Description
A basic understanding of the refining industry in simple, easy-to-understand language.
Dr. William Leffler transforms the challenging subject of the refining process into an informative and engaging journey! You'll be expertly guided from start to finish, with clear and concise explanations of all key concepts in the petroleum refining industry—even if you're a complete novice!
Includes all 10 videos:
- History / Oil Patch to Refinery / Crude Oil
- Distilling / Vacuum Flashing
- Chemistry of Petroleum
- Refinery Gas Plants / Cat Reforming
- Catalytic Cracking / Alkylation
- Hydrocracking / Isomerization
- Residual Reduction
- Gasoline
- Distillate and Residual Fuels / Asphalt
- Hydrogen, Hydrotreating, and Sulfur Plants / Review
Features & Benefits
- Clear Explanations: Understand all the essential points of refining with ease.
- Foundational Knowledge: Gain a basic understanding of the refining industry through simple, accessible language.
- Comprehensive Overview: Explore key refining topics with relevant analogies, easy-to-understand graphs, formulas, and illustrations.
- In-Depth Lectures: Benefit from about four hours of detailed instruction.
- On Demand: Watch at your pace, pick up where you left off.
Audience
- Field level personnel
- Management
- Energy lending and finance professionals
- Anyone who seeks to understand how, or relies upon, energy markets
- Students
About the Author
William L. Leffler earned an MBA and PhD from New York University and a BS from MIT. After a commission in the US Navy, he worked in the oil and gas and petrochemicals industries for 36 years in the US and abroad. Following that, he taught courses in universities and in companies on the upstream, downstream, and petrochemicals for 20 years while pursuing his writing career.
Dr. Leffler is a prolific petroleum industry writer of magazines and books (almost all with the words in Nontechnical Language in the title.) His books (some with co-authors) include this one on refining as well as petrochemicals, deepwater exploration & production, natural gas, pipelines and oil & gas production.
Details
Type: Streaming
Published: 2010
Run time: 240 Minutes
ISBN: 9781593702281
