Webcasts

Sponsor: AspenTech

In today's volatile environment, refiners must shift operations to adapt to ever-changing product demands – and do it with an increasingly remote workforce. Plant digital twin technology provides operational insights so engineers can predict potential disruptions from anywhere.

Learn how column hydraulic visualization in the digital twin helps your remote teams:

• Predict operational issues, such as column weeping during production turndowns
• Evaluate alternative corrective actions
• Avoid costly operational outages

See how you can respond more quickly to operational issues in an uncertain climate. 

Sponsor: S & B

Over the past several years, the world has witnessed significant downstream capacity growth in all sectors of the downstream hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI). However, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected global demand for transportation fuels and petrochemical products, as well as capital spending. Although the HPI has had a rough start to 2020, refined products and petrochemicals demand is forecast to increase in the future. To satisfy increasing demand for refined fuels, petrochemicals and natural gas, every region is investing to increase downstream processing capacity. With more than $1.9 T in announced projects globally, it is imperative that HPI companies receive the most up-to-date and valid information on market trends, and the future development of the downstream processing industry. 

During this live webcast, Lee Nichols will provide a mid-year update on capital projects around the world, as well as major economic, environmental and political market trends that are shaping and influencing the industry in the near-term.

Sponsor: Honeywell 

Today’s operation managers and supervisors need to balance data gathering and real-time informed decision making while maintaining contact with their teams including, subject matter experts, regardless of their location. Join us to learn how Honeywell Forge Workforce Productivity Inspection Rounds, Expert on Call, and Video Assist provide the tools and intelligence to increase the overall efficiency and productivity with a quick ROI.

Sponsor: AVEVA

There is no doubt that oil prices fluctuations are causing uncertainties and disrupting the Oil & Gas Industry. The supply is up, and storage capacity is running out aligned with the low global demand. In these difficult times, we need to take advantage of economic opportunities and quickly react to market changes with fast optimization and built-in analytics. The agility in responding to price fluctuations is key to surviving this unprecedented situation. Companies capable of optimizing the value chain will be able to manage their business through risk and uncertainty.

Sponsor: AVEVA

Today’s capital project construction industry is plagued with challenges, resulting in nearly all major projects delivering late and over budget, and risk is higher than ever. This webinar explores the primary causes for overages, considers the critical internal and external pressures faced by today’s volatile projects environment, and provides a framework to guide the opportunity to align teams, inform decision making, optimize resources, and enforce governance to execute your project successfully.

Sponsor: Schneider Electric 

Optimized energy management, enabled by digital integration, can quickly increase process efficiency by reducing energy use per unit of output.  Easily implemented, these digital solutions integrate process and energy data to measure the financial and sustainability performance of an industrial operation in real time. They incorporate data from the equipment level of a plant, up through the process area, the plant site, and the enterprise level. The results show both operators and executives how policies and operating decisions can boost efficiency and profitability through easy to use dashboards.  Energy savings of 7% to 12% are typical for a mid- to large-scale facility, along with a further 2% to 5% reduction of energy purchase costs through effective contracting and usage of sustainable energy sources.

Sponsor: OSIsoft

To ensure employee safety, HPI companies had to quickly pivot to a remote support model with many subject matter experts (SMEs) and engineering staff working remotely supporting front line, sequestered critical operations and field operators.

What are the best practices and lessons learned from this new remote operational support model?  What have been technologies and work processes that are enabling effective and efficient remote operational support?  Is this the “new norm” going forward even when the impact of Covid-19 abates? If not, how will remote support of critical operations be changed?  

If this topic and questions are of interest to you and your organization, please attend this special HPI webinar with a panel of leading industry customer experts who will discuss their perspectives. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions for the panelists.

Sponsor: AspenTech

How effective are your sustainability initiatives—especially given the current global environment? Early returns from the ARC Advisory Group benchmarking survey reveal that sustainability is just as important as other key programs such as margin optimization and operational excellence. What about worker safety, the environment and digitalization? You may be surprised how your peers responded. 

Join this live webinar as ARC Advisory Group Vice President Peter Reynolds shares the results of this important sustainability study. Topics will include:

• How do today’s industry leaders measure the effectiveness of their sustainability strategy?
• What’s the impact of recent health and economic challenges on sustainability?
• What approaches, practices and tools are used, and how well are they working?
• What ranks ahead of typical “green” sustainability initiatives in importance?

The webinar will also include discussion on how companies are improving sustainability with digital technologies.