Seminars

Hydrocarbon Processing Economics

• LPG, CNG, Natural Gas, LNG, petroleum products and petrochemicals industry analysis
• Supply and demand, transportation issues, market developments and new investments
• Paper barrel markets, energy futures and managing risk with futures
• Different types of refining companies, their organisations and viewpoints
• Key variables affecting refinery margins and key factors for improving profitability
• Use of LP modeling techniques for crude oil selection and operations planning

Process technology

• New processing developments for petroleum refining and petrochemicals
• Alternative fuels, bio-refinery processing, renewable energy and carbon capture
• Anything to Liquids “XTL processing”
• Gas-to-liquids (GTL), Coal-to-liquids (CTL) and Biomass-to-liquids (BTL) technologies

Investment analysis

• Sources of financing and establishing economic viability of projects
• Project organisation, key development phases and important milestones
• NPV, IRR and discounted cash flow methodologies and calculations
• Use of LP modeling techniques for investment analysis

Sustainability and renewable energy

• Economics and feasibility of global sustainable energy initiatives, viability for modern industrial processes and global transport
• Mitigation of carbon dioxide emissions, implications for world trade, economic development, third world poverty
• Advanced Second Generation Biofuels and Hydrogen Energy technologies
• Hydrocarbon product specifications and their importance for emissions control
• Environmental impacts of Biofuels and other biomass derived products