Day 1, 9th March

08.00 Registration

08.50 Welcome remarks

09.00 Keynote address

09.30 Strategic overview of the industry
• Rationalisation of capacity in the refining sector
• Margins outlook in the short to medium term

N. Ravivenkatesh, Senior Consultant, PURVIN & GERTZ

10.00 A new decade, familiar challenges – review of current industry trends
• Latest developments and tackling the challenges economic recovery
• Demand and capacity additions

Clive Gibson, NEXANT

10.30 Coffee break

11.00 Improving operating performance through technology

Pramod Kumar Karunakaran, GTS Research & Technology Division, PETRONAS

11.30 Economically and technically optimising the refineries operation to the future Green House Gases Emission regulations
• Efficient, clean and friendly oil industry program
• How to spread a technical economical mentality and improve the refinery operation profitability

Alberto Ferrucci, President, PROMETHEUS

12.00 Special address from the upstream
Accessing the inaccessible - how technology is effectively increasing reserves
• Newly discovered ‘giant’ reservoirs are increasingly rare
• Production from existing reservoirs is declining
• New reserves are becoming harder to develop
• Technology is making these new reserves accessible and economical

Richard Russell, EurAsia-Pacific Regional Business Development Manager, HALLIBURTON

12.30 Hydrous ethanol for gasoline blending – cost and energy savings

Hans Keuken, Managing Director, HE BLENDS B.V.

13.00 Lunch break

14.00 How the Excellence in Management of Opportunities and Threats Tool (EMOTT) can provide refineries a way out of the financial crisis
• Margin monitoring
• Strategic road–map planning (BSC) and KPI
• Implementation of ISO systems, EFQM, SCM, and total productivity maintenance
• Energy management and energy saving
• Outsourcing management
• Purchasing management and suppliers
• Managing political crisis

Hamid Reza Seyed Jafari, Head of Implementation & Development of Management Systems, SHIRAZ OIL REFINING

14.30 Carbon Capture Storage (CCS), refineries and the need for a consistent global response
• Impact of carbon on refinery margins
• Legislative, environmental and social issues driving the global CCS investment programme
• Potential development of CCS in South East Asia
• Potential derived if CCS in included in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

Jim Wright, Director, KBC

15.00 Technological developments in solving China’s transportation fuel quality

Xiangchen Fang, President, Fushun Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals, SINOPEC

15.30 Coffee break

16.00 Meeting the environmental challenge for Asian refineries
• Development of alternative fuels in Asia and their impact on refining capacity
• Impact of emissions standard regulations

Clarence Woo, Executive Director, ASIAN CLEAN FUELS ASSOCIATION

16.30 Challenges for the automotive industry and impact on fuel requirements
• CO2/emissions challenges for the automotive industry
• Foreseen gasoline/diesel/biofuels-mix required in the future (particularly for refining industry: the gasoline/diesel balance)
• Biofuels: CO2 reduction potential and quality issues

Anders Roj, Manager Fuels and Lubricants, VOLVO

17.00 End of day one