4th Annual Global Refining Summit 2010

17th - 19th May 2010

Beurs-WTC Congress Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands


Maximise profitability during difficult economic times


pre-event | day one | day two

Pre-Event Workshops18 May 2009
09:00
Delegate registration for morning workshops
09:15
Yokogawa: Maximising return on assets

  • Manage both planned and unplanned maintenance to direct resources effectively
  • Decrease costs and risks, ultimately increasing productivity across your operations
  • Develop a central monitoring system to ensure you have an accurate picture of what is happening in your refinery
  • Track and monitor assets efficiently throughout their life cycle to gain control of all refinery processes

Eric Jan Kwekkeboom, Industry Business Development Manager, Yokogawa Europe
Herman van Veen, Plant Asset Management Specialist, Yokogawa Europe
Haruhisa Kawamura, General Manager, MES Planning Department, Yokogawa Electric Corporation
Bernard Haigh, Domain Consultant, Yokogawa Marex Limited
12:15
Lunch
13:15
Delegate registration for afternoon workshops
13:30
Improve refinery performance through integrated energy management solutions
  • Combat increasing energy-related costs by implementing successful energy efficiency strategies
  • Monitor process energy consumption in real-time, tightening control and improving energy efficiency
  • Benchmark your energy efficiency continuously, monitor energy energy performance against targets and identify causes for deviations
  • Minimise key energy variables using advanced control and optimisation to ensure the best feedstock is always selected and implement continuous improvement initiatives

Steve Turner, Consultant, Honeywell Process Solutions

Andy Coward, Sales Manager, Honeywell Process Solutions
 
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 Process Services, Aggreko Process Services

Dr. Yogesh Gupta, Process Services Team, Aggreko Process Services

Nico Wesselingh, Head of Engineering, Aggreko Process Services
 
16:30
Close of workshops

pre-event | day one | day two

Day One19 May 2009
09:00
Chairman's welcome and introduction

Tim Lloyd Wright, Director, Europe, Oil Price Information Services
& European Editor, Hydrocarbon Processing Magazine
09:10
World Energy Outlook 2008: Findings on oil and the impact of the current crisis on the oil and gas sector
  • Oil demand outlook
  • Prospects for oil production - running faster to stand still?
  • Impact of the financial and economic crisis on oil and gas investments

Ugur Ocal, Office of the Chief Economist, International Energy Agency
09:45
Overview of market conditions and the impact on refining operations
A view from a major refiner
  • How will the changing supply and demand dynamics affect the refining industry, both regionally and globally?
  • What is the impact of the difficult economic situation on capital investment for refinery projects?
  • Strategies to handle changes in demand

Pierre Sigonney, Chief Economist, Total
10:20
INTERACTIVE SESSION
Improve operations through increased energy monitoring and precise measurement accuracy

  • Identify costly utility leakages to improve your OPEX - what you measure, you can control
  • Reduce measurement uncertainty and improve mass balance using high accuracy instrumentation
  • Mass flow measurement with Coriolis improves mass balance; mass vs volumetric metering - a refinery case study showing savings in millions

Reinhold H. Bietzker, Global Industry Manager - Oil & Gas, Endress+Hauser Switzerland
 
INTERACTIVE SESSION
Enhancing asset management: achieve consistent and complete results with substantial savings

  • Identify where your risks really are
  • Focus on highest risk assets while reducing inspection and maintenance costs on lower risk assets
  • Develop inspection plans and maintenance strategies to reduce and mitigate identified risks

Robert Jablonski, General Manager, Metegrity Canada

David Maguire, Project Manager, Implementation Group, Metegrity Canada
 
11:05
Pre-arranged one-to-one business meetings and morning refreshments
12:25
Attain 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?

Mike Wilcox, Head of Downstream Oil Consulting, Wood Mackenzie UK
13:00
Networking luncheon
14:00
INTERACTIVE SESSION
Stepping into the Known: Minimising your asset investment risk

With tough financial times, more certainty is needed when taking advantage of cheaper commodity and contracting costs, or being opportunistic about your growth. Investors and shareholders are expecting higher levels of confidence from companies competing for their diminished resources. This session uses case studies and examples of best practice to look at some often neglected but essential activities in building that confidence:
  • Technical due diligence during mergers and acquisitions
  • Project risk management to support concept selection through to successful project delivery
  • Supply chain risk management through the appropriate selection of verification processes

Graham Bennett, Global Director, Refining & Petrochemicals, DNV
 
INTERACTIVE SESSION
Refinery offsite automation: What really matters and what are the real benefits?

  • Oil Movements, Storage and Blending in Refineries.
  • What are the real economic benefits, and how do you continue to capture and improve them?
  • Do you need offsites automation?
  • What have other people learnt the hard way?
  • Why do some analysers work and some do not, and what should you be saying to your analyser supplier?

Alan Munns, Product Manager for Refinery Solutions, ABB
 
14:45
STRATEGY ROOM
Maximise the efficiency of your refining operations by standardising and harmonising your IT applications
  • Overview of the challenges for the Refining business, from an IT perspective
  • The view of an integrated Refining IT landscape
  • Pros and cons of an integrational approach
  • Business benefits of standardisation and harmonisation
  • Consequences of application landscape harmonisation

Marcus Frantz, Global Lead of Midstream & Downstream Applications, OMV
 
TECHNOLOGY ROOM
Hydrocracking: A case study
An operational and technical update of Samir's newly-installed hydrocracker
  • A review of the technical progression within the upgraded refinery in Morocco
  • The process of refining heavy crude

Jamal Ba-Amer, Director General, Samir
 
15:20
Pre-arranged one-to-one business meetings and afternoon refreshments
17:05
QUESTION TIME: An interactive debate on the current challenges facing the industry
Take away key strategies to survive the economic downturn by participating in this special open forum. Featuring a panel of industry experts, delegates will set the agenda by submitting questions for the panel before the event.

Moderated by: Mike Wilcox, Head of Downstream Oil Consulting, Wood Mackenzie, and featuring:
Phil Brown, Director of Global Refining, Foster Wheeler
Alejandro Granado, Chairman, President & CEO, CITGO Petroleum Corporation Venezuela
Pierre Sigonney, Chief Economist , Total
Per Olsson, Head of Refining ,Preem


18:05
Close of day one & evening drinks reception

Tim Lloyd Wright, Director, Europe, Oil Price Information Services
& European Editor, Hydrocarbon Processing Magazine

pre-event | day one | day two

Day Two20 May 2009
09:00
Chairman's opening remarks and review of day one

Tim Lloyd Wright, Director, Europe, Oil Price Information Services
& European Editor, Hydrocarbon Processing Magazine
09:10
The Reliability Refinery
An update on global refining operations
  • How best to avoid downtime without sacrificing efficiency
  • Practical steps to achieve operational reliability

Tom Kovar, General Manager, Pembroke Refinery, Chevron
09:45
Bottom of the barrel technology
Extract additional value from oil feedstocks using EST technology
  • How does the ENI slurry technology work?
  • Eliminate the production of both liquid and solid residues
  • Complete conversion of bottom of the barrel fuels

Giacomo Rispoli, Senior Vice President & Director of Research & Development, ENI SpA Italy
10:20
An update on Repsol's continuing Cartagena expansion and upgrade project
Onwards and upwards: Continuing ahead in the face of a tough economy
  • Developing a close relationship with EPC companies on large-scale projects
  • The tangible benefits of a completed refining upgrade and expansion project
  • How will the completed project impact upon supply and demand dynamics in the European marketplace?

Modesto Fernandez, Cartagena Project Director, Repsol
10:55
Morning refreshments
11:20
INTERACTIVE SESSION
Total costs of ownership of API 618 process gas compressors
  • Different design approaches for increased reliability
  • Influence of key components on operating costs
  • Condition monitoring and diagnostics in respect of preventative maintenance

Paolo Collaro, Senior Sales Manager, Burckhardt Compression AG
 
INTERACTIVE SESSION
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
 
11:55
New refinery projects during an economic downturn: An EPC perspective
The current economic climate has stalled new refinery projects, but you still need to plan for the future. Topics to be discussed include:
  • Managing rising costs from the "boom" times and short-term demand outlook
  • Potential options for projects that are currently being reassessed
  • Benefits of undertaking studies and FEEDs for new projects
  • The type of projects likely to be considered during this period

Phil Brown, Director of Global Refining, Foster Wheeler
12:30
Networking luncheon
13:45
INTERACTIVE SESSION
Secure process stability through efficient protection of field equipment
In this interactive session, INTERTEC will take you through a range of their process stability solutions, including:
  • Fire shelters to keep critical equipment operational for a defined time in event of a fire
  • Passively cooled or heated shelters and enclosures to keep equipment such as PCS SCADA systems within temperature limits and operating in an energy efficient manner
  • Freeze protection without an energy supply
  • Very cost effective custody transfer applications
  • Turnkey instrumentation protection - a case study of a new standard for hook-ups developed for Bayernoil

Martin Hess, General Manager, INTERTEC-Hess GmbH
 
INTERACTIVE SESSION
Refinery Energy Management
  • Review: What is energy management?
  • Identify key challenges with energy management systems
  • How to guarantee up-to-date, reliable Energy Performance Indicators for individual equipment, process units, and globally.
  • What happens next? Optimisation? Performance monitoring?

Ulrika Wising, Director of Sales & Marketing, Belsim
 
14:20
STRATEGY ROOM
Case study: Greenfield projects in Nigeria
An update on key decisions and investments made
  • How are the Nigerian government working to maintain investment levels?
  • Explore the key legislative and regulatory issues for greenfield refining in Nigeria

Sola Alabi, Group Manager of Greenfield Refinery Projects, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Nigeria
 
TECHNOLOGY ROOM
Effective sulphur reduction in liquid fuels using sorbent materials
This session will focus on the recent collaborative project between SINTEF and the Indian Institute of Petroleum.
  • Review of sorption-based processes for removal of sulphur from liquid fuels
  • How does the use of custom-made porus materials compare with hydrotreating?
  • Development of sulphur sorption technology for gasoline/diesel by IIP/SINTEF

Elisabeth Tangstad, Project Manager, SINTEF
 
14:55
Afternoon refreshments