Mastering of the oil industry

  • Mastering of the oil industry
  • Morocco - Casablanca

Mastering of the oil industry

Course Category : Oil & Gas Management

This programme delivers a concise, integrated understanding of the petroleum industry across the value chain, focusing on markets and pricing, refining and gas processing, and risk management within a dynamic economic and geopolitical context.
Duration: 5 Days
Level: Advanced.

Starts On

6 - December - 2026

Ends On

10 - December - 2026

Location

Morocco - Casablanca

Language

Arabic

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Targeted Audience

  • New industry members working across integrated functions (supply, trading, logistics, and crude marketing)
  • Professionals requiring sector knowledge (legal contracts, pricing, refining, markets, and risk management)
  • Mechanical Engineers
  • Safety and Inspection Engineers
  • Operations, Maintenance, or Project Engineers
  • Technologists
  • Anyone needing a structured understanding of oil and gas industry structure, operations, and economics

Targeted Skills

  • Understanding the petroleum value chain from upstream to downstream
  • Analysing oil and gas markets and global energy dynamics
  • Interpreting crude and product pricing fundamentals and market signals
  • Understanding refining operations and margin drivers
  • Grasping gas processing fundamentals (compression, treating, liquefaction)
  • Supporting decisions through risk concepts and basic financial instruments
  • Operational awareness of logistics, transportation, and storage

Expected Outcomes

  • Identify critical process operations associated with upstream exploration and production feedstock.
  • Analyse key downstream refining operations and product manufacturing processes.
  • Recognise the full spectrum of the oil and gas industry and its operational, market, and regulatory challenges.
  • Apply concepts that support evaluating corporate and commercial opportunities in the energy sector.
  • Understand the structure of the oil and gas business across upstream, midstream, and downstream.
  • Interpret crude and product valuation principles, including quality and market drivers.
  • Understand the role of risk management and basic derivatives in supporting commercial decisions.

Training Topics Index

  • How crude and products create value commercially
  • Gross product worth and back-calculation principles
  • Quality drivers (density, sulphur, yield) and their pricing impact
  • Marine logistics. tanker freight, Worldscale, and shipping basics
  • Core crude contract terms, conditions, and price linkage

  • Pipeline geopolitics and supply route sensitivities
  • OPEC’s role and market influence mechanisms
  • Interpreting energy statistics and references (e.g., EIA)
  • Global supply-demand patterns and trend reading
  • Storage and distribution fundamentals> tank farms and logistics chains

  • Physical separation. atmospheric and vacuum distillation outputs
  • Blending and product specification control
  • Refinery complexity and operational flexibility
  • Margin drivers and refinery economics interpretation
  • Linking crude quality with refinery operating strategy

  • Objectives of gas processing and why it matters
  • Sulphur recovery and impurity removal concepts
  • Gas compression and liquefaction fundamentals
  • Key process blocks within a gas processing facility
  • Practical overview of gas processing flow from source to market

  • Cost estimation for oil and gas facilities (CAPEX/OPEX fundamentals)
  • Crude benchmarks and price estimation logic
  • Derivatives. futures, options, swaps, and hedging purposes
  • Risk evaluation. market, operational, and regulatory dimensions
  • Climate change and renewables. implications for industry strategy