Production Planning & Scheduling in Refineries Masterclass

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Masterclass provides a practical, business-focused framework for improving refinery performance through effective production planning, scheduling, blending, and optimisation. Designed for today’s complex refining environment, the programme shows how crude selection, unit constraints, tankage, blending rules, and product movements interact—and how these elements can be optimised using structured planning approaches, Excel-based models, and linear programming concepts. By blending refinery fundamentals with applied planning methods, participants gain real-world insight into improving operational efficiency, reducing losses, and maximising product value across integrated refinery operations.

Modern refineries face tightening margins, fluctuating crude quality, stricter product specifications, and increasing operational complexity. Production planning and scheduling are no longer support functions—they are critical drivers of profitability, asset utilisation, and supply chain performance. This Masterclass equips professionals with the tools to distinguish clearly between planning and scheduling, optimise crude slates, manage tankage and product movements, and apply blending and optimisation techniques to daily operations. With strong emphasis on material balances, capacity constraints, commercial drivers, and refinery optimisation, the course enables participants to make smarter operational decisions while protecting margins and improving overall refinery performance.

This course is ideal for:

Over five highly practical days, participants will gain in-depth knowledge of:

Participants also benefit from instruction by a highly experienced industry expert with over 30 years in refinery technology, operations, and management, delivering applied learning grounded in real operational environments.