| Heavy Crude Focus DayOctober 29, 2008 |
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Establishing the essential tools to deal with the burgeoning heavy oil market
In the age of declining conventional crude oil, the global energy industry has made plans to introduce unconventional hydrocarbon resources. The Heavy Crude Day 2008 focuses on the transformation of your operations in order to process heavy oil, including the management, development, performance measurement and risk assessment in order to increase your hydrocarbon resources. This focus day showcases the world’s leading heavy oil industry experts debating the latest issues and innovations. Learn from and benchmark with peers while sharing knowledge and exchanging experiences.
The Heavy Crude Focus Day topics include:
- Evaluating the current and emerging heavy crude market and what it means for the future of refining
- Reviewing key strategies to prepare your operations for heavier crude
- Assessing the developments of increasing capacity vs the ability to upgrade sour crude
- Understanding the latest technologies to deal with heavier crude and how these can be applied to ensure efficient processing
- Identifying the challenges of processing Canadian bitumen: learn from others within Canada; hear best practice for processing Canadian bitumen
- Uncovering the latest upgrading tools to process heavy oil and the key steps to implementation
- Determining the strategic decision and outcome of reconfiguring your refining infrastructure
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| 08:00 |
Delegate registration and coffee
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| 09:00 |
Chairman's opening remarks
Mark Peters,
Publisher,
Hydrocarbon Processing
USA
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| 09:10 |
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Evaluating the current and emerging heavy crude market and what it means for the future of refining and the latest carbon emission regulations |
- Understanding and overcoming the difficulties of processing heavy crude: What are the key challenges and what strategies are companies applying to overcome these?
- Evaluating how to process this crude whilst increasing capacity and reducing carbon emissions. Can it be done?
- Identifying what’s needed for your refinery: Modifying and managing your operations more effectively
Peter Whitman,
Policy Analyst, Office of Policy and International Affairs,
US Department of Energy
USA
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| 09:55 |
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Key Strategies for Processing Heavier Crude |
Growing global demands for lower emissions and low sulfur refined oil products is challenging refiners to use more and more of the heavy portion of the crude barrel to meet the world’s needs
- The need for additional refinery investment
- Challenges of refining heavy crude oils
- Opportunities for participation in the Venezuelan oil industry
Bill Hatch,
Vice President Refining and Marketing,
CITGO Petroleum Corporation
Venezuela
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| 10:40 |
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| 11:10 |
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Fresh opportunities: Reviewing the trends towards oil sands and the wider impact on the industry |
- Evaluating the latest opportunities, challenges and the outlook for Canadian oil sands and the Alberta Government Priorities
- Determining the opportunities of oil sands and understand what modernization methods are available for refineries to tap into it’s potential
- Determining the opportunities for developing a world class integrated eco-industrial refining and chemical cluster based in the oil sands in Alberta
- Enhancing your competitive opportunities that align with the company’s existing businesses and strategy and key initiatives supporting energy development in Alberta
Honourable Iris Evans,
Minister,
Alberta Finance and Enterprise
Canada
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| 12:00 |
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| 13:20 |
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Reviewing the latest and most advanced bitumen upgrading technologies with CO2 capture |
- Identifying the challenges of processing alberta bitumen
- Evaluating the latest technologies for processing 200,000bpd of bitumen, based on breakthrough potential to technical and economic feasibility and environmental risk
- Identifying the technical and economic feasibility of capturing CO2 from stand-alone upgrades as well as integrated field-based upgraders
- Reviewing the hydrocarbon upgrading demonstration program
Dr Duke du Plessis,
Senior Advisor and Research Manager,
Alberta Energy Research Institute, Alberta Finance and Enterprise
Canada
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| 14:05 |
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Case study: Evaluating the latest upgrading developments at plants |
- Maximizing your potential: The benefits of integrating refineries and petrochemical plants
- Discovering the latest upgrading tools to process heavy oil and the key steps to implementation
- Evaluating Alberta's potential and hear about the developments of the North West Upgrading project
Robert Pearce,
Senior Vice President,
North West Upgrading
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| 14:50 |
Discussion and review of session
- Evaluating where the refining industry is going and what role the oil sands will play
- Determining what role your refinery has in the oil sands market and discuss how you can prepare for the future
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| 15:30 |
Close of Heavy Crude Focus Day
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