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Technology Innovation Day17 May 2010
The Technology Innovation Day has been specifically designed to showcase new and innovative technologies in the refining industry. Delegates will take away practical and cost cutting solutions and technologies that will add benefit to refinery operations, management and strategy.
13:00
Registration and afternoon refreshments
13:30
Defining innovation
Chairman Dr. Rashid Khan, author on innovation within the oil sector, gives an introduction to the day and insight into the innnovation concept
  • Where do innovations come from?
  • Managing innovation inside an organization
  • Explore the relationship between between innovation and competition

Dr. Rashid Khan, Formerly with Texaco and the US Department of Energy, USA
14:00
Meeting Market Demands with Existng Assets
Maximizing refinery margins through technology flexibility

  • Technical back ground and commercial trial findings information
  • LCO, resid and diesel maximization technologies
  • Deliver operatinal flexibility and optimizes profitablilty by allowing quick change over betwen diesel and gasoline mode in the FCC unit
  • An innovative catalytic technology platform for maximizing distillate yields

Benjamin O'Berry , Technical Sales Manager, BASF USA
 
Enhanced Operations through IT Solutions
Transforming Oil and Gas Capital Project Management with Integrated PLM Solutions

  • Lifelike 3D maintenance or dismantlement simulation
  • Operators training in a virtual environment
  • Explore ways to achieve shutdown planning optimization
  • What are the implications on capital project management?

Alain Floutier, Director, Industry Marketing, Dassault Systèmes France
 
14:45
Refreshments break
15:00
Innovations in bottom of the barrell technology
  • What are the best methods to extract additional value from oil feedstocks?
  • Explore recent innovations in conversion technology
  • What are the key challenges when discussing bottom of the barrel innovations?

Dr. Rashid Khan, Formerly with Texaco and the US Department of Energy, USA
15:45
Production Optimisation
Improve process performances using innovative and turn-key bespoke solutions
  • Resolve temperature related production limitations using innovative solutions
  • Maximise your production (quality) by using quickly implementable temperature-related systems.
  • Reduce CAPEX needs yet still enhance your process throughput to gain profitability (improve operating margins)
  • See real examples of projects and their customer profitability in major refineries

Maarten Martens, General Manager Aggreko Process Services , Aggreko Netherlands
 
Risk Management
Identifying major accident hazards and keep hydrocarbons successfully contained by utilizing your operational knowledge

  • Case study: a review of Buncefield and BP Texas City accidents and lesson learned
  • Assess the adequacy and robustness of the existing risk control measures
  • Identify major accident hazards using the 'Hazard Review' technique
  • Demonstrate continuous improvement in this key aspect of your Process Safety Management system.

Graeme Ellis , Principal Safety Consultant , ABB Engineering Services United Kingdom
 
16:30
Asset Management
Standardize and Streamline Asset Management
  • Details to follow shortly
 
Plant Safety
Leak detction systems and sealing solutions
  • Meet plant high safety and health demands through superior leak detection systems
  • Maximise operational efficiency by minimising demand on inhouse maintenance team
  • Learn how to seal leaks more quickly without sacrificing safety
 
17:15
Chairman's remarks and close of Technology Innovation Day

Dr. Rashid Khan, Formerly with Texaco and the US Department of Energy, USA

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Conference Day One18 May 2010
08:00
Registration and morning refreshments
09:00
Chairman's welcome and introduction
09:10
Opening keynote address
Recovery from the economic downturn and future outlook of the refining industry
  • How has the global economic downturn affected the downstream sector?
  • How will the changing supply and demand dynamics affect the refining industry?
  • What are the key challenges that lie ahead?

Dariusz Jacek Krawiec, President and CEO, PKN ORLEN S.A. Poland
09:45
Attaining sustainable competitive advantage in a low margin environment
  • Key market challenges for refining - recession, new capacity, biofuels & feedstock changes
  • What are the key drivers of refinery competitive position?
  • How can you stay ahead of your competitors, even in difficult economic circumstances?

Skip York, Vice President, Downstream Oil, Wood Mackenzie United Kingdom
10:20
The economics of oil
What is the new benchmark price for a barrel of oil?
  • Examine the fundamentals that drive the oil price and their current impact
  • Prospects for oil production - running faster to stand still?
  • How has the economic downturn affected future market dynamics?

Paul Horsnell, Managing Director, Barclays Capital United Kingdom
11:05
Pre-arranged one-to-one business meetings and morning refreshments
12:25
Energy Efficiency
CO2 Mitigation and energy efficiency through advanced technology and process control
  • Optimization for energy efficiency and control performance monitoring
  • Process Efficiency Improvement in industrial control
  • Flare gas capture and efficient combustion
  • Energy Management and Optimization (EMO)

Dr. Rashid Khan, Formerly with Texaco and the US Department of Energy, USA

Dr Othman Taha , Senior Engineer, Saudi Aramco Saudi Arabia
 
Plant Technology
Refinery rejuvenation
Creating the integrated refinery
  • Optimise feedstock costs by increasing the refinery’s flexibility to process a wider range of crude oils
  • Control levels of sulphur, nitrogen oxide and particulates released
  • Minimise its environmental impact, by electrical power generation from clean gas- and steam turbines.
 
Plant Maintenance
Setting a standard of integrity and maintenance
  • Adopting common standards of measuring maintenance and integrity performance
  • Defining performance required and the verification tasks to check they are meeting performance criteria
  • Strategies to maximise work done during turnaround and shutdown time
 
13:00
Networking Luncheon
14:00
Asset Management
Maximising return on your assets
  • Manage both planned and unplanned maintenance to direct resources effectively
  • Decrease costs and risks, ultimately increasing productivity across your operations
  • Track and monitor assets efficiently throughout their life cycle to gain control of all refinery processes
 
Automation and Control
Automation solutions for the process industry
  • Achieve an optimal automation of the process through a structural approach
  • Delivered support to keep the control system operational
 
Plant Maintenance
Development and maintenance of an effective asset management regime
  • Manage cost through optimisation of investment and maintenance for required operational and safety performance
  • Corporate governance through independent verification of safety critical system compliance
 
14:45
Trends in global refining: Mature versus emerging markets
A view from a major refiner
  • How competative are the mature markets of Europe and North America compared with emerging dynamic markets?
  • What are the implications of new C02 regulations and the differences in frameworks globally?
  • How will the changing supply and demand dynamics affect the refining industry, both regionally and globally?
  • What is the impact of the economic downturn on current operations and capital investment?

Jean Jacques Mosconi, Senior Vice President, Strategy, Total France
15:20
Pre-arranged one-to-one business meetings and afternoon refreshments
17:05
Case study: The current status of refining in Russia
  • An overview of Rosneft Oil Company: leader in supplies of key refined products to the Russian market
  • Production of products that meet the requirements of technical regulations in accordance with Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation
  • What are the key requirements of the technical regulations?
  • Programme of technical requipments and upgrading of refineries at Rosneft

Vyacheslav Napadovskiy, Director, Refining Development Department, Rosneft OJSC Russian Federation
17:25
The current and future role of biofuels
  • Evaluate the current impact and regulatory drivers regarding biofuels in the refining industry
  • What are the latest technological developments in the sourcing and creation of biofuel?
  • How much investment is required to integrate biorefining in your refining business?

Jarmo Honkamaa, Deputy CEO & Executive Vice President, Renewable Fuels, Neste Oil Finland
18:00
QUESTION TIME: An interactive debate on the current challenges facing the industry
Featuring a panel of industry experts, delegates will set the agenda by submitting questions for the panel before the event.

Moderated by: Skip York, Vice-President - Downstream Oil, Wood Mackenzie, and featuring:
Steve Welch, Chief Operating Officer, US R&M and Global Petrochemicals, BP United Kingdom
Jarmo Honkamaa, Deputy CEO & Executive Vice President, Renewable Fuels, Neste Oil, Finland
Slawomir Jedrzejczyk, Vice President and CFO, PKN Orlen, Poland


18:30
Close of day one & evening drinks reception

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Conference Day Two19 May 2010
08:00
Registration and morning refreshments
09:00
Chairman's opening remarks and review of day one
09:10
Developments in refining operations and strategy
  • An overview of BP's global refining operations and future outlook
  • What is the current state of play? A view from a major refiner
  • Analysis of current innovations in refining technology and their strategic implications

Steve Welch, Chief Operating Officer, US R&M and Global Petrochemicals, BP United Kingdom
09:45
Effective Crude Planning and Scheduling in the Supply Chain
  • Examine how Reliance Industries Limited partnered with Shell Global Solutions to successfully optimise its crude supply chain
  • Discover ways to effectively minimise the margin leakages between an optimised monthly plan and the day-to-day crude schedule
  • Explore key decision support systems using advanced operations research techniques
  • Learn about state-of-the-art practices in project management involving multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural global collaboration

Antony Francis, General Manager- EPS - Supply and Trading, Petroleum Business, Reliance Industries Limited India
Peter Bost, Global Discipline Lead Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling, Shell Global Solutions Netherlands
Rutger de Mare, Supply Chain Consultant, ORTEC Netherlands
10:20
Carbon efficiency and management strategies
  • Examine strategies and measures wich can be employed regarding C02 efficiency
  • Uncovering the challenges of a revised low carbon fuel standard: What does the industry need to do? What is the industry capable of?
  • Understanding the processes and regulations being met in Europe, Russia, Asia, Canada and the US

Dr Frigyes Lestak, General Manager, CO2 Efficiency, Shell Netherlands
10:55
Morning refreshments
11:20
Process Improvement
Improve your desalting and H2S-removal processes

  • Fluid mixing - the key process to any efficient mass transfer process
  • ProSalt - a compact mixing system enabling reduced crude desalting consumables and improved separability
  • ProCAP - debottlenecking your amine plant and Claus process by enhancing your H2S selectivity

Dr. Harald Linga, VP Product Development, PROPURE AS Norway
 
Carbon Management
The opportunities and challenges of implementing CO2 capture
  • Learn more about CO2 capture technologies for refineries
  • Discuss ways to overcome challenges in implementation
 
Safety and Security
Innovative solutions to provide safety and security
  • Engineered buildings to provide protection from blast overpressures, projectiles, flying debris, toxic release, and fire
  • Ten years of experience in designing, engineering, manufacturing, and delivery of blast resistant buildings
 
11:55
Project Management
Execution of Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning Startup/Initial Operations strategies on construction of Refinery Units
  • Basic principles, definitions of Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning and Startup / Initial Operations (CSI)
  • The Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning and Startup/Initial Operations (CSI) discipline in the overall Project Strategy
  • Valuable lessons learned - Identify critical success factors and key issues for the commissioning discipline

George Etty, Managing Director, Global Energy Services BV Netherlands

Fred Talle, Senior Commissioning Manager, Global Energy Services BV Netherlands
 
Carbon Management
The SWAP: A breakthrough in CO2 mitigation and hydrocarbon recycling
  • Understand technology behind interaction between CO2 and H2S to form H2O, Sulfur and Carsuls
  • Explore how Swapsol Sulfur Cycle generates H2S from HC waste to produce hydrogen, carbon fiber-like materials and elemental sulfur while converting CO2
  • Assess GHG emissions reduction capabilities of SWAP while easing carbon penalties, lowering processing costs and providing affordable energy

Wolf Koch, Director, SWAPSOL Corp USA
 
Energy Efficiency
Achieving Energy efficiency at no (or little) capex: sample of project experiences
  • How to Reduce Energy consumption by focusing on process efficiency rather than capex
  • How to Identify and implement quick wins and medium term improvement levers
  • How to define the long-term energy efficiency targets and roadmap

Fabio Nicolò, Associate Partner, Tefen Italy
 
12:30
Networking Luncheon
13:45
Project Management
Modernization and expansion
Case study: Petrobrazi and Arpechim refineries
  • Examine the design and planning of the upgrade and expansion of Romania's largest refinery
  • Evaluate the planning of the installation of hydro – sulfur extraction equipment
  • Implenmentation of technology capable of producing a new generation of diesel fuels

Dr. Alfred Leodolter , Director Project Management , Petrom Romania
 
Reliability
Creating the the reliability refinery
  • Practical steps to achieve operational reliability
  • How best to avoid downtime without sacrificing efficiency
  • The importanve of staff buy in and smart change management
 
Energy Efficiency
Successful deployment of energy efficient strategies in refining
  • Examine strategies to improve energy efficiency
  • What are the key challenges during implementation?
  • Learn how a successful energy efficieny strategy can effect margins and teh bottom line
 
14:20
Operational Excellence in the Shuaiba Refinery
  • Implementation of operations driven reliability
  • Examine relief and steam gas management programmes
  • Analysis of the IOW, OPEX and ODR implementation programmes within the refinery

Mutlaq Al Azmi, Operations Manager, Shuaiba Refinery, Kuwait National Petroleum Company Kuwait
14:55
Afternoon refreshments
15:20
Optimisation of refinery processes
The MUSA System – A Real Time Performance Management System to improve Refinery Process Unit reliability
  • Increasing assets reliability by minimizing deviation from expected technical performances
  • Automatic and easy information sharing between shift and daily operating personnel
  • Immediate alerts to the plant operating personnel in case of abnormal operating conditions
  • On-line comparison of the expected technical performances vs. actual ones

Gaetano De Santis, Vice President, Technological Services, Eni Refining & Marketing Italy
15:55
An overview of global project costs
The view of a major EPC contractor
  • Capital cost escalation and its impact on a project's commercial viability in a difficult economic environment
  • Potential options for projects that are currently being reevaluated or delayed
  • Cost versus schedule: How to select concepts and design for refinery expansion or upgrade
16:30
Chairman's closing remarks and close of Global Refining Summit 2010

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