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CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY AGENDA (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
WEDNESDAY, 20 JULY 2011
8:15 - 8:30 - Opening Remarks – John Royall, President & CEO, Gulf Publishing Company
8:30 - 9:30 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
9:30 - 10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:00 - 11:30 SESSION 1 - Safety and Plant Integrity 10:00 - 11:30 SESSION 2 - Refining Process / Product Development
CHAIR: MO Garg, Indian Institute of Petroleum
ExxonMobil Transient Hazop Operations Process (TOH)
Critical Proactive Considerations for Enhanced Safety of the Next
Generation of Refineries and Gas Processing Complexes - Romel
Bhullar, Senior Technical Director, Fluor Corporation
Flare structure revamp: A case history - Atanu Chattapadhyay, General
Manager, Operation, Reliance Industries Limited
CHAIR: Charles Cameron, BP
Advanced Trends in Meeting Refinery Hydrogen Needs – Asian
focus - Sanjiv Ratan, Chief Technology Officer, Hydrogen Productline
& Technologies, Technip
Innovative Energy Efficient Way to Debottleneck Vacuum Units with
Improved VGO Yield - Indian Oil Corporation (invited)
LCO processing solutions / Bottom of the Barrel Conversion
Strategies - Antoine Fournier, Axens
11:30 - 1:00 LUNCH - KEYNOTE - Refinery-Petrochemical Integration - Dr. Philip Leighton, Jacobs Consultancy
1:00 - 2:30 SESSION 7 - Environment and Energy Efficiency 1:00 - 2:30 SESSION 8 - Catalyst Technology: Refining /
Petrochemical
CHAIR: Giacomo Fossataro, Walter Tosto
CHAIR: Dr. Syamal Poddar
Impact of Carbon Capture on Oil Sands Development Projects - Worley
Parsons, Canada (invited)
Comprehensive Energy Optimization in Low Budget Era - Matti
Koskinen, Sales Manager, Oil & Gas, Neste Jacobs Oy
Adding a third eye towards energy efficiency in Process Industries -
Yokogawa Electric International Pte Ltd, Singapore (invited)
2:30 - 3:00 COFFEE BREAK
Jatropha oil hydro-conversion kinetics over Co-Mo / Al2O3 Catalyst
- Indian Institute of Petroleum (invited)
Exceed your Hydrocracker Potential using the latest generation Max
Diesel Flexible Catalysts - Shell Global Solutions (invited)
Advances in Rare Earth Free Catalysts Provide Cost Savings for
Refiners - Grace Davison Refining Technologies (invited)
3:00 - 4:30 SESSION 5: Market Trends
CHAIR: Eric Benazzi, Axens
Renewable Hydrocarbons - Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (invited)
Refining Outlook: Capacity Expansion and Rationalization - Paul Ruwe, Managing Director, Muse Stancil (Asia)
Challenges and opportunities in the growing Asia Pacific oils market - Woodmac (invited)
4:30 day one reception

THURSDAY, 21 JULY 2011
8:30 - 8:45 - Welcoming Remarks – Bill Wageneck, Publisher, Hydrocarbon Processing
8:45 - 9:45 SESSION 7 - Refining / Petrochemical Integration
CHAIR: Stephany Romanow, Hydrocarbon Processing
Refining / Petrochemical Integration - A New Paradigm - Joseph C. Gentry, Director - Technology, GTC Technology
Refining/Petrochemical Integration- Panipat Complex of M/s Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. - Rajkumar Ghosh, Executive Director (in charge),
Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Panipat Refinery
9:30 - 10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:00 - 11:30 SESSION 3 - Petrochemical Processes/Products
Developments
CHAIR: John Baric, Shell Global Solutions
Diversification of Feedstock Options for Petrochemicals: Future Road
Map - Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (invited)
10:00 - 11:30 SESSION 4 - Information & Asset Management
CHAIR:
Process and Mechanical Design Optimization of Heat Exchangers
using a CFD Technique: two reference cases - Walter Tosto Spa
(invited)
Design of Divided Wall Distillation Column - Engineers India Limited
(invited)
Key Drivers and Trends for Retrofit of High Temperature Reaction
Furnaces and Fired Heaters - KTI Corporation (invited)
Solutions for Purification of Refinery Sourced C3’s Utilized as Feedstock
to Petrochemical Processes - David Smith, Global Activated Aluminas
Technical Manager & Asian Adsorbents Sales Support Leader, UOP,
LLC, A Honeywell Company
11:30 - 12:30 LUNCH
Utilizing Advanced Simulation Software for Revamping Steam
Reformers for Hydrogen Production - William Han, Director of
Syngas Technologies, Petro-Chem Development Co., Inc.
12:30 - 2:00 SESSION 9 - Environment and Energy Efficiency 12:30 - 2:00 SESSION 10 - Catalyst Technology:
Refining/Petrochemical
CHAIR: Michael Stockle, Foster Wheeler
Improving equipment efficiencies in operating plants - Wayne Flintoff,
Chevron & Manjul N Saxena, Rotating Machinery Consultant
Achieving Competitive Advantage from Refinery-Wide Business
Performance Optimization - Invensys (invited)
Selection of suitable techniques for Spent Caustic Management -
Veerabhadraiah G., Process & Environmental Department, Kellogg,
Brown & Root (KBR), Singapore
CHAIR: Jim Richardson, Sud Chemie
A Case Study in FCC Gasoline Sulfur Reduction for Enhanced
Operating Flexibility and a Cleaner Environment - CNOOC, Huizhou,
China (invited)
Economic conversion of Natural Oils - Grace Davidson (invited)
Unlocking the Potential of the ULSD Unit: CENTERA is the Key –
Celine Chai, Criterion Catalysts & Technologies
2:00 - 2:30 COFFEE BREAK
2:30 - 3:30 SESSION 11 - Information & Asset Management 2:30 - 3:30 SESSION 12 - Refining / Petrochemical Integration
CHAIR: Carlos Cabrera, NICE
Sweating the Plant Assets - Jubail United Petrochemical Company, KSA
(invited)
Intelligent severity optimization pays off in two months - Honggang
Wang, East China University of Science and Technology
3:30 - 4:15 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION – KBC
CHAIR: Andrea Gragnani, Technip
Refining and Petrochemical Integration Opportunities and
Challenges - Rajinder Singh Sehgal, Manager Process Technology
Consulting Services, KBR
Refining and Petrochemical Integration - Romain Roux, Axens