International Downstream Technology & Strategy Conference
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ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil licenses refining, gas and chemical manufacturing technologies and offers catalysts that provide significant value to customers. As one of the world’s largest refineries and petrochemical manufacturers, ExxonMobil has extensive engineering and operational experience with these technologies and catalysts.
Their network of laboratories in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific provides customer support in the delivery of high quality, reliable process technologies and catalysts.
Shell Global Solutions
Shell Global Solutions provides technical consultancy and licensed technologies for both the Shell Group and external customers within the energy industry. Shell Global Solutions strives to deliver innovative technical solutions and effective technology to support its customers in their day-to-day operations and delivery of strategic plans to improve the capacity and performance of existing units; integrate new process units into existing refineries and petrochemical complexes; incorporate advanced proprietary catalyst systems (CRI/Criterion) and reactor internals; through to the design of grassroots refineries.
Criterion
Criterion is the world’s largest supplier of hydroprocessing catalysts, which includes catalysts for hydrotreating, hydrocracking, hydrogenation and isomerization. We offer a variety of process technologies that can be packaged with our catalysts to create a complete, optimized solution for any hydroprocessing problem or supplied independently. We have more than 50 years of experience developing, manufacturing, testing, marketing and servicing catalysts that are used in every type of hydroprocessing operation. Together with Shell Global Solutions we deliver innovative technical solutions and effective technology to support our customers across multiple refining applications.
Alfa Laval
Alfa Laval is a leading global supplier of products and solutions for heat transfer, separation and fluid handling through our key products – heat exchangers, separators, pumps and valves. We currently play a vital role in areas that are crucial for society, such as energy optimization, environmental protection and food production. Alfa Laval’s products are used in the manufacturing of food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, starch, sugar and ethanol. We are also used in nuclear power, onboard vessels; and in the engineering sector, mining industry and refinery sector as well as treating wastewater and creating a comfortable indoor climate.
Johnson Matthey
Johnson Matthey is an international specialty chemicals company that is focused on the development of value added, high technology products and services. The Johnson Matthey Process Technologies division, one of five divisions, is a global supplier of catalysts and additives, licensing technologies and other services related to the petrochemical, syngas, oil refining, and gas processing industries. Within refineries Johnson Matthey Process Technologies’ focus is to improve the profitability, energy efficiency and environmental performance of customers’ processes through hydrogen catalysts, purification solutions, hydroprocessing catalysts, fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) additives and addition systems, and process optimisation and asset improvement services. Johnson Matthey catalysts and additives are brought to the market through a range of well-known brands; this includes KATALCO JMTM, PURASPECJMTM ,CATACELJMTM ,HYTREAT JMTM, and INTERCATJMTM.
WELCOME FROM THE CO-HOST
Dear Conference Attendees,
On behalf of INA, I am very pleased to support this important oil industry downstream event, held in Dubrovnik, at which two related issues of high interest will be discussed.
The first main session will be the 17th International Downstream Technology & Strategy Conference (IDTC) which will provide participants with valuable insights related to challenges and opportunities pertinent to the international refining and petrochemicals industry. It will also present the latest strategies and technologies that will bring producers more competitiveness, enable operations optimization and efficiency increase.
The second conference session will be the 15th International Bottom of the Barrel Technology Conference (BBTC). This event has established itself as the most important Residue Upgrading event in the industry. The latest technology innovations and advances to ensure success will be presented, while showcasing real examples from several refineries around the world.
For a number of oil companies, residue upgrading is already a reality. Due to a favorable business environment during the pre-recession years, these refiners registered high profit rates and high return on their timely investments. For others, it is high time to consider investing in this technology.
INA is among the leading Croatian investors with one of the highest reinvestment ratios compared to other key companies in Croatia. In the past ten years, INA has invested HRK 24 billion in its core business and holds a leading position in Croatia’s retail and wholesale market despite hard competition increase. INA did not cut investments, but brought them back to the previous years’ level – which enabled our stability in the implementation of the launched and planned projects.
One of those projects, the most important one, is the Residue project upgrade in Rijeka refinery. The future of INA’s refining business is in Rijeka, which will be upgraded with DCU, a technology that will bring competitiveness to Rijeka Refinery. In November 2016, the contract on the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) was signed, which is a major step towards the realization of this project. With estimated worth of over HRK 3 billion, it is not only one of biggest investments in INA’s history, but also one of the biggest investments in Croatia. Our goal is to significantly improve market position and competitiveness of Rijeka Refinery both on regional and European level.
Completion of FEED and the necessary accompanying documentation is planned for fall 2017. In the meantime, INA will continue with works on the construction site. On this path we count on support from all our key stakeholders in order to achieve INA’s further growth since INA is an important factor of Croatian economy and represents a guarantee of energy stability of the country.
I look forward to welcoming you to the conference and hope you will benefit from the program, at the same time enjoying your stay in the beautiful city of Dubrovnik.
Best regards,
Zoltán Áldott
President of the Management Board of INA
Towards Long-Term Refinery Success & Creating Value & Maximising Performance
Now into its 17th year, IDTC is widely recognised as the best downstream knowledge sharing forum. The event again provided valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities for the international refining industry and presented the latest strategies and technologies that will enable refiners to meet their operational goals and achieve financial improvements.
Key Topics Included:
- Overview & Outlook of International Downstream Markets
- Investments & Projects
- Refining & Petrochemical Integration
- Downstream Technologies, Catalysts & Equipment
- Operational Excellence Strategy
- Asset Management
- Energy Efficiency
- Process Safety & Sustainability
Sponsors
Very good organisation and programme. I've been updated with the new trends in the downstream industry and this is of great value to me.
— Waldemar Soczyński, Expert, Effective Operational Plan Delivery Office, PKN ORLENWell organized conference. High quality presentations.
— Dieter Leckel, Principal Scientist, SASOLIt's one of my best technical conferences. Everything was perfect.
— Hyunyong Moon, Manager Cracking process engineering department - RHDS process engineering section, S-OILGreat conference. Meeting high level people at operating companies.
— David Williams, Senior Application Engineer /Business Development/ Coker Specialist, VEGA AMERICASIt was a great event with oportunities to learn about a lot of new technologies related to downstream processes! I would like to attend this event next year as well.
— Amit Gupta, Senior Technologist, RELIANCE INDUSTRIESGreat programme and spreakers that give you an up-to-date overview of what is going in the downstream industry i terms of technolgies and strategies. Good organisation for both the technical and social parts.
— Joaquim Correia, Safety Engineer, GALPBesides sharing useful topics, important point is that we had opportunity for networking with very experienced people who managed Operational Excellence processes.
— Serdar Kemaloglu, Kırıkkale Refinery Manager, TÜPRAŞAn excellent opportunity to meet a lot of industry professionals who have the same problems as yours and found similar solutions to them.
— Marta Moreno Pardo, Process Engineer, REPSOLOrganisation of the conference is at high level with interesting program in line with current situation and demand in oil & gas industry. Selection of topics was very interesting and will be useful for us in the future.
— Vanda Mandic, Manager of Process Technology & Development, INAGreat opportunity to meet all relevant vendors and other refi ners to share experiences.
— Stephan Finnern, Head of Technology, HEIDE REFINERYIt is a great chance to get updated with latest technology.
— Mohamad Khawdah, Technical Services Engineer II, YASREFThe presentations are very useful. Some of the topics regarding useful technologies I will discuss with my colleagues in order to apply them in our plant.
— Kilsang Kwon, Process Manager, S-OILConfirmed Exhibitors
IDTC 2017 was held as a part of the International Downstream Week prior the International Bottom of the Barrel Technology Conference - BBTC.
International Bottom of the Barrel Technology Conference
Topics included:
- Residue Upgrading Projects – Updates, Best Practices & Future Plans
- Residue Upgrading Technology Advances, Catalysts & Equipment
- Focus on Thermal Processing & Hydroprocessing Technologies, Catalysts & Equipment
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