Welcome to ICIS training - providing chemicals training courses for industry
ICIS training courses bring clarity and focus to understanding the petrochemical industry and the business of petrochemicals. They explain key concepts and the fundamentals that drive global petrochemical markets, enabling you to increase your knowledge of the business and understand the bigger picture.
Why choose ICIS training chemical training courses?
- For chemical industry expertise and independence - Our trainers have combined experience of over 100 years and access to the combined knowledge of more than 95 globally-based market reporters and editors.
- ICIS training offers high trainee to trainer ratios throughout its courses on the petrochemical and chemical industry.
- Our easy-to-follow course materials are constantly refreshed to provide an informed and up-to-date perspective.
- Interactive sessions to reinforce learning as well as valuable reference material to take away
- ICIS training chemical courses help you understand the business of petrochemicals and the driving forces behind the multi-billion dollar chemical industry.
- ICIS training helps you put the global chemical industry into perspective.
Who should attend ICIS training chemical courses?
- Newcomers and those wanting a refresher course.
- Purchasers, end users, support function personnel.
- Members of the financial community and service providers who need to keep abreast of the petrochemicals business
What training courses do ICIS offer?
Introduction to Petrochemicals Part I: A Beginner’s Course
The starting point for many delegates. This course provides the basics of petrochemical technology, outlines the key petrochemical chains and provides an overview of how chemical markets function and how pricing works. It also looks at the dynamics shaping regional industries.
Petrochemicals Part II: The Next Level – Market Dynamics, Costs, Pricing and Profitability
Providing a deeper understanding of the dynamics of olefins, aromatics and polymer markets. Looks at the cost of production, profitability and pricing mechanisms. Held in partnership with ChemSystems Training.
Petrochemicals Part II: The Next Level – Value Chains, Markets, Projects and Planning
An alternative part II programme focused on China, India and Middle East projects which factors in the planning process. The course looks at quantifying value through the product chains. It is held in partnership with Methanol Market Services Asia (MMSA)
Petrochemicals & Polymers: The Next Level Polymer Markets, Prices, Cost and Profitability
This part II programme has a focus on the commodity polymers business providing a deeper understanding of market dynamics, cost of production, profitability and pricing mechanisms. It is held in partnership with ChemSystems Training.
Asian Polyolefins - A Beginner's Course
Gain an understanding of technologies, a bang-up-to-date view on price direction and our analysis of global projects activity.
Asian Aromatics & Major Derivatives - A Beginnerīs Course
Discover how benzene, styrene, PX and PTA are made with the links the refinery and aromatics industries also explained. We also provide our view on price direction for all the major projects, an analysis of company strategy and review of projects activity.
China Refining & Petrochemicals Seminar
This value-packed day will provide updated data and analysis on what's happening in the energy and refining industries in China. The day also includes reviews of project activity in all the major petrochemicals, including coal-to-olefins, with analysis of all the key challenges and opportunities in the world's most important market. Presenters are from CBI China - a joint-venture partner of ICIS.
Emerging Markets
This seminar looks at Asian olefins, aromatics and derivatives markets. It focuses on developments in China, India, Vietnam and Southeast Asia as well as the influence of the Middle East.
Introduction to Biofuels
The course provides an understanding of the Biofuels chain, political and economic issues, regional outlooks, pricing and markets.
Company In-House Training Seminars
ICIS training, working with leading chemical consultants, offers tailor-made training packages and interactive workshops for companies structured to focus on issues of specific interest to the client.
Receive a bang-up-to-date view on what's happening Asian olefins, polyolefins, aromatics and derivatives, PX, PTA, MEG and methanol markets from our ICIS pricing editors in a special one-day seminar ahead of the APIC conference in Singapore.
You will also get expert analysis on the macro-economic context for Asia and on what's happening in crude-oil markets.
For further information, contact Oliver Palmer at oliver.palmer@icis.com or telephone +44 (0)20 8652 4493.