Course Overview
Advanced Petroleum Engineering Training Course is designed for engineers and staff executing the various functions that are integral to petroleum engineering, leaders and supervisors overseeing operations across the upstream value chain, senior management members responsible for critical cost-related decisions, vendors involved in supplying raw material or finished product at various stages of the upstream value chain, financial and legal advisors responsible for ensuring adherence and rightful attention to financial and legal observations within the organization, quality managers ensuring maintenance of all required quality standards, and any other professional interested in knowing more about petroleum engineering responsible for implementing petroleum engineering excellence across offshore carbonate hydraulic fracturing design and execution in an oil reservoir, production optimization in a fractured carbonate reservoir with gas-oil ratio management, and hydrocracking of complex mixtures in modern refinery conversion units in multi-organizational contexts. The program addresses proven practices in hydraulic fracturing treatment-fluid selection and fracture geometry and completion planning for offshore carbonate reservoirs, reservoir engineering and production controls to reduce producing gas-oil ratio in fractured carbonate reservoirs, and hydrocracking severity and catalyst behavior and product distribution control where a ScienceDirect case study of hydraulic fracturing in an offshore carbonate oil reservoir shows how integrating reservoir characterization and fracture design and completion planning can materially improve production from a challenging offshore asset and provides a practical step-by-step treatment of treatment-fluid selection and fracture geometry and operational execution, a ScienceDirect study on production optimization in a fractured carbonate reservoir focuses on a real oil field with urgent production issues and uses reservoir engineering and operational controls to reduce producing gas-oil ratio and improve field performance, and a ScienceDirect paper on hydrocracking of complex mixtures explains how modern refinery conversion units process heavy feeds into more valuable products by controlling severity and catalyst behavior and product distribution.
The curriculum integrates Overview of Petroleum, Petroleum Development Process, Broad Steps in Petroleum Engineering, Types of Petroleum Engineers, Exploration Technologies for the Offshore Industry, Stages of Oil Extraction and Recovery, Geological Requirements for Formation of Conventional Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Types of Traps, Rock and Fluid Properties, Types of Drilling, Activities of Drilling Engineering, Types of Well Logging, Processing Units in Refineries, Auxiliary Units in Refineries, Types of Petroleum Refining End-Products, Types of Geophysical Methods in Petroleum Engineering, Steps in Seismic Exploration, and Types of Seismic Surveys to provide comprehensive coverage of petroleum engineering principles, exploration and production and drilling and completion methodologies, and refinery processing and downstream upgrading integration domains for achieving petroleum engineering excellence.
Why This Course Is Required?
Offshore hydraulic fracturing design and execution represent critical competencies where the ScienceDirect case study confirmed that integrating reservoir characterization and fracture design and completion planning can materially improve production from an offshore carbonate oil reservoir and that the paper provides a practical step-by-step treatment of treatment-fluid selection and fracture geometry and operational execution, which directly supports the course’s modules on petroleum development and drilling and recovery and production engineering. Production optimization in fractured carbonate reservoirs demands specialized knowledge where the ScienceDirect study confirmed that production optimization in a fractured carbonate reservoir focuses on a real oil field with urgent production issues and uses reservoir engineering and operational controls to reduce producing gas-oil ratio and improve field performance, showing why professionals must understand the interplay between subsurface conditions and surface operations. Hydrocracking of complex mixtures requires downstream processing fluency where the ScienceDirect paper confirmed that modern refinery conversion units process heavy feeds into more valuable products by controlling severity and catalyst behavior and product distribution, reinforcing the organizational value of understanding distillation and fluid catalytic cracking and hydrocracking and product upgrading.
Petroleum engineering professionals must master petroleum fundamentals including composition and characteristics and uses of petroleum, understand the petroleum development process including exploration and appraisal and development and production and decommissioning or abandonment phases, and apply knowledge of broad steps in petroleum engineering including diagenesis and catagenesis and metagenesis, the types of petroleum engineers including reservoir engineers and drilling engineers and drilling fluid engineers and completion engineers and production engineers, exploration technologies for the offshore industry including digital transformations and methane detection systems and seismic imaging and artificial intelligence and automation, and stages of oil extraction and recovery including primary and secondary and enhanced recovery, as well as geological requirements and types of traps and rock and fluid properties and types of drilling and drilling engineering activities and well logging and processing units in refineries and auxiliary units and petroleum refining end-products and geophysical methods and seismic exploration and surveys to ensure organizations achieve superior offshore stimulation and fractured reservoir optimization and improved hydrocarbon value chain coordination and competitive advantage through continuous technical depth and cross-functional engineering integration.
Research demonstrates training is crucial for success, with the offshore hydraulic fracturing case study showing that petroleum professionals who can move between reservoir description and geomechanics and completion design and field execution are much better equipped to troubleshoot complex production problems and support high-stakes operating decisions with the course’s broad coverage of exploration technologies and drilling types and recovery methods and types of well logging giving cross-functional technical grounding, while the fractured carbonate reservoir CO₂ EOR optimization study showing that engineers who understand reservoir behavior and gas-oil ratio management and field-specific production constraints can make more accurate decisions that improve recovery and operational efficiency with the course’s modules on rock and fluid properties and types of traps and stages of oil extraction supporting exactly that sort of analytical skill development, and the hydrocracking study demonstrating that professionals who understand how refinery units convert low-value feeds into higher-value products can contribute to better planning across the hydrocarbon value chain with the course’s modules on processing units in refineries and auxiliary units and petroleum refining end-products building the practical understanding needed to work effectively across upstream and downstream functions.
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion, participants will have demonstrated mastery of:
- Complete information and knowledge of all aspects of petroleum engineering from overview of petroleum through seismic survey types including 2D and 3D and 4D and vertical seismic profiles
- The required skill set and capabilities to handle any function or process related to hydrocarbon production including hydraulic fracturing offshore carbonate reservoir treatment-fluid selection and fracture geometry and operational execution
- The necessary confidence and exposure to train other professionals to adopt best practices as successful petroleum engineers including CO₂ EOR GOR management and multi-level downhole gas separator application in high-GOR heavy oil production
- The confidence and experience to oversee end-to-end operations related to petroleum engineering including refinery processing unit selection and hydrocracker revamp technical decision-making across crude distillation and vacuum distillation and hydrotreating and hydrocracking
- An understanding of various techniques to enhance speed of operations and improve operational productivity including digital transformations and seismic imaging and AI and automation exploration technologies
- The required confidence and skill to work with newly introduced technological processes including nuclear magnetic resonance well logging and 4D seismic surveys and methane detection systems
- The ability to contribute to organizational growth through operational excellence and reduced costs by applying systematic hydraulic fracture design and CO₂ EOR recovery optimization and hydrocracker product slate maximization
- Integrating reservoir characterization, fracture geometry modeling, and completion planning to design offshore carbonate hydraulic fracturing treatments that improve production from challenging reservoirs.
- Applying production optimization methods in fractured carbonate reservoirs, including gas-oil ratio management and reservoir engineering controls, to improve field performance and recovery efficiency.
- Using refinery conversion knowledge to evaluate hydrocracking severity, catalyst behavior, and product distribution so heavy feeds can be upgraded into higher-value products more effectively.
Master advanced petroleum engineering excellence and drive hydraulic fracturing optimization and CO₂ EOR recovery improvement and hydrocracker revamp success. Enroll today to become a Certified Advanced Petroleum Engineering Professional!
Training Methodology
This Advanced Petroleum Engineering Training Course comprises the following training methods:
The training framework includes:
- Expert-led lectures conducted by experienced professionals from the relevant petroleum engineering domain covering theory and practical application across all 18 course modules
- Group projects and assignments and role-plays developing practical skills in hydraulic fracture design and CO₂ EOR GOR management and refinery processing unit optimization
- Case studies including offshore carbonate oil reservoir hydraulic fracturing integrating reservoir characterization and fracture geometry and completion engineering and SINOPEC Shengli CO₂ flooding 6.7 percent EOR improvement with 60.5 percent CO₂ sequestration and Shell Pernis HYCON-to-DAO hydrocracker revamp enabling 24,300 bbl/d additional VGO processing
- Idea sharing and situational analysis discussions encouraging trainees to share related problems they face at their workplace for group discussion and experience-based learning
This immersive approach fosters practical skill development and real-world application of advanced petroleum engineering principles through comprehensive coverage of petroleum overview and development process and geological requirements and exploration technologies and drilling and well logging and refinery processing and geophysical methods and seismic exploration domains with emphasis on measurable fracturing performance improvement and CO₂ EOR recovery factor gain and ultra-low-sulfur diesel yield maximization.
This program follows the Do-Review-Learn-Apply model, creating a structured learning journey that transforms traditional petroleum engineering approaches into professional advanced petroleum engineering excellence.
Who Should Attend?
This Advanced Petroleum Engineering Training Course is designed for:
- All engineers and staff executing the various functions integral to petroleum engineering
- Leaders and supervisors overseeing operations across the upstream value chain
- Senior management members responsible for critical cost-related decisions for the organization
- Vendors involved in supplying raw material or finished product at various stages of the upstream value chain
- Financial and legal advisors responsible for ensuring adherence and rightful attention to financial and legal observations within the organization
- Quality managers ensuring maintenance of all required quality standards
- Any other professional interested in knowing more about petroleum engineering
Organizational Benefits
Organizations implementing advanced petroleum engineering training will benefit through:
- Significantly enhanced hydraulic fracturing offshore carbonate reservoir optimization capability through comprehensive training delivering measurable production returns where the ScienceDirect case study confirmed that implementing five hydraulic fractures per well can be economically beneficial particularly if executed early in the production phase to improve commercial outcomes and that the complexities of fracture height development are influenced by in-situ stress conditions and the importance of proppant selection must be carefully assessed with a specific workflow for stimulation including an adapted study of petrophysical properties and fracture geometry modeling and completion design selection directly reflecting the course’s modules on petroleum development and types of drilling and activities of drilling engineering and types of well logging and recovery stages
- Better SINOPEC Shengli CO₂ EOR GOR management and reservoir engineering optimization through the ScienceDirect Shengli paper confirming that the CO₂ flooding program addressed the big vertical span of beach-bar sand formations where high gas-oil ratio production threatened well economics and that engineering optimization indicated the programme could raise enhanced oil recovery by 6.7 percent while sequestering 60.5 percent of injected CO₂ and that SINOPEC’s engineering team developed a multi-level downhole gas separator and specialized high-GOR production strings to manage the CO₂ injection process safely and economically illustrating how reservoir engineering and production engineering and well completion and EOR knowledge combine in practice to optimize challenging field conditions validating course content
- Improved Shell Pernis HYCON-to-DAO hydrocracker revamp refinery processing integration through Shell Catalysts and Technologies confirming that the Pernis revamp enabled the facility to eliminate 12,000 bbl/d of imported cold-feed distillate and process an additional 24,300 bbl/d of vacuum gas oil significantly increasing yields of ultra-low-sulfur diesel and reducing fuel oil output with the revamp requiring integrated technical decisions across crude distillation and vacuum distillation and hydrotreating and hydrocracking units and improving the refinery’s overall energy efficiency and product slate flexibility in response to evolving market demand for cleaner fuels directly supporting the course’s modules on processing units in refineries and auxiliary units and petroleum refining end-products
- Strengthened competitive advantage through seamless and efficient end-to-end operations for hydrocarbon production and application of innovative ideas and techniques to enhance various processes and better risk assessment and management and effective use of technology for enhancing operational productivity and quality by reducing human dependence and cross-skilled employees to act as immediate replacements and optimal use of available resources and equipment preventing redundant activities and saving costs
Studies show that organizations implementing comprehensive advanced petroleum engineering training achieve significantly enhanced delivery outcomes as research confirms the hydraulic fracturing case study showing that field execution has shown challenges with respect to performing operations in deviated wells and that observations conducted in multiple stages during pilot projects deliver critical learning about petrophysical properties and fracture geometry modeling and completion design selection reinforcing the course’s emphasis on completion engineering and operational engineering and production engineering and reservoir engineering and types of drilling and types of well logging, better organizational outcomes through SINOPEC Shengli CO₂ EOR evidence demonstrating that the MIT Energy Initiative confirmed the Shengli plant captures around 110 tonnes per day of CO₂ for enhanced oil recovery with the captured CO₂ increasing oil recovery by between 10 and 15 percent confirming the organizational value of training professionals in rock and fluid properties and stages of oil extraction and types of petroleum engineers and petroleum development process, and improved competitive positioning as Shell Pernis refinery confirming that the hydrocracker and solvent deasphalter revamps represent the first major investment at the site since 2011 delivering significantly increased production of more and cleaner fuels confirms that organizations benefit from personnel who understand fluid catalytic cracking unit and hydrocracker unit and visbreaker unit and delayed coking and fluid coker units and steam reforming unit and sour water stripper unit.
Empower your organization with advanced petroleum engineering expertise. Enroll your team today and see the transformation in hydraulic fracturing optimization and CO₂ EOR recovery improvement and hydrocracker ultra-low-sulfur diesel yield excellence!
Personal Benefits
Professionals implementing advanced petroleum engineering training will benefit through:
- Deeper understanding of hydraulic fracturing reservoir characterization mastery and completion engineering value-addition through the offshore carbonate oil reservoir case study showing that petroleum professionals who can move between reservoir description and geomechanics and completion design and field execution are much better equipped to troubleshoot complex production problems and support high-stakes operating decisions, with the course’s broad coverage of exploration technologies and drilling types and recovery methods and types of well logging giving cross-functional technical grounding
- Enhanced CO₂ EOR GOR management mastery and reservoir engineering value-addition through the SINOPEC Shengli fractured reservoir optimization study showing that engineers who understand reservoir behavior and gas-oil ratio management and field-specific production constraints can make more accurate decisions that improve recovery and operational efficiency, with the course’s modules on rock and fluid properties and types of traps and stages of oil extraction supporting exactly that sort of analytical skill development
- Stronger refinery processing mastery and hydrocarbon value chain value-addition through the Shell Pernis hydrocracker revamp study demonstrating that professionals who understand how refinery units convert low-value feeds into higher-value products can contribute to better planning across the hydrocarbon value chain, with the course’s modules on processing units in refineries and auxiliary units and petroleum refining end-products building the practical understanding needed to work effectively across upstream and downstream functions
- Advanced expertise in advanced petroleum engineering principles, hydraulic fracturing and CO₂ EOR and hydrocracker revamp methodologies, and reservoir engineering and production engineering and refinery processing integration domains
- Enhanced career prospects and marketability in reservoir engineering, completion engineering, production optimization, CO₂ EOR project management, refinery hydrocracker operations, seismic exploration, and upstream petroleum development sectors with professionals gaining skills in hydraulic fracture geometry modeling, CO₂ EOR GOR management and downhole gas separator design, DAO hydrocracker VGO processing optimization, 3D and 4D seismic survey interpretation, and nuclear magnetic resonance well logging
- Increased awareness and experience to troubleshoot issues and take timely and accurate decisions to prevent major impact to the organization and better understanding and knowledge to train other professionals on best practices and technical aspects of petroleum engineering
- Enhanced skill set and capabilities to work with advanced technology and other related avenues to optimize hydrocarbon production and exposure to the newest techniques and methods used by organizations to increase productivity and save costs
Course Outline
The Masterclass in Petroleum Engineering course covers the following critical to master all disciplines or fields concerning petroleum engineering:
Module 1 – Overview of Petroleum
- Composition
- Characteristics
- Uses
- Hydrocarbon classification and crude quality indicators
- Petroleum origin and phase behavior fundamentals
Module 2 – Petroleum Development Process
- Exploration phase
- Appraisal phase
- Development phase
- Production phase
- Decommissioning/Abandonment phase
- Project life-cycle decision points and approvals
- Field maturation and abandonment planning considerations
Module 3 – Broad Steps in Petroleum Engineering
- Diagenesis
- Catagenesis
- Metagenesis
- Organic matter maturation and hydrocarbon generation
- Source rock transformation and migration pathways
Module 4 – Types of Petroleum Engineers
- Reservoir engineers
- Drilling engineers
- Drilling fluid engineers
- Completion engineers
- Production engineers
- Cross-functional roles across upstream operations
- Specialized responsibilities in well construction and recovery
Module 5 – Exploration Technologies for the Offshore Industry
- Digital transformations
- Methane detection systems
- Seismic imaging
- Artificial intelligence
- Automation
- Digital twins and remote sensing applications
- Data-driven offshore exploration and surveillance
Module 6 – Stages of Oil Extraction and Recovery
- Primary recovery
- Secondary recovery
- Enhanced recovery
- Recovery factor improvement strategies
- CO₂ EOR and gas-oil ratio management
Module 7 – Geological Requirements for Formation of Conventional Hydrocarbon Reservoirs
- Source rock
- Migration path
- Caprock
- Reservoir rock
- Trap
- Reservoir charging and seal integrity
- Structural and stratigraphic controls on accumulation
Module 8 – Types of Traps
- Structural traps
- Stratigraphic traps
- Combination traps
- Trap recognition in seismic interpretation
- Hydrocarbon entrapment and preservation conditions
Module 9 – Rock and Fluid Properties
- Porosity
- Permeability
- Interfacial connection and tension
- Drive mechanism
- Capillary pressure and wettability effects
- Fluid flow behavior in porous media
Module 10 – Types of Drilling
- Conventional
- Horizontal
- Slant
- Directional
- Well trajectory selection and placement
- Formation access and drilling efficiency trade-offs
Module 11 – Activities of Drilling Engineering
- Completion engineering
- Operational engineering
- Production engineering
- Reservoir engineering
- Integrated field execution and optimization
- Interdisciplinary coordination across subsurface and surface teams
Module 12 – Types of Well Logging
- Radioactive
- Electrical
- Sonic/acoustic
- Nuclear magnetic resonance
- Dielectric
- Log interpretation for reservoir characterization
- Formation evaluation and uncertainty reduction
Module 13 – Processing Units in Refineries
- Crude oil distillation unit
- Vacuum distillation unit
- Naphtha hydrotreater unit
- Catalytic reforming unit
- Alkalytion unit
- Isomerisation unit
- Distillate hydrotreater unit
- Merox unit
- Amine gas treater
- Fluid catalytic cracking unit
- Hydrocracker unit
- Visbreaker unit
- Delayed coking and fluid coker units
- Heavy feed upgrading and product slate optimization
- Downstream conversion and refinery integration
Module 14 – Auxiliary Units in Refineries
- Steam reforming unit
- Sour water stripper unit
- Utility units (cooling towers, steam generators, control valves, electrical substation)
- Wastewater collection and treating systems
- Liquefied petroleum gas storage vessels
- Storage tanks
- Utility system reliability and energy integration
- Environmental control and wastewater handling
Module 15 – Types of Petroleum Refining End-Products
- Light distillates
- Middle distillates
- Heavy distillates
- Product quality specifications and market value
- Yield balancing across refinery product pools
Module 16 – Types of Geophysical Methods in Petroleum Engineering
- Magnetic method
- Gravity method
- Seismic method
- Subsurface mapping and anomaly detection
- Integrated geophysical interpretation workflows
Module 17 – Steps in Seismic Exploration
- Data acquisition
- Data processing
- Interpretation
- Survey design and acquisition quality control
- Seismic inversion and geological model building
Module 18 – Types of Seismic Surveys
- 2D
- 3D
- 4D
- Geohazard or well site survey
- Vertical seismic profiles
- Time-lapse reservoir monitoring applications
- Survey selection for exploration and development planning
Real World Examples
Saudi Aramco – Khuff reservoir acid fracturing campaign: 2–6× increase in gas rates
Implementation: Saudi Aramco undertook one of the world’s largest gas development projects targeting the Khuff reservoir, a highly heterogeneous carbonate formation where traditional matrix stimulation proved mostly ineffective in tight zones, motivating the company to deploy acid fracturing as the most cost-effective stimulation option with the OnePetro SPE Middle East Oil Show proceedings confirming a successful case study of hydraulic fracturing stimulation as a solution to enhance hydrocarbon recovery in carbonate reservoirs and that a specific workflow developed for stimulation of high-pressure and high-temperature low-permeability reservoirs is suggested including an adapted study of petrophysical properties and fracture geometry modeling and completion design selection. The accelerated campaign covering more than 80 treated wells was designed combining Saudi Aramco’s in-house technology teams and external service companies to continuously refine treatment design with the SPE case study confirming that fracture stimulation modeling was performed to forecast treating pressures and adjust treatment stage sizes to help achieve optimum fracture geometries and that perforation intervals were selected and recommended to provide the best placement of fracturing fluid and proppant into the zone of interest, with the ScienceDirect case study confirming that implementing five hydraulic fractures per well can be economically beneficial particularly if executed early in the production phase with the complexities of fracture height development influenced by in-situ stress conditions and the importance of proppant selection highlighted throughout. The completion design selection workflow included geomechanical analysis to estimate reservoir rock properties and fracture stimulation pre-and-post completion results were analyzed and compared confirming that treatment-fluid selection and fracture geometry and operational execution require end-to-end technical coordination across reservoir characterization and completion engineering and production engineering disciplines, demonstrating in precise terms how the completion engineering and production engineering and drilling engineering disciplines taught across the course’s modules on drilling and types of well logging and recovery stages and petroleum development translate into measurable field-scale production gains.
Results: The Saudi Aramco acid fracturing campaign delivered a two-to-six-fold increase in gas production rates across more than 80 treated wells confirming that petroleum professionals who can move between reservoir description and geomechanics and completion design and field execution are much better equipped to troubleshoot complex production problems and support high-stakes operating decisions, with the Devonian-age carbonate reservoir Kazakhstan SPE case study further confirming that the hydraulic fracturing technique provided economically effective field exploration in the previously undeveloped part of the licensed block and that created hydraulic fractures provided conductive pathways for reservoir fluid inflow. Results confirmed that the completion engineering and production engineering disciplines taught in the course’s modules on drilling and types of well logging and recovery stages and petroleum development translate directly into measurable field-scale production gains illustrating exactly the cross-functional technical grounding the course builds through its modules on types of petroleum engineers and activities of drilling engineering and stages of oil extraction and rock and fluid properties and geological requirements for formation of conventional hydrocarbon reservoirs.
SINOPEC Shengli Oilfield – CO₂ flooding and GOR management in a fractured reservoir
Implementation: SINOPEC’s Shengli Oilfield in China applied CO₂ enhanced oil recovery to address difficult geological conditions where the ScienceDirect paper confirmed that the CO₂ flooding addressed the geological problems and engineering hot points including the big vertical span of the beach-bar sand formations and that high gas-oil ratio production threatened well economics with engineering optimization indicating the programme could raise enhanced oil recovery by 6.7 percent while sequestering 60.5 percent of injected CO₂, with the MIT Energy Initiative confirming that the Shengli plant captures around 110 tonnes per day of CO₂ approximately 3,500 tonnes per annum with the captured CO₂ used for enhanced oil recovery at the Shengli oilfield to increase oil recovery by between 10 and 15 percent. SINOPEC’s engineering team developed a multi-level downhole gas separator and specialized high-GOR production strings to manage the CO₂ injection process safely and economically addressing the challenging conditions of beach-bar sand formation geological complexity and high vertical span with the CO₂ EOR study confirming that the program could simultaneously improve oil recovery and achieve significant CO₂ sequestration representing a dual benefit of enhanced production and carbon storage. The reservoir engineering and production engineering and well completion and EOR knowledge required to execute this complex field program spans the course’s modules on rock and fluid properties and stages of oil extraction and types of petroleum engineers and petroleum development illustrating how integrating multiple disciplines of petroleum engineering knowledge produces measurable field optimization results that go beyond single-discipline approaches.
Results: SINOPEC Shengli confirmed that the CO₂ flooding program could raise enhanced oil recovery by 6.7 percent while sequestering 60.5 percent of injected CO₂ demonstrating how engineers who understand reservoir behavior and gas-oil ratio management and field-specific production constraints can make more accurate decisions that improve recovery and operational efficiency, with the Frontiers in Energy Research numerical simulation study further confirming that CO₂ injection in fractured reservoirs presents a promising approach to simultaneously improve oil extraction and reduce CO₂ emissions. Results confirmed that the reservoir engineering and production engineering and well completion and EOR knowledge taught in the course’s modules on rock and fluid properties and stages of oil extraction and types of petroleum engineers and petroleum development process combine in practice to optimize challenging field conditions illustrating exactly the analytical skill development the course builds for engineers working with complex fractured carbonate and sandstone reservoirs under CO₂ EOR conditions.
Shell’s Pernis Refinery – Hydrocracker revamp upgrading heavy residues to ultra-low-sulfur diesel
Implementation: Shell Catalysts and Technologies confirmed that Shell’s Pernis refinery in the Netherlands revamped its HYCON residue hydroprocessing unit to a DAO deasphalted oil hydrocracker in 2018 with Shell safely commissioning a solvent deasphalter SDA unit on October 8, 2018 at its Pernis refinery as the first major investment at the site since 2011, with the revamp enabling the facility to eliminate 12,000 bbl/d of imported cold-feed distillate and process an additional 24,300 bbl/d of vacuum gas oil significantly increasing yields of ultra-low-sulfur diesel and reducing fuel oil output. The revamp required integrated technical decisions across crude distillation and vacuum distillation and hydrotreating and hydrocracking units with Shell Catalysts and Technologies confirming that revamping the hydrocracker and enabling fuller utilization of the DHT allowed the refinery to process an extra 24,300 bbl/d of imported vacuum gas oil and that the DAO hydrocracker configuration represented a fundamental transformation of the Pernis refinery’s heavy end processing capability from residue hydroprocessing to deasphalted oil hydrocracking improving overall energy efficiency and product slate flexibility. The revamp demonstrated exactly the kind of integrated technical decision-making across refinery processing and auxiliary units that the course builds through its modules on processing units in refineries including the crude oil distillation unit and vacuum distillation unit and naphtha hydrotreater unit and catalytic reforming unit and fluid catalytic cracking unit and hydrocracker unit and visbreaker unit and delayed coking and fluid coker units and auxiliary units including steam reforming unit and sour water stripper unit and utility units.
Results: Shell Catalysts and Technologies confirmed that the Pernis hydrocracker revamp significantly increased yields of ultra-low-sulfur diesel and reduced fuel oil output while improving the refinery’s overall energy efficiency and product slate flexibility in response to evolving market demand for cleaner fuels, with the revamp delivering measurable improvements in both production economics and environmental performance through integrated technical decisions across multiple refinery processing units. Results confirmed that professionals who understand how refinery units convert low-value feeds into higher-value products including how HYCON residue hydroprocessing is transformed to DAO deasphalted oil hydrocracking and how vacuum gas oil processing increases ultra-low-sulfur diesel yields can contribute to better planning across the hydrocarbon value chain illustrating exactly the processing units in refineries and auxiliary units and petroleum refining end-products knowledge the course builds through its modules on heavy distillates and middle distillates and light distillates production and refinery unit integration.
Be inspired by leading advanced petroleum engineering achievements. Register now to build the skills your organization needs for hydraulic fracturing optimization and CO₂ EOR recovery improvement and hydrocracker ultra-low-sulfur diesel yield excellence!
