The H/COMET course covers all the functionalities of Haverly Web-based Crude Oil Management Evaluation Tool: viewing and comparing crude assays; calculating Netback values for a specific region, country or operator refinery; and estimating breakeven prices for opportunity crudes.

Topics:

• H/COMET Overview
• Viewing and comparing assays
• Crude re-cutting and cut qualities prediction
• Blending crudes and optimizing blends
• Refineries set up for a specific region or country
• Netback values of processed crudes
• Crude Substitution and breakeven prices
• Analyzing economical results
• Analyzing technical results (LP)
• How to save and manage your online cases and data
• Accessing grades information through PetroTech Intel CIMS

The course includes hands-on exercises so attendees must bring a laptop computer connected to the internet.

Who Should Attend:

This course is intended for refinery planners, economic planners, crude traders and crude producers who require an easy and quick-to-use tool that can be accessed from everywhere. No prior experience with H/COMET or refinery economics is required.
 

This course covers all the essential topics of Haverly’s crude assay management software, H/CAMS-X. H/CAMS-X has gone through a complete makeover starting with the new user interface and with the new separation technology. The course will cover the concept of crude re-cutting and how to configure H/CAMS-X to obtain best representation of product streams produced in your operations.

Topics:

• Basic H/CAMS-X Features
• Assay Data Work-up (Smoothing) - iCDM
• Working with Plant Data (Yield Blend Tool)
• Updating an Old Assay (Flash Assay Tool)
• Crude re-cutting
• Interface to Other Applications or Creating Custom Reports
• Advanced Features - Split Inefficiency

Course length: 2 to 3 days.

The course includes hands-on exercises so students must bring a laptop computer with H/CAMS-X already installed.

Who Should Attend:

This course is intended for planners, process engineers, and plant engineers who regularly require good property data from crude assays. No prior experience with H/CAMS-X is required.
 

This course covers the basic development and application of GRTMPS planning models.

Topics:

• Linear Programming
• Refinery Modeling Basics
• Introducing GRTMPS
• Purchases and Sales Modeling
• Basic Process Unit Modeling
• Specification Blend Modeling
• Transportation and Multi-period Modeling
• Recursion and Pooling
• GRTMPS Solution Details an
• d Analysis
• Special Topics

This course will cover the changing crude oil landscape and the issues currently confronting the industry--chemistry, geology, biology, and the industry.

The instructor, Anne Shafizadeh, has 40 years of experience with Chevron and now has her own consulting firm, Shafizadeh Consulting.

Topics:

1. Refinery Products
2. Crude Oil Information and Energy Landscape

• Biomarkers
• Continental Drift

3. Isotope Ratio for Source Identification

• Petroleum Classification
• Properties of the Classes
• Crude Oil Quality
• Chromatographic Methods
• HPLC as preparative tool

4. Issues and Developments

• Solubility
• Blending and Compatibility

5. Crude Oil Economics
6. Distillation Overview
7. Crude Oil Assays

• Data and sources
• Measurement Technologies
• Computational Technologies

Who Should Attend:

This course is intended for individuals in the petroleum industry wishing to get an overview of the challenges, industry initiatives, and an understanding of the petroleum landscape now that shale and bitumen are large in the raw material options.