Refinery & Petrochemicals Hydrocarbon Mass Balance & Loss Course

This Petrogenium course can be tailored for awareness or 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: Refinery and Petrochemical Plant Managers, Production Managers, Finance Manager, Oil Movement Managers, Yield Accountants, Instrumentation Engineers, Control Engineers, Laboratory Manager, Maintenance Engineers, Terminal Operators, Plant Engineers, Supply & Trading Managers, Process Engineers and Technologists

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Get a brief introduction to refining and petrochemicals operation (technical and economic).
• Understand the various types, roles, and importance of mass balances.
• Appreciate the (monetary) impact of hydrocarbon loss.
• Understand the various types of hydrocarbon losses (physical, paper, accounted, unaccounted).
• How to minimise the physical and paper hydrocarbon losses.
• Understand the impact of ocean loss and how to minimise.
• Appreciate the use of checklists to find potential hydrocarbon losses.
• Save money after implementation of mitigating actions!
• Understand how Key Performance Indicators can support business improvement.
• Appreciate the need for good governance.
• How to reduce flaring.

Day 1

1. Refinery & Petrochemicals Introduction
   1. Refinery operation
   2. Petrochemicals operation
2. Hydrocarbon Mass Balances
   1. The role of a mass balance
   2. The impact of hydrocarbon loss
   3. Basic refinery mass balance
   4. Reconciled refinery mass balance
3. Hydrocarbon Losses
   1. Physical losses
   2. Paper losses
   3. Accounted losses
   4. Unaccounted losses
4. Minimising Physical Hydrocarbon Losses
   1. Physical losses mitigating actions
   2. Physical losses checklists
5. Minimising Paper Hydrocarbon Losses
   1. Paper losses mitigating actions
   2. Paper losses checklists
6. Ocean Loss
   1. What is ocean loss
   2. Minimising ocean loss
7. Targets and Benchmarks
   1. Targets & Benchmarks
   2. How to arrive at Best-in-Class
8. Questions and Answers

Day 2

9. Key Performance Indicators
   1. KPI Introduction
   2. KPI Dashboards
10. Governance
    1. Roles & Responsibilities
    2. Reviews Meetings
    3. Auditing
11. Case Study ‘Flare reduction’
    1. Introduction
    2. Case Study
    3. Best Practices
12. Questions and Answers

Day 3

1. HM 31 Guide Topics
   1. Introduction
   2. Weighing & measuring
   3. Loss from process units
   4. Tankage
2. Miscellaneous Topics
   1. Idea lists
   2. Tools
3. Summary & Conclusions
4. Questions and Answers
5. Examination
6. Course Feedback & Certification