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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 and newly added Plastics: An Industry in Transition, a comprehensive course on the polymer industry.

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.

  • Plastics: An Industry in Transition -A Comprehensive Analysis of a Dynamic Industry. This newly developed three day course provides an in-depth analysis of the key issues and dynamics of the global plastics industry. 

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
REGISTER NOW: September 14-16 London, U.K. This widely acclaimed course provides an unusual blend of the "big picture" covering the fundamentals of process technology, economics and markets that have motivated a worldwide restructuring of the petrochemical industry.
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Plastics: An Industry in Transition
This newly developed course provides a strong insight into the historic, current and future developments that continue to shape the plastics industry.
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