The mega-gathering known as the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) is primarily focused upstream and offshore, but there are nuggets of information that seep out from its yearly proceedings that have relevance to the downstream sector. During the four day conference that took place in early May in Houston, Texas, Hydrocarbon Processing’s sister publication World Oil produced the official show daily newspaper for the show. I sifted through the vast amounts of data that World Oil’s staff culled to bring some information that will be of interest to refiners, gas processors, chemical creators and the like.