Summary - Understanding the Global Petrochemical Industry

About

Unravel the complex interaction of technology, economics, and markets that drive profitability within the global petrochemical industry. Dr. Plotkin's unique and engaging presentation style provides all attendees with a better understanding of the fundamentals including chemical structures and properties, process technologies, key producers, end-use applications and market sizes, and trade patterns across the petrochemical value chain. Join us and deepen your knowledge to better evaluate current market conditions and discover growth opportunities for your company.

Course Outline

The course starts off with a thorough and detailed look at the foundation of our industry - petrochemical feedstocks including natural gas, NGLs, petroleum, coal, and bio-based.
This discussion leads naturally into the industry's 7 Basic Building Blocks: Syngas, Ethylene, Propylene, C4 Olefins, Benzene, Toluene, and Xylenes.
In turn, we explore each building block's value chain, including commodities such as PE, PP, PVC, PS/EPS, PET, and methanol.
And we also go downstream into more specialized product areas including LAOs, EO/MEG, PO, Phenol, BPA, PC, Epoxies, Acrylics/SAP, Plasticizers, ACN, Synthetic Rubbers, 1,4-BDO, ABS, Nylons, Polyurethanes, PF, MF, UF Resins and many others.

New Content on Key Sustainability Issues

Renewable feedstocks - bio-naphtha, bio-propane, bio-ethanol
The Hydrogen Rainbow - blue hydrogen, green hydrogen, gray hydrogen, etc
Decarbonizing steam crackers
The meaning of a "Green" plastic
Biodegradable plastics
Plastic circularity - mechanical and chemical recycling (pyrolysis oil)

Objectives

Don’t be fooled by imitations – come to the source! Taught by globally renowned industry experts, this course unravels the complex interaction of technology, economics, and markets that drives profitability within the global petrochemical industry.

The course starts off with a thorough and detailed look at the foundation of our industry- petrochemical feedstocks including natural gas, NGLs, petroleum, coal and bio-based. This discussion leads naturally into the industry's 7 Basic Building Blocks: Syngas, Ethylene, Propylene, C4 Olefins, Benzene, Toluene, and Xylenes. In turn, we explore each building block's value chain, including commodities such as PE, PP, PVC, PS/EPS, PET and Methanol but also we go downstream into more specialized product areas including LAOs, EO/MEG, PO, Phenol, BPA, PC, Epoxies, Acrylics/SAP, Plasticizers, ACN, Synthetic Rubbers, 1,4-BDO, ABS, Nylons, Polyurethanes, PF, MF, UF Resins and others.

Our instructor's unique and engaging presentation style provides all attendees with a better understanding of the fundamentals that drive industry profitability including chemical structures and properties, process technologies, key producers, end-use applications and market sizes, and trade patterns across the petrochemical value chain- all presented in an easy to understand manner. This course will deepen your knowledge to better evaluate the current market conditions and discover growth opportunities for your company.

In this course you can expect to:

Gain an understanding of the big picture from feedstocks to olefins and aromatics to plastics
Reinforce and refresh skills and knowledge
Fill in knowledge gaps/learn new skills
Learn current industry trends
Hear different industry perspectives
Gain confidence to engage more pro-actively with colleagues, senior management, customers, and suppliers