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ERTC Annual Meeting 2010 agenda
Day 1: Monday, 29th November 2010
16.00 Registration
18.00 Hospitality suites open
Day 2: Tuesday, 30th November 2010
Jump to the streams:
Stream A: Emissions control through
better technology
Stream B: Catalyst developments
Stream C: Dieselisation
08.00 Registration
08.30 Opening remarks
08.40 Keynote address: Global oil outlook
Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, INTERNATIONAL
ENERGY AGENCY (IEA)
09.10 360 degrees overview: General outlook for the refining
sector – view from Europe, Africa, Middle East and Latin America
• Impact on ongoing and planned investment
• Rationalisation of the European refining system
• Shifting supply/demand balances
Jose Carlos Cosenza, Downstream and Refining Executive
Manager, PETROBRAS
Hussain Al Qahtani, Director, Joint Manufacturing Program,
SAUDI ARAMCO
Jamal Ba-Amer, Director General, SAMIR
Olivier Alexander, Manufacturing Division/Raffinage, TOTAL
Bela Kelemen, Vice President Refining,
MOL
09.50 EU refining industry is the key to enable the transition to a
lower carbon economy
Chris Beddoes, Deputy Secretary General, EUROPIA
10.20 Coffee break and opportunity to visit hospitality suites
10.50 The implications of legislation and projected crude oil costs
on the future of the bottom of the barrel
Don Gregory, Director, EXHAUST GAS CLEANING SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION
(EGCSA)
11.20 Bunker fuels regulation – latest update and status
Dragos Rauta, Technical Director, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
INDEPENDENT TANKER OWNERS (INTER-TANKO)
11.50 Refining and petrochemical integration
Hussain Al Qahtani, Director, Joint Manufacturing Program,
SAUDI ARAMCO
12.20 Global recovery, changing market drivers and consumption trends
(Speaker to be confirmed)
12.50 Lunch and opportunity to visit hospitality suites
Stream A: Emissions control through better technology
14.00 Chairman’s opening remarks
Andrea Amoroso, Vice President Process Technology,
ENI
14.10 Panel discussion: Challenges in emissions reduction –
meeting standards and latest technologies
Moderator: Andrea Amoroso, Vice President Process Technology,
ENI
Panellists: Hussain Al Qahtani, Director, Joint
Manufacturing Program, SAUDI ARAMCO
Anton Purgstaller, Head of Technical Development & Economics,
OMV
(Additional speakers to be confirmed)
14.40 Optimising and troubleshooting the FCC regenerator for reduced
emissions
• European Union environmental agencies are implementing ever stricter
regulations related to FCC flue gas emissions such as SOx, NOx, CO, and
particulates
• FCC flue gas emissions regulations have begun to restrict many refinery
operations leading to the use of environmental additives, and in some cases,
have led to the installation of expensive hardware modifications thereby
substantially increasing operating costs
• Multiple troubleshooting techniques have been developed over the last 68 years
which will assist the FCC operator in reducing flue gas emissions
• This paper provides the FCC operator guidelines related to the troubleshooting
and reduction of flue gas emissions and their associated costs
INTERCAT
15.10 The sulphur management strategy - meeting the sulphur challenge
using leading edge integrated sulphur molecule processing technologies
• The refining industry faces the challenge of dealing with heavier,
more sour crude, more stringent SOx and NOx emissions legislations combined with
the demand of producing higher quality transportation fuels
• To meet the challenge the refining industry will have to consider how best to
optimise their sulphur management strategies
• Hear how refiners can manage their sulphur technology platform by employing
hydro-processing, conversion and sulphur recovery facilities
SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS
15.40 Coffee break and opportunity to visit hospitality suites
16.10 Stricter emission control regulations - worsening quality of
fuel
• Environmental damage from various industrial and transportation
activities is a major cause of concern for world community
• Ship sourced emissions are receiving increased scrutiny from IMO
(International Maritime Organisation), governmental and other environmental
agencies
• This has led to a plethora of regulations to restrict emissions from ships
• At the same time the marine fuel quality is deteriorating in-spite of
international standards to regulate the quality
• What can be done?
VISWA LAB
16.40 FCC regenerator off gas cost effective emissions control
• A new technology - called CONOx - has been developed that introduces
reactive oxygen into the FCC regenerator off gas
• CONOx reduces both NOx and CO - with NOx reductions of 60% achievable in most
partial burn applications
• Full burn regenerators can be operated at lower excess O2 levels, producing
lower NOx while destroying CO
• The low capital cost of CONOx allows its use in combination with other control
technologies to achieve a more cost effective overall approach to NOX control
• Regenerator and CO boiler capacity are also effectively increased due to the
operating flexibility provided by CONOx
PRAXAIR
Stream B: Catalyst developments
14.00 Chairman’s opening remarks
Koenraad Herrebout, Direction Exploitation – Manufacturing,
TOTAL
14.10 Panel discussion: Advancements in catalytic
processes
Moderator: Koenraad Herrebout, Manufacturing
Division/Raffinage, TOTAL
Panellists: Bruce Cook, Advanced Refining
Manager, BP
Abdollah Esmaeili, Senior Petroleum Engineer,
NATIONAL IRANIAN SOUTH OIL COMPANY (NISOC)
(Additional speakers to be confirmed)
14.40 Alternatives for HF alkylation
• Alkylate is still one of the most preferred gasoline blending
components
• Safety concerns related to HF acid alkylation technology
• Revamp to sulphuric acid alkylation technology, using CDAlky®, is an option
CDTECH
15.10 Latest improvement in ACETM catalyst technology
for ULSD production and deep cetane increase
• The HR Series catalysts based on ACE™ technology contribute to the
success of Prime-D™ & Prime-K™ technologies, positioning Axens as a leader
licensor for Middle Distillates Hydro-treatment.
• ACE™ technology allows an optimum balance between activity, stability in
operation and full activity recovery with minimum regeneration cost of HR Series
catalysts
• Several case studies will be presented based on HR 626 CoMo catalyst for ULSD
targets
• HR 648 NiMo catalyst is now being launched and is a breakthrough catalyst for
deep cetane increase service
AXENS
15.40 Coffee break and opportunity to visit hospitality suites
16.10 Chloride removal challenges in modern day
refineries
• Identifying the most common problems and challenges refiners deal
with Cl removal reactors
• Identify most common species and types of Cl ‘s found in different refining
streams
• Available catalysts technologies for Cl treatment and their general advantages
and disadvantages
• Best methods of operating a Cl removal reactor /s in the refinery
• Analytical methods and capabilities to identify trace Cl impurities in the HC
streams in modern refineries
UNICAT CATALYST TECHNOLOGIES
16.40 Bottom of the barrel upgrading with FCC additive solutions
• Economic advantages of using additives to capitalize upon
opportunities
• How to identify the performance potential of additive solutions
• Effects of additives on the FCCU heat balance
• Commercial examples of improvements seen in product yields and properties
ALBEMARLE
14.00 Chairman’s opening remarks
Josef Lichtscheidl, Advisor, OMV
14.10 Panel discussion: Challenges in meeting the gasoline-diesel
balance
Moderator: Josef Lichtscheidl, Advisor, OMV
Panellists: Dawood Nassif, General Manager,
BAPCO
Roelof Heezen, VP Downstream R&D, SHELL
(Additional speakers to be confirmed)
14.40 Enabling increased production of high quality diesel
• This paper will focus on investment strategies that can be adopted to
maximize high quality diesel production from both conventional conversion
technologies and from less conventional feedstocks including biomass
• The paper will discuss a biomass to diesel process scheme recently introduced
by UOP
• This scheme incorporates novel Fischer-Tropsch wax cracking technology that
UOP has developed to improve the efficiency of upgrading F-T wax to high quality
diesel
UOP
15.10 Increasing LCO production in the FCC unit
• Grace Davison has unveiled a series of third-generation EnhanceR FCC
catalyst families for feedstocks ranging from low metal, clean feeds to high
metal, resid feeds. Within these FCC catalyst families, some are specifically
developed to increase LCO yields
• DieseliseR is a third-generation EnhanceR FCC catalyst family developed to
maximise LCO production for FCC units operating in an LCO producing mode
• A case study will be discussed to highlight how DieseliseR has increased LCO
production at a European refinery
GRACE
15.40 Coffee break and opportunity to visit hospitality suites
16.10 Maximising production of premium distillate
using ExxonMobil research and engineering’s
MIDW™technology
• Use of Hydroisomerization (MIDW ) for maximizing ULSD production with
improved cold flow properties
• Providing refiners with product flexibility to tailor to market condition
• Review of the many MIDW configurations
• Examples of commercial and pilot plant results
EXXONMOBIL
16.40 Naphtha to diesel - how?
• Traditional Naphtha markets are under pressure from Middle East gas
based crackers and declining opportunity for gasoline export to the US
• The shift towards dieselisation will continue with a combination of crude
selection, low severity FCC operation, increased hydro-cracking and residue
upgrading
• This presentation explores more radical options such as steam reforming and
middle distillate synthesis, or polymerisation
• Case studies based on typical refinery configurations will indicate the
potential
FOSTER WHEELER
17.10 Summary forum: Key discussion points from streams A, B, C led by stream chairmen
17.40 Opportunity to visit hospitality suites
19.30 Gala dinner
