| Day One19 May
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| 09:00 |
Chairman's welcome and introduction
Tim Lloyd Wright,
Director, Europe,
Oil Price Information Services
& European Editor,
Hydrocarbon Processing Magazine
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| 09:10 |
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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
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| 09:45 |
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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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 11:05 |
Pre-arranged one-to-one business meetings and morning refreshments
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| 12:25 |
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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
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| 13:00 |
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 15:20 |
Pre-arranged one-to-one business meetings and afternoon refreshments
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| 17:05 |
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| QUESTION TIME: An interactive debate on the current challenges facing the industry
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| 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.
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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
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| 18:05 |
Close of day one & evening drinks reception
Tim Lloyd Wright,
Director, Europe,
Oil Price Information Services
& European Editor,
Hydrocarbon Processing Magazine
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