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ChemSystems Training

ChemSystems Training provides public and corporate classroom training to the petroleum refining and petrochemical industries.

Corporate in-house courses are customized to meet the needs of each client and are built from a selection of modules.

ChemSystems Training public courses include the world famous Global Petrochemical Industry Course developed by Dr. Harold A. Wittcoff.

ChemSystems Training Prospectus

ChemSystems Training and its Benefits

ChemSystems Training public courses:

  • The Global Petrochemical Industry: Understanding the Complex Interactions between Technology, Economics and Markets developed by Dr. Harold A. Wittcoff. This three day course has been presented in 28 countries to several thousand delegates.

We regularly send out emails to promote our up-coming Public Training Courses.   Click here - if you would like to be added to ChemSystems' Public Courses mailing list. 

ChemSystems Training provides the answers to your individual corporate training needs:

  • Tailored: Courses can be from one day to five days. Each day will typically include four sessions of 1.5 to 2 hours duration. Depending on your requirements, the sessions may be lectures, classroom exercises, case studies and/or group discussions/workshops.
  • Professional: Only highly-experienced ChemSystems professionals with considerable experience in the subject matter run sessions.
  • Focussing on participants: Our recommended size for corporate in-house training is 12 to 16 participants, although class sizes may vary from eight to 24.

Use ChemSystems Training to:

  • Get insight into commercial, technological and economic aspects of the petroleum and petrochemical industry.
  • Train new entrants to your business.
  • Allow experienced employees to gain a global overview and wider understanding of the business of petroleum and chemicals.
  • Learn from the history of petrochemicals

ChemSystems Training Modules

Training modules available include:

  • Crude oil & gas
  • Oil refining & petrochemical feedstocks
  • Natural gas & petrochemicals
  • Ammonia & derivatives
  • Methanol & derivatives
  • Petrochemical economics
  • Olefins markets
  • Olefins economics
  • Olefins technology
  • Aromatics markets
  • Aromatics economics
  • Aromatics technology
  • Ethylene derivatives markets
  • Propylene derivatives markets
  • Benzene derivatives
  • Toluene & Xylene derivatives
  • Butadiene derivatives
  • Olefins strategy
  • Aromatics strategy
  • The chlor-alkali business
  • Polymers
  • Polyethylenes
  • Polypropylene
  • Polystyrene
  • PVC
  • PET
  • Polymer environmental issues
  • Petrochemical strategy
  • Price & profitability forecasting
  • Profitability & cyclicality
  • Consumption & trade forecasting
  • Project evaluation
  • Petrochemical nomenclature

These modules may be customized or additional topics and petrochemical value chains developed to suit your needs.

Click here - if you would like to be contacted by ChemSystems about in-house Training. 

Detailed course manuals are provided that become a valuable reference text for participants’ future careers in petrochemicals.

The Global Petrochemical Industry
This course provides a broad picture of the many complex issues driving profitability in the global chemical industry. For more information on our 2010 courses click on the link below...
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Mastering the Complexity of the Global Aromatics Business
This newly developed course unravels the complex linkages of technologies, economics and markets that drive value creation in the aromatics business. For more information on our 2010 courses click on the link below...
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