Webcasts

Sponsor: Shell Global Solutions

Many refiners are using revamps to overhaul, modify or fine-tune their configurations to match the prevailing market conditions better. Compared with a grassroots project, revamps can offer an enhanced return on investment, a lower capital cost and a shorter gestation period. However, they are often substantially more challenging.

In this webcast, we will explain how to identify whether a revamp could unlock value at your facility and reveal some of the best practices that can help mitigate the challenges of such a project. In addition, we will review several real-life revamp projects that added substantial value to their facility’s economics. For instance, how a customer increased hydrocracker conversion to enhance middle distillate yield; or another customer revamped both its vacuum distillation unit and its hydrocracker to provide an optimized feed for a new lubricant base oil plant.

Sponsor: Schneider Electric

The pursuit of efficient, effective, and reliable operations to achieve optimal profitability for a process is part of a well-defined business strategy. Simulation software is just one of the tools that you can use to obtain the process clarity needed to promote operational excellence. Simulation software allows you to evaluate the current process and optimize that processes and its people. Focusing on operational excellence maximizes profitability through lower operating and energy costs, optimized process conditions, and improved employee productivity. It empowers operators, engineers, and managers to perpetually seek for, and drive, process improvements while minimizing risk.

Sponsor: BASF

Abnormally high losses of Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalyst from the regenerator or reactor is a problem that almost all FCC units will face at some point. Solving catalyst losses from the FCC Unit is crucial to refiners as high catalyst losses impact unit operations, the environment, and will often lead to a unit shutdown. During this webinar, Stuart Foskett and Alvin Tan from BASF will discuss the various causes of catalyst loss issues in FCC units. Some fundamental principles will also be discussed, along with how to monitor, troubleshoot and handle catalyst loss problems.

Sponsor: AspenTech

Safety and regulatory compliance are time-consuming elements of conceptual and basic engineering. With the Chemical Safety Board scrutinizing process safety today, it is more critical than ever to incorporate safety analysis within your process modeling environment. Doing so allows organizations to confidently achieve compliant pressure relief and flare network designs at the lowest cost, and remove bottlenecks during the FEED and pre-FEED stages of capital projects. Register for this webinar today to learn how to achieve the safest, highest quality designs at the lowest cost.

Sponsors: Intel, Schneider Electric

Together, Schneider Electric, Intel, and Microsoft provide high-performance mobility solutions for the oil and gas industry. Listen in to hear why this partnership offers enterprises real-time visibility into their plant environments and supply chains. The joint mobile offerings enable offshore, onshore, transport, and processing to confidently embrace reliability, safety, and productivity. These solutions provide a complete life-cycle approach, clear methodology, and worldwide presence that allow for consistent service and delivery of energy management benefits across the globe.

Chris McCullough, Marketing Consultant, and Gulf Publishing Company for this sixty-minute webcast, during which attendees will have the opportunity to learn how to: Develop a marketing mindset for the current environment; Show ROI and get buy-in from the C-suite on your 2016 marketing plan; Discover and properly deploy your most valuable marketing asset (hint: it’s not what you think); Make every advertising dollar stretch, and 3 ways to build trust with your ideal prospects.

Sponsor: Metrohm

Measuring the true water content in liquefied gas is a challenge facing refineries, fracking operations, and natural gas processors. Techniques commonly used today include freeze valve testing and humidity sensors which only provide an overview of the sample’s wetness. Depending on the type of gas, water may have a stronger affinity for either the liquid or the gaseous phase. Since these common methods are limited to measuring only the gaseous phase, it is impossible to get a true, quantitative moisture measurement.

Karl Fisher technology can be used to measure absolute water content in liquefied gas. A KF Gas Analyzer uses mass-flow technology to quantitatively sample liquid or gas phases in compressed LPGs and perform low-level Karl Fischer titration analysis. Accurate and repeatable moisture detection as low as 5ppm in samples like propane, butane, ethylene, and butene ensures a product that is safe for transport or optimal for use in high-quality chemical and polymer production.

Sponsor: Schneider Electric

Low historical natural gas prices have revitalized ammonia producers by reducing feedstock and fuel costs. Unexpected disturbances, fluctuating supply and demand, throughput limitations, changes in equipment and catalyst capability, and basic control limitations result in ammonia plants that may not operate at their optimum state. Increased profitability of ammonia plants is achieved using advanced process control (APC). APC reduces variability in the process, allowing the plant to run closer to constraints. Increased throughput at lower specific energy consumption and a consistent quality results in increased profit. This presentation provides details on how improved profitability is achieved with APC.