Improving Operational Performance To Secure Future Profitability

2009 Program

“I believe this Summit on Global Refining is a very valuable opportunity for us to come together as members of our great industry and share thoughts that will improve each of our efforts to protect the safety and health of our people and the communities where we operate, improve the reliability and safety of our plants, and better manage our businesses in today's difficult economic environment — especially as we prepare for future challenges that will certainly come.”
President, ExxonMobil Refining & Supply

“I think that this is one of the most worthwhile conferences that we attend.”
Director of Strategic Planning and Bus Development, Frontier Refining & Marketing

Carbon focus day | day one | day two

Day OneOctober 29, 2009 07:00 Delegate registration & coffee 08:00 Chairperson's opening remarks Stephany Romanow, Senior Process Editor, Hydrocarbon Processing 08:10 Opening keynote address: Meeting industry challenges through innovation and operational excellence Energy sector contributions to economic growth Building operational excellence - continuously improving operations throughout market cycles The role of technology in addressing the dual energy challenge: Meeting demand while reducing emissions Sherman Glass, President, ExxonMobil Refining & Supply 08:50 Survive or Thrive: Strategies to win in tough economic times How did the refining industry end up where it is today? What known and unknown factors will affect our future and how do we adjust to them? What impact could the new President, Administration and Congress have on our business going forward? Hear how Shell has developed and rolled out strategies to thrive, not just survive Tom Botts, Executive Vice President, Global Manufacturing, Shell Downstream 09:30 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 10:10 Networking coffee break sponsored by Followed by pre-arranged one-to-one meetings 11:30 INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP Endress+Hauser, the best kept secret in the O&G industry Profit from Endress+Hauser: Award winning innovations in field instrumentation and alliances with Rockwell Automation, FMC and BTS Endress+Hauser America: Truly American production and calibrations services and cost saving opportunities through web enabled assest management Benefit from: Highest possible accuracy in custody transfer metering, overspill protection and prooftesting of devices insitu, retractable multi point temperature measurement for reactors, and density profiling in separators, desalters cokers Michael Ziesemer, Executive Board Member and Chief Operating Officer, Endress+Hauser Reinhold H. Bietzker, Global Industry Manager - Oil & Gas, Endress+Hauser Mike Yitref, Vice President, Sales, Endress+Hauser   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   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   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 Karim Essemiani, Business & Marketing Manager, Veolia Water S&T Oil and Gas   12:50 Networking lunch sponsored by 14:00 Current and emerging strategies Heavy oil developments Current economic environment and outlook for Canada’s oil sands The Canadian oil sands have gone through a dramatic shift in the past 12 months, from being one of the hottest areas of new capital investment globally to seeing a significant slow down in new project development activity Uncovering the challenges: While low differentials, declining cost pressures and recent M&A activity have been recent positives, the industry continues to face a number of issues and uncertainties Reviewing the various economic factors and other issues facing oil sands developers today Robert Mason, Managing Director, Head of Oil Sands, Investment Banking Global Energy & Power Group, TD Securities Inc.   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 the industry and how this may evolve and evaluating the realities and 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   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   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 and assessing the impact of Ethanol implementation 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? 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)   15:20 Networking coffee break sponsored by Followed by pre-arranged one-to-one meetings 16:40 Current and emerging strategies Heavy oil developments Transforming bitumen upgrading in Alberta: Investing in and capitalizing on research and technology development Reviewing bitumen upgrading in Alberta: The existing and planned upgraders, the process schemes, market and policy trends, challenges and opportunities Assessing the new technologies that may transform the landscape of upgrading: Emerging new technologies and new players, field upgrading process concepts, the potential integration of upgrading technology with refining and bitumen extraction Defining the strategies: Alberta’s investment in fundamental research and platform technologies, role of upgrading over the next two decades Shunlan Liu, Program Director, Bitumen Upgrading, Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI)   Current and emerging strategies Safety and security Optimizing your on-going refining operations: Safety and security strategies Stakeholders in the oil and gas industry face an increasing number of challenges to their mission of maintaining the safety and security of their company’s assets. The United States reliance on the industry makes it crucial to our nation’s interests, and each Stakeholder is responsible for maintaining the integrity of the company’s piece of this vast, interdependent network Examine the challenges in regard to security and how partnering with the right security integrator can help improve overall security Rob Hile, Director, Integrated Security Solutions, Siemens Industry, Inc., Building Technologies   17:20 Operational safety – The Barrier Approach 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, Business Development Leader, North America, DNV 18:00 Close of day one and networking drinks reception sponsored by

Carbon focus day | day one | day two

Day TwoOctober 30, 2009 08:00 Delegate registration & coffee 08:30 Chairperson's opening remarks Stephany Romanow, Senior Process Editor, Hydrocarbon Processing 08:40 Brazilian challenges: A refining strategy Understanding the growth and expansion of refining throughout Brazil Identifying the big shifts going on in the industry right now and the new emerging issues as a result Hear the latest developments and investments within Petrobras José Carlos Cosenza , Downstream Refining Executive Manager, Petrobras Downstream 09:20 INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP Assessing SO2 scrubbing in refinery applications Determining ways of removing SO2 and CO2 from gas streams via high efficiency air pollution and capture technologies Rick Birnbaum, Sales Manager, Cansolv Technologies   INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP Realizing strategic goals through an optimized capital project portfolio In this session Pcubed will present their approach to portfolio optimization that allows refiners to deliver on strategic goals, while mitigating risk and meeting compliance requirements. The portfolios selected using this process have proven to be attractive in all pricing scenarios and provide quantifiable returns both against financial measures and strategy. 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   10:00 Networking coffee break sponsored by Followed by pre-arranged one-to-one meetings 11:00 Current and emerging strategies Beyond biofuels Beyond biofuels: A feasible alternative to current methods of producing sustainable biofuels, treating & recycling wastewater, and optimizing desalination for producing freshwater Current methods of biofuels production are focused on plants and algae, but in addition to their associated economic problems, critical questions remain with regards to environmental impacts, competition with agriculture, and their use of water and energy Evaluating a feasible alternative to conventional oil: Algae Oil from modern-day algae is a promising and sustainable source of oil. Can we grow algae without competing for agricultural land and water? Municipal wastewater (freshwater) discharge in the ocean is >6 billion gal/day in the US, losing tons of valuable agricultural fertilizer. Can we recover this with algae? Over 97% of water on earth is saltwater, but desalination is energy intensive and environmentally problematic. Can we get useable freshwater from wastewater? Jonathan Trent, Project Scientist, Global Research into Energy and the Environment, NASA Ames Research Center   Current and emerging strategies Developments in India Case study: Reliance Jamnagar refinery - An emerging giant Understanding the commissioning and startup of new Reliance refinery, adjacent to existing refinery in Jamnagar Hear of the emergence of Reliance Jamnagar as world's largest refinery complex and how this will affect the industry as a whole Determining the operational performance of the Jamnagar refinery and it's competitiveness as a key to refining profitability Dr Mat Malladi, President, Corporate Business development, Reliance Industries   11:40 PANEL DISCUSSION Hear the latest developments from biofuels technology providers to help you accommodate the biofuels influx Moderated by: John Fox, President & CEO, Innovation Fuels Bill Hayward, Chief Executive Officer, LS9 John Scott, CEO, PetroAlgae Joel Butler, Vice President, R&D, Solix Biofuels James Fawley, Vice President, Business Development & Corporate Strategy, Coskata John Plaza, President & CEO, Imperium Renewables, Inc Dr Chris Ryan, Executive Vice President, Business Development, Gevo 12:40 Themed lunch discussions 12:45 Minimizing your asset investment risk Led by: Evaluating supply chain risk management through the appropriate selection of verification processes   Increasing safety and production efficiency Led by: How to increase safety and production efficiency with customized process automation solutions   The opportunities and challenges of implementing CO2 capture Led by: Learn more about CO2 capture technologies for refineries, and discuss ways to overcome challenges in implementation   Oxidative desulphurization and heavy oil upgrading Led by: Understanding the latest proprietary systems and methods for removing sulphur contaminants from crude oil and refined fractions   Plant turnarounds and real time monitoring Led by: Learn how to improve tradesperson “Tool Time” through efficient utilization of contracted safety service providers during shutdowns and major maintenance projects   Precision and dependability Led by: Learn how to increase safety and production efficiency with customer process pressure and temperature measurement solutions   13:50 PANEL DISCUSSION Analyzing the latest GHG regulations and determining the future of the industry Are GHG regulations going to curb in the United States? Which is the best regulatory approach? What role should refineries have in developing these regulations? Is there a refinery of the future? Randy Armstrong, Environmental Issues Director, Shell Oil Company Peter Whitman, Policy Analyst, Office of Policy and International Affairs, US Department of Energy John Paisie, Partner & Head of Downstream & Petrochemicals Practice, PFC Energy 14:30 The Refining industry of the future: A look at what's to come What challenges are likely to test the refining industry five years from now - and farther into the future? What will happen when additional refinery capacity comes online in 2010 and beyond? Will biofuels change the face of the refining industry and will other alternatives make a significant impact? How can we remain globally competitive and deal with uncertainty? Robert Pease, President & CEO, Motiva Enterprises 15:10 Chairperson's closing remarks and close of conference