A simple procedure is developed to determine the apparent rate constants, reaction orders, and activation energies of various hydrotreating reactions, such as the hydrodesulfurization (HDS), hydrodemetalation (HDM), hydrodenitrogenation (HDN), and asphaltene cracking (HDAsph) of hydrotreating catalysts loaded in multiple-reactor fixed bed units. The procedure is derived from the basic kinetic and engineering principles. The only required input parameters are the sulfur, vanadium, nickel, nitrogen, and asphaltenes contents in the feedstock and products, reaction temperatures, and liquid hourly space velocity (LHSV). These parameters are normally available from laboratories performing the kinetic studies. Since there is no correlation coefficient in the developed kinetic expression, the apparent reaction rate constant and activation energy for various hydrotreating reactions can be determined directly once the optimum value of the reaction order has been identified. To demonstrate how the procedure works, it has been applied to calculate the kinetic values published in the open literature. Excellent agreements are obtained. The procedure is further verified with kinetic parameters from experiments undertaken in our pilot plants. In some cases, kinetic values which were unable to be determined in our pervious studies can now be obtained. The overall absolute average deviation (AAD) is less than 10%.