The era of “easy oil” is over. New crude supplies are more challenging to process. Global demand is growing. We face changing fuel specifications, concerns for energy security and climate change, uncertain geopolitical dynamics, escalating costs and competition for resources. We need to conserve energy – to make every molecule count. Our world is changing and our industry must respond in new, innovative ways.
To meet these challenges, future manufacturing facilities must be large, complex and flexible, able to transform a wide spectrum of feedstocks into a slate of clean, high-value products. They must operate incident and injury free at all times. It will take strategic thinking, new technology, and, most importantly, human ingenuity to meet the world’s energy needs in the 21st century.

Iraq was the pioneer of the OPEC oil producing countries in developing its national upstream, midstream, downstream & petrochemical industries based on its huge oil &natural gas reserves Viz., 112 billion barrels of oil & 150 Tcf of natural gas. However, most of the associated gas is flared and only simple primary recovery methods are used in the oil production whereas most of its producing oil field needs development. Existing refineries are either hydro-skimming simple refinery or skid mounted with only atmospheric distillation units and are in poor maintenance state. New advanced refineries will soon be built and Iraq giant oil fields need development programs. Ammonia, Urea and Petrochemical projects are all in bad need for modernization and rehabilitation& revamping. Transfer of new technology and concepts needs specialized training program to bridge the gap and provide the latest state of art for capacity building in S&T of the hydrocarbon industry. This paper will give an overview of the Iraqi hydrocarbon industry and superimpose that on the vision and mission on the short, medium and long terms programs needed for national development of this vital sector.

The biofuels market is being created by regulations in different market areas. An analysis of the intentions and target setting of the topical regulation work in EU and USA is discussed against the underlining concerns of climate change, security of supply and rural employment driving the regulation. Are the medicines the right ones to relieve the symptoms? Are there enough of the right medicines available. What are the bottlenecks of this new fuels value chain? Who are the potentials winners, losers and victims? What are the strategic opportunities of a fuel company? The presentation is based on the most recent situation analysis of the ongoing regulation work trying to give answers to the questions above.

Mr BA-AMER was nominated as the General Manager of SAMIR and the President of SALAM GAZ Company that deals with LPG activities in 2004. Throughout his professional career course, Mr BA-AMER has successfully accomplished several important and complex projects. His most recent achievements are as follows: Rehabilitation works of SAMIR Mohammedia refinery after the flood and fire disaster that had affected all the installations and the units of the refinery; the budget of this operation was estimated to 150 Million US $, the modernization of the refining Industry of Morocco to introduce new technologies in order to keep up with the world of Refining, and also the Upgrading project of Mohammedia refinery; which is under construction; the budget of this project is 800 Million US $. Mr. BA-AMER was able to ensure the transition of SAMIR from a government owned state company to a stock exchange private company in a successful manner.

Marcus Frantz is Head of Departments Mid & Downstream Applications at OMV, based in Vienna. Marcus will offer a key insight into the specific needs of Refining business from the IT Point of View and how an integrated Refining IT Landscape might help the business to succeed in the demanding competitive environment. Focusing on experiences made during all different kind of IT implementations, Marcus will detail how an ideal IT landscape implementation should look like, what the key success factors are to effectively plan, steer and execute not only, but foremost these kind of IT projects.

Mikhail Antonov is a Deputy Head of Refining with LUKOIL, responsible for business development, production planning and refining economics in Russia and worldwide. He’s been with LUKOIL since 2002. His previous position within LUKOIL included strategic development and investment analysis of downstream sector (2002-2006). Prior to LUKOIL he worked as a CFO of a large Russian holding company (Concern «SOBY» 1996-2002), and hold a position of portfolio manager with the investment bank ( RNCB/ Paine Webber 1995-1996). Mikhail has got an MBA degree from London Business School and Master’s Degree from International University in Moscow.

Francisco Toscano is a Deputy Director of Production in Pemex Refinacion responsible of production and refining control of the six refineries that integrate the National Refinery System of Mexico. Before he occupied the charge of Regional Manager in Tula, Cadereyta and Madero Refineries, in 2001 he had the role of Production Control Manager in the head office of Pemex Refinación, in Mexico, City. He graduated in 1973 as Industrial Chemical Engineer in the “Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Quimica e Industrias Extractivas del Instituto Politécnico Nacional” in addition he took a Master’s Degree from 1982 – 1983. All the three refineries affiliated to the National Refineries System where he worked, he reached the goals of obtaining for them, the certification of all the processes of production and administrative areas; the “Industria Limpia” certification; the reduction of the Injury frequency; and elevated the Company’s standards. He’s been an active member of the “Instituto Mexicano de Ingenieros Químicos, A.C. (IMIQ)” for more than 20 years, was National President of this institute during 2007, currently he is a member of the Postulation Committee and of the Councilmen Congress.

The Reliance Jamnagar refinery is an example of the refining of the future. The Jamnagar super site has been conceptualised, to produce petroleum products, at competitive refining costs. The determinants of competitiveness, have been analysed, including size, complexity, feedstock and products. Integration with petrochemicals and logistics enhance refining margins. Finally, efficient refining asset creation skills have been highlighted.

The debate on environment has witnessed a dramatic turn from cynicism to proactive involvement.
The challenge is to address near and long-term concerns in mitigating GHG or carbon emission while continuing to provide affordable energy to meet the growing needs of the world.
The global refining industry has the responsibility to deliver energy to the world while implementing technological innovations to reduce emissions.
The greater challenge however, requires a broader partnership between various stake-holders. Changes in these innovations are creating new opportunities for new markets, new products, first-mover advantage, and strategic maneuvering.
Such strategies and proactive approaches to climate change, allow businesses to translate the threat of climate change into opportunities and competitive advantage through the development of preventive and adaptive solutions.
This paper will highlight examples that support innovation and entrepreneurship as powerful forces for positive environmental change in the global refining industry.

The refining industry in Iraq started in 1927. Substantial increase in capacity took place in the 1970"s but the growth was abruptly stopped due to the 1st & 2nd Gulf wars and the UN sanctions imposed on Iraq.The Iraqi refining sector is presently facing the problems of shortage in capacity,inefficiency,poor products quality and the environment. The Iraqi Authorities have passed two laws for investment in refineries and products distribution facilities by local & foreign investors in the hope that the incentives in the laws will help activate this sector for the benefit of both Iraq and the investor.

Endress+Hauser have formed a team of acknowledged experts from the Endress+refining industry who will advise and debate current trends within process automation. Subjects including safety and production efficiency will be covered with the target to share best practise. Our senior flow consultants will demonstrate the potential for cost and profit improvements by application of proven technologies. For example, improving the metering measurement uncertainty by only 0,1% for 100,000 BOPD at 50$/bbl will save you 1.8 mio $ a year. With a full portfolio of products, services, engineered solutions and Life Cycle Management Services Endress+Hauser offers tailor made Solutions and invites you to discuss your requirements with our Oil + Gas team at Barcelona.

Endress+Hauser have formed a team of acknowledged experts from the Endress+refining industry who will advise and debate current trends within process automation. Subjects including safety and production efficiency will be covered with the target to share best practise. Our senior flow consultants will demonstrate the potential for cost and profit improvements by application of proven technologies. For example, improving the metering measurement uncertainty by only 0,1% for 100,000 BOPD at 50$/bbl will save you 1.8 mio $ a year. With a full portfolio of products, services, engineered solutions and Life Cycle Management Services Endress+Hauser offers tailor made Solutions and invites you to discuss your requirements with our Oil + Gas team at Barcelona.

Mr Sola Alabi who is presently Group General manager and General Manager of Greenfield Refinery Projects Division at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation will be presenting his paper on opportunities in their new Greenfield Refinery Project: He will first give an historical overview of refining in Nigeria, then he will explore the petroleum products supply & demand in Nigeria and present the new refinery projects which will be taking place, as well as their related investment opportunities. He will also explore the legislation and regulatory issues.

Miguel Angel Gomez is an Executive Director of European Business Development for Fluor and is based outside of London. Miguel will leverage Fluor’s leading global experience in the design and construction of oil refineries to offer key insights in how Contractors are contending with manpower supply limitations and increasing equipment costs. He will discuss the general pricing outlook for future equipment and material purchases and shop delivery times over the next 2 years. He will discuss the manner that project risk is being shared between owners and contractors and the impact on overall cost. He will consider the impact of dealing with larger more complex projects and draw on Fluor's current direct involvement on over 8 major refinery projects in Europe, Middle East and Africa, together with involvement on 8 U.S.A. Refinery Revamp projects and 5 Alberta Oil Sands projects.

One of the major challenges faced by companies within the Oil & Gas industry concerns the talent crisis which has continued to build over the last few years. Deloitte’s workshop will showcase various proven methods, tools and techniques that demonstrate how companies in the Oil & Gas industry can practically address these issues. The workshop will focus on four key themes: - Attracting, retaining and developing talent in your business
- Workforce planning, collaborative working and teamwork
- Managing the people risk associated with major projects and transformation whilst realising the benefits
- Creating high performance culture aligned to delivering your organisations strategy

This workshop will provide delegates with the opportunity to meet Deloitte people who have extensive experience of working in the Oil & Gas industry in addressing Human Capital issues. This will be an interactive, working session which will provide delegates with the opportunity to explore these issues and potential solutions.

Endress+Hauser have formed a team of acknowledged experts from the Endress+refining industry who will advise and debate current trends within process automation. Subjects including safety and production efficiency will be covered with the target to share best practise. Our senior flow consultants will demonstrate the potential for cost and profit improvements by application of proven technologies. For example, improving the metering measurement uncertainty by only 0,1% for 100,000 BOPD at 50$/bbl will save you 1.8 mio $ a year. With a full portfolio of products, services, engineered solutions and Life Cycle Management Services Endress+Hauser offers tailor made Solutions and invites you to discuss your requirements with our Oil + Gas team at Barcelona.

Recent events in the refining industry have resulted in a need for a greater understanding of risk management issues at all levels of the operation including the board room.
This presentation will highlight the areas of risk that all levels of the organisation need to manage, from the boardroom to the control room. The presentation will include recent examples of new risk management strategies from refining companies.

The Deloitte workshop provides insight into the tools and techniques that help downstream companies link their over arching business strategy and objectives to their operational performance in Refining and Supply Chain.
For example, in many cases investments in refining are made in isolation to address what are seen to be key issues and opportunities – however, these investments are not always aligned with the direction that the company wants to take and as such may not be the best use of funds.
Our workshop will highlight the frameworks and approaches that can be applied to link high level strategic objectives to key performance drivers and KPI’s within refining. We will discuss how companies can use this approach to assess their current performance and identify gaps and opportunities that impact refining’s contribution to the overall business objectives.
Finally we will discuss how the same techniques can be extended to re-align and prioritise the project and programme portfolio in refining to best deliver the right performance improvements.

One of the major challenges faced by companies within the Oil & Gas industry concerns the talent crisis which has continued to build over the last few years. Deloitte’s workshop will showcase various proven methods, tools and techniques that demonstrate how companies in the Oil & Gas industry can practically address these issues. The workshop will focus on four key themes: - Attracting, retaining and developing talent in your business
- Workforce planning, collaborative working and teamwork
- Managing the people risk associated with major projects and transformation whilst realising the benefits
- Creating high performance culture aligned to delivering your organisations strategy

This workshop will provide delegates with the opportunity to meet Deloitte people who have extensive experience of working in the Oil & Gas industry in addressing Human Capital issues. This will be an interactive, working session which will provide delegates with the opportunity to explore these issues and potential solutions.

Refiners, particularly those in the United States, have enjoyed a period of almost 5 years of high refining margins. This has been due to a combination of high crude oil prices, tight supply of oil products and discounts on heavy, sour crude oils. Over recent years, the focus has been on the supply response and its timing. This paper will review the basis for recent high refining margins and explore the key drivers that imply lower future returns, including: - Impact of high crude oil prices on refining margins and product differentials - Oil product demand developments and associated risks - Refining supply response, detailing project sponsors and their preferred development (by project type, such as upgrading, expansion or grassroots developments) - Other sources of supply, such as biofuels - Closure of heavy crude discounts The key triggers for the lower margin outlook differ by geography. Ethanol impacts the Atlantic Basin, with the Asian outlook determined by a conventional refining supply response. Refining margins are, however, far from uniform within a region. The paper will explore the structural advantages of high margin sites (by region), evaluating the opportunity for replication by others along with the key aspects for the successful development of a value enhancing project

Climate change and environmental regulations are pushing refining industry to reduce GHG emissions. Operational measures and novel equipment can mean a great deal reducing CO2 emissions by 10-15% in modern refineries. However, when a substantial further emission reduction is required, the Capture and Storage of CO2 (in short CCS) is a serious option to consider. This workshop deals with the different steps in the chain of CCS providing an insight in the new emerging technologies and how they are brought to industrial practice. In the area of CO2 capture, where new systems based on advanced flue gas scrubbing agents have a substantially improved economical and environmental performance compared to conventional MEA based processes. TNO, the largest research institute of the Netherlands with about 5000 employees, is in the front row of bringing new CO2 Capture & Storage (CCS) processes to work. From our expertise on both the capture and the storage side of CCS we provide a perspective on some emerging novel processes that can make a strong contribution towards making CCS economically feasible. Ultimately, the Rotterdam Climate Initiative will present the Rotterdam/Rijnmond case, showing how the different steps in CCS are being integrated. Their aim is to create a joint infrastructure for large scale CCS, ensuring the storage of CO2 captured at refining and power facilities located in the Rotterdam harbor area.

Today, many organizations are advancing their asset management practices to improve business processes, increase reliability, and improve overall operational efficiency. There are many developments in the practices of asset management and related technologies for tracking and maintaining assets and physical property that are helping drive this change. Meanwhile Safety is of paramount importance in an oil refinery. It is indeed part of its culture that is closely related to asset management. The workshop is a facilitated discussion to examine the latest trends in - Asset Management Technologies - Investment Cost & Risk Analysis - Managing Safety Performance - RFID Technology

Today´s challenge is, to increase machinery uptime despite constant maintenance investments. The solution is an optimised component lifetime utilisation for an extended Meantime Between Maintenance. It can be stated, that the maximum MTBM depends on the "weakest link in the chain", i.e. wear parts. So, the task is, to determine the "weakest link" (= shortest MTBM) to predict necessary overhaul stops. This determination can the realized with state-of-the-art online monitoring. With today´s monitoring technology, it is possible to detect slightest changes in behaviour of components and to receive knowledge about impending failures at a very early stage. With this knowledge available, uptime prediction and maintenance planning becomes a totally different foundation than ten years ago.

Dr. Harald Linga has been responsible for technology development within ProPure since the start-up in 1999, and is now leading the product development within the Pure Group., comprising the sister companies ProPure (Norway), ProSep (US), Pure Group Asia Pacific (KL) and TORR Canada. Dr Harald will be discussing efficient fluid mixing and exposure between the fluid phases and how essential these important these issues are for unit operations including mass transfer (physical flashing, extraction or chemical reactions) or dispersion of speciality chemicals into the multiphase flow. For this purpose ProPure has developed contactor solutions based on combinations of an injection mixer (ProPure C100) and an in-line multiphase flow re-mixer (ProPure M100). The presentation targets the solutions for high-performance produced water treatment (CTour), selective H2S-removal from gas (ProScav and ProCAP) and desalting of crude with enhanced oil-water separability (ProSalt).

Climate change and environmental regulations are pushing refining industry to reduce GHG emissions. Operational measures and novel equipment can mean a great deal reducing CO2 emissions by 10-15% in modern refineries. However, when a substantial further emission reduction is required, the Capture and Storage of CO2 (in short CCS) is a serious option to consider. This workshop deals with the different steps in the chain of CCS providing an insight in the new emerging technologies and how they are brought to industrial practice. In the area of CO2 capture, where new systems based on advanced flue gas scrubbing agents have a substantially improved economical and environmental performance compared to conventional MEA based processes. TNO, the largest research institute of the Netherlands with about 5000 employees, is in the front row of bringing new CO2 Capture & Storage (CCS) processes to work. From our expertise on both the capture and the storage side of CCS we provide a perspective on some emerging novel processes that can make a strong contribution towards making CCS economically feasible. Ultimately, the Rotterdam Climate Initiative will present the Rotterdam/Rijnmond case, showing how the different steps in CCS are being integrated. Their aim is to create a joint infrastructure for large scale CCS, ensuring the storage of CO2 captured at refining and power facilities located in the Rotterdam harbor area.

Climate change and environmental regulations are pushing refining industry to reduce GHG emissions. Operational measures and novel equipment can mean a great deal reducing CO2 emissions by 10-15% in modern refineries. However, when a substantial further emission reduction is required, the Capture and Storage of CO2 (in short CCS) is a serious option to consider. This workshop deals with the different steps in the chain of CCS providing an insight in the new emerging technologies and how they are brought to industrial practice. In the area of CO2 capture, where new systems based on advanced flue gas scrubbing agents have a substantially improved economical and environmental performance compared to conventional MEA based processes. TNO, the largest research institute of the Netherlands with about 5000 employees, is in the front row of bringing new CO2 Capture & Storage (CCS) processes to work. From our expertise on both the capture and the storage side of CCS we provide a perspective on some emerging novel processes that can make a strong contribution towards making CCS economically feasible. Ultimately, the Rotterdam Climate Initiative will present the Rotterdam/Rijnmond case, showing how the different steps in CCS are being integrated. Their aim is to create a joint infrastructure for large scale CCS, ensuring the storage of CO2 captured at refining and power facilities located in the Rotterdam harbor area.

Nic is Publishing Director of Crambeth Allen, best known within the Energy industries as publisher of PTQ (Petroleum Technology Quarterly) and its supplements - Catalysis, Revamps, Biofuels and Gas - as well as the Chinese-language Hydrocarbon China. Crambeth Allen was recipient of the Queens Award for Export Achievement in 1999. Nic has almost 30 years experience publishing books, magazines and directories predominantly concerned with engineering and the built environment. He currently sits on the committee of the Independent Publishers Advisory Council.