Agenda

Registration & Breakfast
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Welcome Remarks – Jacob Adams Mireles, Vice President Events, Gulf Energy Information

Keynote: Energy Transition at Reliance – Dr. Madhukar Garg, President R&D Refining and Petrochemicals, Reliance Industries Limited

Keynote – Fueling Future Aviation with CO2 to Jet Technology – Michael Macdonald, Chief Manufacturing Officer, HIF Global and Steve Skillen, Director – Market Development, Honeywell UOP

Financial/Trends Update & Outlook – Timothy Fitzgibbons, Senior Expert, McKinsey

Refreshment Break & Networking – Sponsored by Atlas Copco

Session 1: Emerging Process Technologies – Petrochemicals or Refining

11:00 – 11:30  a.m. –Integrally Geared Compressor Technology for Heat Pumps, Recycling Compressors and in Co2 Compression. – Oskar Schnabel, Market Segment Manager, Atlas Copco Gas and Process

11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. – High Pressure Fluidized Bed Systems – Eloy Flores III, Director R&D, SWRI

12:00 – 12:30 p.m. – Zero Emission Heat Energy with Electric Process Heating Systems – David Taylor, Vice President, Business Development, Chromalox

Session 2: Digital Transformation

11:00 – 11:30 a.m. – Autonomous and Remote Operations Challenges, Technologies and Innovative Practices, Stan DeVries, Industry Principal, Aveva

11:30 a.m.  – 12:00 p.m. -Accelerating a Modern Sustainable Manufacturing Future with Advanced Analytics – Morgan Bowling, Industry Principal, Oil & Gas, Seeq 

12:00 – 12:30 p.m. – From Artificial Intelligence to Real Intelligence – Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Solution Consultant, Yokogawa

Networking Luncheon
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Session 3: Ethylene & Ethylene Derivatives

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. – Decarbonized Olefin Production – Paul Langston, Director – Olefins Technology, KBR

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Optimization Model for Polymer Production Scheduling – Aurelio Ferrucci, Executive Vice President, Prometheus SRL

2:30 – 3:00 p.m. – Olefins Feedstocks and the Energy Transition: Walt Hart, Americas Olefins Lead, S&P Global

Session 4: Refining: Process Optimization

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. – Zero Sulfur Refining – Joseph Gentry, Vice President, Technology Division, GTC Vorro Technology

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – New R&D Challenges and Strategies for Optimizing Processes at Energy Parks – Romero Vazques, Head of Chemistry, Cepsa Research Center

2:30 – 3:00 p.m. – Racing to Find the Right Separation Technology – Victor Scalco, Business Director and R&D, General Atomics Electromagnetics

Networking and Refreshment Break – Sponsored by Atlas Copco

Session 5: Sustainability

3:30 – 4:00 p.m. – Supercharging Carbon Emissions Management and Decision Support, a European Refinery Case Study – Jillian Davidson, Director Industry Marketing, Aspen Technology

4:00 – 4:30 – Advancing Green Petrochemicals from Sustainable Sources – HsiangYee Hoekstra, Program Manager, R&D, SWRI

4:30 – 5:00 p.m. – From Refiners to Industrial & Energy Hubs – Eric Koenig, Strategy Vice President, Energies & Chemicals, Schneider Electric

Reception and Networking

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Registration & Breakfast
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Welcome Remarks – Lee Nichols, Vice President, Content, Gulf Energy Information

Keynote Operator Panel – Digital Transformation for Accelerating Operational Excellence

Panelists:
Thomas Chunat, Director of Technical Excellence, Motiva
Martin Gonzalez, Innovation & Technology Principal, BP

Moderator:
Mark Sen Gupta, Research Director, ARC Advisory Group

Refineries’ Pandemic Turmoil – KNPC Gasoline Demand Opportunities and Challenges:  Dalal Alqallaf, Senior Engineer, Operational Planning, KNPC

Refreshment Break and Networking, Sponsored by Aspen Technology

Session 6: Alternative, Renewable & Biofuels

11:00 – 11:30 a.m – Renewable DME Pathways to Defossilize the LPG Industry – Dr. Ron Sills, Director, XTL & DME Institute

11:30 am – 12:00 pm – Challenges in Refinery Biofuels Coprocessing: Root-Cause Analysis and Mitigation of LPG Emulsions in Amine Units and Caustic Units – David Engel, Managing Director, Nexo Solutions

12:00 – 12:30 pm – Biogas as a Source of Supplementary Fuel to the Natural Gas Grid System – Somnath Basu, PhD, PE, Consultant

Session 7: Refining – Petrochemical Integration

11:00 – 11:30 a.m. – Effective Refinery-Petrochemical Integration – Alon Raichman, Technology Advisor, KBR

11:30 am – 12:00 pm – Crude to paraxylene complexes in China: unexpected consequences – Michel Mollinier, Director of Americas, S&P Global

12:00 – 12:30 p.m. – Challenges in adding Flare Gas Recovery System – Kamal Banjara, Senior Process Safety Engineer, Smith  & Burgess

Networking Luncheon

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Session 8: Digital Transformation

1:30 2:00 p.m.  – On-line Plant-wide Mass Balance in a Refinery via Machine Learning – Dr. Venkataramana Runkana, Chief Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Decarbonization using Digitalization – Lara Rabbath, Refining and Sustainability Marketing Manager, Emerson and Julie Valentine, Director, Global Refining & Sustainability Measurement Solutions, Emerson

2:30 – 3:00 p.m. – Engineer in Minutes not Months – Peter Kauders, Director, CDE Projects Limited

Session 9: Maintenance & Reliability

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. – TBA

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Scalable Solutions for Advanced Asset Health Monitoring – Ryan Muir, Principal Enterprise Architect, Aveva

2:30 – 3:00 p.m. – Cleaning Procedure for a Plate Heat Exchanger Derived from Data Analysis Based on Recurrent Neural Networks – Luis Javier Hoyos Marin, Chemical Engineer, EcoPetrol and William Vargas, Electromechanical Engineer, EcoPetrol

Coffee and Networking Break – Sponsored by Aspen Technology

Session 10: Sustainability

3:30 – 4:00 pm – Advanced Recycling of Plastics: What Does Good Look Like? – Marcus Trygstad, Chief Technology Officer, Aduro Clean Technologies

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. – Carbon Capture and Sequestration for Fluid Catalytic Cracking Units – Sandeep Khatwani and Willa Liao, Principal Consultants, Advisian

4:30 – 5:00 p.m. – Energy-Automation Software Tried to Achieve Sustainability in the Ammonia Industry – Yasmine McColl, Global Business Development Leader, Schneider Electric

Closing Reception 

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