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This intensive 5-day Optimising Crude Selection, Blending, Capacity & Product Profitability
Masterclass provides a practical, business-focused framework for improving refinery performance through effective production planning, scheduling, blending, and optimisation. Designed for today’s complex refining environment, the programme shows how crude selection, unit constraints, tankage, blending rules, and product movements interact—and how these elements can be optimised using structured planning approaches, Excel-based models, and linear programming concepts. By blending refinery fundamentals with applied planning methods, participants gain real-world insight into improving operational efficiency, reducing losses, and maximising product value across integrated refinery operations.
Why this course is important
Modern refineries face tightening margins, fluctuating crude quality, stricter product specifications, and increasing operational complexity. Production planning and scheduling are no longer support functions—they are critical drivers of profitability, asset utilisation, and supply chain performance. This Masterclass equips professionals with the tools to distinguish clearly between planning and scheduling, optimise crude slates, manage tankage and product movements, and apply blending and optimisation techniques to daily operations. With strong emphasis on material balances, capacity constraints, commercial drivers, and refinery optimisation, the course enables participants to make smarter operational decisions while protecting margins and improving overall refinery performance.
Who should attend
This course is ideal for:
- Refinery Production, Planning, and Scheduling Personnel
- Process Engineers and Refining Technologists
- Operations Staff and Shift Supervisors
- Refinery Planners and Marketers
- Blending Professionals
- Engineers seeking a broader understanding of refinery planning impacts
- Accountants, commercial staff, and other professionals supporting refinery operations
What you will learn
Over five highly practical days, participants will gain in-depth knowledge of:
- The role of planning and scheduling in refinery performance and how they differ
- Refinery configurations, complexity, and integrated operations
- Crude selection strategies, crude oil scheduling, capacity utilisation, and cut-point optimisation
- Crude assays, yield behaviour, intermediate streams, and property management
- Storage tank optimisation, custody transfer fundamentals, and improving product movements
- Excel-based yield optimisation exercises
- Product blending rules, specifications, environmental considerations, and netback concepts
- Material balance development, inventory control, and product quality management
- Fixed composition blending, capacity constraints, and feedstock limitations
- Integrated refinery planning and scheduling workflows
- Petroleum product movements, marginal supply, depot optimisation, and linear programming basics
- Supply chain fundamentals for refining and practical optimisation best practices
Participants also benefit from instruction by a highly experienced industry expert with over 30 years in refinery technology, operations, and management, delivering applied learning grounded in real operational environments.










