Middle East Downstream Week

Conference Day 2

Day Two: Tuesday 10 May 2011

08:00 Registration and coffee

09:00 Welcome

09:10 Session five: Roundtable Discussions with Refining Managers

• Choose one of the refineries that interest you most for exclusive insight into their growth plans and priorities

Roundtable leaders include:
Mohamed Mezal, Refinery Operations Planning Manager, THE BAHRAIN PETROLEUM COMPANY (BAPCO)
Sultan Saeed Al Muhairi, Abu Dhabi Refinery Division Manager, ABU DHABI OIL REFINING COMPANY (TAKREER)
Ali Mohammed Al Jaberi, Ruwais Refinery Division Manager, ABU DHABI OIL REFINING COMPANY (TAKREER)

10:25 Coffee break hosted by

10:55 Session six: Maximising operational value from existing assets

• Price driven forward planning and profit improvement opportunities at Mina Abdulla Refinery
• Best practices and case studies for improving yield, increasing capacity and improving energy efficiency to achieve up to 20% more profitability
• Improving margins and refinery operations through the use of excellence management of opportunity tools (EMOT)

Nawal Abdulla Saleh Badou, Team Leader, Operational Planning, Mina Abdulla Refinery Technical Services Deapartment, KUWAIT NATIONAL PETROLEUM COMPANY (KNPC)
Tom Främling, Vice President, Strategic Development, NESTE JACOBS
Hamid Reza Seyed Jafari, Director of Corporate Planning, NATIONAL IRANIAN OIL REFINING AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANY (NIORDC)

12:10 Lunch

13:40 Session seven: Maximising operational value from existing assets

• The role of competence management in operational readiness in refining
• How to enhance and maintain a very strong safety compliance initiative
• Increased profitability through superior delayed coker design and operation

Yiannis Bessiris, Business Development Manager, HONEYWELL PROCESS SOLUTIONS
Derek John Hoare, Business Development Director, Middle East and India, DNV
Tim Old, Technology Licensing Director - Europe, Middle East and Africa, CONOCOPHILLIPS

14:55 Coffee break hosted by

15:25 Panel discussion: meeting E5 specifications and coping with more stringent environmental pressures

• Impact of more stringent fuels quality specifications on the bottom line of refiners. How should refiners react?
• Should there be specific regulations for the MENA region?
• The business case for hydrocracking vs hydrotreaters

Panellists include:
Dr. Samir Elkareish, Director of Technical Affairs, ORGANIZATION OF ARAB PETROLEUM EXPORTING COUNTRIES (OAPEC)
Mohamed Mezal, Refinery Operations Planning Manager, THE BAHRAIN PETROLEUM COMPANY (BAPCO)
Imad Nassif Makki, Petroleum Refining Senior Expert, ORGANIZATION OF ARAB PETROLEUM EXPORTING COUNTRIES (OAPEC)

16:25 Closing summary

16:40 End of conference


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