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Conference Programme
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Programme - Technology Innovation Day21st May 2012
Valves: A source of untapped competitive advantage
- Valve spending in refineries and how it is changing
- Valve industry leaders
- Future of valve capacity and costs
- Trends in refinery maintenance spending and how valves can help
- Reducing fugitive emissions – how valves can help and how they can hurt
Dynamic Heat Exchange Solutions: How we can help refineries to become more sustainable and profitable at the same time
- Klarex® and EMbaffle® technology: Reducing fouling problems and efficiency improvement in heat exchangers
- Whizz® Wheel: Power consumption reduction of air coolers with more than 40%
- Compact header design: Significant material, weight and size reduction on high pressure air coolers and heat exchangers
Evolving existing reactive and time-based maintenance strategies and moving into a risk-based asset management approach
- Incorporating risk of failure and resulting business impact in the inspection and maintenance programme
- What tools can help to achieve an optimised allocation of resources between high and low risk assets?
- The cost and scope of risk-based inspection
- Commercial benefits of applying risk-based inspection
Improving margins by energy optimisation and production accounting and scheduling
- Set of technologies for sustainable refining with some examples of successful implementation results
- Next generation of Production / Yield Accounting and Data Reconciliation system which assists users with the calculation of their site-wide daily mass balances, on a tank-by-tank and unit-by-unit level
- Hybrid continuous and discrete events simulation application to support the management of operations in refinery and petrochemical processes
- Online energy management “Watchdog” that assists the operator in implementing the optimum mode of energy systems' operation that has minimum cost within all equipment, system reliability, and emissions constraints
Closed Control Loop Concept - A novel approach in integrity management for plants and terminals
- The Closed Control Loop concept
- Risk base inspection concept and execution
- Selecting suitable inspection technologies
- Asset integrity management
- Corrective actions
- Data management
Energy conservation on a large CDU-heater
- High temperature of the exhaust gases leaving a furnace in Fired Heaters is a critical issue for the overall efficiency and fuel consumption
- Frequently the flue gas exit temperature increases with the age of the plant and attempts to protect the equipment against corrosion
- A Method of reducing the stack temperature with a high efficiency Combustion Air Preheater is presented here in a case study on a large CDU-heater
- Fuel saving together with protection against low temperature corrosion as a result of the Combustion Air Preheater application are shown
Low and zero rare earth FCC catalysts for maximising residue conversion and feedstock flexibility
- Role of rare earth metals in FCC catalysts
- Volatility of rare earth market
- Development of low and zero rare earth FCC catalysts: The REpLaCeRTM series
- Over 50 applications globally of REpLaCeRTM catalysts
- Case studies discussed
Decreasing energy costs and enhancing machinery efficiency through innovative green solutions
- Estimating the average cost of energy used at the refinery that could be saved using the insulation cover
- Insulation covers reduces energy costs and increases pipe system/machinery useful life
- Removable products for ease of inspection
- Increasing efficiency in pipe systems and machineries
- Customer-focused approach
Battling corrosion in refineries
- Cost of corrosion and the common solutions in the refinery industry
- Capital savings with new material development for critical corrosive environments
- Life cycle cost and a comparative analysis of equipment installation and maintenance cost
- Cases of equipment extended campaigns with material upgrading concept
A new step in Refining Efficiency: Real crude quality, operational and commercial data are applied in the same environment to model both Mid Term Planning and Optimised Scheduling tasks
- SIMRAF technology with refinery data connection: Tuning a Medium Term Multi Period Model to the actual refinery condition, and turning it into a detailed Optimised Scheduler, improving the capability for elaboration trials, checking the economic result of each step
- Reducing the computing time and the quantity of necessary data, calculating with plant simulators yields and streams quality from each crude oil tank processing
- Estimating the distribution of crude lots over refinery tanks on the basis of arrival dates, tanks daily processing need and crude oil qualities requested for each type of operation
- Checking the final lifting program feasibility and calculating the best mix of intermediate streams in products blending
- Reporting on economic, technical and products qualities and a full results database
Can turnarounds run 20-50% faster?
- Turnarounds and other projects performance across industries and geographies
- Identify the #1 killer of speed and productivity in projects
- Traditional Project Management cannot help. Why?
- Fixing project management flaws using Synchronization Systems to tame uncertainties and significantly improve project performance and business results
Integrated Refinery performance management system
- Oil & gas industry: A point of view
- Refinery & Petrochemicals: Business context
- Desired IT enablement for performance management
- Business value derived
- The solution
Technology Innovation Day | day
one | day two
Programme - Day One22nd May 2012
- An overview of the refining business in Europe: Tackling the change of ownership and weakening margins
- Total’s business in the reorganisation phase
- The future industry and areas of investment
- Challenges facing the Arab refining industry pre and post the political instability
- How the unrest in some Arab oil-exporting countries may affect oil supply to the global markets and oil prices consequently
- The implication on clean fuel projects in the Arab refineries
- Strategies for mitigating the impact of the political unrest on the performance of the Arab Refining industry, oil supply/demand and prices
Increasing depth of conversion: 10+ Programme at Grupa Lotos
- The 10+ Programme objectives
- Planning and implementation of the Programme
- Safety first!
- Recruitment, training and retention of personnel
- Technological solutions used, their benefits and shortcomings
Operation key performance energy indicators
- Development and implementation of Key Performance Energy Indicators, to allow operational staff to be assessed on energy efficiency and optimal targets; performance displayed also in financial terms
- Results are automatically registered and a dedicated server ranks shift teams by performance on a monthly basis
- Introduction of a yearly energy efficiency managing championship with a cash prize for the best performing team
Making high-velocity crude oil decisions
- 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 (interactive demonstration)
Improved energy efficiency through enhanced heat transfer
- The use of heat exchangers throughout the petro-chemical industry
- Why heat exchangers have become so important in the modern refining industry? History of plant design
- Measuring against a practical benchmark such as KBC’s “Best Technology” index
- Efficient integration of heat flows, the management and design optimisation of heat exchangers as a key in improving overall energy efficiency
- Investments in improved energy efficiency and the law of diminishing returns
- What can be done and how much energy saving can be practically and economically achieved? How far plant operators should push the energy saving initiative?
Foster Wheeler Optimise: The downstream response
- How can refiners optimise current operation to maximise margins and compete with modern export refineries in the ME and other growth regions? How can refiners achieve this with constrained CAPEX?
- Carbon dioxide legislation – what steps can you take to ensure you minimise the carbon tax levied at your asset?
- Declining gasoline market – how can you modify your refinery product slate with minimal impact on your existing revenue and effectively deliver an upgrade that immediately pays for itself?
- MARPOL and the declining fuel oil market – solutions that further optimise your configuration and maximise margins
Identifying the “hidden cost” drivers of refinery shutdown decontamination
- Recognizing the changing crude slate charge with opportunity crudes, challenges process chemistry and the chemistry selected for successful turnaround decontamination
- One type of decontamination chemistry does not always meet these fouling and decontamination needs
- Hidden costs include extended time to clear vessels, to producing increased volume of waste that will be difficult to process through API and on site waste water treatment facilities using certain simple surfactant chemistry products
- Shared insights from process chemistry and decontamination processes can greatly aid in improving treatment programmes
- Better assessment of crude feeds, treatment programs and plant waste handling capabilities can greatly help the owner to lower their costs of turnaround decontamination using “Best in Class” chemistry and application techniques
Tecnimont KT experience in hydrogen and sulphur production, unit design optimisation and debottlenecking in fast track execution
- Refinery of gas integration in H2 production unit minimizing CO2 emissions in compliance with the target of maximum export steam configuration
- New design approach for sulphur unit: The way to minimize opex and capex minimizing flue gas emissions
- Replacing existing heater with a new modularized design during normal refinery turnaround
- Refinery unit revamping for capacity increasing and energy saving
Improvements in aboveground storage tank mixing operations at refineries today – How much could be saved?
- Case Study #1: Design improvements to tank mixing that meet improved oil movements, increased tank integrity and energy savings.
- Case Study #2: Using tank mixers to optimize heat transfer and improve tank integrity in asphalt, bitumen and coal tar pitch
Establishing leadership to promote strong safety culture
- Assessing perception of process safety among leaders and senior managers
- Skills for safety: The challenge for engineers and professionals
- Building process safety into the training and thinking of engineers
- Practical examples of how to improve safety culture
Tackling the clean fuel challenge: KNPC’s radical upgrade of the country’s two largest refineries Mina Al-Ahmadi and Mina Abdulla refineries for clean fuels production
- Creating a tightly integrated refining complex
- Optimising the refineries process capability
- Financing the project
- Selecting licensors
- Maintaining high safety and environmental standards
- Russia’s refining industry challenges and opportunities
- The impact of new changes in Russia's tax system on current crude and product flows to international markets
- Export tax system and profitability of the downstream sector; conclusion for Europe
- Challenges for Russian refining industry upgrading; TNK-BP's experience
Dmitry Spivakovsky
Director of Strategy, Investment Governance and Planning Department of Downstream
TNK-BP Russia
- The key refining market trends in Latin America
- Petrobras expanding capacity and commissioning new refineries
- The Pernambuco refinery project: The Scope, goals and project updates
- Biofuels production roadmap: Costs, commercial opportunities and challenges ahead
Technology Innovation Day | day
one | day two
Programme - Day Two23rd May 2012
- Status of the Fuel Quality Directive and the Renewable Energy Directive
- Reviewing the implementation of these directives
- Biofuels, sustainability criteria and indirect land use change
- Fuel specifications
- What is driving the next legislation update?
- Refining infrastructure development
- Achieving energy security
- EUROPIA’s vision on fuelling EU transport
- Refining competitiveness
Advancing turnarounds planning and execution
- Understanding the role of your equipment
- How to comprehensively assess TAR performance?
- Risk based inspection
- New technologies and innovations to speed up refinery turnarounds
The advent of “co-blending”: Harvesting the ETBE/ETOH synergy
- Optimising and maximising the contribution of blending bio-components
- How can the combined utilisation of different bio-components improve the results?
- The “co-blending” of ETBE (Ethyl tert-butyl ether) with ethanol as a bio-energy carrier into petrol
- Advantages:
- Co-blending as a solution to harvest maximum societal advantage of renewable energies blending in EU petrol
Petrogal Matosinhos Refinery: Innovative alternatives to conventional pipeline cleaning
- GALP Energia, an integrated energy player
- Mechanical intervention of the crude oil pipelines - Matosinhos refinery
- Project Scope of Work and timeline
- Cleaning and Degasification of Crude Oil Pipelines:
Maria Palmira M. Castro
Chemical Engineer, Matosinhos Refinery Off-Site Manager
Galp Energia Portugal
Improving control and safety in refinery and tank farms
- Fail Safe actuators Electric and pneumatic
- Actuators in Safety instrumented Systems
- Partial stroking of the final element in SIS
- Remote communications with ESD hardwired priority
- Logging the valve and actuator data for Asset management
- Discuss a typical Fuel storage application with the requirement for Remote Operated Shutdown Valves (ROSOV)
Crude blend and combustion control solutions
- What is the best crude oil blend with minimum cost?
- What is the maximum yield of a certain product?
- Minimizing/maximizing any quality value in the crude oil blend
- Optimizing the energy performance
- Maximizing crude throughput with select Crude feeds
Eric Jan Kwekkeboom
Business Development Manager, Oil & Gas Downstream
Yokogawa Europe and Africa Netherlands
Turnaround strategy to minimise costs and achieve plant’s ultimate performance: Focus on decontamination requirements
- How do the decontamination requirements affect the turnaround strategy?
- Reducing costs of a shutdown by careful decontamination planning and procedures
- Optimising the contractor-client relationships to exploit innovative techniques while guaranteeing a timely and effective TAR execution
- Can one produce biofuels at a low cost?
- Implications of increasing biofuels use on the refining industry in EU
- Biofuel demand projections
- Biofuels limitations, handling and logistics challenges in the supply chain
- Advances in coblending
- Cost optimisation versus rationalisation versus reduction : The differences
- Focus on fixed costs or variable costs? Cost control: Good costs and bad costs
- Ballast over Board
- Defered activities: Penalties or when to recover
- Victims of reduction : Preventive maintenance, reliability and training
- Survival plan and the need for initiative prioritisation
Arnoud van der Post
Technical Director, Member of the Board of Directors
Ceska Rafinerska Czech Republic
Moderated by:
- Purchasing products and services, lowest price is usually not the lowest costs . What is the cost of lost production?
- Products and services purchased; performance of, impact on turnaround timeline, impact on production time, and impact on costs of disposal cost; force costs up more than the actual original costs of using the original product or service
- What is the cost of lost production?
- What is the cost of lost turnaround time?
- What is the cost of generating twice to three times more waste than necessary?
- What impact does using the product have on the operation of my waste treatment plant? My API separator? My desalter and other process systems
Arnoud van der Post
Technical Director, Member of the Board of Directors
Ceska Rafinerska Czech Republic
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