Performance Improvement

Fuels Quality Management

Paul van Oers 3 Days
In-House / On-Site
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In today’s market, delivering consistent, compliant fuel quality is critical—not only for customer satisfaction but also for meeting regulatory compliance and brand reputation. This course guides you through managing fuel quality from crude feedstock to final product delivery. Key focus areas include refining processes, product specifications, biofuel integration, and quality assurance across the supply chain.

Designed for operational staff, laboratory technicians, schedulers, and technical teams, the program combines real-world case studies with hands-on exercises to build confidence and expertise. With flexible delivery options and post-training support participants are equipped to implement learnings immediately in their work environment.

This Petrogenium. course can be tailored for awareness/inexperienced staff, for intermediate and for experienced personnel. Furthermore the course can be customized for a specific refinery, plant or unit. The option for post-course consultancy/help-desk support is also available.

Participants may include: all staff dealing with fuels quality e.g. operations, laboratory, economics & scheduling, process engineers and technical staff.

The properties of crude oil and refined products; awareness of refinery production processes and the link to final product quality; background of bio-fuels quality parameters in relation to application and the management of e.g. production, blending; managing product quality through the supply chain; balancing fuel quality and economics; will include a case study on an actual incident from a client.

Day 1

  • Introduction and customer PQ (product quality) issues
  • Crude Oil
  • Oil movements
  • Overview of the refining processes and product refining
  • Product quality at the refinery
  • Product quality giveaway & exercise
  • Regulatory & specification changes
  • Gasoline & application

Day 2

  • Diesel & application
  • Management of change
  • Residual fuel oil & application
  • PQ trends & developments
  • Biofuels (FAME, ethanol, HVO)
  • Product quality incident management & exercise

Day 3

  • Aviation fuels
  • Product contamination
  • Data interpretation & decision making (& exercise)
  • Sampling & testing
  • Fit for purpose
  • Product quality in the supply chain
  • Course evaluation

Delivery Options & Upcoming Dates

In-House / On-Site Training

Tailored to Your Team

This course can be tailored and delivered at your own facility — adapted to your specific units, equipment, and team experience level. We come to you, wherever you are in the world.

All content can be customised for awareness, intermediate, or experienced staff. Post-course consultancy and help-desk support is also available.

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