Refinery Planning Training Course
Consultant/Trainer: Anwar Tatariya
Misaligned strategies, siloed teams, and volatile markets can quietly erode refinery value—if your planning process fails to integrate longterm strategy with daily operations. This course delivers deep insight into key planning tools, covering linear programming (LP) fundamentals, crude and product evaluation, and multi-period, multi-site models to optimize planning systems and safeguard gross refinery margins.
Designed for planners, strategists, schedulers, economists, and operational teams, the course connects technical LP modelling with practical economic decision-making in refinery environments. Site-specific customization and post-training consultancy are also available to help organizations transform planning insight into sustained performance and improved gross margins.
Designed for planners, strategists, schedulers, economists, and operational teams, the course connects technical LP modelling with practical economic decision-making in refinery environments. Site-specific customization and post-training consultancy are also available to help organizations transform planning insight into sustained performance and improved gross margins.
Participants
This Petrogenium training can be tailored for awareness/inexperienced staff, for intermediate and for experienced personnel, although it has originally been designed as an advanced course. Furthermore the course can be customized for a specific refinery / plant or multiple sites. The option for post-course consultancy/help-desk support is also available.
Participants may include: Strategic Planners, Long term Planners, Short Term Planners, Investment decision makers.
Participants may include: Strategic Planners, Long term Planners, Short Term Planners, Investment decision makers.
Learning Objectives
To provide a detailed view of how Refinery Planning Business Processes as structured; what are the typical interactions and the challenges for planners; Participants will also understand and acquire a good knowledge of Refinery Planning best practices, knowledge about key roles and responsibilities of planner in the organization that gives insight on key factors that can impact overall Gross Refinery Margin; not limited to optimization of different variables, single-period LP models, multi-period & multi-location modelling, Crude & Product opportunity evaluation, etc.
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
- Fundamentals of Linear Programming
- Refinery Planning Process overview
- Crude Assay Data management
Day 2
- Insight to Planning processes
- Long Term / Strategic Plan
- Annual / Budgetary Plans
- Monthly / Weekly Operating Plans
- Special case studies
- Planning model – best practices
- Process submodel building – best practices
Day 3
- Multi-period & multi-site planning model
- Planning model update – best practices
- Back casting using LP
- Crude indifference value analysis
Programme
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
- Fundamentals of Linear Programming
- Refinery Planning Process overview
- Crude Assay Data management
Day 2
- Insight to Planning processes
- Long Term / Strategic Plan
- Annual / Budgetary Plans
- Monthly / Weekly Operating Plans
- Special case studies
- Planning model – best practices
- Process submodel building – best practices
Day 3
- Multi-period & multi-site planning model
- Planning model update – best practices
- Back casting using LP
- Crude indifference value analysis