About
This awareness-level eLearning series gives engineers a practical, awareness-level foundation in how refineries operate, protect assets, and maintain safe, reliable performance. Learners will gain essential insight into oil movement and storage practices, refinery corrosion risks across major process units, and the core supervisory skills needed to support day-to-day operations.
This series equips engineers to understand how materials flow through the refinery, how corrosion impacts equipment integrity, and how effective leadership, communication, and safety practices drive operational excellence. Ideal for new or transitioning engineers, it strengthens cross-functional awareness and builds confidence in supporting safe, efficient, and profitable refinery operations.
Candidates can take the following self-paced eLearning courses individually or as a ~21-hour series. A Continuing Education Units (CEU) certificate is issued upon completion.
Target Audience
Process engineers, planning and economics engineers, inspection engineers, HSE engineers, maintenance engineers and supervisors, laboratory managers and supervisors, turnaround planners, and operation supervisors.
You Will Learn
Refining Oil Movement and Storage Operation Skills: Gain insight into how refineries safely store, measure, and transfer hydrocarbons to protect assets, ensure accurate inventory control, and support reliable daily operations.
Refinery Corrosion Overview: Understand the essential role of refining and learn how corrosion threatens equipment reliability, safety, and overall refinery performance.
Refinery Separation Processes Corrosion: Explore the sources, mechanisms, and mitigation of corrosion in crude and vacuum distillation units to extend equipment life and maintain stable separation operations.
Refinery Treatment Processes Corrosion: Learn how corrosion develops in amine and Merox treatment units and discover practical methods to prevent damage and ensure reliable contaminant removal.
Refinery Conversion Processes Units Corrosion(Optional): Gain a broad understanding of corrosion challenges across major conversion units and apply key mitigation strategies to improve integrity, reliability, and unit profitability.
Refinery Storage Corrosion: Examine corrosion risks in refinery storage tanks and facilities and learn how design, operations, and maintenance practices help prevent failures and protect stored products.