| Day OneOctober 26, 2010 |
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| 7:00am |
Delegate registration & coffee
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| 7:50am |
Chairman's welcome address
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| 8:00am |
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Repositioning your refining operations in light of increased competition: How new investments from emerging markets are changing overall industry dynamics |
Panel discussion
- Identifying the big shifts going on in the industry right now and the new emerging markets that will be critical to industry development
- Emerging market developments; focusing on China, India, Latin America and the Middle East and new investments being made
- Navigating the constantly changing political and regulatory landscapes
- New strategies for dealing with new competition to stay on top and adapting to the changing landscape
- With large refining projects underway in parts of the world and the squeezed margins inother parts – how will the supply/demand balance be affected?
Paulo Roberto Costa,
Downstream Director,
Petrobras
Dr Partha Maitra,
President, Petroleum Business,
Reliance Industries
Toril Bosoni,
Senior Oil Market Analyst, Refining,
International Energy Agency
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| 8:40am |
CONFERENCE ROOM ONE
Energy efficiency |
| Case study: Garyville major expansion project
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- Understanding the scope and size of the project
- Assessing the engineering efforts and the world wide procurement efforts
- Examining the construction logistics for the project
- Determining how Marathon overcame obstacles
- Function check out and startup
James Shoriak,
Director, Major Projects, Refining Group,
Marathon Oil Company
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CONFERENCE ROOM TWO
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| Safety Audit, Documentation, Asset Management easier |
Case study: Industrial Furnace
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Plant Safety Audits: Risknowlogy
- Meet governmental regulations and proof them on site
- How to manage your assets and their documentation in an easy way
- Plant Safety Audits: Risknowlogy: Common issues delaying the start up of your plant
- How to increase the speed of Safety Audits
Reinhold Bietzker,
Global Development Manager O&G,
Endress+Hauser
Mike Hilton,
Technical Director,
Industrial Furnace
Dr. Michel Houtermans,
Managing Partner,
Risknowlogy
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| 9:20am |
CONFERENCE ROOM ONE
Crude oil knowledge management: Extracting maximum value from crude oil |
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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 characterizing 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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CONFERENCE ROOM TWO
Analyzing the latest innovations in carbon recycling |
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- Understanding the process in carbon recycling involving open and closed bed photobioreactors to raise algae using carbon dioxide flue gas as a feeder
- Hear how you can reduce emissions by carbon recylcing
- Evaluating the potential for algae fuel
Frank Prautzsch,
Director, Business Development,
Raytheon
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CONFERENCE ROOM THREE
Heavy oil developments |
Canadian oil sands and their contribution to global oil supply growth – a medium-term view
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- Outlining the latest opportunities and challenges for Canadian oil sands: What is the long term outlook?
- When is Canadian crude happening and what is the capability of it?
- Understanding what modernization methods are available for your refinery to produce the Canadian heavy crude
- Analyzing the options – what is going to be the feedstock supplying North America? What does the competition look like?
Julius Walker,
Senior Oil Market Analyst,
International Energy Agency
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| 10:00am |
Pre-arranged one-to-one meetings and networking coffee break
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| 11:20am |
CONFERENCE ROOM ONE
Energy efficiency |
| Case study: Improving process safety to increase efficiency and reduce operating costs
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- Hear the latest developments at the Texas City Refinery
- What challenges have they faced and how have they overcome them?
- What improvements have been made in the last 5 years?
- Implementing the most efficient strategies and technologies to ensure physical assets are maintained
- Optimizing processes to maintain reliable and stable performances
- How are planning decisions made to maximize utilization without requiring the refinery to work beyond its operating constraints?
- Developing the most effective risk management programs for the refinery
Keith Casey,
Texas City Refinery Manager,
BP
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CONFERENCE ROOM TWO
Heavy oil processing – commodity valve manufacturer’s nightmare |
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- Challenges of processing opportunity crudes, syncrudes, and refinery residuals
- Technologies and strategies utilized for processing of these fluid streams
- Valve related problems and reliability issues faced by refiners of opportunity crudes, syncrudes, and refinery residuals
- Technology utilized by Mogas to solve valve related problems and reliability issues
Wes Barrett,
Global Refining Industry Manager,
MOGAS Industries, Inc
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| 12:00pm |
CONFERENCE ROOM ONE
Energy efficiency |
Flipping the triangle: The people-centered approach to manufacturing
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Since arriving at Shell Deer Park in September 2006, Aamir Farid has applied his visionary "People and Planet" approach to managing this major petrochemical complex near Houston by working to transform the culture into one that rewards performance and fosters a strong sense of ownership and accountability among all site employees. Aamir will provide concrete examples of activities undertaken and results achieved, and share lessons learned along this four-year journey.
- Assessing the current state – cultural realities, legacy behaviors, major barriers to success
- Staging a cultural transformation – re-setting expectations, executing tangible and symbolic change
- Communicating the vision – getting everyone in the game, creating business owners at all levels
- Creating organizational capacity – learning by doing
- Flipping the triangle – leaders as teachers, managers as enablers, front-line employees as owners
- Operationalizing accountability – everyone working at the right level
Aamir Farid,
General Manager,
Shell Deer Park Site
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CONFERENCE ROOM TWO
Realizing strategic goals through an optimized capital project portfolio |
Realizing strategic goals through an optimized capital project portfolio while mitigating risk and meeting compliance requirements
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Topics that will be covered in this session:
- Overall capital planning process
- Project categorization
- Leveraging pair-wise comparison for strategic drivers
- Portfolio optimization
- Benefits recap
Walid Mourtada,
Vice President, Energy Oil & Gas Practice,
Pcubed
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CONFERENCE ROOM THREE
Asset performance and energy optimization in refining |
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Today, refining operations face increasing pressure to improve operating margins through more efficient operations. Operations can be improved through better use of measured data to gain visibility into areas of trouble and for system modeling to find areas to decrease energy consumption through better balance. Rockwell will cover the following topics:
- The refining challenge
- Use of data and role based visualization to improve equipment operation
- Use of data and predictive modelling to better balance operating unit energy usage
- Example where predictive modelling improved system throughput
Eric Fidler,
Director, Oil & Gas Sales & Marketing,
Rockwell Automation
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| 12:40pm |
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| 1:50pm |
CONFERENCE ROOM ONE
Energy efficiency |
| Process safety in the refining industry
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- Hear the latest safety standards for the refining industry
- Identifying leading and lagging process safety indicators that are useful for driving performance improvement
- Guidance on understanding, recognizing and managing fatigue in the workplace
- Establishing policies and procedures to meet the purpose of the recommended practices
Bob Greco,
Group Director, Downstream and Industry Operations,
American Petroleum Institute (API)
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CONFERENCE ROOM TWO
Developing the right strategies to create an exceptional turnaround in a timely manner |
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- Minimizing your downtime and creating substantial cost savings via your turnaround programs whilst increasing reliability and safety
Gerhard Abel,
Vice President,
TUV SUD America Inc.
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| 2:30pm |
Pre-arranged one-to-one meetings and networking coffee break
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| 4:15pm |
CONFERENCE ROOM ONE
Operational safety |
Operational safety – The Barrier Approach
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- Critical activities to prevent or mitigate process incidents in an operations environment
- Barrier based process safety – Bow Ties
- Communication of barriers & ownership
- Web based solutions
Alastair Painter,
Director, Refining & Petrochemicals,
DNV
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CONFERENCE ROOM TWO
Innovations for mitigating emissions and increasing waste utilization |
The SWAP
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- Understanding the potential reduction in GHG emissions while continuing to provide affordable energy
- Partner for change: Evaluating the need for collaboration and establish partnerships for a cleaner environment
- Exploring related reactions resulting from the Swapsol sulfur cycle enabling the generation of H2S from HC waste
- Examining competitive advantages through preventative and adaptive process solutions
Wolf Koch,
Director,
Swapsol Corp
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| 4:55pm |
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Navigating the complexities of the RFS2 regulation to achieve the necessary standard |
- Hear the latest initiatives from the EPA and understanding what this avenue might look like
- Assessing the realities of the RFS2 and evaluating ways in which the refiners can accommodate the mandate
- Is 36 billion gallons of biofuels achievable by 2022 and if so, how?
- What will happen to the RINS from RFS2 and RFS1?
- How will the existing infrastructure support the developments?
Karl Simon,
Director, Compliance and Innovative Strategies Division, Office of Transportation and Air Quality,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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| 5:35pm |
Close of day one followed by a networking drinks reception
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