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PetroFed THE JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM FEDERATION OF INDIA<br />
PETROFED<br />
JANUARY-MARCH 2009 VOL. 7 ISSUE 1
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Contents<br />
S. No. Particulars Page No.<br />
1. From the Chairman 1<br />
2. DG's Report 2<br />
3. Refining – The Challenge for Green Technologies 3<br />
By Mr. M. K. Joshi, Director (Technical), Engineers India Limited<br />
4. Non-OPEC Decline Rates Accelerate 9<br />
By Mr. Bob MacKnight, Lead Analyst, PFC Energy<br />
5. Risk Management in E&P 11<br />
By Mr. Rajiv Puri, Associate Director, Advisory Services,<br />
Ernst & Young Pvt. Limited<br />
6. High Performance Trays in Distillation Operation 13<br />
By Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, Group Leader –<br />
Process, Lurgi India Company Pvt. Limited<br />
7. Oil & Gas Deals Update 2008 16<br />
By Mr. Deepak Mahurkar, Associate Director,<br />
PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Limited<br />
8. Project Management Is Not Merely For Project Managers 20<br />
By Mr. Raj Kalady, Managing Director, PMI India<br />
9. An Energy Saving Option in Process Industry 22<br />
By Prof. Hamid Ali, Director of Petroleum Studies,<br />
Aligarh Muslim University<br />
10. Strike when the Iron Is Hot… 26<br />
A Thought Leadership Paper by Petrofed<br />
11. Events 35<br />
Journal Coordinators<br />
Mr. R.P. Natekar BPCL<br />
Mr. S. Ramasubramanian Chevron Lubricants India Pvt. Ltd.<br />
Mr. Sayed Ansar Shah CPCL<br />
Mr. Jignesh Vasavada GAIL (India) Ltd.<br />
Mr. Ashim Ganguly Indian OilTanking Ltd.<br />
Mr. M. Kalikrishna IOCL<br />
Mr. A.K. Maiti NRL<br />
Mr. Pramode Seth ONGC<br />
Mr. P.N. Barua Oil India Ltd.<br />
Dr. Anand Teltumbde Petronet India Ltd.<br />
Mr. Deepak Mahurkar PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd.<br />
Editorial Board<br />
Editor<br />
Members<br />
:<br />
:<br />
Y. Sahai<br />
A. K. Arora<br />
S. L. Das<br />
O. P. Thukral<br />
(No part of this journal shall be<br />
reproduced in whole or in part by any<br />
means without permission from<br />
PetroFed.<br />
The views expressed by various authors<br />
and information provided by them are<br />
solely from their sources. The publishers<br />
and editors are in no way responsible<br />
for these views and may not necessarily<br />
subscribe to these views.)
As I sit down to pen this piece, the world awaits<br />
with bated breath the outcome of the G-20<br />
meeting of world leaders. And ahead of the G-20<br />
Summit the World Bank has more than halved its<br />
GDP growth projections for the developing world<br />
to 2.1% in 2009 from its earlier projection of 4.4%<br />
in November, 2008. The growth in 2008 was<br />
5.8%.<br />
The <strong>new</strong> Global Economy Prospects update also<br />
notes that global growth is expected to contract by<br />
1.7% this year. This would be the first decline in<br />
world output since World War II. GDP is projected<br />
to decline by 3% in OECD countries and by 2% in<br />
other high income economies.<br />
The World Trade Organisation while projecting<br />
that the economic downturn will drive exports<br />
down by roughly 9% in volume terms in 2009,<br />
warns that the increasing trade restrictive<br />
measures could undermine efforts to recover the<br />
global economy. The risk of Governments ceding<br />
ground to protectionist pressure is also expected<br />
to be addressed at the G-20 meeting. According<br />
to WTO while the contraction in developed<br />
countries will be particularly severe, with exports<br />
falling by 10% this year, they are likely to shrink by<br />
2 to 3% in developing countries, which are more<br />
dependant on trade for growth.<br />
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management policies have helped build a<br />
protective shield of foreign exchange reserves.<br />
India is no exception.<br />
India's economic growth prospects in 2009 have,<br />
however, been reduced to 4.3% by the<br />
Organisation for Economic Co-operation &<br />
Development – the lowest growth in 18 years. The<br />
ADB and IMF, however, project a growth of 5 and<br />
5.1% respectively. All these are much lower than<br />
the internal assessment of over 6% growth. All of<br />
them also predict that growth will bounce back in<br />
2010.<br />
The global economic downturn has also seen<br />
crude oil prices come down substantially from the<br />
<strong>last</strong> year highs. The recent World Bank report<br />
expects them to remain at more than 50% below<br />
2008 levels averaging USD 47 per barrel for the<br />
current year.<br />
Energy demand between now and 2030 is<br />
expected to increase by 50% with two third of the<br />
<strong>new</strong> demand coming from developing nations.<br />
The increase in focus on environmental impact<br />
may, however, modify the energy mix, or atleast<br />
the fossil fuel energy demand. Petroleum and<br />
other liquid fuels will no doubt remain the<br />
important fuels for transportation for some time to<br />
come but natural gas usage may see a sharper<br />
increase because of its efficiency and<br />
environmental impact.<br />
There in no denying the fact, however, that food<br />
security through sustainable agriculture and<br />
energy security through increasing energy<br />
efficiency and investment in re<strong>new</strong>able sources<br />
will be important elements in the growth of<br />
developing countries.<br />
According to a UN study the convergence of<br />
The Asian Development Bank has also called for<br />
recession in developed countries, food and fuel<br />
better targeting of food and fertilizer subsidies by<br />
price volatility and climate change calamities pose<br />
India and improved cost recovery by oil marketers<br />
an unprecedented threat to development in the<br />
and refineries to sustain fiscal deficit. It is,<br />
Asia Pacific region. Not only did the crude oil<br />
therefore, imperative that the Government takes<br />
prices soar to historical levels <strong>last</strong> year, food and<br />
advantage of the drop in crude oil prices to target<br />
commodity prices also increased to the highest<br />
subsidies only for the needy and deserving in a<br />
level in over 20 years. There was an increase in<br />
transparent and efficient manner and moves<br />
the price of staple food, rice, by a staggering 150%<br />
towards market determined prices.<br />
in only four months. The region also suffered<br />
Such an action shall eliminate several distortions,<br />
climate change calamities. Developing countries<br />
strengthen the national economy and prove<br />
in the Asia Pacific region have shown, according to<br />
healthy for the industry.<br />
the study, that they are better prepared for a<br />
financial crisis. Over the past decade, their<br />
regulatory reforms in the financial sector,<br />
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under international trade law. Argentina, for<br />
example, has put <strong>new</strong> licensing requirements on<br />
several goods to create a <strong>new</strong> layer of<br />
bureaucracy for overseas exporters. The<br />
European Union has announced a <strong>new</strong> export<br />
subsidy on some items. China and India have<br />
increased tax rebates for domestic exporters<br />
which is being seen by critics as providing a stealth<br />
subsidy.<br />
The fear is that actions like these could touch off<br />
The economic downturn has affected all –<br />
Governments, Corporates, and individuals. Each<br />
is trying to find a solution. In an inter-dependent<br />
world, where the actions of one impact the others<br />
in different measures, there are no ready<br />
solutions. One should, however, learn from the<br />
past and avoid the earlier pit falls.<br />
The downturn in the 1990s led to weak oil prices<br />
and a virtual price collapse towards the end of the<br />
decade. The resulting lack of capital investment,<br />
downsizing and cost cutting strategies led to lack<br />
of R&D for <strong>new</strong> technologies, depleted skilled<br />
manpower, and insufficient <strong>new</strong> discoveries. This<br />
should not be repeated in the current downturn.<br />
Money may be hard to come by but investments<br />
should not dry up. A skilled workforce takes time<br />
to develop. Technologies evolve after persistent<br />
hard work. And the technological challenge is<br />
greater than ever before because of<br />
environmental concerns. I only hope that the oil &<br />
gas companies will not go into their cocoon but<br />
shall continue to pursue their growth plans, albeit<br />
within their manageable resources.<br />
This would also spur global trade which is<br />
expected to witness further contraction during the<br />
current year. There is a 'worrying' trend observed<br />
toward protectionism as countries rush to shield<br />
their ailing domestic industries during the global<br />
economic crisis. According to a mid-March World<br />
Bank Report atleast 17 of the 20 major nations<br />
that vowed at a 2008 November Summit to avoid<br />
protectionist steps that could spark a global trade<br />
war have violated that promise. Large countries,<br />
countermeasure that could lead to broader trade<br />
wars. Protectionist measures may also sharply<br />
worsen the collapse of global trade, which the<br />
World Bank said, is facing its steepest decline in 80<br />
years as global demand dries up.<br />
PetroFed has consistently advocated and<br />
recommended creation of a level playing field for<br />
all players in the industry. The industry<br />
recommendations to the Government for NELP-<br />
VIII and CBM-IV sent in early February, 2009<br />
advocated the same.<br />
During January, a request was made to the<br />
Director General of Foreign Trade, Ministry of<br />
Commerce & Industry and the Ministry of<br />
Petroleum & Natural Gas for inclusion of<br />
petroleum products under the 'Market Linked<br />
Focused Product Scheme' to offset freight<br />
disadvantage on export of petroleum products,<br />
and help the nation earn more foreign exchange.<br />
Request made earlier to CBEC for a resolution of<br />
the issue pertaining to Classification of Naphtha<br />
was reiterated. The MoP&NG was also requested<br />
to resolve the issue of tax holiday under section 80<br />
IB (9) available for commercial production of<br />
crude oil which has been denied in some cases.<br />
The most significant was the release of a Thought<br />
Leadership Paper during Petrotech-2009<br />
advocating decontrol of petroleum product<br />
pricing in the favourable environment of falling<br />
crude oil prices. Recommendations are being<br />
forwarded to Government on learnings from<br />
Japan on auto fuel quality implications.<br />
from Russia to the United States to China have<br />
enacted measures aimed at limiting the flow of<br />
imported goods.<br />
The events conducted during the quarter are<br />
incorporated in the journal. So is the Thought<br />
Leadership Paper recommending market<br />
According to the World Bank, since <strong>last</strong> November, determined prices of petroleum products.<br />
a host of nations have imposed a total of 47<br />
measures that restrict trade at the expense of the<br />
other countries. The most obvious trade<br />
restrictions – raising tariffs or taxes on imports –<br />
represent only about a third of all measures taken.<br />
But most are taking more creative steps that fall<br />
These critical issues warrant prompt action by the<br />
concerned Government authorities for<br />
implementation. Support at this critical juncture<br />
can spur growth in the ensuing fiscal.<br />
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Refining - The Challenge For<br />
Green Technologies<br />
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Drivers behind Refinery Configuration and<br />
Choice of Technology<br />
Today grassroots projects of world scale capacities<br />
are being set up and existing refineries are<br />
evolving into large, complex units, the growth of<br />
which has been driven by a combination of the<br />
following:<br />
• Freedom of choice in selection of crude oils to<br />
be processed coupled with availability of<br />
heavier/opportunity crude oils and favourable<br />
price differentials between these crude oils<br />
and lighter crude oils. Increased demand of<br />
refined products conforming to Euro IV and<br />
better specifications.<br />
To meet the requirements of sustained economic<br />
growth, India needs to ensure sustained energy<br />
supply and improve the quality and reliability of<br />
the energy being provided. The following table • Compliance with environmental regulations.<br />
illustrates the growth (in MMTOE) that is<br />
anticipated over the next two and a half decades.<br />
• Changing product demand – a shift to lighter<br />
distillates and more value added products,<br />
through residue conversion and product<br />
Year India World<br />
treatment<br />
2006-07 315<br />
11400<br />
• Increased value addition to remain<br />
competitive in the current scenario through<br />
2030-31 1600<br />
17700<br />
integration with downstream operations, e.g.<br />
production of petrochemicals<br />
It is clear that the growth rate in India is well above • Capability to process feedstock derived from<br />
the global rate. If India is to sustain the current fossil and non-fossil sources<br />
economic growth rate, ensuring quality of energy<br />
supplies and environmental stipulations will be<br />
most challenging. The primary energy source over<br />
the next two decades and beyond will continue to<br />
be fossil fuel based, with coal contributing 45-50%<br />
of the total requirements, followed by crude oil.<br />
• Availability of increasing quantities of<br />
condensate and natural gas liquids. This<br />
provides the option to produce cleaner fuels<br />
and to integrate refinery and petrochemical<br />
operations.<br />
The refining sector will, therefore, have a key role<br />
to play in the supply of clean forms of energy while<br />
simultaneously ensuring continued viability and<br />
profitability of operations through a number of<br />
measures. The likely objectives for future refinery<br />
operations are presented in the following table.<br />
It is therefore not surprising to see projects being<br />
conceived with co processing of crude oil, gas and<br />
condensate to provide necessary flexibility to<br />
produce a mix of transportation fuels and<br />
petrochemicals.<br />
Objective Issues<br />
Energy<br />
security<br />
Environmental<br />
compliance<br />
• Process heavier and sour feeds-extra heavy<br />
crude oil, tar sands, oil shale.<br />
• Co process feed from non fossil sources e.g.<br />
biomass<br />
• Integrate Gas/coal processing ( GTL/CTL) with<br />
refining to produce fuels and petrochemicals<br />
• Produce Clean fuels<br />
• Cleaner options for hydrogen production Capture<br />
and sequester CO2 from Hydrogen and Power<br />
generation facilities<br />
Product Specifications<br />
In the <strong>last</strong> decade product specifications attracted<br />
close attention of environmentalists as well as<br />
original equipment manufacturers to ensure<br />
compliance with environmental stipulations as<br />
well as optimal equipment performance. Diesel<br />
and gasoline have been specifically targeted for<br />
quality improvement with the result that refiners<br />
are now targeting Euro III/Euro IV specifications of<br />
these products in conformance with the road map<br />
laid down in the Auto Fuels Policy of the<br />
Government of India. Initiatives are also being
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taken with a view to making Ultra Low Sulphur • Adequate capacity of secondary conversion<br />
Gasoline and Diesel to meet even more stringent and residue upgrading facilities to ensure<br />
quality standards, particularly with an eye on the high overall yields of light and middle<br />
export market. Lubricating oils are also being distillates<br />
looked at with a view to meeting API Grade<br />
II/Grade III specifications to meet the market<br />
requirements. This has necessitated a close<br />
examination of refinery configurations and almost<br />
all the refineries have taken action to implement<br />
projects, which would enable them to meet the<br />
• A p p r o p r i a t e u p g r a d i n g f a c i l i t i e s<br />
(Hydrodesulphurization, CCR Reforming,<br />
Isomerization, alkylation etc) to meet product<br />
quality complying with Euro IV or better<br />
specifications.<br />
future product specifications while ensuring that<br />
operations remain profitable.<br />
Figure 1 Illustrates a refinery configuration in<br />
which processing facilities are incorporated to<br />
A standalone refinery configuration in the present produce motor spirit and diesel in line with Euro IV<br />
context would target a high Nelson Complexity specifications or better, while meeting<br />
Factor to ensure that it has the following e n v i r o n m e n t a l e m i s s i o n s t i p u l a t i o n s<br />
capabilities:<br />
incorporated. Currently refineries in India are<br />
close to this configuration, which is a far cry from<br />
• Flexibility to handle heavy and sour crude oils,<br />
with suitable provisions to process opportunity<br />
crudes.<br />
the hydroskimmimng and low conversion<br />
configurations that were prevalent in the 1980's.<br />
Figure 1: Current Refinery Configuration<br />
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Yield and Product Slate Improvement<br />
refining and petrochemicals business can be<br />
realized.<br />
Residue conversion options are being revisited to<br />
arrive at techno commercially feasible options to<br />
increase overall distillate yields beyond 80-82%<br />
and reduce the production of heavy ends. With<br />
an increasing thrust towards value addition,<br />
configuration studies are now looking at higher<br />
•<br />
•<br />
Benefit from the higher demand growth and<br />
return for petrochemicals versus fuels.<br />
Control over petrochemical feedstock costs<br />
helps to maintain margins in petrochemical<br />
products<br />
capacities (low cost expansion) to derive benefits<br />
of economies of scale and possible integration<br />
with a petrochemical complex, so that more value<br />
can be added to the refining operations. Such<br />
integrations add significantly to the refining<br />
• Reduced capital and operating costs on<br />
account of shared infrastructure and reduced<br />
emissions as compared to standalone<br />
facilities.<br />
margins but they come at a price. The approach to<br />
such integrations would be to phase the<br />
investments e.g. initially in a refinery and<br />
aromatics complex and then add the olefins<br />
production facilities, an approach that has been<br />
followed by the Panipat refinery of M/s Indian Oil<br />
corporation Ltd. At times it may make more sense<br />
to follow the reverse sequence, i.e., set up the<br />
olefins/aromatics production facilities based on<br />
feed from other sources and gradually integrate<br />
backwards with refining. Figure 2 illustrates some<br />
possible linkages between a refinery and a<br />
petrochemicals complex.<br />
It is not surprising that a number of mega projects<br />
envisaging the setting up of integrated refinery<br />
cum petrochemical projects are at different stages<br />
of implementation. The Reliance Refinery at<br />
Jamnagar and the Panipat Refinery of IOCL are<br />
two leading examples. The Paradip Refinery<br />
Project of IOCL is planned on similar lines, but<br />
with a phasing of expenditure. A number of other<br />
feasibility reports have been prepared for projects<br />
that envisage similar refinery/petrochemical<br />
linkages. It is understood that similar facilities are<br />
also planned to be set up in China and Saudi<br />
Arabia.<br />
Figure 2: Possible Refinery/Petrochemical linkages<br />
Gasification for residue Upgrading<br />
The refinery/petrochemicals linkage offers a<br />
number of other benefits, which include: As discussed earlier, residue upgrading projects<br />
•<br />
•<br />
Flexibility to shift the balance of production<br />
between fuels and petrochemicals<br />
Advantage of different economic cycles of the<br />
are being pursued quite actively, with the objective<br />
of monetizing heavy residual streams. The<br />
technology options could involve either Hydrogen
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addition or carbon rejection. Currently the latter phased approach to arrive at the above<br />
option appears to be finding favour as processes configuration. This could possibly proceed on the<br />
like delayed coking integrate easily with refining following lines.<br />
operations and also require relatively less<br />
investment. However the processes do not really 1. Examine the feasibility of integration<br />
achieve 100% residue conversion and the refiners coke/residue gasification to implement the<br />
still have to address the problem of coke or fuel oil IGCC technology for power or poly generation<br />
disposal, though to a smaller extent. The ( steam, power and hydrogen) to meet captive<br />
development of gasification technology and requirements, with export of any surplus<br />
improvements in reliability/availability offer an power .High costs still come in the way of<br />
effective option to convert all heavy residue to ready application of this option and costs of<br />
value added products This option could merit around $2MM/MW are being typically<br />
serious thought in future as it would not only reported. The IGCC technology has been<br />
contribute towards an improved product slate, but successfully integrated by Shell in refinery<br />
also help to meet the Hydrogen and power operation, using heavy residue as feed. Earlier<br />
requirements of the refinery from low value feed there were issues with regard to the reliability<br />
stock. At the same time, it could reduce the and availability of the gasifiers-these appear<br />
emissions of Sox, NOx and particulate matter. A to have been addressed to a significant extent.<br />
case study for a refinery has indicated that a However the option of having some fall back<br />
gasification facility based on 90 t/hr of heavy option for power and Hydrogen supply in case<br />
residue could meet captive power requirements of of gasifier downtime would have to be<br />
68MW, Hydrogen requirement of about 66000 examined while carrying out the optimization<br />
TPA and export 116 MW of power to the grid. The of the refinery configuration.<br />
economics have been shown to be quite attractive<br />
for the gasification facility on a stand alone basis, 2. Look into the possibility of integrating FT<br />
but it would be better to look at the overall refinery synthesis to recover high value distillates from<br />
with and without gasification to arrive at the syngas produced via gasification or reforming.<br />
economics. This issue is probably better addressed when it<br />
is considered with a refinery that has suitable<br />
There is a need to carry out a systematic and hydroprocessing facilities, so that the FT<br />
detailed techno economic analysis, looking at a products can be suitably upgraded. It also<br />
Figure 3: Integration of Refinery with Gas Processing<br />
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offers potential advantages to the refinery in<br />
terms of the Hydrogen and steam balance,<br />
oil, with fewer secondary processing facilities.<br />
offering the possibility of releasing some of Refining operations by themselves contribute only<br />
the refinery streams for further value addition. a small portion of GHG emissions when compared<br />
with the emissions on account of fuel combustion<br />
The technologies envisaged in the above by the end users. Almost 80 % of CO2 emissions<br />
approach are well proven. Liquid fuels derived are on account of fuel combustion, while about<br />
from the FT process have been produced since 10-12% is contributed by refining. There is little<br />
before World War II. Sasol have been using low that can be done to lower the CO2 emissions from<br />
grade coal to produce fuels since the 1950's via fuel combustion, unless we move to a scenario in<br />
this route and today, a number of projects for which refining operations are altered such that the<br />
power and Chemicals generation are at different end product from the refinery is Hydrogen. In such<br />
stages of implementation in China. Majors like a scenario 100% of the carbon contained in the<br />
Sasol Exxon Mobil, Shell and Conoco have carried crude oil would be released as CO2. On paper,<br />
out developments in the FT synthesis process- the saving grace of such an alternative is that it<br />
concentrating on reactor and catalyst related offers the possibility of capturing all the CO2 at a<br />
issues for improvements in selectivity and plant single location. This is presently a remote<br />
economics. scenario, but it does help to point out that in our<br />
pursuit of compliance with clean fuel quality, we<br />
Variation in Crude Oil price by about $ 20/bbl can are in effect generating increasing quantities of<br />
seriously impact the return on investment for a Carbon Dioxide and need to intensify efforts to<br />
CTL project based on the FT route. Given the reduce GHG emissions. These efforts offer the<br />
nature of investments involved in the GTL /CTL following benefits:<br />
options, it is imperative to carry out detailed site<br />
specific studies to establish the viability under<br />
different scenarios of Crude oil and gas prices. The<br />
same would apply for processes involving direct<br />
coal liquefaction through Hydrogen addition.<br />
Considering the position of coal reserves and the<br />
•<br />
•<br />
Lower Energy Costs – it makes good sense<br />
environmentally and economically to use<br />
energy more efficiently and simultaneously<br />
reduce or eliminate GHG missions.<br />
Extend the world's energy resources<br />
need to utilize them to the maximum extent, it may<br />
not be far fetched to think in terms of a “coal<br />
“refinery in future.<br />
•<br />
•<br />
Meet and beat the competition to provide<br />
better product quality<br />
Meet rising expectations for <strong>new</strong> products,<br />
With the availability of Gasification, another<br />
<strong>new</strong> technologies.<br />
potential linkage between refinery and<br />
gas/petrochemicals offers itself for consideration.<br />
Figure 3 indicates how this could be done.<br />
Optimization of CO2 emissions presents refiners<br />
with a real challenge, particularly where<br />
emissions trading schemes have been introduced.<br />
Green house gas emissions and abatement<br />
Some of the areas in which a charge for CO2<br />
emissions can drive changes in refinery operations<br />
While the above are representative of the<br />
challenges and opportunities that can be met<br />
through the application of mature technology<br />
and even in the actual configuration selected for<br />
the refinery may involve a combination of the<br />
following:<br />
options, the flip side presents issues related to • Efficiency Improvement<br />
higher energy consumption and resulting increase<br />
in emissions of Carbon Dioxide. Increasingly<br />
stringent product specifications have addressed<br />
•<br />
•<br />
Crude and fuel substitution<br />
Residue upgrading<br />
issues related to SOx, NOx, Volatile Organic<br />
Compounds and Particulate Matter through a<br />
combination of modification in the molecular<br />
•<br />
•<br />
Hydrogen production<br />
Carbon sequestration<br />
structure of the fuels and an increase in their<br />
Hydrogen content through the application of a<br />
• Modeling CO2 in LP<br />
suite of processes that are well established. The issues that have been discussed in the<br />
Carbon Dioxide, however remains a major issue. foregoing sections give a pointer to what lies<br />
It is not simple to track refining green house gas ahead and the future could see a lot of emphasis<br />
generation, but it can be assumed that processing on some of the following:<br />
of heavier and sour crude oils is expected to result<br />
in a major increase of GHG emissions as<br />
compared to a refinery based on light sweet crude<br />
• Production of Bio fuels that have higher<br />
energy densities than ethanol and bio diesel<br />
and are compatible with petroleum based
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products requirements and solutions will have to be site<br />
• Hydrogenation of fats and vegetable oils in a<br />
Diesel Hydrotreater to produce green diesel<br />
specific. However, a number of issues need to be<br />
addressed. These include the following:<br />
• Production of Syngas from biomass followed<br />
by FT synthesis to produce Hydrocarbon<br />
• Global considerations of supply and demand<br />
as well as product quality<br />
liquids • Increasing trend towards cleaner refined<br />
• Catalytic cracking of fats and oils to produce<br />
products<br />
green gasoline • Shift towards increasingly heavier crude mix<br />
• Pyrolysis or hydrothermal upgrading of<br />
biomass to provide liquids that are suitable for<br />
and oil continuing its dominance as a source<br />
of energy<br />
co processing with conventional crudes • Greater conversion capacity with emphasis on<br />
• GTL/CTL integration with refining –with<br />
accompanying challenges of CO2 capture<br />
and sequestration<br />
residue upgrading as natural gas replaces<br />
residual fuel for power generation in the<br />
energy sector<br />
•<br />
•<br />
Hydrogen production with CCS options<br />
Hydrogen and energy pinch<br />
• Meeting increasingly stringent emission<br />
norms and addressing issues related to<br />
Carbon Dioxide capture and sequestration<br />
• Heavy Oil processing will remain important in<br />
future but it is quite likely that the refining<br />
industry would, in addition, be looking at a<br />
scenario in which clean fuels, petrochemicals<br />
and chemicals are also produced from Bio-<br />
feeds provided that reliable supplies and<br />
facilities for ensuring availability of feed are in<br />
place. The feeds are not very familiar to the<br />
refiners and this lack of experience leads to an<br />
area of risk that needs to be managed<br />
effectively. A major challenge is to ensure<br />
that re<strong>new</strong>able fuel technologies should stand<br />
on their own economic merit and not rely on<br />
subsidies etc.<br />
Conclusion<br />
There has been a transformation in the face of the<br />
Indian Refining Industry in the recent past. The<br />
increasing emphasis on product quality,<br />
profitability and efficiency has thrown up a<br />
number of challenges that the refineries have to<br />
meet There is no generic configuration to meet all<br />
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Forward and backward integration is accordingly<br />
being given due consideration. The concept of<br />
refinery super sites needs careful examination.<br />
Thus two or three refineries, which are physically<br />
quite far from each other, could look into<br />
synergizing their operations, so that low value<br />
streams from one refinery can get upgraded at<br />
the other site. The accompanying issues of<br />
transportation costs, environmental stipulations,<br />
space availability etc will all need to be examined.<br />
There is a need to educate the customers about<br />
the quality and efficiency of the energy sources<br />
they use. Customers must realize that using a litre<br />
of petrol or a cubic metre of natural gas translates<br />
into more GHG's than producing these forms of<br />
energy. Providing customers with the information<br />
they need to better understand the issue of global<br />
climate change and how they can play a role in<br />
managing their energy use wisely would<br />
contribute meaningfully to addressing the world's<br />
climate change challenge.<br />
Average annual growth rate of net Percentage of India's banking Total number of complaints lodged<br />
profit and salaries/wages bill of<br />
Indian companies in lean period of<br />
business accounted for by private by customers against all banks in<br />
1999-2003, indicating both tend<br />
to move in tandem, in per cent :<br />
12&11<br />
and foreign banks : 30 2007-08, in lakhs : 11.8<br />
Number out of every 100 Ranks of 'credit card related issues'<br />
Average annual growth rate of net<br />
profit and salaries/wages bill of<br />
complaints lodged by bank among nature of customers'<br />
Indian companies in boom period customers in India that are against complaints : 1<br />
of 2003-08, in per cent : 28 & 21<br />
private and foreign banks : 93<br />
Courtesy : Business India
Bob MacKnight<br />
Lead Analyst, PFC Energy<br />
Non-OPEC Decline Rates<br />
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declining at a global average rate of 9.4% a year<br />
(6.58% including the FSU).<br />
In other words, not only were higher oil prices<br />
unable to arrest the drop in production, but the<br />
decline rates actually accelerated in recent years.<br />
The cumulative impact is that base oil production<br />
outside OPEC and the FSU (for fields online before<br />
2000) had declined by 40% between 2000 and<br />
2008. New supply, therefore, was merely<br />
offsetting drops in base production with most of<br />
Decline rates in non-OPEC countries have risen that offset coming from production rises in the FSU<br />
since 2002, despite the investment imperative of a – and even then, as decline rates kept rising, <strong>new</strong><br />
high price environment. By 2008, non-OPEC source was unable to offset declines leading to<br />
fields outside the FSU which were producing in negative production growth.<br />
2000 were declining at an average rate of 9.4% a<br />
year. The rate would be 6.6% if the FSU were<br />
Regional trends in decline rates<br />
included. The decline rate has been increasing<br />
steadily in the past five years, evidence of the • Europe shows the largest decline rates in the<br />
industry's inability to arrest decline in mature non-OPEC world, primarily as the result of the<br />
fields. Regional variations, however, are maturity of North Sea oil production. By<br />
important. In Europe decline rates for mature 2008, the decline rate for fields producing oil<br />
fields are in excess of 30%; in Asia Pacific rates are<br />
as low as 4%. And just as high oil prices were<br />
unable to reverse decline rates, it is unlikely that<br />
low oil prices will accelerate them: aggregate<br />
decline rates are driven by resource depletion.<br />
in 2000 was over 30%, double the decline rate<br />
in 2007. In fact, base production from these<br />
older fields in 2008 was just 32% of what it<br />
was in 2000 – a loss of approximately 3.5<br />
million b/d.<br />
Decline rates accelerate all over the non-<br />
OPEC world<br />
Decline rates in non-OPEC and non-FSU supply<br />
have risen steadily in recent years, despite high oil<br />
prices: fields that were online in 2000 have been<br />
declining at an average global rate of 6.2% a year<br />
in the period from 2000 to 2008. Even that<br />
number aggregates lower decline rates in 2000-<br />
2003 with rising decline rates thereafter. By<br />
2008, fields in non-OPEC countries and outside<br />
the FSU that were in production in 2000 were<br />
• Non-OPEC Middle East and North Africa<br />
(MENA) follows with decline rates for older<br />
fields in 2008 being 9%. By 2008, non-OPEC<br />
MENA fields were producing 40% less than in<br />
2000 reflecting across the board declines in<br />
Egypt, Syria, Oman, Tunisia, Yemen and<br />
Bahrain.<br />
• In non-OPEC West Africa decline rates were<br />
6.6% in 2008 with drops coming from Gabon,<br />
Congo and Cameroon. In total, the region's
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mature fields produced 47% less in 2008 than industry recovered from the collapse in<br />
in 2000.<br />
Russian oil production following the<br />
disintegration of the Soviet Union. These<br />
• In Latin America the decline rate for older lower declines rates reflect in part the fact that<br />
fields was 6.3% with Mexico accounting for the Russian oil production refocused on producing<br />
majority of that (due to the steep declines at more from existing fields or from sections of<br />
Cantarell), although declines in Argentina are<br />
also contributing to the total. In sum, the<br />
fields previously undeveloped.<br />
region's pre-2000 fields produced 32% less in<br />
2008 than in 2000.<br />
• In the United States and Canada, the average<br />
decline rate for fields producing in 2000 was<br />
5.4%. The two countries' mature fields<br />
produced 33% less in 2008 than in 2000.<br />
• In the Asia-Pacific region, declines in 2008<br />
were 4.1% with drops coming from Indonesia,<br />
Australia, Vietnam, and Brunei. In total, the<br />
region's old fields produced 35% less in 2008<br />
than in 2000.<br />
• In the FSU and Eastern Europe, declines for<br />
older fields were lower, with the region<br />
producing more in 2008 than in 2000 as the<br />
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Percentage of world's wind Average number of children Slowdown experienced in average<br />
turbines that are located in worldwide who are killed due to reaction time by persons making<br />
Germany and USA : 24 & 18 accidental injuries every day:2,000 hands-free mobile calls while<br />
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driving than those who were not, in<br />
Percentage of world's wind Percentage of global child-injury milliseconds : 212<br />
turbines that are located in India deaths caused by 'Fall' : 4.2<br />
Implications for future decline rates<br />
The inability to arrest decline rates over the <strong>last</strong><br />
few years demonstrates that higher oil prices,<br />
whatever the positive economic impact on <strong>new</strong><br />
projects or to the attractiveness of reworking older<br />
projects, were unable to reverse or even arrest<br />
growing decline rates around the world. In fact,<br />
decline rates seem to be uncorrelated with oil<br />
prices or technology at least on an aggregate<br />
level. Hence, the good <strong>new</strong>s is that the drop in oil<br />
prices does not fundamentally alter the decline<br />
rate in existing production; but the bad <strong>new</strong>s is<br />
that the decline is already very high, especially in<br />
certain basins, making the task of replacing that<br />
oil increasingly more burdensome.<br />
and China : 8 & 6 Percentage increased in error rate<br />
Percentage of global child-injury by those using hands-free mobile<br />
deaths caused by 'War' : 2.3 kit than those who were not : 83<br />
Courtesy : Business India
Rajiv Puri<br />
Associate Director, Advisory Services,<br />
Ernst & Young Pvt. Ltd<br />
The world economies are witnessing turbulent<br />
times with global economic slowdown and<br />
recessionary trends. Virtually all geographies and<br />
industries are getting impacted due to lack of<br />
credit, declining asset valuations, defaults and<br />
volatility in commodity and currency markets.<br />
Globally, the oil & gas (O&G) industry is facing<br />
significant challenges & risks. A recent study done<br />
by Ernst & Young showed that key business drivers<br />
influencing risks faced by companies are macro<br />
threats emerging from general geopolitical and<br />
macro-economic environment; sector threats<br />
which emerge from trends that are reshaping the<br />
industry and operational threats which have<br />
become so intense that they may impact the<br />
strategic performance of leading firms.<br />
After spiraling over the <strong>last</strong> few years,<br />
international crude oil prices have declined from<br />
USD 147 per barrel to USD 40 per barrel. Pricing<br />
weakness and tightening of access to credit and<br />
capital are difficulties faced by many energy<br />
companies in the current economic situation. This<br />
has necessitated companies to revisit their<br />
investment decisions so that they could either<br />
scale back the investment or delay or shelve the<br />
planned investment in exploration projects.<br />
Additionally, the surge in the exploration cost for a<br />
project has put stress on investment and capital<br />
needs thus, impacting the return on investment.<br />
Although upstream spend by national oil<br />
companies (NOCs) and private players is not<br />
expected to decline drastically, for the smaller<br />
industry players – who are not well-capitalized<br />
and/or were previously relying on private equity<br />
firms and hedge funds for finances – the current<br />
scenario has become very risky. Indian upstream<br />
companies continue to cite high raw material,<br />
high service cost and tight rig market as key<br />
contributors to inflationary pressures and project<br />
delays.<br />
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Bearing in mind the existing scenario, it is<br />
important for O&G companies to have a good<br />
understanding of the ways in which these<br />
challenges can be responded to. This would<br />
enable companies to efficiently manage risks,<br />
optimize performance and increase operational<br />
effectiveness. It is pertinent for O&G companies to<br />
have a robust and effective project risk<br />
management framework including policy,<br />
structure, process & monitoring procedures.<br />
Risk management is a process that identifies<br />
potential events, that may refrain an entity from<br />
achieving project objectives and prioritizes risk<br />
events based on its severity. Further it develops<br />
mitigation plans to manage identified projects<br />
risks within defined risk appetite and monitor<br />
these risks on periodic intervals to provide<br />
reasonable assurance regarding achievement of<br />
project objectives.<br />
It has to be understood that risk management is<br />
not just about avoiding risk. But, it is a process to<br />
identify risks inherent to a project and pro-actively<br />
address these to minimize loss and enhance<br />
stakeholder value. Effective risk management<br />
helps in avoiding surprises, ensuring better<br />
governance, facilitating effective decision making<br />
and enables operational efficiencies.<br />
Exploration and production (E&P) companies<br />
should proactively identify emerging project<br />
execution risks, mitigation strategies for<br />
managing risks and oversight systems in order to<br />
assess the current environment and accordingly<br />
adapt/modify the project execution plan. E&P<br />
projects are inherently dependant on local and<br />
global uncertainties; long gestation period and<br />
high capital cost with long payback period require<br />
assessment of downside risk of non-discoveries<br />
and variance in the envisaged product portfolio.<br />
The key to success of an exploration project is to<br />
have robust budgeting, forecasting, risk analysis<br />
and monitoring systems.<br />
E&P companies are exposed to project risks<br />
relating to identification of right geographical<br />
location & assets, identifying right exploration<br />
portfolio, selection of partner & alliances, realistic<br />
reserve analysis and access to capital & cost. The<br />
key to asset selection success is the “ability to<br />
predict” while conducting a comprehensive<br />
portfolio risk assessment exercise. For each
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exploration project, a company should have a impairment and review fair value and hedge<br />
process to evaluate investment risks as part of its<br />
screening process – taking into account petroleum<br />
accounting guidance.<br />
potential, operating risks, operators' capability,<br />
clarity of profit sharing, contract adherence,<br />
political stability, geographical conditions and<br />
project types and sizes. These risk factors are<br />
The other risks that are inherent to the exploration<br />
projects are political risks of other countries,<br />
safety, security, health, environmental and<br />
taken into account in profitability analyses.<br />
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litigation risks. Key to effective risk management is<br />
to raise the efficiency of the project management<br />
processes including procurement, subsurface<br />
Exploration projects deal with petroleum reserves evaluation, investment decision-making and<br />
potentially lying kilometers beneath the surface of knowledge management.<br />
the earth, making it difficult to visualize and<br />
understand the petroleum geology at such depths.<br />
The board of directors should be involved at the<br />
Absolute geological confidence is therefore rare,<br />
appropriate time in evaluating risk and reward<br />
and considerable geological uncertainty prevails.<br />
trade-offs to have appropriate tone at the top and<br />
Still, the availability of sufficient data and detailed<br />
embed a risk management culture within the<br />
geological analyses could reduce this uncertainty<br />
organization.<br />
and exploration risks to acceptable levels. The key<br />
factors to be considered are likelihood of finding<br />
The guiding principles in implementing a risk<br />
traps and reservoirs and volume of petroleum<br />
management framework is to understand project<br />
generated, assessment of the sizes of resources or<br />
objectives and deliverables, focus on significant<br />
reserves in each target area, to control finding<br />
risks (risks that matter), evaluate current<br />
costs, (geophysical surveys and drilling) and raise<br />
drilling and exploration efficiency.<br />
competency to manage identified risks, enhance<br />
risk management competency by developing<br />
mitigation plans, define roles, responsibilities and<br />
At an operating level, exploration projects have accountability to manage risks and implement<br />
regulatory, technical, geological and geophysical monitoring and oversight structure.<br />
(G&G), engineering, environmental, health &<br />
safety (EHS), financial, production & marketing<br />
risks.<br />
Key components of any risk management process<br />
are: risk assessment to identify and prioritize risks;<br />
risk competence Scan to evaluate the<br />
The credit risks faced by exploration projects organization's current capability to manage its<br />
relates to key counterparties, lenders, vendors, risks; risk management enhancement for<br />
suppliers and partners. Adequacy of credit risk improvement in the overall level of risk<br />
management and reporting process has to be management competency by identifying the<br />
assessed along with credit and collection policies, initiatives to improve the risk mitigation<br />
approved counterparties, master netting capabilities, institutionalize policies and<br />
agreements and collateral requirements to procedures to establish risk governance<br />
manage credit risk and exposure. Impact of framework in the organization and monitoring<br />
current counterparty credit risk and related process to review the implementation status of<br />
concentrations of risk to derivative valuations and specific plans to address significant risks and<br />
disclosures should also be adequately assessed. <strong>final</strong>ly risk remediation to implement the<br />
initiatives identified to enhance the risk mitigation<br />
capabilities.<br />
From a financial risk perspective, companies<br />
should evaluate liquidity by stress testing cash<br />
flows, working capital needs and assess cash and In the present environment, robust and proactive<br />
cash equivalents for risk of loss and devaluation. project risk management procedures can assist<br />
Companies also have to manage exchange & E&P companies in managing their projects in a<br />
interest rate fluctuation risks and evaluate assets more effective manner in order to deliver on its<br />
such as investments, receivables and goodwill for operational and financial parameters.
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee<br />
Group Leader – Process<br />
Lurgi India Company Pvt. Ltd.<br />
High Performance Trays in<br />
Distillation Operation<br />
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A conventional tray has three functional zones:<br />
1. Active area for mixing vapour and liquid<br />
2. Vapour space above the active area<br />
3. Downcomer between trays<br />
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A proper tray design involves balancing these<br />
three zones to achieve the desired objectives. The<br />
skill involved is in striking the best balance<br />
between the active and downcomer areas.<br />
For a greenfields plant, a well designed High performance trays function by improving<br />
conventional tray generally provides the best performance in one or more of the three<br />
solution for vapour-liquid contacting. However, functional zones.<br />
with the passage of time, increasing demand for<br />
throughput, has compelled operators to operate<br />
the column to a limit where conventional trays<br />
become a bottleneck.<br />
Limits of a Conventional Tray<br />
High Capacity Choices<br />
C r o s s - F l o w Tr a y s w i t h Tr u n c a t e d<br />
Downcomers<br />
The introduction of high performance trays have<br />
been one of the highlights of distillation processes Increasing the active bubbling area: A normal tray<br />
in the 1990s. They offer practical solutions for has an area under the entering downcomer and<br />
revamping processes to achieve higher capacities. over the exiting downcomer where liquid and<br />
High performance trays can increase throughput vapour cannot come into contact. Typically, the<br />
by 10 – 25% over a good conventional tray design. downcomer top area accounts for 15 – 25% of the<br />
column cross-section area, leaving as little as 50%<br />
for active bubbling area. This reduces the tray's<br />
Active Area<br />
Conventional Trays<br />
Smaller Active Area<br />
Active Area<br />
High Performance Trays<br />
Larger Active Area<br />
Figure 1 : Conventional Trays vs. High Performance Trays
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vapour handling capacity significantly. The liquid flowrate. A swept-back weir (Figure 2)<br />
inactive area of a conventional tray is precisely achieves this on a conventional tray. Multi<br />
what such high performance trays attempt to downcomer tray also uses this approach.<br />
address. The downcomers are sloped from top However. its downcomer length is far longer than<br />
and truncated above the tray deck and the area<br />
under it can be as “true active area” for<br />
that of a conventional tray.<br />
fractionation. The capacity increase as a result, is In multidowncomer trays the flow path from inlet<br />
of the same order as the percentage gain in the to outlet is short. This reduces the tray efficiency.<br />
active area (refer Figure 1). The Superfrac trays by However, recent developments claim higher<br />
Koch-Glitsch and VG Plus trays by Sulzer<br />
Chemtech work on this principle.<br />
efficiencies for such trays. Multi downcomers have<br />
large total weir length. This, alongwith large<br />
downcomer areas provide high liquid handling<br />
In addition, such trays also combine the following<br />
facilities to achieve the best possible results.<br />
capability. Such trays can handle large liquid<br />
loads, particularly when the volumetric ratio<br />
Decreasing weir load : Increasing the length of<br />
the outlet weir cuts the weir load and weir crest,<br />
and consequently lowers tray pressure drop (refer<br />
Figure 2). This raises the tray capacity. The crest<br />
height over the weir is expressed by the following<br />
equation :<br />
between vapour and liquid rates is low.<br />
Multidowncomer trays can have tray spacings as<br />
low as 300 mm. This facilitates larger number of<br />
trays for a given column height. The MDTM trays<br />
offered by UOP and the Hi-Fi trays offered by<br />
Shell/Sulzer Chemtech work on this principle.<br />
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C H = 0.4 (L / W L)<br />
Downcomers, including truncated ones, reduce<br />
CH Crest height, inches of liquid<br />
the active area available. On alternative is to use<br />
L Liquid flow rate, gpm<br />
a tray without downcomers, i.e., the dual flow tray.<br />
WL Outlet weir length, inches<br />
Low Pressure Drop Valves : Low pressure drop<br />
Without downcomer, the liquid must go down<br />
valves lowers the liquid height in the downcomer.<br />
through the same hole through which the vapour<br />
So, more liquid can be fed into the downcomer,<br />
rises.<br />
increasing the liquid handling capacity.<br />
Such trays have the added advantage of higher<br />
efficiencies compared to conventional trays on<br />
account on a better tray deck design.<br />
Multi Downcomer Trays<br />
Standard Downcomer with Swept<br />
Back Weir<br />
Increasing the weir length through which a liquid<br />
flows decreases the pressure drop for a given<br />
Figure 2 : Types of Downcomers<br />
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Trays Without Downcomers<br />
Arc Downcomer<br />
In dual flow trays, the liquid and vapour should<br />
pass through the same hole at the same time.<br />
However, this is unlikely. Either vapour and liquid<br />
pass through separate holes at the same time, or<br />
the liquid and vapour flows in pulses at different<br />
times. In the latter case, most of the holes pass<br />
vapour while the liquid level builds up. Then,<br />
when the liquid reaches sufficient static height to<br />
overcome the vapour flow, most of the holes will
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pass liquid. performance trays. This eliminated a liquid load<br />
Dual flow trays tend to have open areas as high as bottleneck in the top section of the column.<br />
25%. High hole areas reduce stable operating<br />
range of the tray. Dual flow trays have another Installing high performance trays allowed the top<br />
drawback – lower efficiencies. The path length of section of the column to handle 50% additional<br />
dual trays is essentially zero. This reduces liquid load compared to the previous maximum<br />
efficiencies by 30 – 40%. On the other load without deterioration of the column<br />
hand, dual flow trays have higher capacities than performance. With the <strong>new</strong> trays the columns<br />
conventional trays. have also shown improved separation efficiency,<br />
resulting in a 3 – 4% increase in NGL production.<br />
Various modifications have been made to improve<br />
the dual flow design. Prime among them are The combination of these two effects produced a<br />
Stone and Webster Ripple tray and Shell Turbogrid payback period, on the cost of the revamp, of less<br />
tray. These designs provide greater operating than 1 month. The <strong>new</strong> trays were installed on<br />
flexibility than the standard dual flow design. existing tray supports without additional internal<br />
High Performance Tray Applications<br />
High performance trays have been successfully<br />
used in many applications including ethylene<br />
plants. Notable among them are the Primary<br />
welding. Removal of the old trays and installation<br />
of 18 high performance trays for one column took<br />
10 days during a scheduled shutdown.<br />
Conclusion<br />
Fractionator, the Caustic Scrubber, Demathaniser, High performance trays can greatly increase<br />
HP Depropaniser, LP Depropaniser, Deethaniser, distillation tower capacity. However, they should<br />
C2 Splitter, C3 Splitter. be used with caution. While many plants have had<br />
successes, others have had repeated failures.<br />
At Saudi Aramco's Shedgum and Uthmaniyah gas Often, the difference between success and failure<br />
plants, six demethanizer columns were revamped is understanding the performance limits and<br />
by replacing conventional valve trays with high- compromises in advance.<br />
Lew Watts<br />
President & CEO, PFC Energy<br />
In the October-December, 2008 issue (Vol. 6, Issue 4) of the PetroFed journal the article on page<br />
12 on the subject 'Where to Cut in the Upstream? The Answers are not Obvious – the<br />
Implications are Major', carried the photograph of Mr. Lew Watts, President & CEO, PFC Energy<br />
who had contributed the article. Unfortunately, beneath the photograph the name mentioned<br />
was Evonne Tan, Associate Analyst, Upstream Competition Service, PFC Energy – Kuala<br />
Lumpur.<br />
Correction<br />
It may kindly be noted that the article had been contributed by Mr. Lew Watts and that the<br />
photograph published was of Mr. Lew Watts. The error is deeply regretted.<br />
- Editor
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Associate Director,<br />
PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd.<br />
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but dried up, with several potential deals being<br />
cancelled and no <strong>new</strong> major deals announced.<br />
The increase in deal numbers was wholly<br />
attributable to upstream activity and smaller deals<br />
below US$0.5bn. In contrast, there were<br />
significant falls in the number of larger value deals<br />
and a big falling-off of very large deals. There<br />
were only two deals that topped the US$5bn mark<br />
in 2008 compared with ten such deals in 2007.<br />
Reserves acquisition, rather than acreage,<br />
“Indian companies, public and private, accounted for 94% of total 2008 upstream deal<br />
bought assets overseas more than they sold value. Companies continued to seek growth<br />
during the year, although the value and primarily through acquisition as opposed to<br />
number of deals failed to reflect the energy exploration as the oil price soared in the first half<br />
independence agenda. Within the domestic of the year. Purchases in relatively stable locations<br />
basins, some reserves changed hands during such as Australia and Canada featured strongly as<br />
the high oil price period early in the year companies looked to safe havens to secure<br />
2008, with the later part of the year going reserves to meet future energy demand.<br />
near dry.”<br />
Like the oil price, 2008 was a tale of ups and<br />
2008 was the "Tale of Two Halves," starting with a downs in deal numbers across different parts of<br />
fairly robust number of transactions for the first the world. Year on year deal numbers were up in<br />
half of the year, until commodity prices began a all territories with the exception of the dominant<br />
steep decline and deal activity slid alongside North American market and the Russian<br />
them. By the fourth quarter, deal activity had all Federation. The pace of deal-making everywhere,<br />
though, slowed during the year as financial and<br />
market conditions deteriorated.<br />
Figure 1 : Total Oil & Gas Deals by value and<br />
number of deals 2005-2008<br />
Oil & Gas<br />
Deals Update 2008<br />
Deals follow the oil price over a cliff<br />
A slowing in O&G deal momentum, as measured<br />
by deal value, was evident from the start of 2008<br />
compared with 2007. Deal value reduced<br />
progressively throughout 2008 before following<br />
the oil price over a cliff in the <strong>final</strong> quarter as the<br />
financial crisis intensified and economic<br />
conditions deteriorated. Companies slammed on<br />
the brakes in the <strong>final</strong> quarter with total O&G deal<br />
value down 59% on 2007 levels and 72%<br />
compared with the <strong>final</strong> quarter high of 2006.<br />
Figure 2 : Size of deals, 2008 (year on year % change in parenthesis)
Big deals in retreat<br />
Gas grabs top spot<br />
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Indeed, the rush to develop Australian coal bed<br />
methane gas assets for LNG export helped<br />
Even before the worsening of the economic catapult Australia's share of worldwide O&G deal<br />
climate and the oil price plunge, big deals were in value up tenfold. Upstream deal value in Australia<br />
retreat. There were only two deals that topped the multiplied, from US$1.7bn in 2007 to US$16.6bn<br />
US$5bn mark in 2008 compared with ten such in 2008.<br />
deals in 2007. The hiatus in big deals was<br />
especially marked in the oilfield services sector.<br />
The sector had been particularly dynamic in 2007<br />
with three US$5bn plus deals worth a total of The immediate outlook for O&G deal-making in<br />
US$31.4bn. In 2008, the number of deals the early part of 2009 is bleak. However, while<br />
remained high, but the complete disappearance deal activity in the first half of the year looks set to<br />
of US$5bn plus deals meant total deal value in the remain subdued, it is difficult to see stronger<br />
sector nearly halved. players remaining on the sidelines for the whole of<br />
2009 given the opportunities for acquisitions at<br />
low valuations. Many of the majors and national<br />
oil companies are in a strong position following a<br />
Six of the top ten 2008 O&G deals were purchases period of high oil prices. For companies from<br />
of gas assets. Five of the six were for countries such as China the current market offers<br />
'unconventional' resources that require unrivalled opportunities to gain access which, in<br />
considerable technological investment. All of other circumstances, would be denied to them.<br />
them were in Australia and North America Similarly, sovereign wealth funds and many<br />
reflecting the attraction of targets in stable private equity investors will be watching the sector<br />
locations close to end markets as companies closely.<br />
responded to security of supply constraints.<br />
Key Regional Markets<br />
North America<br />
The fall in North America O&G deal volume from number of big deals that really hit total value.<br />
its 2006 US$164.7bn high accelerated sharply in There were just 15 deals in 2008 worth US$1bn or<br />
2008. Total deal value fell 43%, from US$129.7bn above, for example, compared to 31 in 2007. This<br />
in 2007 to US$73.6bn in 2008. Deal numbers alone accounted for US$49.4bn of the total<br />
were down by 8% but it was a halving of the US$56bn year on year fall in total deal value.<br />
Figure 3 : North America oil and gas deals by sector 2007-08<br />
South America<br />
South America followed the trend elsewhere of share it did not own in Peregrino, a heavy oil field<br />
declining O&G deal value. Deal-making in 2008 in Brazil, and 25% of the deep water Kaskida<br />
tended to be concentrated in countries such as discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, from US company<br />
Brazil, Columbia and Chile which, unlike Anadarko Petroleum. The deal reflected intense<br />
countries such as Venezuela, are more open to interest in the growth of the upstream industry in<br />
modernisation and internationalisation. The Brazil but, also, stood out in a year when there was<br />
largest deal was Norwegian company less international activity in the region.<br />
StatoilHydro's US$2.1bn purchase of the half-
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Figure 4 : South America oil and gas deals by sector 2007-08<br />
Europe<br />
Oil and gas deal activity in Europe was relatively upstream and midstream value was up on the<br />
resilient compared to the big fall in volume back of a series of deals for North Sea assets and<br />
elsewhere. Deal numbers rose 64% from 77 to Enbridge's US$1.6bn sale of a 25% stake in its<br />
126 and total deal value was down 15% Spanish pipeline business, Compania Logistica de<br />
compared to a 38% drop worldwide. Indeed, Hidrocarburos.<br />
Figure 5 : Europe oil and gas deals by sector 2007-08<br />
Russia & CIS<br />
Deal activity was far more subdued in the Russian the region's O&G deal value was in the upstream<br />
Federation in 2008 with deal numbers down to 33 sector. This was significantly higher than the 62%<br />
from 41 the previous year. It was deal values, upstream share worldwide outside the region. The<br />
though, that saw the bigger drop, falling by remainder of Russian and CIS deal activity was<br />
around two thirds across all the main deal activity split evenly between the midstream and<br />
sectors. Not surprisingly, the vast majority, 82%, of downstream with only one service sector deal.<br />
Figure 6 : Russian Federation oil and gas deals by sector 2007-08<br />
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2008 deal value in the Asia Pacific region shot up Asia Pacific O&G deal value rose from just 20% in<br />
by 73%, from US$13.2bn in 2007 to US$22.7bn in 2007 to 75% in 2008. The three largest deals,<br />
2008. The dramatic rise in deal volume was ConocoPhillips /Origin, BG Group/Queensland<br />
almost wholly driven by deals to acquire Gas Company and Petronas/Santos – together<br />
Australian gas assets. Australia's share of total accounted for US$10.8bn of deal value.<br />
Figure 7 : Asia Pacific (excluding Australia) oil and gas deals by sector 2007-08<br />
Figure 8 : Australia oil and gas deals by sector 2007-08<br />
International & Africa<br />
International activity, involving either apace ahead of the oil price drop. There was an<br />
international groups of investors or assets that are increase in African deal value headed by<br />
spread across territories, remained lively in 2008. GEPetrol's US$2.2bn purchase of Devon Energy's<br />
Deal numbers edged up from 71 in 2007 to 79 in oil and gas business in Equatorial Guinea. Italian<br />
2008 although, as elsewhere, none of the deals oil and gas company Eni added to its already<br />
compared with the largest 2007 deals. Forty nine substantial oil and gas operations in Africa,<br />
of the 71 international deals were in the oilfield expanding its operations in Algeria in a US$995<br />
services sector where consolidation continued million purchase of First Calgary.<br />
Figure 9 : International oil and gas deals by sector 2007-08
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Project Management is not Merely<br />
for Project Managers<br />
Raj Kalady<br />
Managing Director, PMI India<br />
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structured approach to doing things combined<br />
with sensitization to risk, improved risk<br />
management, communication and time<br />
management. I would like to illustrate this by<br />
referring to the Project Management Body of<br />
Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), a project<br />
management guide from the Project Management<br />
Institute, and an internationally recognized<br />
standard, that provides the fundamentals of<br />
project management as they apply to a wide<br />
range of projects.<br />
The role of a Project Manager, especially in<br />
large/traditional industries like oil/petroleum is The PMBOK® Guide recognizes 42 processes that<br />
often a tenured role with job rotation ensuring fall into five basic process groups and nine<br />
that employees move on to different roles. In such knowledge areas that are typical of almost all<br />
cases how does the organization justify the projects. It is to these knowledge areas that I<br />
investments in training and certification of project would like to draw attention. The nine knowledge<br />
managers? areas are: Project Time Management, Project Cost<br />
Management, Project Quality Management,<br />
The answer is straightforward – the tenets, Project Human Resource Management, Project<br />
principles and practices of PM are easily Communications Management, Project<br />
extendable and applicable to other fields of Integration Management, Project Scope<br />
general management. For instance, if you Management, Project Risk Management, and<br />
examine some of the knowledge areas espoused Project Procurement Management.<br />
by PM – like HR, communication, time<br />
management etc you would see that they have Of the nine knowledge areas it is apparent that<br />
universal impact and would hold good for any the first five focusing on time, cost, quality, HR and<br />
function/initiative/ programme or project that the communication have a universal impact on all<br />
organization is running. facets of general management. Skills in these<br />
areas contribute to the success of a manager<br />
In fact, I would go a step further to vouch for the across any function in an organization. At the<br />
relevance and importance of PM in all facets of life same time the remaining four knowledge areas,<br />
– both personal and professional. The moment while not having a direct impact on management<br />
you have time, people, money and resources to efficiency, do contribute indirectly to effective<br />
juggle you have a project on hand – and good management. A clear case for the relevance and<br />
project management techniques can ensure the need for PM in any business that needs to run and<br />
success of the project. In fact an acquaintance of monitor multiple projects.<br />
mine recently created a work breakdown structure<br />
to successfully plan, manage and execute his Let's delve a little further – and look at the<br />
daughter's wedding! knowledge areas to gain perspective on how they<br />
can impact general management functions in an<br />
Getting back to the business context, let's look at it organization.<br />
from another perspective. Project managers<br />
appreciate and understand the importance of • Project Integration Management spans the<br />
leadership – a trait that has become even more processes and activities needed to identify,<br />
critical in the business environment of the day. define, combine, unify, and coordinate the<br />
Leadership at all levels has become a crucial various processes and project management<br />
business need to differentiate the leaders from the activities within the Project Management<br />
followers, the winners from the followers – and PM process groups. It entails many choices about<br />
delivers on this. resource allocation, making trade-offs among<br />
completing objectives and alternatives, and<br />
The all-pervasive impact of PM stems from the managing the interdependencies among the<br />
basic pedestal that it is built on – namely a project management knowledge areas.
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• Project Scope Management shows the distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate<br />
processes involved in ensuring the project disposition of project information. Effective<br />
includes all the work required, and only the communication creates a bridge between<br />
work required, for completing the project diverse stakeholders, connecting various<br />
successfully. Managing the project scope is cultural and organizational backgrounds,<br />
primarily concerned with defining and different levels of expertise, and various<br />
controlling what is and what is not included in perspectives and interests in the project<br />
the project. Here the focus is on the goal or execution or outcome. Here the manager<br />
target and the motivation to achieve the same learns to communicate effectively and<br />
is high – a skill that is extremely critical across efficiently and to leverage tools and processes<br />
functions and businesses today. to accomplish the same.<br />
• Project Time Management focuses on the • Project Risk Management covers the processes<br />
processes that are used to help ensure the related to identifying, analyzing, and<br />
timely completion of the project. In essence controlling risks for the project. Effective<br />
this helps build effective time management – Project Risk Management increases the<br />
again a crucial trait in the repertoire of probability and impact of positive events, and<br />
managerial skills. decreases the probability and impact of<br />
negative events. The process of identifying,<br />
• Project Cost Management covers the analyzing and mitigating risks becomes a<br />
processes involved in planning, estimating, habit – a surefire formula for success for any<br />
budgeting, and controlling costs so that the manager – often times it is the lack of such<br />
project can be completed within the approved foresight that leads to the failure of initiatives,<br />
budget. In the current economic and business<br />
environment the ability to understand, • Pr o j e c t Pr o c u r e m e n t M a n a g e m e n t<br />
evaluate and manage costs is an important encompasses the processes necessary to<br />
quality – that will stand the test of time. purchase or acquire products, services, or<br />
results needed from outside the project team.<br />
• Project Quality Management spans the It covers contract management and change<br />
processes and activities that determine quality control processes required to develop and<br />
policies, objectives, and responsibilities so administer contracts or purchase orders<br />
that the project meets its goals. It implements issued by authorized project team members. It<br />
the quality management system through also includes administering any contract<br />
policy and procedures with continuous issued by an outside organization (the buyer)<br />
process improvement activities conducted that is acquiring the project from the<br />
throughout, as appropriate. This instills an performing organization (the seller), and<br />
understanding of quality (which is a base administering contractual obligations placed<br />
criterion to do business in today's global on the project team by the contract.<br />
marketplace) in your managerial cadre.<br />
It is clear that training in project management and<br />
• Project Human Resource Management a certified assessment of PM capabilities stands<br />
describes the processes involved in the both the organization and the employee in good<br />
planning, acquisition, development, and stead. It arms the employee with the project<br />
management of the project team. An management skills and best practices required to<br />
important management skill that hones team handle any task/project across functions in an<br />
management including identifying team organization. For the employer a PM certified<br />
players, assigning and managing their roles professional is an asset – given the structured<br />
to meet common goals – irrespective of approach and 360 degree view that the<br />
project, business or function. professional brings to the table. Rather than<br />
becoming an investment that needs justification<br />
• Project Communications Management PM certification becomes a necessity in the current<br />
includes processes required to ensure timely business environment where resources and<br />
and appropriate generation, collection, money are scarce.
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Prof. Hamid Ali<br />
Director of Petroleum Studies,<br />
Aligarh Muslim University<br />
An Energy Saving Option in<br />
Process Industry<br />
Energy resources will continue to play an<br />
important role in India's future, being a major<br />
growing economy and having large boundaries.<br />
However it is heavily dependent upon imported<br />
crude oil for its energy requirements affecting its<br />
balance of payment adversely. The majority of<br />
India's population is still living in rural areas and<br />
has no access to modern forms of energy which is<br />
central to economic development. Thus there is a<br />
need to examine other alternatives.<br />
One option is to conserve energy by replacing and<br />
installing energy efficient equipments which<br />
should be cheap and require little or no<br />
maintenance as energy saved is, energy<br />
Table - 1 Process Reboiler<br />
name/column<br />
Alkylation Sulfuric Depropanizer<br />
Desiobutanizer<br />
Alkylation (HY) Acid Rerum<br />
Depropanizer<br />
Acid Stripper<br />
Deisobutanizer<br />
Debutanizer<br />
Catalytic Reformer Stabilizer<br />
Aromatic Recovery Stripper<br />
Pre-extractor<br />
Gas Plant Stabilizer<br />
Stripper<br />
De-ethanizer/<br />
Absorber Stripper<br />
Debutanizer<br />
Rerun (naptha splitter)<br />
Depropanizer<br />
Depentanizer<br />
Stabilizer<br />
Sulfur<br />
Sour water stripper<br />
Recovery<br />
Amine regeneration<br />
Miscellaneous Vaporizer<br />
Splitter<br />
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generated. In view of these aspects, Vertical Tube<br />
Thermosiphon Reboilers have proven to be highly<br />
effective and efficient equipment in heating as<br />
well as cooling circuits for multiple applications of<br />
all the reboiler types. Vertical tube thermosiphon<br />
reboilers are most widely used in petroleum<br />
refining, natural gas, petrochemical and chemical<br />
processing industries where significant capital<br />
investment is represented by vaporizers,<br />
evaporators and reboilers due to a number of<br />
advantages over the other types. In these<br />
industries about 60% of their total operating costs<br />
are represented by these systems.<br />
What is a Thermosiphon?<br />
Thermosiphon reboiler is essentially a closed loop<br />
circulation system where movement of fluid takes<br />
place due to the density difference of liquid and<br />
two-phase mixture in cold and hot legs<br />
respectively. Thermosiphon boiling of liquids in<br />
vertical tubes also play a decisive role in power<br />
plants and nuclear reactors and offers a potential<br />
means of storage and transportation of solar<br />
energy. The vertical tube thermosiphon reboilers<br />
(recirculating type) when designed and operated<br />
properly provide an efficient and economical<br />
Purpose<br />
Remove and collect from alkylate system<br />
Recycle acid stream to remove contaminants<br />
Remove and collect propane from alkylate stream<br />
Remove acid from propane stream<br />
Produce low vapor pressure alkylate gasoline<br />
Remove and collect butane from deisobutanizer stream<br />
Remove butane and lighter hydrocarbons from reformer stream<br />
Remove and collect aromatics from solvent hydrocarbon stream<br />
Remove butane and lighter hydrocarbons from reformate charge<br />
Remove water from solvent<br />
Remove and collect benzene from aromatics stream<br />
Remove and collect toluene from aromatics stream<br />
Remove and collect xylene from aromatics stream<br />
Remove butanes and lighter hydrocarbons from gasoline product<br />
Remove very light hydrocarbons such as methane and ethane<br />
Produce low -vapor pressure alkylate gasoline Stabilize gasoline<br />
component<br />
Recycle to polish lean oil (solvent) of lighter gasoline fraction<br />
Remove and collect propane<br />
Remove butane and lighter hydrocarbons from gasoline stream<br />
Remove butane and lighter hydrocarbons from gasoline stream<br />
Remove and collect H2S and NH3 from water stream<br />
Regenerate amine for recycle<br />
Normally found in fuel system to remove butanes<br />
Separation of two or more hydrocarbon fractions by distillation
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means of excellent heat transfer rates, short receives the heat from the heat flux supplied and<br />
residence times of liquids in the reboiler tube its temperature rises as it moves upward. When<br />
which minimizes the risk of thermal degradation, vaporization takes place in the tubes, the specific<br />
most compact dimensions, simple in construction, volume of the fluid is increased resulting in its<br />
low manufacturing cost, easy to support, ease of upward movement while the liquid is siphoned<br />
cleaning and maintenance and since the reboiler from the adjoining cold leg. Depending upon the<br />
can be set close to the column, the frictional losses heat flux applied the flow regimes which may<br />
in the inlet and outlet piping and cost of vapor occur in boiling two-phase flow is out lined in<br />
lines are minimized. Thus this reboiler type is very Figure 2. Thus the heat transfer to the liquid<br />
reliable, has far lower operating costs than other reboiler tube generates a changing two-phase<br />
reboiler and can be used in a wide range of flow with various flow regimes spread along the<br />
operating pressures and temperatures. However tube length depending upon wall heat flux, inlet<br />
in the design of thermosiphon reboilers, special liquid temperature, liquid level in the column and<br />
care for low pressure drop has to be taken as the physical properties of the fluids. The heat transfer<br />
circulation is due to the density difference of liquid and hydrodynamics interact with each other in the<br />
& two-phase mixture. Some important thermosiphon reboiler under the influence of<br />
applications of reboilers found in a typical various governing operating parameters. The<br />
petroleum processing units have been point at which two-phase flow begins is known as<br />
summarized by Huchler as given in Table – 1. incipient point of boiling (IPB). The IPB divides the<br />
tubes into two distinct regions with significantly<br />
In a process industry, the equipment is generally a different modes and heat transfer coefficients.<br />
1 – 1 exchanger placed vertically, with upper tube Non-boiling single phase (convection dominated<br />
sheet close to the liquid of the bottoms in the sub-cooled boiling with low heat transfer<br />
column as shown in Figure 1. The process fluid coefficient) and boiling (fully developed saturated<br />
entering the vertical tubes of heat exchanger boiling with very high value of heat transfer
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coefficient). Therefore prediction of boiling nuclear boiling diminishes resulting in its<br />
incipience heat transfer and circulation rates are decreasing the overall of heat transfer<br />
the primary requirements for the design and coefficient as the film coefficient is greater in<br />
efficient operation of the thermosiphon reboiler.<br />
Vertical tube thermosiphon reboiler is generally<br />
the nucleate boiling.<br />
operated either as heat transfer equipment or as a (v) The lower tower pressure results in a lower<br />
separation system. When the thermosiphon percent vaporization, therefore, for pressure<br />
reboiler is operated as the heat transfer unit, it less than 5.0 psig, 15% may be the highest<br />
generates the vapour phase for counter current<br />
two-phase vapour-liquid flow required for<br />
vaporization for a thermosiphon reboiler.<br />
components separation in a rectification or (vi) The vertical tube length is usually 2.5 to 5.0 m<br />
stripping column. Performance specification for (8 to 16 ft), although lengths upto 6.0 meter<br />
the reboiler is given by a heat duty and (20 ft is quite common). Longer tubes are<br />
optimization aims to increase the overall heat possible, but the whole distillation column<br />
transfer coefficient and/or reduce the driving would have to be raised to accommodate<br />
temperature difference. However when them. Tube length less than about 1.8 meter<br />
thermosiphon reboiler is operated as separation (6 ft.) leads to uneconomical designs.<br />
unit, it will be specified through a concentration of<br />
volatile product in the concentrate. Typical (vii) The outlet nozzle of the reboiler and the return<br />
applications are: water– ethylene glycol, acetone- pipe to the distillation column may be<br />
water, ethanol-water etc.<br />
designed in a number of ways, however, the<br />
side – outlet type is the simplest and the most<br />
While considering a vertical tube thermosiphon commonly used. Generally the flow area in<br />
reboiler for a duty, following guidelines must be the outlet nozzle is equal to that in the tubes to<br />
strictly observed:<br />
avoid instability. The inlet nozzle may enter<br />
the lower header at the bottom or side,<br />
(i) Most commonly the thermosiphon reboiler is whichever is most convenient depending<br />
operated/designed in the region of slug flow. upon the header type and ground clearance.<br />
As the two-phase move in the upward The diameter of the inlet nozzle and pipe work<br />
direction the percent vapor flow increases and is less than that of the outlet nozzle, as it is only<br />
the flow type becomes an annular or mist flow. required to carry single phase liquid and a<br />
The mist flow pattern decreases the value of high pressure drop here will usually improve<br />
heat transfer coefficient considerably. The<br />
percent vaporization therefore should not be<br />
the stability of the unit.<br />
more than about 30% by weight.<br />
(viii)For low pressure operation (less than 0.2 bar)<br />
the problem is of achieving steady nucleate<br />
(ii) The viscosity of the feed should be less than boiling because of the relatively large volume<br />
approximately 0.50 cp otherwise the flow of vapour produced by a small amount of<br />
difficulty may occur.<br />
vaporization. At low pressure the sensible<br />
heat duty is large and this can lead to a low<br />
(iii) The tower level for the thermosiphon reboiler average heat transfer coefficient. High<br />
(natural circulation) should be great enough pressure operation is made difficult because it<br />
to overcome the pressure drop to inlet flow is easy to exceed the critical heat flux and<br />
line, exchanger and return line. Hence the phase density differences that drives the<br />
unit should be designed considering a large<br />
liquid level for safety. For natural circulation,<br />
circulation is small.<br />
vertical exchanger is to set the top of the tube (ix) Vertical tube thermosiphon reboiler performs<br />
at the lowest design liquid level as too high a more efficiently at the liquid submergence<br />
level may be detrimental to the exchanger level of 50 to 75%. Though the value of heat<br />
operation.<br />
transfer coefficient was very high for some<br />
systems whose viscosities were less, when the<br />
(iv) The IPB has clearly indicated the two distinct submergence level was maintained at 30%.<br />
regions which depend strongly on the liquid The performance of reboiler got adversely<br />
head. When the level head increases for affected for system having high viscosity like<br />
vertical exchangers, the liquid head forces ethylene glycol as the flow became very low<br />
liquid to higher levels in the tubes. Thus and intermittent. Thus it is recommended that<br />
convective transfer is predominant and while considering vertical tube thermosiphon<br />
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reboiler for any operation the viscosity of the entering into the reboiler.<br />
feed should be less then approximately 0.5 cp.<br />
Note: The article contains information from the open literature<br />
and the work carried out by the author on a number of organic<br />
(x) The development of oscillations is higher at<br />
liquids and their binary mixtures.<br />
low liquid submergence and more with<br />
organic liquids than water therefore a valve<br />
must be incorporated in the pipeline before<br />
Obituary<br />
He was an independent consultant for the past<br />
15 years rendering service to institutes,<br />
corporates and Government in India and<br />
aborad. He also found time in between to<br />
deliver lectures. He prepared a policy paper<br />
on India's Road to Hydrogen Economy for the<br />
Indian National Academy of Engineering along<br />
with Dr. T. K. Roy in 2006 and delivered the<br />
Dr. P. K. Mukhopadhyay<br />
keynote address in use and supply of hydrogen<br />
in petroleum refining, petrochemicals and<br />
After over 50 years of dedicated contribution to<br />
fertilizers at the Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust<br />
the oil & gas industry, the brilliant chemical<br />
workshop.<br />
engineer Dr. Pranab Kumar Mukhopadhyay,<br />
74, passed away on March 15, 2009 after a<br />
brief illness. He is survived by his wife and two He was a recipient of the Lala Shriram National<br />
daughters.<br />
Award for Leadership in Chemical Industry by<br />
the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers and<br />
the NRDC Award for Invention of Solvent<br />
A gold medalist in chemical engineering from<br />
Extraction Process for production of pure<br />
Jadavpur University and Ph.D. in Technology<br />
aromatics. He was a Fellow of the Indian<br />
from Gubkin Petroleum Institute, Moscow, his<br />
Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Indian<br />
five decade professional experience covered<br />
National Academy of Engineering.<br />
technical service, teaching, R&D, consultancy<br />
and working in close association with research<br />
& academic institutes, operating companies Dr. Mukhopadhyay had been a key speaker at<br />
and commercialising a number of processes prestigious conferences and seminars. His <strong>last</strong><br />
and products. With 30 publications and 50 lecture, probably, was on the PetroFed platform<br />
papers presented in various national and to invitees on Energy Saving in Pumps, Fans<br />
international fora, Dr. Mukhopadhyay was a and Compressors on December 30, 2008.<br />
recipient of the Petrotech 2005 Life-time<br />
Achievement Award. Our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved<br />
family.<br />
Beginning his career with the Stanvac Refinery<br />
(now HPCL Refinery) at Mumbai in 1955 he<br />
later taught chemical engineering at IIT, Delhi<br />
before heading the R&D of Engineers India<br />
Limited for 13 years. In 1983 he became the<br />
first full time Director on the Board for R&D at<br />
IndianOil. He also served IndianOil as its<br />
Chairman.
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In the long term interest of the Indian economy, the principle rule and allow the prices to be regulated<br />
Petroleum Federation of India circulated this by competition so that consumers are not<br />
thought leadership paper on January 15, 2009 burdened unduly.<br />
during the Petrotech-2009 international oil & gas<br />
conference & exhibition advocating market The good times have arrived – crude oil prices<br />
determined prices for petroleum products for have plummeted and reached a four year low.<br />
healthy growth of the industry. Private oil companies have begun to restart the<br />
retail operations they had closed down. Most<br />
- Editor importantly, soon there would be a <strong>new</strong>ly elected<br />
Executive Summary<br />
Strike when the Iron Is Hot…<br />
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government at the centre with a fresh mandate<br />
from the public. It may not be compelled to take<br />
populist decisions. Election manifestos will be<br />
Over the past four years and till few months back, drafted soon; the petroleum sector and the<br />
high crude prices caused mayhem. Economies stakeholders would like political parties to spell<br />
were threatened and oil importing countries had out their plans on petroleum product pricing<br />
serious cause for worry when Big Oil and oil policy.<br />
exporting countries were rejoicing. At home,<br />
public oil marketing companies reported losses The Integrated Energy Policy also advocates<br />
even in the third quarter and some are expected to rationalisation of fuel prices. The policy<br />
return losses for the fiscal on account of controlled recommends that, as a general rule, all<br />
transport fuel prices, a paradox of purpose when commercial primary energy sources must be<br />
world-wide profits of oil majors have jumped priced at trade parity prices at the point of sale,<br />
several fold. The companies had borne very high namely the Free-on-Board (FOB) price for<br />
levels of under-recoveries, and now need to products for which the country is a net exporter<br />
regain their financial strength by avoiding making and Cost, Insurance and Freight (CIF) price for<br />
any losses during higher crude prices scenario in which it is a net importer. The policy projects that<br />
future. The future of marketing companies is at the price of a product for which the country is self<br />
stake. sufficient in a competitive market with many<br />
suppliers and buyers would fluctuate between the<br />
At the national level, oil bonds, fertilizer bonds two depending upon the ease of import/ export<br />
and subsidies in the two sectors weakened the and reliability of supplies. This principle, the<br />
Government finances. Trade and fiscal balances policy claims, is extremely relevant for the<br />
have been affected severely with high crude prices petroleum sector wherein bulk of the crude oil is<br />
in the past four years. imported and India has become a net exporter of<br />
petroleum products.<br />
The consumers will continue to be burdened in<br />
such scenarios if true competition does not set-in The policy goes further to recommend to cushion<br />
within the Indian retail petroleum sector. domestic prices against short-term volatility of<br />
prices on the international market (FOB or CIF)<br />
Steps to reduce transport fuel price on December domestic prices by setting on the basis of median<br />
6th and the temptation to further reduce them, prices over the previous month or a three month<br />
although may appear rational in the current low period. In conclusion the policy suggests that<br />
crude oil price scenario, are devoid of a <strong>last</strong>ing instead of administering prices, full price<br />
solution. competition should be introduced.<br />
Commodity markets are cyclic. Petroleum industry To start, decontrolling the prices by linking them to<br />
is no exception to this. Crude prices may go up in Trade Parity Price for all – PSU as well as Private Oil<br />
the future and difficult times would start again. Marketing companies – and providing subsidy to<br />
Political compulsions will never allow the burdens needy at the consumer end, would be in line with<br />
to be passed on deliberately. The debate over recommendation of the IEP 2006 which was<br />
how much to pay oil companies to make up for recently approved by the Union Cabinet.<br />
under-recoveries would never end, and as a result<br />
oil companies would stand to lose. Why not allow For the fear of consumers getting unduly<br />
competition to rule? Let the 'consumer pays' burdened disallowing the above actions would be
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a script for failure on many accounts; failures we • Decontrol transport fuel prices, and<br />
were saved just when situation was getting out of<br />
control. That was owing to global drop in crude oil<br />
price, not our action. Hence, let the failures not<br />
• Let deserving domestic consumers receive<br />
subsidies instead of suppliers.<br />
wait round the corner.<br />
In case a similar very high crude price scenario<br />
Do not wait. Strike while the iron is hot ……<br />
emerges again, the Government can, as an<br />
exception and not as a rule, cap the burden on<br />
Here is an opportunity to take actions which, in all<br />
probability, find the solution to almost all related<br />
consumer and share the rest through fiscal or<br />
subsidy mechanism in future.<br />
problems –<br />
Let the opportunity not go waste.<br />
($/bbl)<br />
140<br />
120<br />
100<br />
80<br />
60<br />
40<br />
20<br />
0<br />
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Absorbing Volatility in Crude Oil Prices not Planned<br />
Crude oil prices have displayed extreme volatility posed by the actual operation of the domestic<br />
in the <strong>last</strong> four years with NYMEX crude oil prices pricing policy of petroleum products, besides<br />
climbing from $37/bbl in April 2004 to $147/bbl making the domestic economy more vulnerable to<br />
in July 2008 and then tumbling to below $60/bbl oil price shocks due to higher degree of oil import<br />
mark within a span of three months. The average dependence. Despite the dismantling of the APM<br />
price of an Indian basket of crude oil has exhibited regime, the Public Sector Oil Marketing<br />
a whopping increase of 309 percent between April Companies (OMCs) have not yet been granted<br />
2004 and July 2008. This upward surge in crude freedom to revise the prices of the major<br />
oil prices reversed with the prices falling to petroleum products such as petrol, diesel,<br />
$55/bbl in November 2008. kerosene and LPG, which account for more than<br />
60 per cent of the total consumption of petroleum<br />
The erratic movement in global crude oil prices products, in tandem with international crude oil<br />
cannot be explained merely by the dynamics of price movements.<br />
demand and supply. Other variables such as<br />
currency movement, speculations, sufficiency and While average price of Indian basket of crude oil<br />
security, geopolitical tension and even the macro- increased by 309 percent between April 2004 and<br />
economic situation in countries like USA also July 2008, the retail selling prices of diesel were<br />
contribute to international crude oil price increased by only 60 percent and that of gasoline<br />
movement. It is therefore best to plan for volatility by 50 percent for the corresponding period,<br />
in prices, rather than be reticent about low prices. resulting in a low degree of price pass-through.<br />
The price pass-through ratios for gasoline and<br />
As India imports more than 70 percent of its crude diesel for the period between 2004 and July 2008<br />
oil requirement, these cyclic movements in were 0.16 and 0.19 respectively. This clearly<br />
international oil prices bring to the fore challenges indicates that decontrolling prices of petroleum<br />
Figure 1: Trends in Monthly International prices of Indian basket of crude oil<br />
May<br />
Trends in Monthly International prices of Indian Basket of crude oil<br />
June<br />
July<br />
August<br />
September<br />
October November December Source: PPAC-Oil Prices and Taxes, GoI (2008)<br />
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March FY 2009<br />
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products, which was the Government intent while share holders would need to continue to share<br />
dismantling the APM regime in 2002, is not being their windfall profits with downstream companies<br />
implemented in principle. and consumers of products other than diesel,<br />
(per cent)<br />
300<br />
250<br />
200<br />
150<br />
100<br />
50<br />
0<br />
Figure 2: Percentage change in crude oil price vis-à-vis percentage change in domestic<br />
retail selling prices of Petrol and Diesel (2004-08)<br />
Percentage in crude oil price vis-à-vis percentage change in domestic retail selling prices of Petrol and Diesel<br />
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Impact of domestic petroleum product<br />
pricing policy on various stakeholders<br />
Not aligning the domestic selling prices of<br />
petroleum products with the international prices<br />
has adverse implications for government finances<br />
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petrol, LPG and kerosene would continue to crosssubsidise<br />
these products.<br />
Impact on Private Sector Oil Marketing<br />
Companies<br />
and development of the petroleum sector. The As crude oil prices rose sharply in 2008, private<br />
financial health of the public sector oil marketing companies like Reliance Industries Limited closed<br />
companies would deteriorate; on one hand the down their retail outlets. They found it difficult to<br />
subsidy burden of the Government would grow compete with public sector oil marketing<br />
substantially, while the growth in revenue companies due to the selling price-differentials<br />
accruing to it from tax collections would slow down between public and private sector retail players.<br />
with tax rates being moderated. In such a The public sector oil marketing companies - Indian<br />
scenario, public upstream companies and their Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation,<br />
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Closing of petrol pumps by private sector companies<br />
Lok Sabha<br />
Percentage increase (April 2004- July 2008)<br />
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has informed that the sales at their retail outlets (ROs) are negligible<br />
due to selling price differential between private and public sector ROs, leading to the closure of their<br />
ROs. Essar Oil Limited (EOL) and Shell India Marketing Private Limited (SIMPL) have not yet decided to<br />
shutdown their ROs.<br />
The prices of sensitive petroleum products are fixed by the Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies<br />
(OMCs) in consultation with the Government. Private oil companies are not subject to pricing<br />
restrictions by the Government and are free to take their pricing decisions on commercial<br />
considerations.<br />
The above information given by the Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri Dinsha Patel in<br />
a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.<br />
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and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation are selling pricing of petroleum products as a result of which<br />
fuel below the production cost. While these state- the public sector Oil Marketing Companies end up<br />
owned oil retailing companies are compensated selling products at prices dictated by the<br />
by the Government for their revenue losses, a government which are lower than the import<br />
similar mechanism is not available to private parity price has resulted in huge under-recoveries<br />
sector players. This ad-hoc price control policy has for the OMCs (Figure 3). The magnitude of undercreated<br />
a non-level playing field between the recoveries of the Oil Marketing Companies on<br />
public and private sector. petrol, diesel, kerosene and LPG till November<br />
Figure 3: Under-recoveries of Oil Marketing Companies<br />
Some of the private fuel retailers, that had shut 2008 was Rs.1,50,000 crore of which the undertheir<br />
retail outlets following a sharp increase in recovery on diesel alone was reported to be<br />
crude oil price, intend restarting their operations approximately Rs.1,00,000 crore.<br />
with crude oil prices declining by about one-third<br />
between July-November 2008. The Central Government's share of meeting the<br />
Impact on Public Sector Oil Marketing<br />
Companies<br />
Under-recoveries of Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies<br />
Source: PPAC-Oil Prices and Taxes, GoI (2008)<br />
under-recoveries of Oil Marketing Companies<br />
through provision of budgetary subsidies on PDS<br />
kerosene and domestic LPG and the issue of oil<br />
bonds was 45.76 percent in 2007-08. Another<br />
The Government's influence over the retail selling 33.33 percent came from upstream companies<br />
(Year)<br />
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(Prov.)<br />
(Year)<br />
Figure 4: Profit before tax of Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies<br />
2008-09 (April-September)<br />
2007-08 (April-September)<br />
Source: Company Annual Reports<br />
Profits of Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies<br />
2007-08<br />
2006-07<br />
2005-06<br />
2004-05<br />
-10000 -5000 0 5000 10000 15000<br />
(Rs. crores)<br />
Diesel<br />
PDS Kerosene<br />
Domestic LPG<br />
Petrol<br />
Total<br />
BPCL<br />
HPCL<br />
IOCL
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like ONGC, GAIL and OIL. The remaining losses investment sentiment and this could lead to a very<br />
on account of under-recoveries were borne by the negative situation for a growing economy like<br />
OMCs themselves 20.9 percent. India.<br />
The financial performance of the Public Sector When viewed in retrospect, the picture could have<br />
OMCs is very telling. The three OMCs (IOCL, been really dismal for the OMCs had it not been<br />
HPCL and BPCL) taken together have posted for the external financial assistance extended to<br />
aggregate pre-tax losses of Rs.11,870.14 crore them by the Centre and the E&P companies. The<br />
during the period April-September 2008 for the OMCs would actually have posted huge losses or<br />
financial year 2008-09 as against profits before record lower profits in <strong>last</strong> four years as a result of<br />
tax of Rs.10,624.12 crore for the corresponding single-handedly shouldering the financial burden<br />
period during the <strong>last</strong> fiscal (Figure 4). As a result, of unprecedented increase in under-recoveries<br />
downstream marketing companies will face (Figure 5).<br />
(Rs. crores)<br />
severe liquidity crunch and encounter problems in<br />
meeting their day-to-day expenditure due and<br />
severely impact the investment plans. A weakened<br />
petroleum sector would lead to dampening of<br />
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35000<br />
30000<br />
25000<br />
20000<br />
15000<br />
10000<br />
5000<br />
5000<br />
0<br />
Figure 5: Cash profits / losses of Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies<br />
in absence of any external financial assistance<br />
Cash Profits/Losses of Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies in absence of any external financial assistnace<br />
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08<br />
(Year)<br />
Source: BK Chaturvedi Committee Report, 2008<br />
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IOCL<br />
HPCL<br />
BPCL<br />
The crude oil price increase over the <strong>last</strong> four years<br />
has significantly impacted the country's Balance of<br />
Figure 6: Net POL imports as a percentage of India's Total Exports<br />
Net POL imports as a percentage of India's Total exports<br />
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 (April- 2008-09 (April-<br />
Sep) Sep)<br />
(Year)<br />
Source: Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) - Oil Prices and Taxes,<br />
GoI (2008); Ministry of Commerce, GoI (2008)<br />
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50%<br />
40%<br />
30%<br />
20%<br />
10%<br />
0%<br />
(per cent)<br />
Net POL Imports<br />
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Payments situation. For the period April- petroleum products, food and fertilizer, is likely to<br />
September 2008, the net Petroleum Oil and be in the range of approximately 6 to 7 percent of<br />
Lubricants (POL) imports were almost half of GDP. Together with State fiscal deficits in the order<br />
India's total commodity exports, as against 32 of 2 to 3 percent of GDP, the combined true fiscal<br />
percent for the corresponding period in 2007-08, deficit is clearly going to be in the range of 9 to 10<br />
thereby implying that a sizeable chunk of export<br />
earnings is used to finance import of petroleum<br />
percent of GDP.<br />
products (Figure 6).<br />
Burden sharing by stakeholders<br />
Decontrolling the petroleum product prices will<br />
attract huge investments in the refineries. The<br />
high crude oil prices will result in significantly<br />
higher margins for these refineries. Increased<br />
earnings from exporting the value added by these<br />
refineries can compensate for the rising oil import<br />
bill and make the BoP situation more favourable.<br />
The government's continued failure to gradually<br />
adjust domestic oil prices to international realities<br />
is expected to result in a burgeoning fiscal deficit.<br />
In the present system the transfer of oil bonds to<br />
OMCs is off the budget. It does not affect the fiscal<br />
and revenue deficits of the central government at<br />
the time of transfer as the issue of oil bonds is not<br />
accounted for in the Government budget.<br />
When a distress situation arises, the Government<br />
takes up evaluation of burden sharing amongst<br />
stakeholders. The main stakeholder remains the<br />
Central Government – the exchequer collecting<br />
taxes, the share-holder of downstream and<br />
upstream companies collecting dividends and the<br />
funding source of subsidies through budget<br />
allocations and oil bonds. Other stakeholders are<br />
State Governments who collect taxes, consumers<br />
who pay for fuel, downstream companies who<br />
have been made to bear under-recoveries,<br />
upstream oil companies who have been made to<br />
forego their profits and <strong>final</strong>ly the dealers<br />
operating retail stations who are remunerated<br />
through commissions (Figure 8).<br />
However, the petroleum product subsidies, which<br />
is the aggregate of subsidies on PDS kerosene and<br />
Domestic LPG provided from the Government<br />
budget and the implicit subsidies provided<br />
The debate over how much to pay the oil<br />
companies to make up for these under-recoveries<br />
would never end, and as a result oil companies<br />
would stand to lose. Various committees<br />
through issue of oil bonds as a percentage of the appointed by the Government in the past have<br />
total revenue collected by the Central suggested several mechanisms for sharing the<br />
Government through excise duties and levies on under-recoveries of the oil companies, but these<br />
petrol, diesel, PDS kerosene and domestic LPG,<br />
have increased to 82 percent in 2007-08 from a<br />
meagre 7 percent in 2004-05 (Figure 7).<br />
have not been adopted in practice by the<br />
Government. With market-determined pricing of<br />
petroleum product prices in place, the oil<br />
(Rs. crores)<br />
Figure 7: Petroleum Product Subsidies as percentage of Revenues of Central Government<br />
from Petrol, Diesel, PDS Kerosene and Domestic LPG<br />
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45000<br />
40000<br />
35000<br />
30000<br />
25000<br />
20000<br />
15000<br />
10000<br />
5000<br />
0<br />
Petroleum Product Subsidies as a percenatge of Revenues of Central Government from Petrol,<br />
Diesel, PDS Kerosene and Domestic LPG<br />
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08<br />
(Year)<br />
Source: Petroleum and Natural Gas Statistics 2008, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas,<br />
GoI; PPAC-Oil Prices and Taxes, GoI (2008)<br />
According to expert estimates, central fiscal deficit<br />
after taking into account implicit subsidies on<br />
90%<br />
80%<br />
70%<br />
60%<br />
50%<br />
40%<br />
30%<br />
20%<br />
10%<br />
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(per cent)<br />
Revenue accruing to Central Government<br />
Fiscal Subsidy from Budget on PDS<br />
Kerosene and LPG and Oil Bonds issued by<br />
Central government<br />
Petroleum Product Subsidies as % Revenue<br />
companies would be spared from the burden of<br />
reporting their under-recoveries to the
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Government every fortnight and would petroleum products, consumers have responded<br />
completely eliminate their dependence on the to high oil price increases by reducing their<br />
Government and the upstream companies for consumption. In Philippines, allowing full passfinancing<br />
these under-recoveries. through of world market price to be passed on<br />
entirely increases to consumers along with a very<br />
Need of the hour: Decontrol pricing of<br />
petroleum products<br />
Figure 8: Burden sharing by various stakeholders<br />
Burden sharing by various stakeholders<br />
State Upstream OMCs Dealers Centre<br />
Source: Petroleum and Natural Gas Statistics 2008, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas,<br />
GoI; PPAC-Oil Prices and Taxes, GoI (2008)<br />
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2004-05<br />
2005-06<br />
2006-07<br />
2007-08<br />
active energy conservation campaign by the<br />
Government of Philippines, helped to reduce fuel<br />
consumption, achieving an eight percent<br />
reduction during the first 11 months of 2005<br />
compared to a year earlier.<br />
Market pricing will encourage efficiency in the use<br />
of petroleum products, which will save money for<br />
the country by reducing oil imports. In India, the Removing the subsidy will considerably reduce the<br />
capping of prices has also led to diversion and subsidy burden and subsequently the fiscal deficit<br />
wasteful consumption of certain petroleum of the Government thereby freeing up huge<br />
products. For instance, a comparison of diesel resources for it to spend on productive ventures<br />
consumption between the periods April-June and social sectors.<br />
2008 shows an increase of over 11 percent over<br />
2007-08 for same period. Due to artificially<br />
depressed prices for diesel, the demand for Decontrolling the prices will certainly have an<br />
industrial products such as FO, LSHS, Naphtha, impact on household expenditure directly from<br />
and LDO has been partially substituted with the higher petroleum prices and indirectly via<br />
increased consumption of diesel by certain passing on of petroleum prices to other goods and<br />
industrial consumers in sectors such as cement, services. The impacts of such price increase can be<br />
coal, steel, mining etc. for captive power mitigated by directly subsidizing the deserving<br />
generation. strata of society rather than product subsidy.<br />
International experience of three countries which<br />
recently raised petroleum product prices, and key<br />
International experience suggests that in mitigating measures undertaken by them to<br />
countries with market-determined prices of protect the poor is as follows.
Ghana, Indonesia and Jordan all recently observable household socio-economic<br />
raised petroleum product price. The key characteristics. Beneficiary cards and<br />
mitigating measures they took to protect the receipt coupons are printed and<br />
poor were: delivered by the post office. Eligible<br />
households with access to a post office<br />
collect their cash quarterly on designated<br />
Ghana days. Those in remote areas without such<br />
access receive cash in their village.<br />
• Fees for attending primary and juniorsecondary<br />
school were eliminated. • Some budgetary savings from reducing<br />
• Extra funds were made available for subsidies were reallocated to existing<br />
primary health care programs education, health and infrastructure<br />
concentrated in the poorest areas programs that disproportionately benefit<br />
through the existing Community Health low and middle income households.<br />
Compound Scheme. • Initially, the subsidy on kerosene was not<br />
• Investment in the provision of mass substantially reduced, and its price<br />
urban transport was expanded and remained at two-thirds of the world price.<br />
expedited.<br />
H o w e v e r, s u b s e q u e n t t o t h e<br />
• Extra funds were made available to<br />
expand a rural electrification scheme.<br />
implementation of the transfer program,<br />
the kerosene subsidy has been<br />
substantially reduced.<br />
Indonesia<br />
Mitigating Measures on account of price rise -<br />
Country Experience<br />
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Jordan<br />
Indonesia has an extensive history of<br />
subsidizing certain oil products. The<br />
continuation of this policy has vastly<br />
increased total cost to Government.<br />
• The minimum wage was increased, as<br />
were the salaries of low -paid<br />
government employees.<br />
Eventually the Government took up the • A one-time bonus was given to lowchallenge<br />
of large fuel price increase, and income government employees and<br />
simultaneously addressed potential adverse pensioners.<br />
impacts on the poor. • An electricity lifeline tariff was<br />
maintained at current low levels-<br />
• An unprecedented cash transfer program<br />
electricity access is almost universal.<br />
to 16 million poor families was • Cash transfers were provided to other<br />
implemented. Under the program, each low income households.<br />
family receives Rp. 300,000 (about<br />
US$30) every three months. The full<br />
annual cost of the program is estimated<br />
at nearly 0.7 percent of GDP. The<br />
identification of poor households is<br />
based on an existing approach used by<br />
the Central Statistics Bureau, which<br />
calculates a “proxy-means score” for<br />
• The government announced a plan to<br />
increase funding to the National Aid<br />
Fund as part of a program to improve the<br />
design and implementation of this<br />
national safety net program with World<br />
Bank assistance.<br />
potentially poor households based on Source: IMF Working Paper WP/07/71<br />
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Common Minimum Programme of UPA Government<br />
Energy Security:<br />
The UPA government will immediately put in place policies to enhance the<br />
country's energy security particularly in the area of oil. Overseas investments in<br />
the hydrocarbon industry will be actively encouraged. An integrated energy<br />
policy linked with sustainable development will be put in place.<br />
Election Manifesto of National Democratic Alliance for 2004<br />
General Elections (Agenda for Oil and Gas Sector):-<br />
• Enhanced oil production through increased exploitation of own<br />
resources as well as purchase of ownership in oil fields overseas.<br />
• Dependence on fossil fuels to be lessened through a concerted<br />
drive for harnessing non-conventional energy sources.<br />
• Commercial exploitation of discovered gas fields will begin by<br />
2005.<br />
• The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Bill will be<br />
enacted. in 2007<br />
It is high time that we get out of this highly complex consumers know what exactly they have to pay for<br />
and opaque pricing policy of petroleum products petroleum products as they pay for a number of<br />
once for all. We should take it out from the realm other products in a market economy.<br />
of politics back to the realm of economics, so that<br />
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The PetroFed pavilion at the Petrotech-2009 Shri A. K. Arora was also called upon to chair a<br />
exhibition at Pragati Maidan was inaugurated by Technical Session during the conference at Vigyan<br />
Shri S. Sundareshan, Additional Secretary, Bhavan on January 13, 2009 on 'Emerging Energy<br />
Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas on January Options – 2 (CTL/GTL/BTL)'. The keynote speaker<br />
11, 2009. during the session was Dr. Jennifer Holmgren,<br />
UOP, LLC, USA who spoke on Advances in Pyrolysis<br />
PetroFed actively assisted in the organisation of<br />
Petrotech-2009 international oil & gas conference<br />
& exhibition at New Delhi. The Director General,<br />
PetroFed, Shri A. K. Arora was a member of the<br />
Steering Committee. The Director (Comm. &<br />
Technology. The other speakers were Shri E.<br />
Valotti, ENI India Limited on the GTL approach; Dr.<br />
Girish K. Chitnis, ExxonMobil on production of<br />
gasoline from coal; and Dr. Sudip Maity, Central<br />
Institute of Mining & Fuel Research on liquid<br />
hydrocarbon production from coal, biomass and<br />
Mktg.), PetroFed, Shri Y. Sahai was on the three<br />
member panel of judges to select the best<br />
exhibitors in various categories at the exhibition.<br />
Shri S. Sundareshan, Additional Secretary, Ministry of<br />
Petroleum & Natural Gas inaugurating PetroFed<br />
pavilion at the exhibition. On his right is Shri S. Behuria,<br />
Chairman, PetroFed and Chairman, IndianOil and on<br />
his left Shri A. K. Arora, DG, PetroFed.<br />
Events<br />
PetroFed in Petrotech-2009<br />
syngas.<br />
A view of the PetroFed pavilion.<br />
Workshop for Academia on SHE<br />
A workshop on 'Safety, Health & Environmental Inaugurating the workshop Prof. S. C. Saxena,<br />
Management in Hydrocarbon Industry' was Director, IIT, Roorkee stressed on the need for<br />
organised by the Petroleum Federation of India in education and training on SHE aspects and their<br />
association with the Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust inclusion in the chemical engineering curricula of<br />
(LKMT) and the Department of Chemical institutions. He expressed the hope that the M-<br />
Engineering of IIT, Roorkee from January 22-24, Tech programme in Industrial Pollution<br />
2009. The three-day workshop at IIT, Roorkee Abatement at IIT, Roorkee will help in bridging the<br />
aimed to provide inputs on latest developments to<br />
teaching faculty members of technical institutions<br />
gap in this area.<br />
in north India on the extremely important subject<br />
of safety, health & environment in the<br />
hydrocarbon industry.<br />
In his presidential address, Shri A. K. Arora,<br />
Director General, PetroFed and Trustee, LKMT<br />
emphasised the need for regular updation of
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faculty knowledge in SHE management and the Campus, IIT, Roorkee introduced the workshop. A<br />
need to enhance research capabilities in the area vote of thanks at the inaugural ceremony was<br />
at institutes. proposed by Shri S. L. Das, Director (BD&C),<br />
PetroFed.<br />
Shri J. B. Verma, ED, OISD in his lively and thought<br />
provoking keynote address underlined, through The workshop was spread over five sessions and<br />
examples, the importance of loss prevention and speakers were drawn from among experts from<br />
safe operations in the hydrocarbon industry. He the oil & gas industry including R&D organizations<br />
offered help in providing industrial insight to the and the Oil Industry Safety Directorate besides<br />
students of IIT, Roorkee undergoing M-Tech in SHE Controller of Explosives, the Directorate General<br />
and Hazardous Management. of Mines Safety, Directorate General, Factory<br />
Advice Service & Labour Institutes and process &<br />
equipment suppliers.<br />
The Secretary General of Petrotech Society, Shri J.<br />
L. Raina lauded the initiative of training for<br />
teaching faculty. Participants were earlier Faculty members from five states and union<br />
welcomed by Prof. I. D. Mall, Head of the territories from north India participated in the<br />
Department, Chemical Engineering, IIT, Roorkee workshop.<br />
while Prof. I. M. Mishra, Dean, Saharanpur<br />
Shri A. K. Arora, Director General, PetroFed lighting the<br />
lamp at the inauguration of the workshop. Others (L-R):<br />
Prof. S. C. Saxena, Director, IIT, Roorkee; Shri J. L. Raina,<br />
Secretary General, Petrotech Society; Shri S. L. Das,<br />
Director (BD&C), PetroFed.<br />
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Workshop inaugural function. Seated (L-R): Prof. I. M.<br />
Mishra, Shri J. B. Verma, Shri A. K. Arora, Prof. S. C.<br />
Saxena, Shri J. L. Raina, Shri S. L. Das and Prof. I. D.<br />
Mall.<br />
Group photograph of the participants at the workshop. A section of the participants.
"Energy and Climate Summit"<br />
(L-R): Dr. Jyoti Parikh, Executive Director, IRADe; Shri<br />
Vilas Muttemwar, Hon'ble Union Minister of State for<br />
New & Re<strong>new</strong>able Energy; Shri Sushil Kumar Shinde,<br />
Hon'ble Union Minister for Power; Shri Montek Singh<br />
Ahluwalia, Hon'ble Deputy Chairman, Planning<br />
Commission; Dr. Kirit Parikh, Member, Planning<br />
Commission.<br />
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PetroFed associated with Integrated Research and Union Minister for Power while the inaugural<br />
Action for Development (IRADe) in organising the address was delivered by Shri Montek Singh<br />
Energy and Climate Summit-2009 on February 3- Ahluwalia, Hon'ble Deputy Chairman, Planning<br />
4, 2009 at New Delhi. Commission. Shri Vilas Muttemwar, Hon'ble<br />
Union Minister of State for New & Re<strong>new</strong>able<br />
On each day there were three sessions besides the Energy delivered the Special Address. Participants<br />
inaugural on the opening day and the valedictory were welcomed by Dr. Kirit Parikh, Member,<br />
session on the closing day addressing the theme Planning Commission and a vote of thanks<br />
of “Meeting New Challenges”. During the proposed by Dr. Jyoti Parikh, Executive Director,<br />
inauguration the presidential address was IRADe.<br />
delivered by Shri Sushil Kumar Shinde, Hon'ble<br />
Shri Sushil Kumar Shinde, Hon'ble Union Minister for<br />
Power delivering presidential address.<br />
In its series of Guest Lectures and Thought Dr. Bhasin in his presentation clarified the<br />
Leadership programmes, PetroFed organised, in distinction between Invention and Innovation and<br />
association with Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust, a identified the enablers and barriers between the<br />
lecture by Dr. Madan M. Bhasin on 'Invention & two through examples like ethylene epoxidation<br />
Innovation: Some Reflections' on February 6, catalysis, three-way automotive emissions control<br />
2009 at New Delhi. Dr. Bhasin who and the production of ethylene from methane by<br />
superannuated as Sr. Scientist from The Dow<br />
Chemical Company in December 2008 drew on<br />
selective oxidative coupling of methane.<br />
his 45 years' experience to delineate the path for<br />
conversion of an invention to commercialisation<br />
A Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry from the University<br />
through innovation.<br />
"Invention and Innovation"<br />
of Notre Dame, Dr. Bhasin joined Union Carbide<br />
Corporation in 1963. He is a recipient of over a<br />
dozen awards and honours, has 22 U.S. patents,<br />
Chairing the session, Sh. J.P. Kapur, Trustee, Lovraj besides foreign patents to his credit and has 21<br />
Kumar Memorial Trust recalled developments in publications in journals besides editing a book.<br />
invention and innovation in petrochemicals<br />
during the past 40 years.
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Session Chairman Shri J.P. Kapur delivering opening<br />
remarks and introducing the Speaker Dr Bhasin (R). On<br />
left (forward) Shri S L Das, Director(BD&C), PetroFed.<br />
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An animated Q&A session in progress.<br />
Stakeholder Consultation on India-EU Agreement<br />
The Petroleum Federation of India organised a Dr. Archana S. Mathur, Economic Adviser, Ministry<br />
'Stakeholder Consultation on Energy Services' of Petroleum & Natural Gas elaborated on the<br />
under the aegis of the Department of Commerce, potential for growth in Indian oil & gas industry<br />
Government of India to seek inputs for a Broadbased<br />
Trade & Investment Agreement between<br />
and trade with the European Union.<br />
India and the European Union. The half-day<br />
consultation on February 27, 2009 at New Delhi<br />
was in knowledge partnership with the Indian<br />
Council for Research on International Economic<br />
Relations (ICRIER) and the Centre for WTO Studies<br />
of the Department of Commerce.<br />
Chairing the session, Ms. Bharathi S. Sihag, Joint<br />
Secretary, Department of Commerce,<br />
Government of India urged participants to voice<br />
their opinions freely to enable Government take<br />
them on board while formulating negotiating<br />
strategy.<br />
Welcoming participants Shri A. K. Arora, Director<br />
General, PetroFed drew attention to PetroFed's<br />
role as nodal agency for coordinating matters<br />
pertaining to WTO for the oil & gas sector. He<br />
considered the present times as the most<br />
opportune for negotiating favourable trade<br />
agreements.<br />
Session Chairperson, Ms. Bharathi S. Sihag, Joint<br />
Secretary, Department of Commerce, Government of<br />
India (R) being welcomed by Mr. A. K. Arora, Director<br />
General, PetroFed.<br />
Presentations were made on the Broad-based<br />
Trade & Investment Agreement between India and<br />
European Union by Mr. Amit Yadav, Director,<br />
Department of Commernce, Government of India<br />
and on their studies pertaining to consultation on<br />
energy services by Prof. Arpita Mukherjee and Ms.<br />
Smita Miglani of ICRIER.<br />
Dr. Archana S. Mathur, Economic Adviser, Ministry of<br />
Petroleum & Natural Gas (R) being greeted by Mr. A. K.<br />
Arora, Director General, PetroFed.
Mr. Amit Yadav, Director, Department of Commerce,<br />
Government of India (R) being presented a bouquet by<br />
Mr. A. . Arora, Director General, PetroFed.<br />
Dr. Arpita Mukherjee, Prof., ICRIER making her<br />
presentation..<br />
A section of the participants. In the foreground (R-L): Dr.<br />
Arpita Mukherjee, Prof., ICEIER and Ms. Smita Miglani,<br />
ICRIER.<br />
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Ms. Bharathi S. Sihag addressing participants.<br />
A section of the participants.<br />
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Mr. S. L. Das, Director (BD&C), PetroFed raising his<br />
query during the Q & A session
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To learn from and leverage the Japanese Mr. Shogo Saegusa, Co-chairman Fuels &<br />
experience on auto fuel quality the Petroleum Lubricants Committee of Japan Automobile<br />
Federation of India (PetroFed) organised a two- Manufacturers Association (JAMA) in his theme<br />
day conference on Fuel Quality and Vehicular address brought out the relationship between fuel<br />
Emissions in association with the Bureau of Indian improvement and vehicle technology and the<br />
Standards (BIS) on March 17-18, 2009 at New<br />
Delhi. Technical collaboration for the conference<br />
transition of emission regulation in Japan.<br />
was provided by the Japanese Automobile<br />
Research Institute (JARI) and the Ministry of<br />
Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan.<br />
Several other Japanese organizations like JAMA,<br />
JASO, JISC offered technical assistance during the<br />
conference which also associated actively the<br />
Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers<br />
While proposing a vote of thanks at end of the<br />
inaugural session, Shri A. K. Arora, Director<br />
General, PetroFed drew attention to the<br />
recommendations submitted by PetroFed after the<br />
seminar organised on Auto Fuel Policy in 2006.<br />
The Review Committee on the Auto Fuel Policy,<br />
(SIAM).<br />
Indo-Japanese Conference<br />
on<br />
Fuel Quality and Vehicular Emissions<br />
Mr Rakesh Verma, Addl. Director General, BIS , lighting<br />
the lamp. Others (L-R) Mr L N Gupta, Jt Secretary<br />
MoPNG, Mr A K Arora, DG, PetroFed, Ms Supriya<br />
Dhingra, PetroFed, Mr Shogo Seagusa, Fuels and<br />
Lubricants Committee Co-Chairman, JAMA, Japan.<br />
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set-up by the MoP&NG, had echoed most of the<br />
recommendations he added. Particular attention<br />
was drawn by him to tackling issues of inspection<br />
The over 140 participants from three score and maintenance of in-use vehicles and research<br />
organizations were welcomed by Ms. Madhulika studies on fuel efficiency and cost effectiveness of<br />
Prakash, Dy. Director General (Technical), BIS. different fuels.<br />
Inaugurating the conference Shri Rakesh Verma,<br />
Addl. Director General, BIS exhorted participants<br />
The conference, which attracted quality<br />
to make the best use of the opportunity offered<br />
participation from almost all related sectors and<br />
with the presence of Japanese experts. Shri L. N.<br />
agencies, was spread into three sessions on each<br />
Gupta, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum &<br />
day besides the inaugural on the first day and a<br />
Natural Gas (MOP&NG), in his presidential<br />
panel discussion in conclusion. The subjects<br />
address complimented PetroFed for holding this<br />
covered Fuels & Standards, Vehicular Emission &<br />
second conference on auto fuels and called for<br />
Environment, Next Generation Vehicle and Fuel<br />
evaluations of all options in formulating<br />
appropriate strategies while carrying out midcourse<br />
correction, if required, in the Auto Fuel<br />
Policy.<br />
Initiatives, and Alternative Fuels.<br />
Seated (L-R) Mr A K Arora, DG, PetroFed, Mr L N Gupta,<br />
Jt Secretary, MoPNG, Mr Rakesh Verma, Addl. Director<br />
General, BIS, Mr Shogo Seagusa, Fuels and Lubricants<br />
Committee Co-Chairman, JAMA, Japan, Mrs.<br />
Madhulika Prakash, DDG(T), BIS.
Mr L N Gupta, Jt. Secretary, MoPNG delivering<br />
presidential address.<br />
Mr Dilip Chenoy, DG, SIAM (Centre) chairing Session II.<br />
Others (L-R) Mr K. Murali, Director (Refineries) HPCL, Dr<br />
(Mrs) Vijay Malik, Head (PCD), BIS, Ms Keiko Hirota,<br />
Researcher, JARI, Mr B. P. Singh, GM (Operations) Retail<br />
HQs, BPCL .<br />
Mr Anand Kumar, Director (R&D), Indian Oil (2nd from<br />
right) chairing Session IV. Others seated in forefront (L-<br />
R) Dr Atsushi Kameoka, Group Leader of Environment<br />
and Energy Division, JARI, Japan, Ms Michiko<br />
Watanabe, METI, Japan, Mr B. Sengupta, Former<br />
Member Secretary, Central Pollution Control Board.<br />
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Ms Keiko Hirota, Researcher, Public Policy and Economic<br />
Research Division, JARI (Centre) chairing Session I.<br />
Others (L-R) Dr A. A. Gupta DGM, IndianOil, R&D, Dr<br />
Kiyoyuki Minato, Senior Researcher, Public Policy and<br />
Economic Research Division, JARI, Japan.<br />
Mr B. Bhanot, Former Director, ARAI (3rd from left)<br />
chairing Session III. Others (L-R) Dr Kiyoyuki Minato,<br />
JARI, Japan, Dr Rakesh Kumar, Scientist, NEERI, Mr N. S.<br />
Murthy, Senior Vice President, Reliance Industries<br />
Limited.<br />
Mr Ashok Dhar, Senior Vice President, Reliance<br />
Industries Ltd. (Centre) chairing Session V. Others (L-R)<br />
Mr P. D. Bahukhandi, General Manager (QC), IndianOil,<br />
Ms Michiko Watanabe, METI, Japan, Mr K K Gandhi,<br />
Executive Director, SIAM, Mr M. K. Chaudhari, Senior<br />
Dy. Director, The Automotive Research Association of<br />
India.
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Mr M. B. Lal, Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee,<br />
MoP&NG and Member Technical (P&NG), Appellate<br />
Tribunal for Electricity (Centre) chairing Session VI.<br />
Others (L-R) Mr Shogo Saegusa, JAMA, Japan, Dr. Y. P.<br />
Rao, Vice President (Technical), Gulf Oil Corporation<br />
Ltd.<br />
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Mr K Murli, Director (Refineries), HPCL (5th from left)<br />
Chairing panel discussion. Others (L-R) Mr K K Gandhi,<br />
SIAM , Mr Shogo Saegusa, JAMA, Japan, Dr R.K.<br />
Malhotra, Executive Director (R&D), IndianOil, Ms<br />
Michiko Watanabe, METI, Japan, Mr Ashok Dhar,<br />
Reliance Industries Ltd, Mr B. Sengupta, Mr N. S. Murthy,<br />
Reliance Industries Limited, Dr R. K. Bajaj, Director, BIS.<br />
LNG Handling, Storage & Regasification<br />
In its series of Guest Lectures and Thought of the LNG chain during his presentation. He<br />
Leadership Programmes, PetroFed organised a began with the salient characteristics of natural<br />
lecture on 'LNG Handling, Storage & gas and its utilisation and went on to elaborate on<br />
Regasification' by Mr. Sham Sunder, Adviser the LNG cycle, its handling, processing and<br />
(Technical), Essar Oil Limited at the PetroFed regasification as well as various types of storage<br />
Conference Hall on March 26, 2009. tanks and vaporisation schemes. He also covered<br />
shipping & transportation of LNG and operating<br />
limits at port and safety system.<br />
Chairing the session, Mr. Suresh Mathur, Director<br />
(Oil & Gas), Essar Oil Limited and former<br />
Managing Director, Petronet LNG Limited An engineering graduate from Punjab University<br />
highlighted the significance of natural gas in the and a M.S. from Oklahoma State University, USA,<br />
21st century and the global challenges presented Mr. Sham Sunder has earlier worked in USA for<br />
in LNG production and marketing. about 7 years in a large Petro-Chemical Complex<br />
and put in almost 17 years in Engineers India<br />
Limited. He has presented numerous papers at<br />
Mr. Sham Sunder, with his decade long experience various fora and has two U.S. patents to his credit<br />
in Petronet LNG Limited as Director (Technical) on Liquefaction of Natural Gas and Mechanical<br />
and a decade earlier in GAIL, covered all aspects energy from geothermal resources.
Session Chairman Mr. Suresh Mathur, Director, Oil &<br />
Gas, Essar Oil (L) being greeted by Mr. S. L. Das, Director<br />
(BD&C), PetroFed.<br />
Mr. Sham Sunder, Adviser (Techncial), Essar Oil Limited<br />
delivering his lecture.<br />
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Mr. Sham Sunder, Adviser (Techncial), Essar Oil Limited<br />
(L) being welcomed by Mr. Suresh Mathur.<br />
A section of the participants.<br />
Estimated value of India's private Percentage of Indians who say they Average minutes spent on job<br />
have issues with their weight : 54<br />
security industry, in billion search every day by unemployed<br />
dollars:2.3<br />
Estimated number of persons<br />
Percentage of Indians who say they<br />
seek weight loss information from<br />
workers in the US, France and<br />
Spain : 41/27/22<br />
employed by India's Private security<br />
doctors and Internet : 61 & 47<br />
Average minutes spent on job<br />
industry, in million : 5.5 Percentage of people worldwide search every day by unemployed<br />
Projected number of persons<br />
employed by India's private<br />
who say they are struggling with<br />
their weight : 60<br />
workers in Italy, Germany and the<br />
UK : 12/10/8<br />
security industry by end-2009, Percentage of people worldwide Average minutes spent on job<br />
making it the country's largest who say they seek weight loss search everyday by unemployed<br />
employer, in million : 6.5<br />
information from doctors and<br />
Internet : 60 & 36<br />
workers in Sweden and Finland :<br />
6& 3<br />
Courtesy : Business India
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Director (HR)<br />
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Director (Technical)<br />
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Director (Marketing)<br />
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Director (M)<br />
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Director (Technical)<br />
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Executive Director (Corporate Affairs)<br />
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