Transfer and Stockpiling Operations in the Crude Oil Refining Industry

Transfer and Stockpiling Operations in the Crude Oil Refining Industry provides an overview of the stockpiling and storage operations in a crude oil refinery and how these operations relate to the processing areas within refineries. It explores and offers solutions to challenges related to the management of stockpiling operations, calling attention to an operation that is essential to the success of a refining business.

• Details the current state of the art as well as challenges and opportunities in the downstream industry.

• Discusses how stockpiling operations affect the success of a refining business and how underestimation can put a refining business at risk.

• Describes process safety and asset management.

• Presents case studies with technical and management solutions to guide readers on how to solve day to day issues.

Filled with insights by an author sharing experience as a transfer and stockpiling manager at a major crude oil refinery, this book is an essential reference for oil and gas managers, technicians, and engineers seeking to better manage product flows for safety, environmental compliance, and economic performance.