The Global Refining Strategies Summit 2013 covers topics such as:
- 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
The Global Refining Strategies Summit 2013 brings together 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.
