106th NPRA Annual Meeting

Tuesday
March 11, 2008
Tuesday Morning
CEO Breakfast:
7:30 am – 9:15 am
Elizabeth ABCDE Ballroom
William R. Klesse
Chairman and CEO
Valero Energy Corporation
Prior to his appointment in January, 2006
as CEO and more recently in January,
2007 to Chairman of the Board, Klesse
served as Executive Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer, responsible for
all operations, including refining and
marketing for Valero Energy Corporation.
He has served in numerous managerial
capacities in engineering, petrochemical
feedstocks, planning and development
and marketing since joining Diamond
Shamrock, now Valero, in 1969. Klesse
has served on the NPRA Board of
Directors since 1998 and as NPRA
Chairman of the Board from 2004 - 2006.
Valero Energy Corporation is a Fortune
500 company based in San Antonio, Texas
with approximately 21,000 employees
and assets valued at $38 billion. The
largest refiner in North America, Valero
has an extensive refining system with a
throughput capacity of approximately
3.1 million barrels per day. The company’s
geographically diverse refining network
stretches from Canada to the U.S. Gulf
Coast and West Coast to the Caribbean.
Valero also has a mid-stream logistics
system that supports Valero’s refining and
marketing operations. A marketing leader,
Valero has approximately 5,800 retail and
wholesale stores in the United States,
Canada and the Caribbean.
Issues Session
9:30 am – 12:00 pm
Elizabeth F
9:30 am – 10:45 am
NEP Panel
Moderator:
Rick Leicht
VP, Refining
National Cooperative Refinery Association
McPherson, KS
Panelists:
Jeff Bonnette
Manager, Integrated Management
Systems
CITGO Petroleum Corporation
Lake Charles, LA
Bobby Fischer
PSM Advisor
TOTAL Petrochemicals USA, Inc.
Houston, TX
Tina Drumheller
Process Safety Manager
Frontier Refining
El Dorado, KS
10:45 am – 12:00 pm
Demographics and
Engineering Resources
Joe Fowler
Chairman, Texas A&M Engineering
Council
President, Stress Engineering Services, Inc.
Houston, TX
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