Conference Program
To inquire regarding speaking opportunities, please contact Graham Christison , Conference Producer, or telephone +1 416 214 1144
Major Projects and Technology Innovation | day
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Program - Major Projects and Technology Innovation14th November 2011
- The move to ending the United States’ dependency on foreign crude oil and natural gas
- Understanding the potential for relevant legislation that will allow the US to expand domestic drilling, expand refining capacity and invest in legitimate alternative energy sources
- The 2nd Congressional District of Texas and its role in US refining being home to over 23% of the refining capacity
- Shell's massive "Houdini" project - the first in a number of ways
- Exploring the features of such a large oil and gas megaproject in the manufacturing and refining business
- Challenges the team faced, to deliver one of the components of this megaproject, the Mono Ethylene Glycol facility
- Petcoke - low cost hydrocarbon in refinery
- Petcoke-to-syngas via gasification potential
- Syngas substitutes LNG for utilities + hydrogen
- Syngas-to-SNG
- SNG substitutes ethylene/ethane in RFG, for petrochemical feed
- Gasification as a refinery margin booster
Major Projects and Technology Innovation | day
one | day two
Program - Day One15th November 2011
- What’s been happening at Deer Park and what are the learnings around sustaining the journey?
- The experience in trying to take the same journey in the 5 refinery/chemical sites in Canada, US and South America
- How does one lead the journey remotely? It is a very different challenge
- The increased competitive pressure on less sophisticated refineries
- Creating a future of sophisticated refineries with maximum processing flexibility
- Trends in international exchanges for oil products
- Process incidents tend to be more complex than those involving occupational hazards. This session illustrates how the industry can gain maximum insight and value from the investigation process by taking a barrier based approach. It does this through describing the:
- Means for making sense of the complexity through storyboarding and timelining
- Barrier analysis techniques to determine their performance
- Tools for getting to the underlying management system causes
- Innovation management challenges
- Experience from other industries
- Some best practices / innovation management model
- Benefits for downstream profitability
MAKING HIGH-VELOCITY CRUDE OIL DECISIONS…COLLABORATIVELY
Historically, refinery plans have been developed using a stepwise approach that included a crude selection process that began and ended weeks before the crude ever reached the refinery gate. Using the power of current computing technology, refiners can now evaluate crudes in real-time with current prices and make crude oil buy-sell decisions based on actual delivered crude qualities. In this session you will see how to:
- Track crude quality to understand the quality of what you are processing
- Evaluate your crude schedule on a quality basis
- Calculate crude oil refining values in real-time and identify opportunities for trading
- Make fast, intelligent crude purchase decisions in 15 minutes or less
Inspection techniques for piping system integrity assessments
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- Conventional and advanced inspection techniques to assess piping systems for mechanical integrity
- Detection of Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI), Touchpoint corrosion and detection and assessment of corrosion rates
- Different approaches for these issues in process plants and highlighting options to assure effective and efficient inspections of piping systems
Inter-industry benchmarking - Pitching your current Operational Excellence program against that of the US army
Kirk Nicholas
Department Director Lean Six Sigma Program
U.S. Army- Office of Business Transformation
The impact of planned pipeline expansions to enhance the availability of heavy Canadian crudes for US refiners
- Bringing oil to the US – extending capacity in growing regions
- Planned investments - expanding the North American pipeline and terminal network to support broadening access of oil sands production to U.S. refining markets
- What refiners need to do to be ready for these developments
Linde offers a broad portfolio to the global refining industry
- Turn-key production plants
- Molecules including hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen
- CO2 capture
- Studies and engineering packages
- Revamp services
Detailed asset models to optimize the refinery supply chain
Oil produced by Saudi Aramco is mostly exported or used for manufacturing refined products for domestic consumption. From the exploration of oil to the supply of refined products to the end consumer is a complex supply chain, of which refining is key part. Refining of oil to products is primarily either owned by Saudi Aramco or its joint ventures.
- Developing detailed mathematical programming models to determine the optimal operation of refineries and distribution systems
- Allowing these business models in turn interface with detailed operational asset models to account for current processing constraints
- Describing this approach of business process modelling and some of the insights that were gained
- Some of the challenges that were faced and overcome
Embracing Change in Shale Gas And Tight Oil
Growing availability of shale oil in the US
- The Natural Gas "Shale Gale"
- Is "Tight Oil Tsunami" Next?
- *Next 12 Months for Oil Prices
- Governments in Crisis
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- Exploring the options of sources: US shale; Canadian crude; Offshore sources; Biofuels; Other heavy feedstocks
- The challenges associated with growing existing markets and accessing new markets
- Major market factors that will influence the availability, demand, and pricing of opportunity crudes over the next decade
- Heavy Canadian crudes and what this means for US refiners
Major Projects and Technology Innovation | day
one | day two
Program - Day Two16th November 2011
- Planned downstream investments over the next five years as fuel consumption surges in emerging economies
- The development of proprietary technology to process heavier domestic oil - ultimately reducing the dependency on imports and increasing profitability
- HBio - progress in diesel fuel quality and environmental protection
- New units at the Presidente Bernardes refinery in Cubatão - allowing the production of low-sulphur content diesel to comply with new Brazilian environmental regulations
- Key issues to address: Surging demand; The end of easy oil!; Climate change and carbon footprint as dominant considerations
- Solutions and opportunities: Clean fuels from natural gas; Biofuels; Carbon capture and sequestration
- How: Diversity of energy sources to be developed; Time and investment for alternative energy infrastructure
Dealing with an aging workforce and developing the next generation of refining leaders
- The impending big “Crew Change”: Fact or Fiction? How do you know?
- Workforce demographic issues facing Shell Manufacturing and what they are doing about it
- Strategies to retain experienced talent or transfer knowledge and wisdom
- What you should be talking about and doing today in your company
The successful production of clean fuel in a safe and environmentally conscious way
- Capitalizing on innovations designed into our facility from the drawing board
- Clean fuel technology (hydrocracker) – enabling the production of low-sulphur clean fuels from slightly lower-cost sour crude
- The benefits to being a sour crude refinery considering much of the proven oil reserves around the world are light to medium sour
- Developing a culture of sound occupational health and safety practices
- Continuing to work towards the future and the ever more challenging goals
Reducing costs and controlling risk in downstream projects: Tenaris Total Cost of Ownership solution (TCO)
- A long term experience in serving directly hydrocarbon processing projects
- “TENARIS TCO” solution monitors risk and controls project costs
- Maximizing performance and guaranteeing savings during project execution
- Increasing EPC’s competitiveness further by partnering since the FEED STAGE
Steam system efficiency
Improving steam system performance will have a direct impact on energy use, reliability, plant productivity, safety and operational costs. Understanding where and how to accomplish such improvement is Spirax Sarco's business. In this workshop we will review case studies of steam system improvements that have brought about energy savings, reliability and improved overall plant performance.
- Steam system efficiency program plan
- Reliability and safety improvements and safeguards
- Funding hurdles, project ROI
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- Typical configuration (complexity) of the world's best refineries
- Relative performance to others on energy efficiency, availability, maintenance cost, and ROI
- Types of crudes run by the best and a comparison of personnel expenses
- Improving the understanding of how systemic human reliability failures are associated with operations practices influences
- Factors that influence human reliability and addressing the blame virus - cultivating a culture of responsibility
Energy efficiency solution and cost saving opportunity
- Decreasing the energy cost associated with your operations
- Protecting machinery and pipe systems from environmental factors
- Increasing the useful life of machinery
- Reducing energy consumption and working towards environmental compliance
Biobutanol: A low-cost pathway to RFS2 compliance
Attaining RFS2 compliance for renewable fuels is challenged as the ethanol compatibility limits for existing vehicles and refueling infrastructure are reached. An advanced biofuel that is compatible with existing infrastructure is needed.
- Biobutanol - attractive features as a gasoline component and can be made from the same feedstocks as ethanol with similar production assets
- It is also possible to generate double the number of RINs per gallon of gasoline compared to ethanol
- This feature allows refiners to meet regulatory mandates without the need for billions of dollars of investment in infrastructure upgrades
- Biobutanol offers a highly attractive pathway for refiners to transit the blendwall
- In addition to RFS2 compliance, biobutanol has excellent gasoline blending properties, improving refining economics and flexibility compared to ethanol
- It has a low blending RVP, high octane, favorable distillation properties and low water solubility, allowing more efficient manufacturing and distribution
- CanmetENERGY: Who we are...
- Oganizational responses to federal mandates
- Pathways to reduction of environmental issues: Land/air/water (general) - Focus on bitumen conversion
- Technical advancement options in reducing environmental impact
- Upgrading R&D hightlights at CanmetENERGY
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