| Day OneOctober 29, 2009 |
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| 07:00 |
Delegate registration & coffee
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| 08:00 |
Chairman's opening remarks
Mark Peters,
Publisher,
Hydrocarbon Processing
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| 08:10 |
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Opening keynote address |
Sherman Glass,
President,
ExxonMobil Refining & Supply
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| 08:50 |
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The "cash preservation mode" - identifying the current global supply/demand issues and how this effects your refinery operations |
- Assessing the industry's response to recent global demand slowdown
- Analyzing the perceived notion of over capacity and what rationalization will occur, what regions will be affected if any?
Tom Botts,
Executive Vice President, Global Manufacturing,
Shell Oil Company
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| 09:30 |
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Strategies for success in today's downstream environment |
- Reviewing the current market conditions
- Determining the strategies and necessities: A premium placed on efficiency; access and process capability for advantaged crude oils; managing refineries as a system, not discrete units; flexibility in gasoline/distillate yields; playing to strength in scale and location
- Understanding the importance of engineering reliability: The importance of turnarounds; availability metrics: What gets measured, gets done; involving management, labor and vendors in the process
- Managing game-changing projects (GME, DHOUP): The critical path for long lead time items; working with contractors and fabricators as an alliance
Gary Heminger,
President,
Marathon Petroleum Company
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| 10:10 |
Pre-arranged one-to-one meetings and networking coffee break
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| 11:30 |
| INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP |
| Improve operations through increased energy monitoring and precise measurement accuracy |
- Identify costly utility leakages to improve your OPEX - what you measure, you can control
- Reduce measurement uncertainty and improve mass balance using high accuracy instrumentation
- Mass flow measurement with Coriolis improves mass balance; mass vs volumetric metering - a refinery case study showing savings in millions
Reinhold H. Bietzker,
Global Industry Manager - Oil & Gas,
Endress+Hauser
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| INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP |
| Enhancing asset management: Learn how to produce consistent, complete results with fewer surprises and substantial savings |
- Understanding the benefits of developing efficient lifecycle asset solutions
- Analyzing the critical need to increase safety and reliability whilst reducing operating costs
Robert Jablonski,
General Manager,
Metegrity
David Maguire,
Project Manager, Implementation Group,
Metegrity
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| 12:10 |
| INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP |
| Crude oil knowledge management: Extracting maximum value from crude oil |
In this session you will see how a crude oil knowledge management system can impact decisions on crude oil processing and ultimately increase refinery margins
- Accurately characterize crude oil to gain a competitive advantage
- Evaluating the impact of variations in crude quality on your refinery operating plan
- Using accurate crude assay data to make trading decisions that maximize profit
- Tracking cargo (batch) quality and using actual quality data in the refinery planning process
- Managing and sharing crude oil data across an enterprise
Pat Swafford,
Solutions Consultant,
Spiral Software
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| INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP |
| Refinery environmental footprint: Improve reliability and performance and lower costs through implementation of advanced water and wastewater treatment process |
- Understanding and preparing for a new regulatory environment
- A preliminary review of existing water and wastewater technologies
- Balancing source control and reuse with final treatment requirements
- Advances and opportunity to recycle refinery wastewater streams to reduce the environmental footprint
Steve Kroll,
Vice President, Business Development,
Veolia Water S&T Oil and Gas
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| 12:50 |
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| 14:00 |
Current and emerging strategies
Heavy oil developments |
| Evaluating the current heavy crude market: What does it mean for the global refining market |
- Determining the opportunities of oil sands and how this will affect the refining industry on a global scale
- Highlighting the latest trends towards oil sands and the wider impact – how are the latest regulations going to effect the market globally?
- Reviewing the trends towards the Canadian oil sands: Evaluating the latest opportunities, challenges and the outlook for Canadian oil sands
- Determining the opportunities for developing a world class integrated eco-industrial refining and chemical cluster based in the oil sands in Alberta
- Determining the opportunities of oil sands and understand what modernization methods are available for refineries to tap into it’s potential
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Current and emerging strategies
Renewables and biofuels |
| Identifying the role of biofuels within the refining market: Uncovering the challenges presented by biofuels and learn how you can overcome them |
- Assessing the impact that biofuels have on gas production and how this may evolve in the coming years
- Evaluating the realities and the advancements of second generation biofuels
- Identifying the implementation opportunities for the development of biofuels and learn how to achieve the best results for your refinery operations
- Evaluating the life cycle sense of biofuels and how they might impact the global market. What will the impact of the volumes be and where they come from and what infrastructure is required to get biofuels to the global markets?
Carmen Difiglio,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Analysis,
Office of Policy and International Affairs, US Department of Energy
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| 14:40 |
| Analysing the evolutions of the heavy crude market and the transportation of Canadian crude |
Assessing the impact of the Keystone Pipeline: Where will the crude arrive? Will it get to the gulf coast? Will it just stay in the mid-west? Upper mid-west? How will Canadian crude wind its way into refineries in the US and throughout the world?
- Understanding the Keystone fundamental supply and demand
- Hear the latest developments and updates with the Keystone construction project
- Assessing the KXL regulatory project and learn the latest updates and hear how to deal with the regulations
- Evaluating the Keyston operations and start up
Robert Jones,
Vice President,
Keystone Pipeline Project
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| Understanding how the influx of renewable fuels will affect the refineries: The 'blend wall' and the RFS2 |
- The 'blend wall' - identifying the challenges and opportunities that will evolve with the arrival of the blend wall: Clarify how to profitably integrate biofuels into your refinery operations
- Assessing the impact of Ethanol implementation and how this affects refineries in terms of capacity and gasoline demand
- Evaluating the current policies and understand the information available about how blending currently will take place. Prepare and plan what kind of blendstocks will be used and where it will be shipped to
- Alleviating the blend wall (allowing 15% EtOH): Will this affect certain geographies differently? i.e. will the US Midwest blend up to the highest limit right away, while other regions lag? Will other regions like California be limited by local fuel requirements?
- RFS2 – Renewable Fuel Standards 2: Understanding the challenges faced that are enacted in the RFS2 - determining the ways in which your refinery can achieve the standard
- Creating the right trading mechanism: Evaluating the requirements that the end user needs to make sure the right accounting system is used to capture the correct RIN’s (renewable identification number’s)
Karl Simon,
Director, Compliance and Innovative Strategies Division, Office of Transportation and Air Quality,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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| 15:20 |
Pre-arranged one-to-one meetings and networking break
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| 16:40 |
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Optimizing your on-going refining operations: Safety and security strategies |
Case study with major oil and gas company
- Understanding how to implement the most efficient strategies to ensure physical assets are maintained
- Analysing and optimising processes to maintain reliable and stable performances
- How are planning decisions made to maximize utilisation without requiring the refinery to work beyond its operating constraints?
Siemens,
Leading Expert,
tbc
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| 17:20 |
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Understanding reliability: Assessing how to utilize your plant across the entire complex |
Case study
- Understanding risk management issues at all levels of the operation
- Recent examples of new risk management strategies from refining companies
DNV,
Leading Expert,
tbc
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| 18:00 |
 Close of day one and networking drinks reception sponsored by CB&I
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