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INTRODUCTION TO THE DOWNSTREAM PETROLEUM INDUSTRY
Course overview
This course is designed to provide delegates in gaining a broad understanding of the refining, supply, and marketing of petroleum products. The course provides a North American perspective on this industry, describing its infrastructure, processes, logistics, regulatory aspects, and future challenges.
Course Outcome
By the end of this course, delegates will gain skills and knowledge to:
  • Refining basics
  • Petroleum basics: types, uses, and characteristics
  • Supply: managing production to meet demand
  • Distribution: moving petroleum across the continent
  • Petroleum products and the environment: issues and challenges
  • Marketing overview: key participants and infrastructure
  • Understanding pump prices: the pump price margin model
  • The downstream sector and the public: prices and regulation
  • Pump prices: historical and comparative views
  • The future of the downstream petroleum industry
Who should attend?
All downstream sector employees, suppliers, government regulators, industrial petroleum buyers or others interested in acquiring necessary skills associated with refining, transportation and marketing.