How to deal with the CO2 challenge?

Please Note: This conference has been postponed to September 2010 - however, key topics have been incorporated into the new track at the ERTC Annual Meeting taking place in Berlin in November. For details please click here

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After a successful pilot conference in April 2008, we are pleased to announce the second ERTC Sustainable Refining Conference which will again be held in Brussels from September 28-30, 2009.

The conference will provide an opportunity for in-depth discussions on the implications of recent climate policy initiatives for the oil refining industry. Speakers will be drawn from all stakeholder groups: policy makers, international institutions, academia, NGO’s, technology & service providers and the refining industry. It will provide a unique opportunity to be updated on the latest legislative and technical developments and to discuss practical experience in achieving greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

In December 2009, COP15, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be held in Copenhagen to agree new, ambitious, long term greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. In anticipation of this conference, the EU is in the process of agreeing their own Community-wide mid- and long term reduction targets and legislation is introduced to help achieve these ambitions. This covers among others the promotion of energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and renewable energy, and the introduction of limits on vehicle emissions and life-cycle greenhouse emissions from transportation fuels.

At the same time, product quality and yield requirements force upon the industry an ever increasing carbon intensive operation, which would seem at odds with the climate ambitions.

So, how is the industry going to cope?