Course Overview

How are oil and natural gas made?

The oil and gas industry are a global business with a commitment to explore, produce, transport, and sell crude oil and natural gas from wells to end-users. To do this, oil and gas companies use a large variety of equipment that requires a supply of petroleum products. Oil and natural gas are pumped from the earth into a gathering system, then sent through a network of pipelines to destination points where it is processed for use.

Is the transportation industry regulated?

Natural gas is usually moved through pipelines or liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers, while crude oil is often transported in mobile units called tankers before reaching its final destination by pipeline or ship. This Zoe training course will provide you with a thorough grasp and knowledge of Downstream Oil and Gas Digital Transformation. You will also find out how the transportation industry is regulated.

Participants 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 organisation.

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, optimisation 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 specialisation, 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 utilisation
• Reduce the number of people who are exposed to potentially hazardous operations
• Ease of supply chain integration, digitisation 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 optimisation
• 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 organisation, 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 digitisation
•    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 digitalisation of assets
• Limited automation

Module 4: Opportunities | Digital Transformation in Oil & Gas 

• Digital technologies (visualisations 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 Digitizing 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

Module 7: Oil and Gas Logistics

• Marine transport
• Oil and Gas – Pipeline Transportation
• Storage of oil in transportation
• Delivery to the refinery procedure
• Distribution of petroleum products
• Dispatch control

Module 8: Oil and Gas Regulations

• Oil and gas legal framework
• Ownership of hydrocarbon
• Right to exploration and extraction
• Environmental issues
• Understanding of different contracts
• Joint venture agreements