Course Overview

What is downstream in the oil and gas industry?

Downstream operations are the processes of oil and gas. These processes come after the production phase and last till the point of sale. The Downstream Operations segment focuses on refining, marketing and distribution of petroleum products, petrochemicals and natural gas. Downstream operations produce gasoline, diesel, and home heating oil.  They also make jet fuel that the company markets through its convenience store retail network under its brand name. With downstream operations, producers turn their raw petroleum into consumer-packaged goods that can be used every day. Producers also perform new and enhanced services for their customers such as optimizing pipeline capacity, extracting natural gas from coal beds and even saving energy.

How has digital technology changed the oil and gas industry?

As a result of changing market conditions, the oil and gas industry is looking towards digitalization as a primary strategy for operators to maintain, improve, and extend their assets, all of which contribute to increased downstream profitability. Digital transformation in the downstream industry is about more than automating workflows to improve efficiency, quality and environmental performance. It is about how data generated by thousands of distributed processes can be harnessed to gain insights that drive business value.

This Zoe training course will provide you with a thorough grasp and knowledge of Downstream Oil and Gas Digital Transformation. Attendees will learn skills and experience that will aid in their career development and advancement. This course will work on cases of different customers that have implemented digital oilfield solutions, trying to find out patterns of success factors for this market. By attending this course, you will have a high level of influence on business change and innovation in their organization.

Course Objectives

This course’s main goal is to equip professionals to —

• Understand how to build a Digital solution in Oilfield
• Think strategically about future digitized business models in oil field operations
• Learn the value of transforming the value chain along with downstream to enable advanced analytics
• Tackle major challenges in the industry i.e., Data overload, Friction between data silos, and lack of automation
• To get a sustainable competitive advantage in the industry by using digital technologies, especially cloud computing and machine learning
• Understand all parts of the value chain of petroleum and natural gas industries, from exploration and extraction to refining, storage and distribution
• Improvement of operational efficiency, optimization of maintenance work through predictive analytics, through automation/the Internet of things (IoT), saving money for distribution companies (DCS) with the reduced risk profile

Training Methodology

Zoe Talent Solutions provide formal classroom training sessions, as well as practical training through group exercises and projects. Our trainers bring years of experience within their respective areas of specialization, thereby delivering the best possible training to our trainees. Our training method offers a simple, hands-on and learner-friendly concept of digital transformation in downstream oil and gas. Before the training session begins, we carefully review the training deliverables. The material is presented in a variety of formats, including text, images and videos to help you understand the structures/functions and see how they work. We encourage team interaction among the trainees, bringing out the best of both individual skills and team effort.

Organisational Benefits

Professionals who complete this course will provide the following benefits to their employers:

• Improve downstream profitability by maintaining, upgrading, and expanding your assets
• Reduce operating costs, increase plant efficiency, and reduce the number of unplanned plant shutdowns
• Providing sophisticated data analysis and insight application to digital oil and gas operators
• Access to data across global assets is simple, and issues are resolved quickly
• Reduces the amount of work required during turnaround operations, leading to less downtime and increased refinery utilization
• Reduce the number of people who are exposed to potentially hazardous operations
• Ease of supply chain integration, digitization of process control
• Better predict consumer demands for petrochemicals
• Improve safety and compliance while lowering financial risk by reacting more quickly to changing conditions

Personal Benefits

Professionals who take this course will benefit in the ways listed below:

• A strong understanding of downstream oil and gas digital implementation
• Learning how to integrate traditional oil refineries and facilities into a digital system
• Know how to extract all of the data points required to transition to a digital operation from an existing operating system
• Be able to handle complicated operations and evaluate data
• Learn how to upgrade sensor systems and do predictive maintenance on plants
• Acquires practical experience with data platforms such as big data, IoT, and AI-based simulations
• Become a key player in assisting downstream operators with asset optimization
• Be able to train other personnel on the foundations of digital oil fields
• To be able to better control the plant’s safety elements
• In the organization, the confidence to use digital platforms instead of manual documentation

Who Should Attend?

•    Executives and others in the oil and gas industry
•    Workers in the oil and gas field who want to learn about digital technology
•    Managers in charge of oil and gas assets in the downstream process
•    Petrochemical companies’ decision-makers
•    Those looking to invest in oil and gas infrastructure digitization
•    Any other professional with an interest in learning more about digital oil and gas fields

Course Outline

The following topics about digital transformation in downstream oil and gas are covered in the course:

Module 1: Characteristics of the downstream oil and gas segment’s business

• Oil Refining (Light Products, Medium Products, Heavy Products)
• Supply and Trading
• Product Marketing
• Distribution.
• Retail

Module 2: Overview of Activities in Downstream Oil and Gas

• crude oil refining
• fractionation of natural gas liquid
• pipeline transportation of natural gas liquids
• underground natural gas storage services
• onshore midstream gathering and compression

Module 3: Challenges Facing the Downstream Oil and Gas Sector

• Lack of digital implementation
• Traditional infrastructure and less unified platforms
• Reduced integration of global assets
• Reactive maintenance and lack of predictive maintenance
• Lack of real-time analytics of processes and Data migration challenges
• The reluctance of management to accept digitalization of assets
• Limited automation

Module 4: Opportunities for Digital Transformation in Oil and Gas Industry

• Digital technologies (visualizations systems to complex simulation models)
• Asset life cycle digital management
• Advanced analytical methods and smarter workflow processes

Module 5: Areas for Digital Implementation in Downstream Oil and Gas 

• Exploration
• Drilling
• Maintenance
• Health and safety
• Processes (workflows, stock update, equipment Maintenance, production monitoring)

Module 6: Benefits of Digitising Oil and Gas Processes

• Real-time data accessing and sharing
• Ability to analyse the current state
• Predict future trends and make optimisation decisions
• Automatic control capabilities