BUNKER BLENDING COURSE

BUNKER COURSE

• 2-3 days training session (9am-5pm)
• Learn how to calculate blend profitability.
• Select the right components and estimate the blend components prices.
• Find new profitable ways of business after the Bunker World sulfur limit of 0.5%
• Learn how to solve compatibility and stability issues related with low sulfur components
• Learn how to use the RAI Bunker Blend Optimizer.

Are you ready for the IMO 2020, 0.5% sulfur spec?

This is the only course that provides you with a lot information, material and knowledge about:

- new low sulfur recipes, low sulfur blend components, without incur in compatibility and stability issues;

- new eqautions to predict stability and compatibility, taking onto account many variables such as TE (toluene equivalent), TSP (total sediment potential) and more;

- Order of blending. Once you have the blend components, it is very important how you blend them together;

- Profitability meeting all the constraints such as: specs, inventory, prices, component properties and stability.

Main topics offered in the course:

• Introduction to Blending
• Marine Fuel Specifications, Components & Additives
• Bunker Blending
• Bunker Blend property liner / non linear calculations
• Blending Components: properties and pricing
• Blending stability and compatibily
• Order of blending
• Introduction to Bunker Blend Optimization
• RAI Blend Optimizer for Bunker

• Blending property calculations
• Blending Economics
• Blend Control
• Quality Assurance
• Despute resolutions
• Clean Fuels and Environmental
• Advantages of In-line Blending of Fuels
• Lab and On-line Tests
• Q&A Session

Past Partecipating Companies:

• Aegean Marine Petroleum S.A
• Akron Trade and Transport
• Allied Enterprises
• Aramaco Trading
• Arkas Bunkering and Trading SA
• Baker Hughes
• BP Singapore
• Cargill International Trading Pte Ltd
• Chemoil Adani Pte Ltd
• Chevron Singapoe Pte Ltd
• China Aviation Oil (S) Corporation Ltd
• Concord Energy Pte Ltd
• ConocoPhillips
• Cosmo Oil International
• DNV Petroleum Services
• ENOC
• ExxonMobil
• Fairdeal Marine Services LLC
• Fujairah Refinery Company
• Geo Chem Middle East
• Gulf Energy Ltd
• Gunvor (S) Pte Ltd
• Intertek
• JX Nippon Oil & Energy Asia
• Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
• Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore
• Mashreq Petroleum MEE Europe Ltd
• Mena Energy DMCC
• Mitsui & Co. Energy Trading

• Monjasa DMCC
• Naval Mexicana S A de C V
• Oil Marketing & Trading Intl LLC
• Oil Marketing Company (SOMO)
• Oman Trading International
• PDVSA
• Pemex Internacional Espana S.A
• Petrobras
• PetroSeraya
• Port of Fujairah
• Pertamina
• PETCO Trading Labuan Company
• Petronas Penapisan (Melaka) Sdn Bhd
• PTT International Trading Pte Ltd
• Qaiwan Globan Energy DMCC
• Qatar Navigation (QSC)
• Repsol Trading S.A.
• Sasol Oil
• Saudi Aramaco
• Shell International Trading Co.
• Singapore Refining Company
• SGS
• SK Innovation
• SOCAR Trading
• Star Petroleum Refining Co
• STX Corporation
• Thai Oil Public Company
• TOTSA Total Oil Trading SA
• Vitol
• Vopak
• World Fuel Services (Singapore) Pte Ltd

Typical Training Day

• Breakfast from 7am to 9am
• Start of the Blending Course 9am to 12 pm
• Lunch Break from 12 pm to 1 pm
• Training Session from 1 pm to 5 pm
• Are available Mid-Morning and Mid-Afternoon Coffee Breaks

Refinery Automation Institute provides: Breakfast, Lunch, Mid-Morning and Mid-afternoon meals.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

• Blending Engineers
• Blend Schedulers
• Laboratory Supervisors
• Business Analyst
• Sales Representatives
• Inspectors
• If you are interested in making money with blending

• Fuel Oil Traders / Blenders
• Middle & Senior Manager
• Bunker Marketers
• Marketing & Products Trading Managers
• Planning & Economic Engineers
• Executives
• Ship Onwers

Material Offered in the Course

Hands-on Exercises:

• Volumetric Blend Calculator for Bunker- Marine Gasoil blends
• Non-Linear Property Calculators
• Blend component and off-specs price calculator
• Bunker Blend Optimizer*
• New Recipes for 2020 Sulfur Spec
• and much more......

This is translated in:

• + 600 pages of Bunker Blending Handbook
• + 15 Blending Exercises with Blend Optimizer Cases
• + Plenty Exercises to help you learning faster and making right choices
• +  Bunker RAI Blend Optimizer (Demo)*

*The RAI blend optimizer works only on windows based laptops and it requires Microsoft Excel to be installed with the solver active.

Reference Material Review:

• Product Spec Books
• Market Price Bulletins
• Data Base of Blend Components
• Various Legislation (EPA, RFS, etc)
• List of Blending-related URL’s

Blending Course Schedule and Registrations

In-house, customized bunker blending courses

RAI provides also in-house, customezied blending courses. You tell us where and when and we will teach the course privately just for you.

This option is cheaper and save much time for a small or big group of students.

RAI is now teaching on-line real time courses. Please send us an e-mail for more info.