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As the industry continues to shift towards downstream diversification and expansion into higher value and niche markets, integration across the industry’s value chain plays a significant role. In line with industry developments, ADIPEC 2018 delivers enhanced downstream technical content with more sessions across more categories.
Over 3 days, the ADIPEC 2018 Downstream Technical sessions provide a holistic view of refinery and petrochemical integration, project developments and latest technologies that can help drive your business forward and improve your day-to-day operations.
The deadline to submit your abstracts is Thursday 24 May 2018.
Technical Categories Include:
Refining Technology, Operations and Marketing (RTOM)
- Brownfield revamping, expansion, conversion and developments
- Refining and petrochemical integration, supply chain management and feedstock maximisation: crude oil derivatives including naptha, LPG, NGL, shale gas, ethane gas
- Refining technology and processing developments: catalytic and thermal cracking, advanced hydrocracker reaction and fractionation units, delayed coking units, contaminants removal, alkylation and polymerisation, isomerisation, energy efficiency
- Heavy oil: flow measurement and control of heavy oil steam, metal contamination from heavy oil processing, desalting refinery heavy feeds
- Bottom of the barrel upgrading
- Reducing carbon dioxide emissions: technologies and innovations
- New trends and emerging technologies for lubricants, fuels and base oils: product integrity, standards and legislations
- Lubrication solutions for renewable energy applications
- Advanced fuels marketing and distribution technologies from refinery to retail station: efficiency, safety and security
- Energy transition, electric vehicles, batteries and storage technologies
Petrochemicals Technology, Operations (PTO)
- Olefins (ethylene and propylene) and aromatics (benzene, toluene, xylene isomers): operations and technology developments
- Petrochemical and refining integration, supply chain management and feedstock allocation, diversification and maximisation
- Integration of bio-feedstock in petrochemical plants
- On-purpose olefins production
- Crude to chemicals
- Naphtha and diesel transformation into more valuable products
Marketing and Distribution of Refined Products (MDRP)
- New trends and emerging technologies for lubricants and base oils
- Fuels and lubes product integrity, standards and legislations
- Advanced fuels distribution technologies from refinery to retail station
- Fuels distribution: efficiency, safety and security
Artificial Intelligence and Connected Performance Technology and Services (AICPTS)
- Industrial internet of things (IIOT)
- Advances in predictive analytics techniques and data handling technologies; legacy platform transitions
- Big data collation, management and analysis within the refinery, petrochemical, gas processing plant
- Smart, connected assets, devices and wireless technologies
- Cloud engineering and virtual technology validation
- Protecting oil and gas facilities: cyber and infrastructure security
- Digital plants, integrated hardware, software, monitoring and predictive analytics
- Digital transformation – optimising refinery performance: machine learning, robotics, blockchain
Gas Processing and Hydrogen Technology and Operations (GPHTO)
- Sour gas processing, filtration and separation methods including acid, gas, water, condensate, oil
- R&D relating to production and processing of natural gas
- Modular gas processing plants
- Advanced natural gas to olefins technology
- Hydrogen recovery, upgrading and purification
- Sulphur recovery and acid gas removal units
Project Management, Engineering Technology and Implementation (PMETI)
- Successful project execution: engineering, procurement, supply chain, construction and management, cost optimisation
- Mega project challenges in a low price oil environment: refining, petrochemicals, gas
- Mitigating challenges during commissioning and startup operations: refining and petrochemicals
Operational Excellence, Maintenance and HSE (OEMH)
- Health, safety, environment, security management, equipment and services across downstream plants
- Risk and integrity management, interface challenges within the plant
- Hazardous chemicals management
- Reducing Opex: production efficiency, process reliability and margin improvement
- Plant maintenance, upgrades, refurbishment, manufacturing and equipment
- Process optimisation, trouble shooting and energy management in the refinery, petrochemical plant
Energy Efficiency and Energy Management (EEEM)
- Technologies to meet new fuel specifications and support clean energy standards; gasoline vs diesel technology advances, refining configuration and conversation technologies
- Asset management on energy efficiency, sustainability
- Advances in biofuels, co-processing technologies and applications
- Climate change, C02 reduction and environmental challenges
Require help with your abstract submissions? Contact the team [email protected]
Interested in strategic and technical downstream sponsorship opportunities? Please contact Siham Ammoura on [email protected]
Register for the downstream sessions today [email protected]
