2011 Q&A and Technology Forum
Monday, October 10 - Wednesday, October 12, 2011
JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa
23808 Resort Parkway
San Antonio 78261
Schedule of Sessions and Special Events
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Sunday October 09, 2011 |
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Pre-Conference Refining Technology Seminar
Individual seminar times may vary. Contact host company for more information via emails listed below. IsoTherming® Hydroprocessing Technology Symposium presented by DuPont Sustainable Solutions IsoTherming® hydroprocessing technology is a commercially proven breakthrough process, licensed by DuPont, providing petroleum refiners a more economical and flexible means of hydrotreating and/or mild hydrocracking of gas-oil and distillate streams. Attendees will have an opportunity to learn about the differences between IsoTherming® and conventional technology for hydroprocessing. In addition, commercial operations will be discussed along with applications for which the technology is particularly well suited. Advanced registration is required. For more information contact Debra Weston by phone, 913-327-3515, or email at Debra.L.Weston@stratco.dupont.com.* |
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Registration - Badge Pick-up |
Monday October 10, 2011 |
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Registration |
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General Session
• Presentation of the Lifetime Service Awards • Keynote Address |
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Plant Automation: Keynote Address - Grand Oaks Ballroom I |
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Principles & Practices: Energy and Environmental - Grand Oaks Ballroom H |
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Q&A: Hydroprocessing
- Grand Oaks Ballroom E-G
Panelists: Minh Dimas, CITGO Petroleum Corporation, Corpus Christi, TX Martin Gonzalez, BP Products North America, Whiting, IN Tim Lewer, Shell Deer Park Refining Company, Deer Park, TX Shankar Vaidyanathan, Fluor Corporation, Sugar Land, TX Kaspar Vogt, Albemarle Corporation, Houston, TX |
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Coffee Break - Grand Oakes Ballroom J |
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Plant Automation: Basic Building Blocks: Supply Chain, Planning, and Business Optimization
- Grand Oaks Ballroom I
Revolutionizing Refinery Demand Forecasting and Management Jeannie Gardner, Shell Planning and Scheduling in Refinery Optimization Mark Swensen, Valero Energy Advancements in Planning and Scheduling Business Process Integration Steven Boyd, Chevron Corporation |
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Lunch in Exhibit Hall - Grand Oaks Ballroom K-M |
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Plant Automation: Business Integration and Intelligence
- Grand Oaks Ballroom I
Squeezing the Margins out of a Barrel of Oil Blake Larsen, Western Refining Value Chain TBA, Marathon Petroleum Improving Refining Performance TBA, Chevron Corporation |
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Principles & Practices: Hydroprocessing - Grand Oaks Ballroom H |
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Q&A: Gasoline Processes
- Grand Oaks Ballroom E-G
Panelists: Praveen Gunaseelan, Vantage Point Energy Consulting, Houston, TX Olivier Le-Coz, Axens North America, Houston, TX Erik Myers, Valero Energy Corporation, Wilmington, CA Brad Palmer, ConocoPhillips Company, Houston, TX Ujjal Roy, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, New Delhi, India Mike Windham, UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL |
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Refreshment Break - Grand Oakes Ballroom J |
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Plant Automation: Environmental Regulation, Challenges & Response
- Grand Oaks Ballroom I
RFS-2: Measuring and Controlling an 800lb Gorilla Patrick Truesdale, Emerson Process Management Choosing the Best Biorefinery Investment in the Context of a Biofuels Supply Chain Gilberto Xavier, Petrobras TBA - Renewable Fuels Assn./Valero |
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Reception in Exhibit Hall - Grand Oaks Ballroom K-M |
Tuesday October 11, 2011 |
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Registration - Ballroom Foyer Registration Desk |
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General Session - Grand Oaks Ballroom E-G |
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Plant Automation: Best Practices in Asset Reliability, Performance Management, and Portfolio Optimization/ APC
- Grand Oaks Ballroom I
Improve Plant Reliability with Essential Asset Monitoring Nikki Bishop, Emerson Process Management Controlling Hydrocracker Temperature Excursions Gregory Hampton, CITGO Petroleum |
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Principles & Practices: Gasoline Processes - Grand Oaks Ballroom H |
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Q&A: Crude/Vacuum Distillation & Coking
- Grand Oaks Ballroom E-G
Panelists: George Duggan, Baker Hughes Downstream Chemicals, Sugar Land, TX Rajkumar Ghosh, Indian Oil Corporation, New Delhi, India Gary Gianzon, Marathon Petroleum Corporation, Garyville, LA Jeff Lewellen, Frontier El Dorado Refining Company, El Dorado, KS Ron Parise, Nalco Energy Services, Sarnia, Ontario |
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Coffee Break - Grand Oakes Ballroom J |
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Plant Automation: Best Practices in Asset Reliability, Performance Management, and Portfolio Optimization/ APC (cont.)
- Grand Oaks Ballroom I
Optimization Blend Operations Refinery Schwechat Reinhart Gross, OMV Operator Alarms Should be on the Boundary of the Normal Operating Envelope Robin Brooks, Process Plant Computing Limited Advanced Control: Mid Stream Success Gregory Rogers, Enterprise Products |
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Lunch in Exhibit Hall - Grand Oaks Ballroom K-M |
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Plant Automation: Industrial Control Systems Security
- Grand Oaks Ballroom I
Cyber Security Roadmaps Mark Heard, Eastman Chemical Company APT (Nightdragon) Methodology and Lessons Learned Johnathan Pollet, Red Tiger Security |
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Principles & Practices: Crude/Vacuum Distillation & Coking - Grand Oaks Ballroom H |
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Q&A: FCC
- Grand Oaks Ballroom E-G
Panelists: Dwight Agnello-Dean, BP Products North America, Whiting, IN Al English, KBC Advanced Technologies, Inc., Parsippany, NJ Ray Fletcher, INTERCAT, Sea Girt, NJ Tom Lorsbach, UOP LLC, Austin, TX Matthew Meyers,Western Refining Company, El Paso, TX Mike Teders, Valero Energy Corporation, San Antonio, TX |
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Refreshment Break - Grand Oakes Ballroom J |
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Plant Automation: Industrial Control Systems Security (cont.)
- Grand Oaks Ballroom I
ISA Security Compliance – ISA Issues/ISA Secure Certificates Rick Kaun, Honeywell & Johan Nye, ExxonMobil Panel on Changing Procurement Strategy Panelists TBA |
Wednesday October 12, 2011 |
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Early Bird Coffee & Rolls - Grand Oakes Ballroom J |
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Registration - Ballroom Foyer Registration Desk |
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Plant Automation: Turning Data into Information - A Texas Shootout - Grand Oaks Ballroom I |
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Principles & Practices: FCC - Grand Oaks Ballroom E-G |
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Principles & Practices: General Plant Services - Grand Oaks Ballroom H |
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Coffee Break - Grand Oakes Ballroom J |
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Plant Automation:Turning Data into Information - A Texas Shootout (cont.) - Grand Oaks Ballroom I |
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Post-Conference Refining Technology Seminars
Individual seminar times may vary. Contact host company for more information via emails listed below. Hydrogen Plant Seminar and Q&A presented by Süd-Chemie The seminar is designed to provide useful knowledge and key understanding to engineers, operators, and other key stakeholders of hydrogen plants. This seminar also includes an overview of designs, feedstocks, and hydrogen purity. Steam methane reforming, reactions, types of reformers, and reforming catalysts: thermodynamics and kinetics, operation, loading, startup, shutdown, monitoring performance/troubleshooting. Attendees will have an excellent opportunity to ask questions, network, and most importantly, share best practices. Lunch provided. For more information contact Jill Parman of Süd-Chemie at Jill.Parman@sud-chemie.com.* Fundamentals of Overhead System Corrosion presented by Baker Hughes This course is designed for refinery engineers who want to expand their knowledge of aqueous corrosion in refinery processing units. Today’s refineries face significant, new challenges. Declining feedstock quality and more severe operating conditions can substantially increase overhead system corrosion. Corrosion concerns can affect overhead systems in any refinery process, including crude and vacuum units, FCCUs and Cokers, as well as HDS units. In response to these challenges, this course provides a concise review of the latest methods used to diagnose and control aqueous corrosion. Topics will include: Corrosion mechanisms and morphology; Operational factors that influence corrosion; Diagnostic techniques; Simulation modeling; Mitigation methods; Monitoring technology; Best practices for corrosion control; and Field Case Studies. For more information contact Rachel Verbit of Baker Hughes at rachel.verbit@bakerhughes.com.* *The company providing the seminar will determine and apply their own registration policies. |