Your complete guide to a successful career in Oil & Gas

June 24 course update:

We have added new video lectures. In addition, new quizzes are being added to help you test your knowledge and emphasize the key learning points. The quiz will include:

• True/False questions

• Multi-choice questions

• Images, cross-sectionnal views

• Solved problems

• and much more...

When you think you’ve got a good grasp on a topic within the course, you can test your knowledge by taking the quiz. If you pass, wonderful ! If not, you can review the videos and notes again or ask us for help in the Q&A section.

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Dear student,

Welcome to this online course on Oil & Gas.

This course is designed to give you a complete understanding of the Oil & Gas industry for a successful career.

The course uses up-to-date global statics and is organized into 6 parts :

>> PART 1 : OVERVIEW OF THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

This first part will :

• Outline the main characteristics of the petroleum industry

• Review the major events of its history and the associated geopolitics

• Analyse the place of oil among all energy sources and forecasts future prospects for oil production and demand

• Outline the roles of the main players within the petroleum industry :

  • Consumer countries (USA, China, Europe...)

  • Major companies (ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, Total...)

  • Producing countries (OPEC and non-OPEC)

• Provide a quick review of the scale of investments and profitability in the oil industry

>> PART 2 : PETROLEUM PRODUCTS : PROPERTIES, SPECIFICATIONS, MARKETS AND DEMAND

This second part will :

• Outline the main characteristics and properties of petroleum products (LPG, gasoline, diesel, kerosine, fuel oil...)

• Review their main specifications and how these specifications evolved over time and for different countries

• Describe the standard quality control tests performed in refineries and petrochemical plants, highlights the tests significance and the accuracy of the methods

• Analyse the place of each petroleum product, the associated market trends and forecasts future prospects for production and demand

>> PART 3 : OIL AND GAS : MARKETS, TRADING, PRICING, AND ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK

This third part will :

• Review the different oil trading markets by type of transaction

• Summarize the operation of the physical and financial oil markets

• Review the different types of contracts : long term, spot and forward

• Outline how crude oil and petroleum products are traded

• Explain the pricing mechanism of crude oil and petroleum products

• Analyze the parameters which influence prices of crude oil and prices of petroleum products

• Review the different exchanges and their organization: the cases of NYMEX and ICE

• Describe hedging techniques available for protection against fluctuations in prices

• Outline the principle of financial derivative products like Swaps and Options

>> PART 4 : LOGISTICS OF CRUDE OIL AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTS

This fourth part will :

• Analyse transport problems, particularly the transport of crude oil

• Discuss sea and pipeline transport, their associated costs and operational and regulatory framework

• Outline the different ways of delivering finished petroleum products from a refinery : by water, pipeline, rail or road

• Describe the different restrictions that apply to product dispatch and their various controls (Quality, Quantity, Customs...)

>> PART 5 : PETROLEUM REFINING DEMYSTIFIED

This fifth part will :

• Provide a broad technical information on refining processes and petroleum products

• Enable a rapid immersion in the refining industry

• Describe the composition and main characteristics of various crude oil (Brent, Arab light, Urals, Forcados, Forties...) and petroleum products (LPG, Gasoline, Gas oil, Fuel oil...)

• Explain the role of various processing units in a refinery

• Describe the main manufacturing schemes encountered in petroleum refining

>> PART 6 : OVERVIEW OF THE PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY : THE STEAM CRACKING PROCESS

This last part will :

• Provide essential information on petrochemical industry and its integration in the petroleum chain

• Outline the origin and uses of the main olefinic and aromatic intermediates

• Explain the different steps of the petrochemical industry

• Explain in details the Steam Cracking process : its principles, its design and operations

• Outline the stakes in term of economy and the main parameters which influence the productivity of the petrochemical industry

• Situate the petrochemical industry in its energy and geographic environment

=> IMPORTANT NOTES :

The course includes more than 45 downloadable resources in pdf format with unlimited access.

These documents contain everything you need to know about the Oil and Gas industry (Global trends, crude oil characteristics and properties, petroleum products properties and specifications, refining and petrochemical process schemes, layouts and much more...)

To download the files :

1. Go to the "course curriculum" page

2. Expand all the sections 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

So with no further ado, check out the free preview videos and the curriculum and we look forward to see you in the first section.

Also remember, as enrolled student you will have unlimited access to this material and one-on-one instructor support. So feel free to interact with us by email or simply ask us for help in the Q&A section. It will be our pleasure to help you and provide assistance.

Hope to see you there

Cheers,

WR Training

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