REF 205
Hydroprocessing Refinery Unit Troubleshooting and Debottlenecking
Hydroprocessing Refinery Unit Troubleshooting and Debottlenecking
COURSE SCHEDULE
| Code | Date | Location | price (€)* |
|---|---|---|---|
| REF 205 | 26 - 30 Oct 2026 | Online | 3300 |
| REF 205 | 2 - 6 Nov 2026 Muscat | Online | 4400 |
* Prices are subject to VAT and local terms. Ph.D. students, groups (≥ 3 persons) and early bird registrants (8 weeks in advance) are entitled to a DISCOUNT!
COURSE OVERVIEW
This course is tailored for process engineers, operations engineers, refinery technologists, maintenance supervisors, and technical managers responsible for hydroprocessing units (hydrotreating, hydrocracking, and reforming). The course will cover both UOP and AXENS licensed units. It is suitable for participants with intermediate to advanced refinery experience who want to strengthen their troubleshooting and debottlenecking skills with advanced training courses.This 5‑day intensive program covers hydroprocessing operating principles, process flow schemes, catalyst behavior, reactor operation, and separation systems. It emphasizes troubleshooting techniques, debottlenecking strategies, and performance optimization, supported by refinery case studies and practical exercises.
COURSE OUTLINE
5 days
Day 1: Fundamentals of Chemical Treatment in Oil and Gas
o Role of chemicals in upstream and downstream operations
o Reservoir fluids behavior and production challenges
o Water chemistry basics and impact on processing
o Interaction between process conditions and chemical performance
o Overview of production and process chemical categories
Day 2: Corrosion and Scale Control Chemicals
o Internal corrosion mechanisms in oil & gas systems
o Corrosion inhibitors: types, selection, and application
o Scale formation mechanisms and prediction
o Scale inhibitors and removal techniques
o Monitoring corrosion and scale performance
Day 3: Emulsion, Fouling, and Flow Assurance Chemicals
o Oil water emulsions and separation challenges
o Demulsifiers and coalescers
o Asphaltene and paraffin control
o Hydrate formation and hydrate inhibitors (MEG, methanol, LDHI)
o Chemical impact on separators, heat exchangers, and pipelines
Day 4: Sour Gas Treatment and Chemical Injection Systems
o H₂S generation and souring mechanisms
o Oxygen scavengers and biocides
o Chemical treatment in amine systems and dehydration units
o Chemical injection systems design and reliability
o Sampling, testing, and chemical performance monitoring
Day 5: Troubleshooting, Optimization
o Interfacial Tension
o Measurement Methods
o Prediction of Interfacial Tension
o Water-Hydrocarbon Interfacial Tension
o Application in Reservoir Simulation
o Grouping
o Comparison of EOS
o Tuning of EOS
o Methodology
o Case Studies
o EOS Calibration for an Oil Sample
o EOS Calibration for a Gas Condensate Sample
o Creating Black Oil Tables for Reservoir Simulation
INSTRUCTOR
FAQ
PetroTeach Instructor
Instruct is a highly experienced Process and Operations Engineering professional with more than 20+ years of hands on experience across oil & gas, refining, and petrochemical industries. His expertise spans plant operation, commissioning, startup, troubleshooting, debottlenecking, shutdowns, and turnarounds, process plant design. covering a wide range of upstream and downstream facilities.
Senior Operations Process Instructor, OJT Instructor, and OTS Trainer, with over 18 years of training experience using classroom instruction, on the job training, and operator training simulators (Honeywell, RSI, SIMTRONIX). His training coverage includes complete refinery and utility systems such as CDU/VDU, hydrotreating, reforming, isomerization, hydrocracking, hydrogen plants, LPG and Kerosene MEROX units, amine treating systems, flare systems, and tank farm operations. Delivered more than 120 professional training courses for major international and national oil and gas organizations, including ARAMCO, ADNOC, SABIC, OQ, GS Engineering & Construction, KPIC / EQUATE Petrochemical Company, and Karbala Refinery.
DESIGNED FOR
Reservoir, petroleum, production, process, design, and drilling engineers, geologists / operators / technicians / managers, MSc and PhD students.
COURSE LEVEL
- Intermediate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The learning objectives of the top-most level content of the course are grounding in:
o Demonstrate the fundamentals of reservoir fluid composition, phase behavior, correlations and classification.
o Discussed and design fluid sampling for most representative sample, effect of contamination and how to remove it.
o Establish PVT testing requirements and extract the most important data from PVT reports.
o Density, viscosity and interfacial tension measurements
o Fluid characterization, Gas Chromatography (GC), Distillation, Single Carbon Number (SCN), fluid description
o Equation of State (EoS) tuning, parameters required, generating black oil table from EoS
o An introduction to EOR processes, in particular gas injection, first contact miscible, multiple contact miscible (vaporizing/condensing gas drive)
o Prepare the results of PVT analysis for use in reservoir modelling and reservoir engineering studies.
o Characterize sources of error in PVT modelling and evaluate case studies
o Use PVT data in EoS tuning (for a black oil and a gas condensate) and reservoir simulation
o Case studies
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