Course Outline

1. Fundamentals of Refining
   • Session 1: Refinery technical configuration and operations
   • Session 2: Refinery economics and margin optimization
2. Energy Transition
   • Session 1: Fundamentals
     - What is the definition and scope of Energy Transition?
     - What are the drivers (e.g. ESG)?
   • Session 2: Commercial Outlook
     - What is the industry response (e.g. electric vehicles, hydrogen economy, crude-oil-to-chemicals, etc.)?
     - What is the outlook, short, medium, and long term?
3. Refining petrochemical interface/integration
   • Session 1: Refined products as petrochemical feedstocks
     - Olefins and Aromatics
     - Regional balances and outlooks
   • Session 2: Process Technology as a function of the percent of chemical feedstocks (a.k.a. Crude-Oil-to-Chemicals)
4. Refinery Flexibility: What can refiners do with the configuration that they have to optimize/shift yields without making a major capital investment?
   • Session 1: To increase the percent of the barrel to chemical feedstocks (COTC)
   • Session 2: Bio-conversion is to include both co-processing of bio-feedstocks and full bio-conversions
5. Greener Refineries: Environmental Impact Overview
   • Session 1: Quantification of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)
   • Session 2: Use Greener power and hydrogen
6. Refineries of the Future: Aspirational Design to Net Zero
   • Session 1: Profile of refiner’s aspirational designs and technical approaches to net-zero designs
   • Session 2: Quantitative impact on a world-scale refinery carbon footprint of various technical configurations and product slate considerations (e.g. inclusion of the bio-diesel, chemical decarbonization, products, renewable power generation, and/or plastics recycling via chemical pyrolysis, etc.)