Middle East Downstream Week
Day 2: Strategy Insight Day
Tuesday 27 March 2012
View the full MEDW Programme >>07:45 MEDW Breakfast Briefing: The Economics of the Refining Industry
08:00 MEDW 2012 registration and coffee
09:00 Official opening
09:10 Keynote Session: Refine and Succeed
- Reshaping the refining business model – a must for tomorrow’s success
Olivier Alexandre, VP, MENA, Refining and Petrochemicals Eastern Hemisphere, TOTAL
Louis Besland, Vice President and Partner, Head of Energy and Process Industries Practice, Middle East, A.T. KEARNEY
Pete P. Pitrowski, Senior Vice President and General Manager, UOP
10:45 Coffee break sponsored by:
11:15 Session Six: Diversify and Leverage
- The economics of the refining industry and the new imperative of product diversification
Dr Peter J Middle Brook, CEO, GEOPOLOCITY
Dr Gabor Kenessey, General Manager, Supply Chain Management, OMAN OIL REFINIERIES AND PETROLEUM INDUSTRIES COMPANY (ORPIC)
Jamal Mohamed Ba-Amer, General Director, SAMIR REFINERY
Anand Sansare, General Manager, RELIANCE INDUSTRIES
12:30 Lunch sponsored by:
14:00 Session Seven: Technology and Optimisation
- Stringent international regulations and their impact on Middle East’s export plans – can technology help to increase yields in spite of bottom low margins?
Duncan Clark, Manager, Europe, Middle East and African Market, INFINEUM
Jana Kurzawa, Marketing Manager: Chemical - Petrochemical Industry & Temperature Measurement,ENDRESS + HAUSER INSTRUMENTS INTERNATIONAL AG
15:15 Coffee break sponsored by:
15:45 Session Eight: Closing thoughts on the status of the refining industry. What have you captured at MEDW 2012? Which ideas are you taking away?
Dr Samir Elkareish, Director of Technical Affairs and
Eng lmad Nassif Makki, Petroleum Refining Senior Expert, OAPEC
16:15 Closing Discussion - Strategic Focus
17:00 Close of 13th Middle East Refining Meeting
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