• Analysing heat exchanger effectiveness
• Design consideration for enhanced heat transfer
• Heat transfer economics and systematic approach to retrofitting
• Guidelines for improving heat recovery
• Heat transfer and pressure drop constraints and limitations
• Field cases:

           - Optimising for minimum energy consumption

           - Optimising for maximum throughput capacity

• Confined space: A new approach according to the Italian law (DPR 177/2011)
• Redesign of cleaning process through new safety guidelines
• Case study: Desludging of tank in a south Europe refinery

• Reducing risks to ensure unconditional safety
• Improving environmental performance and operational excellence
• Lowering operating costs whilst increasing productivity

• Discussing the potential value in closing the gaps in downstream petroleum supply chain work processes
• Moving on from legacy applications that were never designed for unified work processes
• Developing a fully integrated, multi-user, enterprise supply chain solution from supply side crude and cargo analysis to refining and product distribution
• Gaining an insight into the future of supply chain software capabilities and how they can close the gaps with dramatically changed work processes

Case study: Energy efficiency improvements at Repsol’s Química Tarragona plant as a result of implementing a real time energy optimisation system

• Understanding the energy efficiency challenges facing the most important petrochemical plant in Spain
• Learning why a real time energy optimiser (Visual MESA) has been implemented in order to operate this complex energy system at a minimum cost while improving energy efficiency
• Gaining an insight into the improvements that have been achieved as a result

• Addressing the day to day difficulties refinery schedulers are faced with which remain unsolved by existing software
• Providing an overview of a fluid UI and smart simulation engine for significantly enhanced productivity
• Implementing full auditing and exploring capabilities through comprehensive multi-case and multi-user management
• Integrating simplified maintenance through quick, secure and transparent deployment of new models and versions
• Case study: Testimony from Bayernoil

• Reducing the stack temperature significantly
• Improving the heat recovery
• Demonstrating the key results and benefits of the replacement:

               - Enhanced fuel saving

               - Increased efficiency

               - Impact on NOx emissions

               - Improved energy used per processed m3 of crude

• Ensuring industry leading performance by reducing tank emissions and optimising working capacity
• Increasing financial savings through implementing innovative technologies that recover significant amounts of tank heel
• Maximising asset longevity by equiping tanks with more robust, durable and chemically compatible floating roofs and seals with the goal of getting more than 20 years operation out of the tank rather than having to take it out of service

• Fully fluidised operation: A step change in coke handling between cutting and load out
• Environmentally sound and safe, economically attractive and provides opportunities for cycle time reduction
• High system reliability (+98%) through unique design features and materials   

• Combine bad actor information from the enterprise with health based performance information in the field, to determine and eliminate the drain on the bottom line
• Visualise, investigate, deploy and improve - Understand the key attributes to improve the asset performance management life cycle
• Identify the causes of unplanned outages and build solid strategies to mitigate future business and financial risk

• Investigating the different contaminants targeted during decontamination and how to eliminate them
• Explaining how the methods presented are able to reduce cost, personnel risk, pyrophoric risks to vessels, and decontamination time while being environmentally safe
• Comparing time, cost and safety of previous approaches to the current technology used

• Effectively using side-entry tank mixers in crude oil services to provide a uniform homogeneous product to the crude distillation unit
• Maintaining tank integrity by ensuring a clean, deposition free floor
• Ensuring effective mixing in tanks which store intermediates and finished products to cover blending and heat transfer
• Gaining an insight into the latest developments in energy reduction by using new technologies in propeller design
• Case study: Demonstrating a successful tank cleaning project in West Texas

Applying Foster Wheeler’s optimise philosophy in response to legislation and the market drivers which threaten the very existence of European refining

• How can refiners optimise current operations to maximise margins and compete with modern export refineries in the ME and other growth regions?
• How can refiners achieve this with constrained CAPEX?
• Modifying your refinery product slate with minimal impact on existing revenue and effectively delivering an upgrade that immediately pays for itself
• Case studies illustrating innovative execution tools and methods, possible challenges and the importance of early studies

• Identifying the properties which make SAF2304 a cost effective product
• Showing how the addition of nitrogen (N) contributes to better weldability due to austenite reformation during welding
• Revealing how its composition ensures it has outstanding resistance to a broad range of corrosive environments
• Showcasing the experiments which have taken place in both chloride solutions and oxygen containing dilute chloride environments

• Identifying the quick wins on energy performance
• Optimising fired heater performance: SAFE and efficient
• Utilities can deliver the required energy at minimum cost
• On-site improvements; Off-site optimisation
• Enhance human performance with guided operations
• Site-wide energy excellence 24x7x365

• Outlining the principles of separation
• Providing a background of electrostatic separation
• Understanding the fundamentals of coalescers
• Gaining an insight into developments, examples and application

• General overview of the project objectives and milestones
• Key challenges and solutions
• Quick overview of the Naantali refinery planning model

• Understanding facility system configuration, main causes of corrosion and subsequent impacts on safety and production
• Tackling the problem of corrosion - wet or dry?
• Exploring challenges and benefits to both solutions
• Lessons learnt at Saras – key findings, facts and figures of overcoming corrosion 
• What is the role of chemical protection? 
• Is there a truly ideal solution to overhead corrosion?

• Understanding the importance of turnarounds to the refinery business in terms of cost, schedule and lost production opportunity
• Quantifying the gap between the top and bottom performers in turnaround execution
• Using benchmarks to generate the case for action to senior management
• Learning the key steps in the rapid deployment of a turnaround management process using NaviTrackTM
• Measuring, monitoring and reinforcing continual improvement

• Developing a multi-tier system for catalyst handling: From loading to the entire catalyst handling chain
• Applying a radically new approach for addressing the SHE, quality and schedule balance during catalyst change-out
• Real-life examples that demonstrate the benefits of this holistic approach
• The next step: CleanCat level 1 as the stepping stone to truly groundbreaking innovation in the catalyst supply chain

• Reducing shutdown duration due to the elimination of unnecessary work and proper scheduling 
• Reducing costs through resource reallocation and improved resource utilisation
• Achieving reduction in logistical delays due to improved planning and communication
  • Lower risk due to formal risk management
  • Being able to recognise shortcomings in the current way of planning and scheduling and to actively contribute to improvement
  • Becoming a more valued member of the team due to improved knowledge in all aspects of shutdown and turnaround management
  • Key factors for a lean turnaround

• The drawbacks of the conventional "progress" concept, which was thought to be the best technology valuation criteria
• Addressing the need for "genuine progress" concept for technology evaluation that includes sustainability attributes in the economical equation as well as in the definition of the process performance
• Key factors and their impact to support the decision-making on brand-new refining facilities
• The trade-off between the selection of the best technology for the owner and the preservation and creation of "genuine progress" for the society in the long-term
• Recent applications in the technology selection of a new refinery in Mexico 

• What does a technical partnership mean?
• How do you reduce the total cost of ownership by close cooperation with service providers?
• Optimising your planning using contractors
• Addressing the benefits for a service provider
• Analysing the effect of a technical partnership on your daily work

• Continuous on-line cleaning technology of heat exchanger tubes
• Technology applicability in oil and gas plants
• Case studies:
  • PEMEX Cryogenic Plant surface condenser
  • PEMEX Gas Sweetening Plant reflux condenser

• Generating a winning strategy 
• Exploring the regulatory requirements of Brazil and their implications 
• Taking into account profitability of new plants

• Re-evaluating the configuration of your inventory flow chart - what needs to be prioritised?
• Maximising control, maintaining a lean inventory process and reducing cost through good inventory management
• Applying standardization principles to your inventory process to ensure right material levels at the right time
• Quality vs quantity - enriching material supply to reduce quanity needed
• Establishing the right inventory classification/analysis system for you: ABC, VED, FSD
• Generating an effective inventory level, turnover, cycle count and write-off policy to ensure overall process optimisation

• Overview of Nigerian refineries
• What is the impact of delayed TAM?
• Analysing plant rehabilitation options
• Post-TAM/rehabilitation yields
• Achieving increased profitability

• Understanding workforce demographics across global operations
• Addressing the lack of middle management due to a majority45 aged workforce
• Maximising knowledge capture and training as people leave the plant
• Addressing the challenges of taking more risk with younger personnel 
• How can the industry expect to attract a replacement younger workforce when the systems used are so dated?
• How are emerging markets such as Latin America and the Far East attracting an efficient workforce?