Bachelor of Refinery Engineering Systems
Course Overview
The Bachelor of Refinery Engineering Systems is a uk level 6 honours qualification, typically 3 years full-time delivered across on-campus, online and distance-learning routes. It focuses on the integrated engineering systems that run modern refineries, from crude distillation and conversion units to utilities and product blending, taught in step with UK professional-body competencies used across the Thames-side refining and terminal corridor, Aberdeen and the North Sea, and the UK pipeline and LNG import network.
By graduation, you will be reading refinery LP outputs, running unit performance reviews and holding a full UK BEng-style honours degree in refinery engineering systems. Weekly seminars, applied case work and a closing project ensure you finish with evidence that matches the expectations of UK operators, service firms and regulators working in oil, gas and energy.
Assessment is continuous. Every module of the Bachelor of Refinery Engineering Systems includes a scored applied task, brought into a written portfolio that admissions, external verifiers and prospective employers can review. The closing capstone or dissertation sits alongside this portfolio as evidence of independent capability in refinery engineering systems.
Key Features
- Three-year UK honours degree with year-two industry placement
- Syllabus aligned with IChemE, Energy Institute and IOM3 competency areas
- Concawe references for refining fuels and environmental standards
- Applied unit operation modules across CDU, VDU, FCC and hydrotreating
- Final-year dissertation or capstone on a real refinery engineering scenario
- Careers pipeline into UK refineries and international downstream assets
Every intake of the Bachelor of Refinery Engineering Systems shares live seminar teaching, tutor-set reading and a structured assessment calendar. Online and distance cohorts join the same seminars as the London on-campus cohort, then extend the material through set applied work between sessions. Programme content is reviewed each intake against the UK oil, gas and energy employer community that recruits Bachelor finishers.
What You Will Learn
- Interpret crude assays and refinery yield structures
- Analyse CDU, VDU and secondary-unit performance
- Model FCC, hydrocracking and reforming trade-offs
- Apply refinery LP models to planning decisions
- Coordinate utilities, hydrogen balance and steam networks
- Interpret refinery HSE incidents against process safety fundamentals
- Manage refinery maintenance and turnaround planning
- Communicate refinery engineering findings in UK operator-format reports
Applied learning is at the centre of the Bachelor of Refinery Engineering Systems. Each module combines a taught foundation with a small applied task, then a scored assignment set against refinery engineering systems scenarios drawn from UK operator, service company and regulator practice. Feedback is written, structured and tied to programme-tutor sign-off.
Who This Course Is For
- A-Level and BTEC leavers targeting a UK refinery engineering degree
- International applicants seeking a UK BEng-style refinery route
- Mature applicants moving into refinery engineering roles
- Working professionals returning to study part-time from refinery roles
- Applicants from adjacent chemical engineering disciplines converting into refining
The Bachelor of Refinery Engineering Systems brings together learners from field, plant, office and campus backgrounds. That mix is deliberate, applied learning in refinery engineering systems benefits from cohort discussion between career changers, working professionals and international applicants. Tutor-visible seminars keep every voice in the room.
Career Pathways
- Refinery Process Engineer
- Petrochemical Plant Engineer
- Facilities Engineer
- Asset Integrity Engineer
- Terminal Operations Manager
- LNG Operations Engineer
The LSOGM careers service links Bachelor finishers with UK operators, service firms and international assets recruiting through London and Aberdeen, from CV workshops through interview prep to introductions across the oil, gas and energy community.
Entry Requirements
- 112-128 UCAS points (or equivalent), including at least one science-related A-Level (or BTEC Extended Diploma at DMM or above).
- GCSE English and Mathematics at grade 5/B (or equivalent).
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- Two references, normally academic; senior professional acceptable for mature applicants.
- Personal statement covering your interest in oil, gas and energy careers.
Why Study at LSOGM
The London School of Oil and Gas Management is a specialist division of Harold International College of London teaching in small, tutor-visible cohorts. LSOGM sits within reach of the Thames-side refining and terminal corridor, Aberdeen and the North Sea, and the UK pipeline and LNG import network, giving students of the Bachelor of Refinery Engineering Systems programme direct exposure to the professional bodies, standards organisations and employer networks that recruit into refinery engineering systems.
Every intake, on-campus, online or by distance learning, joins the same weekly seminar structure with named programme-tutor support. Three parallel study modes make the Bachelor of Refinery Engineering Systems accessible around work, family and shift patterns, curricula are reviewed annually against live employer demand, and faculty are practising engineers, HSE specialists and energy economists.
LSOGM cohorts are deliberately kept small so that programme tutors can see, name and support every student. The Bachelor of Refinery Engineering Systems brings that visibility to a UK Bachelor credential taught in the same city and against the same standards as the UK refinery engineering systems employer base. Timetable, deadlines and assessment weightings are shared in writing on day one, and every student receives an individual careers-service touchpoint before graduation.
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