AspenTech and Becht are excited to offer a brand-new training that combines refining domain practice with application of AspenTech solutions. Jointly delivered by refining domain experts from Becht and modeling experts from AspenTech, students will learn refinery operations, gain additional insights into the energy industry and get hands-on experience using AspenTech tools to solved real world problems.
Becht is a US based engineering services company with several hundred senior specialists serving energy, chemicals, power and alternative energy industries for close to 60 years.
INTRODUCTION TO PETROLEUM REFINING PROCESSING (+ optional ASPEN HYSYS) |
This training combines the Introduction to Petroleum Refining Technology with Introduction to Aspen HYSYS. Please select if you will register to the Introduction to Petroleum Refining Processing only (2 days) or with the Introduction to Aspen HYSYS add on (3 days).
Schedule | Date | Time | PDH | Venue/Platform | Cost | Register |
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Fall 2024 | November 13 – 14, 2024 Without Aspen HYSYS |
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Central Time (UTC -6) |
16 hrs. (2 days) |
Aspen Technology, 2500 CityWest Blvd #1600, Houston, TX 77042 Accepts in-person and virtual attendees |
US$2,300 | |
November 13 – 15, 2024 With Aspen HYSYS |
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Central Time (UTC -6) |
24 hrs. (3 days) |
Aspen Technology, 2500 CityWest Blvd #1600, Houston, TX 77042 Accepts in-person and virtual attendees |
US$3,300 |
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Who Should Attend:
The program has been designed for personnel recently assigned to positions in the petroleum refining industry. It is assumed that those in attendance have backgrounds in engineering and chemistry or have actual refinery operating experience. Interested parties who do not have technical or refinery backgrounds should consider attending our alternate program, “Basics of Petroleum Refining for Non-Technical Personnel”.
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Michael (Mike) Bober Mr. Bober holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He served as a Process Engineer, Project Developer, Economist, and Manager at Exxon’s Bayway Refinery for twelve years. He then joined Mobil Research and Development as an FCC Specialist. He managed technical training for Engineering, worldwide, until Exxon and Mobil merged in 2000. At this point, he managed worldwide technical training for ExxonMobil Research and Engineering and then retired from managing the Technical Portfolio for ExxonMobil’s Global Manufacturing Training initiative – with a combined service of 37 years to the two companies.
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Peter Marsh Mr. Marsh has more than 40 years’ experience in oil refining and engineering contracting businesses in various technical, operational and leadership roles. The majority of his career has been spent with BP where he worked at 4 different refineries and in the technical centre. He has specialist knowledge in all types of naphtha isomerisation and naphtha reforming processes and spent 9 years serving as a refining advisor providing technical support in these technologies to BP’s global refining portfolio. Activities included process technology training, troubleshooting, unit optimisation, turnaround and project support, developing process safety standards, promoting application of technology and sharing best practices. He has a strong focus on process safety, plant reliability and use of technology to enhance plant capability.
Mr. Marsh also has experience in many other refinery process technologies including crude distillation, hydrotreating, fluid catalytic cracking, catalytic polymerisation, alkylation and light ends separation processes. He served as lead process engineer for an EPC contractor on several major revamps of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) units and a grass roots residue cracking unit. He is currently a self-employed consultant providing independent technical support to oil refineries. He is also a volunteer committee member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Safety and Loss Prevention Special Interest Group. His primary focus area within this group to date has been learning lessons from process safety incidents. |
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Pratik Krishnan, Ph.D. , a Principal Technical Consultant at Aspen Technology, has over three years’ experience in process simulation modeling software. Dr. Krishnan is a subject matter expert providing technical training and consultation in several specialized areas like Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Plus, Aspen EDR and other AspenTech Engineering products. Dr. Krishnan also works on key AspenTech initiatives such as hybrid modeling, digital twins, and sustainability.
Dr. Krishnan has received his Ph.D. and Master’s in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University. Dr. Krishnan did his dissertation on the stability of high expansion foam used for LNG vapor risk mitigation. |
Discounts:
Becht offers the following discounts on Public Training:
The highest applicable discount will be applied; discounts are not additive.
- Early Registration – A 10% discount is to be provided when you register 30 days before the start date of the training.
- Group Rate – A group discount is applied when you send three or more people from your organization to the same course and provide a single payment.
- Yearly Commitment Discount – A 25% discount when you prepay for a minimum of 10 participants from your organization to any of the courses in the same year.
No. of Registrants | Discount/Person | ||
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3 | 10% | ||
4 – 6 | 20% | ||
7 and up | 25% |
Cancellation Policy:
Full refunds or course transfers are available 4 weeks prior to the class start date. Cancellations 2-4 weeks out are eligible for course transfers or a refund of 60% of the registration fee. Cancellations within 2 weeks of the class will not be eligible for a refund. For any inquiries, please email training01@becht.com.