This book offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary international petrochemicals business and explains related managerial complexities, business challenges, and opportunities to enhance competitiveness. It enables readers to explore critical issues facing the industry, such as profitability and investment economics, optimizing business processes, regulatory aspects, refining different grades of crudes, marketing of refinery products, health, safety, and environment and emerging ESG compliances in petrochemical business.

Features:

• Explains value chain of the petrochemicals industry from a business perspective.
• Highlights economic developments of petrochemicals, applications, marketing, and case studies on business aspects.
• Discusses refinery product mix, pricing, and marketing of refinery products.
• Reviews managerial challenges in the petrochemicals refining business.
• Includes HSE and ESG aspects of the petrochemicals refining business.

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in chemical engineering, business and management studies, and petrochemical industries professionals.

About the Author

Pramod Paliwal has over 33 years of corporate and academic experience. An MBA and PhD in Management, he is a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Marketing, U.K. He has been with School of Management, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar-Gujarat, India Since 2006 . In profesion since 1991, Dr. Paliwal's earlier associations have been with The ACC Limited (a subsidiary of Holcim, Switzerland), Pacific Institute of Management, M.L.S. University, India and the India Offshore Campus of Oxford Brookes University, U.K. He has been featured in the 30th Pearl Anniversary Edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World; 2013.

Sonal Yadav is an Assistant Professor in Economics and Public Policy Area, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad. She did her B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. (Economics) with specialization in Economics of Human Resources from the M.S.University, Baroda-INDIA. Her M.Phil. research focused on Labour Market Segmentation in India. She has a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. Her doctoral thesis examines the impact of economic reforms on industrial labour concerning Small Scale Engineering Industries of Gujarat.

Sudhir Yadav has more than 34 years of experience including about 7 years in industry and 27 years into academics. He has been with School of Management, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar-Gujarat, India Since 2006. As an industry professional he has worked in marketing and international business divisions of various companies. Dr. Yadav has developed and delivered academic & training modules in the area of Oil & Gas Operations Management, Oil & Gas Project Management and Oil & Gas Value Chain.

Book Information
ISBN 9781032603117
Author Pramod Paliwal
Format Hardback
Page Count 184
Imprint CRC Press
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g