Topics
- Cost control
- Improving profitability in an age of lower utilization
- Streamlining and efficiency strategies to boost your margins
- State-of-the-art technologies to improve process and increase profits
- Cost to operate – reviewing the cost of various fuel legislations and how industry has innovated to meet them at competitive costs
- Global trends & sustained competitiveness
- General outlook for the refining sector in North and Latin America
- Global trends and the likely impacts on refiners in the Americas
- Ensuring sustained competitiveness
- Addressing the challenges of falling demand, constrained capital and low margins
- Identification of key market uncertainties and discussing a range of industry business models to combat these
- Operational excellence
- Cost control and profitability
- Energy efficiency
- Refinery optimization, expansion & upgrade
- Diversification into petrochemicals
- Heavy crude processing
- Safety & environment
- Process safety implementation
- Environmental regulations on carbon and GHG emissions
- Renewables
- Biofuels targets (RFS II) and the path to compliance
- The demand for clean fuels and its impact on the refining sector to develop new state-of-the-art refining facilities
Who should Attend
Senior executives from the hydrocarbon processing and refining industry involved in Refinery Marketing, Refining Development, Downstream Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing, Downstream Technology/Licensing, Process Engineering, Process and Technology, Petrochemicals, Strategy and Planning, Health Safety and Environment, Operational Excellence, Plant Management and Technology Development.
