Course Objectives.

• Apply acquired knowledge of the basic organisation for this Industry
• Understand the wide-ranging business of Petrochemicals
• Be familiar with the seven building blocks for Petrochemicals
• Have a full understanding of the rapid growth and importance of Petrochemicals
• Explain the benefits to customers and colleagues of the Petrochemicals business

Course Outline.

•  Introduction
  • Petrochemicals Gas and Petroleum
  • Basic Organic Chemistry
  • The natural gas/shale gas revolution
  • Where does Coal fit in the strategy?
  • Processes and Equipment
  • Crude oil, refining, integration with Petrochemical plants
  • Market growth and industry costs
  • The Petrochemicals Business
  • The origins and history of the industry
  • What makes the industry unique?
  • Costs, Margins and Prices
  • Evaluation of the major Players
  • Strategies employed by the major players
  • Industry Profitability
  • Ethylene and Propylene markets
  • Introduction to Case Study work
• The Petrochemical Value Chains
  • Natural, Shale and Stranded Gas
  • Sources of Gas
  • Supply and demand
  • Costs and pricing
  • The C1 Value Chain and derivatives
  • Olefin Economics
  • Steam Cracker Margins
  • Feedstock costs and their impact on ethylene cost
  • Differences in costs and margins between producing regions
  • The dynamics of petrochemical feedstock
  • Refining and gas separation
  • Olefins – Costs, Margins, Consumption and Investment
  • An introduction to polyolefin
  • Aromatics Sources, Business and Technologies
  • Sources of aromatics
  • Supply and demand
  • Costs and pricing
  • Styrene – routes to manufacture
• Ethylene and Propylene Fundamentals
  • The business of Ethylene
  • feedstock to produce Ethylene
  • Detailed investigation of major Ethylene Derivatives
  • The Future for Ethylene
  • Propylene
  • The business of Propylene
  • How the Propylene shortage was fixed
  • Detail of propylene derivatives  
  • What the future holds
• C4 Derivatives and Introduction to Aromatics
  • Butylene and Butadiene Fundamentals
  • What are C4 molecules
  • How are they made and separated?
  • What they are used for
  • Business Structure
  • What the future holds
  • Aromatics
  • The Aromatics business
  • Sources and production methods
  • Focus on Benzene Toluene and Xylene
  • Markets and Applications

• The Polymers Business and Course Conclusions
  • Plastics
  • What are they and how are they made?
  • Methods of manufacture
  • Polymer types
  • Key properties
  • Polymer Markets and Applications
  • Polyethylene Fundamentals
  • LDPE, HDPE and LLDPE, what are they
  • How they are made
  • What they are used for
  • Margins and consumption
  • Business Structure
  • Polypropylene Fundamentals
  • What is polypropylene?
  • How is it made?
  • What it is used for?
  • Margins and consumption
  • Business Structure
  • What the future holds
  • Polymers to Products
  • The properties of finished products
  • The role of the Processor
  • Markets and Applications
  • Green polyolefin, towards a sustainable future with Polymers.

Who can benefit?

• Sales Personnel with a Petrochemical Portfolio
• Market Analysts
• Chemical Plants Professionals
• Petrochemicals & Refinery Professionals
• Customer Care Representatives
• Business Development Personnel
• Procurement Managers
• Senior Customer Care Representatives