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Nexant Training

Nexant 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.

Nexant Training and its Benefits

Nexant Training public courses:

  • The Global Petrochemical Industry: Understanding the Complex Interactions between Technology, Economics and Markets -This course, an unusual blend of the broad picture and specific details, probes and clearly explains the complex relationships between the chemical processes, chemical production, and the economics that have motivated a worldwide restructuring of the petrochemical industry.          

Nexant 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 Nexant 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 Nexant 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

Nexant 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.

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

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

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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 Nexant Training courses click on the link below...
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The Photovoltaic Value Chain
This training course offers a full picture of the Photovoltaic Value Chain from sourcing and availability of feedstocks to systems integration and power generation. For more information on our courses click on the link below...
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The Polymer and Plastics Industry
This course probes and explains the complex relationships between monomers and polymers, polymers and the common fabrication processes, and fabrication processes and end-markets. For more information on our courses click on the link below...
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Mastering the Complexity of the Global Aromatics Business
This course unravels the complex linkages of technologies, economics and markets that drive value creation in the aromatics business. For more information on our courses click on the link below...
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