported crude oil and opens alternative feedstock pathways.​

Petrochemical engineering professionals must master crude oil and refining fundamentals including importance of worldwide oil distribution and universe reserves and manufacturing and trade and introduction to the worldwide oil business exploration and extraction and refining and marketing and transport and crude oil organization by assays and natural oil quality indicators and finding aspects in crude selection and value of crude oil and the delivery cost of crude oil and the notion GPW Gross Product Worth and introduction to crude oil refining and distillation and refinery design and coking and cracking and hydro-skimming and topping, understand comprehensive petrochemical value chains and markets and refinery economics frameworks including the idea of value chain and series of upgrades from raw resources to final products and chemical linkage from hydrocarbons to final uses and olefins value chain including ethylene and propylene and polyvinyl chloride and the worldwide chemical industry and market research and forecasting and prediction and planning methods and chemical industry market segments and refinery growth and refinery economics and net refinery gap calculations and meaning of petrochemicals and how petrochemicals are found from wellhead to merchandise and gas and oil value chain causing petrochemicals and groups of petrochemicals and primary organic chemistry and process or reaction innovations, and apply proper petrochemicals tools and processes and feedstocks and project analysis and petrochemical methods including refinery petrochemical combination and seven primary chemicals and integration of petrochemicals and refining and primary refining processes and yield and conversion analysis and hydrocarbon oil reorganization and global gas oil business vital functions and alternative value of hydrocarbons including petrochemicals versus gasoline and petrochemicals feedstock composition from C1 to C50 and petrochemical project analysis and project management and projection identification and investment appraisal techniques and capital cost estimates accuracy and national oil industries and non-oil industries and global oil industries techniques and bio-feedstocks and MTO technology and HI Tech innovations and future trends to ensure organizations achieve superior Petro-SIM digital twin feedstock allocation optimization and enhanced crude-to-chemicals chemical yield maximization and improved SMTO methanol-to-olefins alternative feedstock commercialization and competitive advantage through continuous refinery-petrochemical integration and value chain economics and project analysis governance protocols.

Research demonstrates training is crucial for success, with the KBC-Indian refinery case showing that petrochemical engineers who understand process simulation and refinery-petrochemical integration economics and the technical merits of feedstock allocation can contribute to high-value advisory and project design roles that generate multimillion-dollar savings with the course’s modules on refinery design and refinery economics and petrochemical tools and processes and project analysis building the technical and financial foundation for that kind of integrative engineering work, while the Aramco-SABIC crude-to-chemicals strategy illustrating that petrochemical professionals who understand the strategic rationale and technical configurations and value chain economics of refinery-petrochemical integration from hydroskimming and cracking through to olefin and polymer production are well positioned for senior commercial and planning and technical roles at major integrated oil and chemical companies, and the Sinopec MTO case demonstrating that engineers and analysts who understand alternative feedstock routes and can evaluate their cost competitiveness against conventional naphtha steam cracking can help their organizations navigate feedstock price volatility and energy transition pressures.​

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion, participants will have demonstrated mastery of:

• Knowing petroleum innovations, future trends, and problems including bio-feedstocks and MTO technology and HI Tech innovations and COC crude-to-chemicals future trends​
• Identifying and efficiently dealing with environmental problems resulting from the rapid development due to the use of plastics including environmental dangers from the rapid growth of the petroleum industry
• Understanding the primary operations in refining and the petrochemicals business including distillation and coking and cracking and hydro-skimming and refinery-petrochemical integration​
• Finding the disparity between personal merits and petrochemical business ideas with strategic examples of combined oil industry and non-oil business and national oil industries
• Discussing technical concepts and buzzwords and terms used in the petrochemical business and analyzing petrochemical business models and business strategies including COC configuration and technology choices and competitive factors​
• Increasing knowledge of gas and oil refining and production and petrochemical activities and demand prediction and costs and distribution and sales contracts including Gross Product Worth crude selection economics​
• Gaining knowledge of the petrochemical value chain from raw oil and gas to complete plastics and various high-value materials including ethylene and propylene and polyvinyl chloride from naphtha steam cracking and SMTO methanol-to-olefins routes​

Master petrochemical engineering excellence and drive refinery-petrochemical integration and crude-to-chemicals and MTO technology success. Enroll today to become a Certified Petrochemical Engineering Professional!

Training Methodology

This Petrochemical Engineering Training Course comprises the following training methods:

The training framework includes:

• Expert-led practical exercises and team case learning and discussion sessions covering refinery-petrochemical integration economics and COC strategic configuration and MTO technology commercialization
• Broad use of short films and quizzes focusing on petrochemical safety and environment and operations considerations to empower new skills and knowledge
• Case studies including KBC Petro-SIM and COILSIM1D digital twin molecular management delivering USD 6 million per year in savings and Saudi Aramco-SABIC crude-to-chemicals 45 percent chemical conversion and Sinopec SMTO 260-patent MTO commercialization​
• Illustration of practical challenges in the organization through worked examples of feedstock allocation optimization and investment appraisal techniques and capital cost estimate accuracy

This immersive approach fosters practical skill development and real-world application of petrochemical engineering principles through comprehensive coverage of crude oil and refining and petrochemical value chains and markets and refinery economics and tools and processes and feedstocks and project analysis and petrochemical methods domains with emphasis on measurable feedstock optimization savings and chemical yield maximization and alternative feedstock commercialization.

This program follows the Do-Review-Learn-Apply model, creating a structured learning journey that transforms traditional refinery economics approaches into professional petrochemical engineering excellence.

Who Should Attend?

This Petrochemical Engineering Training Course is designed for:

• Government regulators and compliance officers
• Refinery professionals and corporate planning professionals
• Business development managers and auditing personnel
• Law professionals and tax and finance advisors

Organizational Benefits

Organizations implementing petrochemical engineering training will benefit through:

• Significantly enhanced Petro-SIM digital twin molecular management and feedstock allocation optimization capability through comprehensive training delivering measurable financial returns where KBC confirmed that KBC reviewed all the available streams in the refinery-wide flowsheet and proposed changing the path for the C5 stream to the gasoline pool and the raffinate stream to the steam cracker with the integrated framework including process-level molecular management and carbon-level simulation with feed sensitivity runs from COILSIM1D showing kerosene as potential feed to the steam cracker furnace and the hydrogen network KBC developed for the site-wide model helping to capture reduction in hydrogen consumption resulting in USD 6 million per year in savings, directly reflecting the course’s modules on refinery petrochemical combination and petrochemical tools and processes and feedstock allocation and project analysis​
• Better crude-to-chemicals COC strategic configuration and chemical yield maximization through Dr. RJ Chang confirming that COC due to its large scale is expected to significantly change the global supply and demand balance of major petrochemicals and that the Aramco-SABIC joint venture will produce about 9 million tons of chemicals per year representing approximately 45 percent conversion and that Hengli’s refinery-PX complex achieves 42 percent total chemical conversion and that hydrocracking becomes one of the most important processes for COC due to its ability to crack and add hydrogen and remove sulfur and produce naphthas and achieve high conversion while capital efficiency and scale and integration and configuration and process choices and accessible markets and feedstock advantage become the five key competitive factors at COC scale validating course content​
• Improved Sinopec SMTO alternative feedstock route knowledge and energy transition competitiveness through the Sinopec MTO case confirming that Sinopec developed its proprietary SMTO technology over a decade of continuous R&D securing 260 Chinese patents and 23 international patents becoming the first company in the world to independently commercialize MTO conversion at scale with the technology generating CNY 5.94 billion approximately USD 913 million in incremental output over three years and reducing China’s dependence on imported crude oil by producing ethylene and propylene from domestically available coal-derived methanol, directly supporting the course’s modules on feedstocks from C1 to C50 and alternative hydrocarbon value chains and MTO technology and bio-feedstocks and petrochemical innovations and future trends​
• Strengthened competitive advantage through instilling the company culture of efficiency dealing with significant challenges and tactics and essential concepts of successfully operating the petroleum business and illuminating how inventions in petrochemicals and energy aid in determining economic development and raising living standards and giving a broad management view of the worldwide petrochemicals industry and emphasizing the success aspects in every level of various company structures

Studies show that organizations implementing comprehensive petrochemical engineering training achieve significantly enhanced delivery outcomes as research confirms the KBC case study showing that the complex-wide model was used to run multiple feed sensitivities of processing raffinate in the cracker furnace using COILSIM1D and engineers considered summer and winter gasoline specifications and determined that the gasoline pool could absorb the entire C5 stream to meet demand with the stream change leading to saving about USD 6 million per year and similar results for other refinery streams reinforcing the course’s emphasis on refinery design and coking and cracking and hydroskimming and petrochemical tools and processes and feedstock origins and project analysis, better organizational outcomes through Dr. RJ Chang’s IHS Markit COC analysis demonstrating that COC companies compete both in fuel and chemical products and that the line between refinery and petrochemical will be blurred and that COC in China will allow PET producers to increase their PX self-sufficiency substantially and that Aramco-SABIC JV is expected to produce 9 million tons of petrochemicals about four times higher than a current world-scale naphtha steam cracker confirming the organizational value of training professionals in petrochemical value chains and refinery economics and crude oil economics and business strategies of national oil companies and international oil companies, and improved competitive positioning as Sinopec’s MTO win of China’s National Science and Technology Progress Award First Prize in 2018 confirms that organizations benefit from personnel who understand alternative feedstock pathways and MTO technology mechanics and bio-feedstock introduction and future trends.​

Empower your organization with petrochemical engineering expertise. Enroll your team today and see the transformation in refinery-petrochemical integration savings and crude-to-chemicals chemical yield and MTO alternative feedstock excellence!

Personal Benefits

Professionals implementing petrochemical engineering training will benefit through:

• Deeper understanding of Petro-SIM molecular management mastery and refinery-petrochemical integration value-addition through the KBC-Indian refinery case showing that petrochemical engineers who understand process simulation and refinery-petrochemical integration economics and the technical merits of feedstock allocation can contribute to high-value advisory and project design roles that generate multimillion-dollar savings, with the course’s modules on refinery design and refinery economics and petrochemical tools and processes and project analysis building the technical and financial foundation for that kind of integrative engineering work​
• Enhanced crude-to-chemicals COC strategic configuration mastery and value chain economic value-addition through the Aramco-SABIC CtC strategy illustrating that petrochemical professionals who understand the strategic rationale and technical configurations and value chain economics of refinery-petrochemical integration from hydroskimming and cracking through to olefin and polymer production are well positioned for senior commercial and planning and technical roles at major integrated oil and chemical companies, with the course’s modules on crude oil refining and petrochemical value chains and refinery economics and business strategies of national and international oil companies directly building that strategic and technical competence​
• Stronger Sinopec SMTO MTO technology mastery and alternative feedstock commercial value-addition through the Sinopec MTO case demonstrating that engineers and analysts who understand alternative feedstock routes including coal and natural gas or biomass to methanol to olefins and can evaluate their cost competitiveness against conventional naphtha steam cracking can help their organizations navigate feedstock price volatility and energy transition pressures, with the course’s modules on feedstock origins from C1 to C50 and alternative hydrocarbon value chains and MTO technology and bio-feedstocks and petrochemical future trends equipping professionals to engage with these emerging technologies and evaluate their commercial case​
• Advanced expertise in petrochemical engineering principles, refinery-petrochemical integration and crude-to-chemicals and MTO technology methodologies, and value chain economics and business strategies and legal and environmental frameworks integration domains
• Enhanced career prospects and marketability in refinery-petrochemical integration, crude-to-chemicals project development, petrochemical market analysis, MTO and bio-feedstock evaluation, project analysis and investment appraisal, and national and international oil company strategy sectors with professionals gaining skills in Petro-SIM digital twin optimization, COC configuration and technology selection, SMTO MTO mechanism and patent evaluation, olefin value chain analysis, and refinery economics net gap calculations
• Knowing the value chain maximization in petrochemical business and implementing them at workplaces to raise stockholders’ value
• Being completely aware of the successful aspects of various levels of the petrochemical business including NOCs and pure refining industries and pure chemical industries and their weaknesses and strengths and sharpening business skills by studying methods that raise capital manufacturing and operational success

Course Outline

The course covers the following areas important for one to become a certified petrochemical engineer:

Module 1: Crude Oil and Refining

• Introduction to the course
• Importance of worldwide oil distribution, universe reserves, manufacturing and trade
• Introduction to worldwide oil business: explore, extract, refine, market, and transport
• Worldwide oil resources: global gas and oil reserves, manufacturing of gas and oil
• Oil business conversion and units factors
• Crude oil distribution: refined merchandise
• Crude oil organisation by assays, natural oil quality indicators
• Industry units for Europe, Asia, and the USA, conversion factors
• Basics of the oil economics
• Finding aspects in crude selection and value of crude oil
• The delivery cost of the crude oil: the notion GPW (Gross Product Worth)
• Introduction to crude oil refining and distillation
• Refinery design
• Coking
• Cracking
• Hydro-skimming
• Topping
• Crude-to-chemicals COC configuration and 40 percent chemical conversion threshold
• Hydrocracking role in maximising naphtha yield for petrochemical integration

Module 2: Petrochemical Value Chains

• Petrochemical Value Chains I
• Know the idea of Value Chain
• Know how series of upgrades are constructed from the raw resources to the final products
• Study how these value chains get used maximally
• Knowing the chemical linkage from hydrocarbons to final uses
• Petrochemical Value Chains II
• Analyse olefins value chain: ethylene, propylene, and polyvinyl chloride
• Knowing how their demand is determined
• Olefins merchandise adoption and production technology
• Naphtha steam cracking versus MTO route competitiveness
• PX and aromatics integration in crude-to-chemicals value chains

Module 3: Petrochemical Markets

• The worldwide chemical industry
• Studying primary market research
• Studying what is forecasting
• Exploring the prediction and planning methods
• Chemical industry market segments
• Supply and demand impact of large-scale COC projects on major petrochemicals
• Market forecasting tools and scenario planning for petrochemical producers

Module 4: Refinery Economics and Petrochemicals

• Refinery growth
• Refinery economics
• Net refinery gap calculations
• Introduction to petrochemicals
• Meaning of petrochemicals
• How does petrochemicals get found from wellhead to merchandise
• Gas and oil value chain that causes petrochemicals
• Groups of petrochemicals
• Origin of petrochemicals and the primary responsibilities
• The start of the petrochemical business
• Application of petrochemicals in healthcare
• Applications of petrochemicals in daily life
• Primary chemistry
• Primary organic chemistry
• Arranging the chemicals into groups
• Primary characteristics of organic chemicals
• Process or reaction innovations of the petrochemicals business
• The development blocks in petrochemicals
• Gross Product Worth calculation for crude selection economics
• Refinery-petrochemical integration economics and net margin improvement

Module 5: Petrochemicals Tools and Processes

• Refinery petrochemicals combination
• Find the seven primary chemicals
• Explore the importance and issues of combining petrochemicals with refinery
• Study the meaning of integration of petrochemicals and refining
• Petrochemicals tools and processes
• The overview of hydrocarbon teams in crude oil
• The primary refining process and activities
• The analysis of the yield and conversion in the refinery
• Reorganisation of hydrocarbons oil
• The working understanding of the primary tools used in the petrochemical business
• Petro-SIM and COILSIM1D digital twin molecular management application
• Feedstock allocation optimisation and stream routing for maximum value

Module 6: Feedstock in the Petrochemicals Industry

• Global gas oil business vital functions
• Alternative value of hydrocarbons: petrochemicals versus gasoline
• Variation between chemicals and fuels
• Petrochemicals result composition and global oil refining
• Various feedstock origins for petrochemicals
• The various raw resources or petrochemicals from C1 to C50
• Coal and gas-derived methanol as alternative olefin feedstock via MTO
• Bio-feedstock introduction and energy transition feedstock diversification

Module 7: Project Analysis

• Petrochemicals project analysis
• Meaning of project management and its primary consideration and processes
• Projection identification method
• Project management analysis steps
• What to consider when choosing the correct technology, operating prices, and capital for the project
• Capital price estimates accuracy
• The various methods of doing financial analysis: adding shareholder value and measuring its success
• Investment appraisal techniques
• Comparing the various performance measures
• Capital measure accuracy
• Conclusion
• Capital cost estimate accuracy and contingency classification
• Five key COC competitive factors: scale, integration, configuration, markets, and feedstock

Module 8: Petrochemical Methods

• Illustrate the petrochemicals involvement aspect
• With the use of examples of the methods and industry techniques of national oil industries, non-oil industries, and global oil industries
• Global oil industries primary techniques
• National oil industries: chemical company methods and major techniques
• Primary non-oil industries competitive advantage
• Knowing the primary success aspects
• Understanding the best under lecture summary
• Vital business incentives: five groups
• Petrochemical project measurement
• Petrochemicals issues, innovations, and future trends
• What are the refining problems, risks involved, and future trends in petrochemicals
• What are the determinants for innovation in petrochemicals
• How the unique aspect of petrochemicals merge in the various companies
• Introduction of bio-feedstocks
• Technologies that meet the demands in the market: MTO
• Technologies in petrochemicals: HI Tech
• Sinopec SMTO commercialisation pathway and patent strategy
• NOC versus IOC competitive positioning in integrated petrochemical strategy

Real World Examples

Saudi Aramco, SABIC, Sadara, and Petro Rabigh – Crude-to-chemicals integration at world scale

Implementation: Dr. RJ Chang of IHS Markit confirmed that recently there have been several large crude oil to chemicals COC projects announced or started which involve reconfiguring a refinery to produce maximum chemicals instead of transportation fuels as in a conventional refinery with these projects in effect merging a refinery and petrochemical plants into one going well beyond state-of-the-art refinery petrochemical integration, and that COC elevates petrochemical production to the refinery scale representing a roughly four-times increase from current world-scale petrochemical plants with COC defined as a refinery configured to produce greater than 40 percent per barrel of oil to chemicals. Saudi Aramco and SABIC announced formation of a joint venture to convert 20 million tons per year of oil to produce about 9 million tons of chemicals representing approximately 45 percent conversion and the project was driven by Saudi Arabia’s goal to better monetize its oil assets to produce higher-value chemicals instead of fuels and to diversify its chemical feedstock away from its decreasing NGL supply with this project representing a big oil company moving downstream to become a big petrochemical company, while Hengli Petrochemical China started building a 20 million tons per year crude oil to 4.5 million tons per year PX project with 42 percent conversion to all chemicals processing a mix of Arabian Heavy and Arabian Light and Marlim crudes employing Axens’s H-Oil RC ebullated bed hydrocracking for vacuum residue and HyK hydrocracking for gasoil and diesel hydrocracking as well as Solvahl deasphalting processes to produce maximum heavy naphtha for the aromatics unit. Saudi Aramco also announced that it will work with Chevron Lummus Global CLG to develop hydrocracking technology capable of converting 70 to 80 percent per barrel of oil to chemicals with the conceptual design based on Aramco COC process patents suggesting that Aramco hydrocracts its light crude first then it goes into a distillation column with lighter fractions steam cracked to produce chemicals while the heavy fraction is sent to a high-severity FCC to produce additional chemicals and fuels with the IHS Markit estimate of chemical yields turning out to be 72 percent in agreement with what Aramco claims as the yield of 70 to 80 percent.​

Results: Dr. RJ Chang confirmed that COC due to its large scale is expected to significantly change the global supply and demand balance of major petrochemicals starting with PX in China and that Aramco-SABIC’s COC projects can allow Saudi Arabia to better monetize its oil assets and to diversify its petrochemical feedstocks from NGLs and that COC in China will allow PET producers to increase their PX self-sufficiency substantially with the line between refinery and petrochemical blurred with COC companies competing both in fuel and chemical products, with the course’s modules on refinery design and crude oil economics and petrochemical value chains and feedstock origins and business strategies of national and international oil companies and petrochemical future trends providing the strategic and technical foundation for engaging with these transformational COC developments. Results confirmed that capital efficiency and scale and integration and configuration and process choices and accessible markets and feedstock advantage become the five key competitive factors at COC scale with Aramco-SABIC JV expected to produce 9 million tons of petrochemicals about four times higher than a current world-scale naphtha steam cracker while the Aramco-CLG-CB&I design when realized will produce 6.5 times chemicals of a current steam cracker illustrating exactly the refinery-petrochemical integration and crude oil economics and business strategies knowledge the course builds through its modules on crude oil and refining and petrochemical value chains and refinery economics and petrochemical methods.​

Sinopec – Methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology commercialization

Implementation: Sinopec developed its proprietary SMTO Sinopec Methanol-to-Olefins technology over a decade of continuous R&D securing 260 Chinese patents and 23 international patents becoming the first company in the world to independently commercialize MTO conversion at scale, with the MTO technology converting methanol derived from coal or gas or biomass into ethylene and propylene reducing China’s dependence on imported crude oil by producing these key petrochemical building blocks from domestically available coal-derived methanol. The commercialized SMTO technology generated CNY 5.94 billion approximately USD 913 million in incremental output over three years demonstrating the substantial commercial value of successfully commercializing alternative feedstock routes and providing a concrete named-company example of how MTO technology mechanics and innovation process and alternative feedstock pathway development translate into competitive national energy independence and commercial returns. The Sinopec MTO case won China’s National Science and Technology Progress Award First Prize in 2018 confirming the technical breakthrough represented by independently commercializing MTO conversion at scale and directly illustrating the alternative feedstock pathways and MTO technology mechanics and innovation process and future trends covered in the course’s feedstocks and petrochemical methods modules.​

Results: Sinopec confirmed that the SMTO technology generating CNY 5.94 billion approximately USD 913 million in incremental output over three years and making China the first country to independently develop and commercialize MTO conversion capability demonstrates how MTO technology reduces dependence on imported crude oil and opens alternative feedstock pathways for organizations navigating feedstock price volatility and energy transition pressures, with the course’s modules on feedstock origins from C1 to C50 and alternative hydrocarbon value chains and MTO technology and bio-feedstocks and petrochemical innovations and future trends equipping professionals to engage with these emerging technologies and evaluate their commercial case. Results confirmed that engineers and analysts who understand alternative feedstock routes including coal and natural gas or biomass to methanol to olefins and can evaluate their cost competitiveness against conventional naphtha steam cracking can help their organizations navigate feedstock price volatility and energy transition pressures illustrating exactly the feedstock origins and petrochemical methods knowledge the course builds through its modules on global gas oil business vital functions and alternative value of hydrocarbons and petrochemicals feedstock composition from C1 to C50 and bio-feedstocks introduction and MTO technology and HI Tech innovations.​

Be inspired by leading petrochemical engineering achievements. Register now to build the skills your organization needs for refinery-petrochemical integration savings and crude-to-chemicals chemical yield and MTO alternative feedstock excellence!