What you'll learn:
- Grasp the main characteristics of petroleum products and their relevance for end-users
- List the key properties for automotive fuels (now and in the future)
- Identify recent changes and future trends for the petroleum products’ specifications, markets and demand
- Identify the main trends of fuel evolution due to: new regulations and/or new motor technologies
- Understand how the main properties of each petroleum products are measured, checked and controlled using standard quality control tests
- Understand the tests significance and accuracy of the methods
Welcome to this online course on Oil and Gas.
This training course is designed to provide you with a deep knowledge of properties,specifications, markets and demands of petroleum products.
The petroleum products covered in this training include :
Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG)
Automotive Gasoline
Kerosene / Jet fuel
Gas oil
Heating oil
Heavy fuel oil
Naphtha & petrochemical feedstocks
Asphalts
Lubricating oil
The course also provides technical knowledge related to the standard quality control tests performed in refineries and petrochemical plants to ensure that the finished products are in line with commercial specifications.
The course uses up-to-date global statistics and is organized into 4 parts.
For each petroleum product :
Part 1. outlines its main characteristics and properties.
Part 2. reviews its main specifications and how these specifications evolved over time and for different countries.
Part 3. describes the standard quality control tests performed in refineries and petrochemical plants, highlights the tests significance and the accuracy of the methods.
Part 4. analyses the place of this particular petroleum product, the associated market trends and forecasts future prospects for production and demand.
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IMPORTANT NOTES :
The course includes 24 downloadable resources in pdf format with unlimited access.
To download the files :
1. Go to the "Downloadable resources" section
2. Expand the section to have access to all the pdf files
3. Click on any file to open it. You can save it to view it later offline
The resources attached to the "Downloadable resources" section cover 3 topics :
TOPIC 1. MAIN QUALITY STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS :
1. Volatility specifications for :
Automotive gasoline
Jet fuel
Diesel fuel
Heating fuel
Heavy fuel oil
Paraffinic base oils
Asphalts
2. Combustion specifications for :
Automotive gasoline
Jet fuel - Jet A1
Diesel fuel
Heating fuel
Heavy fuel oil
3. Cold condition behavior and flowing specifications for :
Jet fuel - Jet A1
Diesel fuel
Heating fuel
Heavy fuel oil
4. Pollution and corrosiveness specifications :
Sulfur content
Corrosiveness
Miscellaneous pollutants
5. Stability specifications :
Automotive gasoline
Jet fuel
Diesel fuel
Heating fuel
Heavy fuel oil
6. Asphalts specifications
7. Lube base oil specifications
TOPIC 2. STANDARD QUALITY CONTROL TESTS OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
1. TESTS RELATED TO VOLATILITY :
ASTM distillation test
Reid vapor pressure
Flash point
2. TESTS RELATED TO COMBUSTION :
Octane number of gasoline
Cetane number of diesel fuel
Smoke point for aviation turbine fuels
Standard test related to fuel combustion
3. TESTS RELATED TO STORAGE AND FLOWING :
Viscosity measurements
Lubricating properties of diesel fuel
Cloud point
Pour point
Filterability limit
Freezing point
4. TESTS RELATED TO AIR POLLUTION AND CORROSIVENESS :
Air pollution and corrosion due to sulfur
Sulfur measurements
Copper strip corrosion
Doctor test
5. TESTS RELATED TO STABILITY OF MOTOR GASOLINE, TURBINE FUELS AND DISTILLATES :
Gum content
Induction period
Fuel stability
Oxidation stability of diesel fuel
Water and sediment
Asphaltene precipitation with normal heptane
Insoluble content test
Color and color stability tests
6. TESTS RELATED TO ASPHALTS :
Needle penetration
Softening point
TOPIC 3. SPECIFICATIONS OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS BY COUNTRY :
1. USA
2. FRANCE
3. CHINA
4. INDIA
5. BELGIUM
6. BOLIVIA
7. BRAZIL
8. IRAN
9. SAUDI ARABIA
10. SPAIN
11. SOUTH KOREA
12. VENEZUELA
