Master of Refinery Optimization Engineering
Course Overview
The Master of Refinery Optimization Engineering is a uk level 7 postgraduate qualification, typically 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time delivered across on-campus, online and distance-learning routes. It focuses on the optimisation, modelling and reliability disciplines that maximise refinery margin and uptime, 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 building refinery optimisation models, running reliability improvement projects and delivering a research-informed dissertation on refinery optimisation engineering. 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 Master of Refinery Optimization Engineering 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 optimisation engineering.
Key Features
- UK Level 7 postgraduate credential mapped to IChemE, Energy Institute and IOM3 competency areas
- Applied refinery LP modelling stream
- Concawe references for refining efficiency and emissions
- Research methods stream culminating in a substantial dissertation
- Named programme-tutor support across on-campus, online and distance cohorts
- Dissertation or sponsor project on a real refinery optimisation scenario
Every intake of the Master of Refinery Optimization Engineering 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 Master finishers.
What You Will Learn
- Build refinery LP models for planning and optimisation
- Coordinate advanced process control and optimisation projects
- Model unit-level yield improvements across CDU, VDU and FCC
- Apply reliability and maintainability improvement methods
- Interpret refinery energy audits and pinch analysis
- Coordinate turnaround optimisation and shutdown planning
- Apply research methods to a refinery optimisation question
- Communicate senior findings in UK operator and investor forums
Applied learning is at the centre of the Master of Refinery Optimization Engineering. Each module combines a taught foundation with a small applied task, then a scored assignment set against refinery optimisation engineering 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
- Refinery engineers targeting senior optimisation roles
- Process control and reliability specialists moving into leadership
- International applicants seeking a UK refinery optimisation Master
- Career changers with senior technical background moving into refining
- Working professionals studying part-time around plant responsibilities
The Master of Refinery Optimization Engineering brings together learners from field, plant, office and campus backgrounds. That mix is deliberate, applied learning in refinery optimisation engineering 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
- Energy Supply Chain Manager
- Terminal Operations Manager
The LSOGM careers service links Master 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
- A UK Bachelor degree at 2:2 or above (or international equivalent) in a relevant discipline.
- Relevant work experience considered in place of formal academic qualifications for senior applicants.
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- Two references, normally one academic and one personal or employer.
- Personal statement covering your research or professional interests.
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 Master of Refinery Optimization Engineering programme direct exposure to the professional bodies, standards organisations and employer networks that recruit into refinery optimisation engineering.
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 Master of Refinery Optimization Engineering 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 Master of Refinery Optimization Engineering brings that visibility to a UK Master credential taught in the same city and against the same standards as the UK refinery optimisation engineering 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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