The Global Refining Strategies Summit 2013

Key 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.