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Learn about the link between the economic slowdown and road diesel demand, how transportation trends like electric vehicles could affect gasoline and diesel demand, and the impact on road fuels from policies and regulations affecting fuel efficiency, electric vehicles and renewable fuels.
Identify public policies that drive new product development.

Facilitator: Susan Grissom

AFPM

Speaker: Linda Giesecke

ESAI

Gain insight from operating company discussions on their use of XR for training and maintenance.

Facilitator: Adi Punuru

ExxonMobil Research & Engineering

Speaker: Athicha (M) Dhanormchitphong

ExxonMobil IT, Architecture & Technology

Speaker: Kyle Daughtry

IT Strategy, Architecture & Technology

Leverage domain knowledge to help develop and create ‘easy-to-use’ applications without requiring software coding/programming knowledge from existing data. Demostration of Power BI tools will be provided.

Speaker: Miguel F. G. Sison

Sr. Chevron Corporation U.S.A.

Speaker: Dan Oliveira

Flint Hill Resources

Facilitator: Abbas Dhalla

Chevron Corporation USA

Learn how to apply cyber and OT industry best practices from COVID-19 response to potential future emergency situations and the “new normal.”

Faclitator: Maggie O'Connell

AFPM

Panelist: Blake Larsen

Sinclair Oil Corporation

Panelist: Stephanie Franklin-Thomas

Motiva Enterprises LLC

Gain insight into market drivers that are encouraging refiners to examine a departure from traditional fuels production to chemical production. Gather information on process technologies that enable coversion of fuels stream to chemical products and understand what options currently exist to begin transforming your facility now.

Facilitator: Eric Legare

Marathon Petroleum Corporation Robert Ohmes, Becht

Speaker: Anne Huber

Argus

Speaker: Keith Couch

Honeywell UOP

Gain insights from flexible training options tailored to compliment your educational needs.

Facilitator: Adam Ali

AFPM

Panelist: Julio Hinojosa

BASF Corporation

Panelist: Alvin Chen

BASF Corporation

Panelist: Andrew Novotny

Panelist: Mark Schmalfeld

BASF Corporation

Speaker: Juan Hurtado

BASF Corporation

Learn how your company can leverage the AFPM process safety tools to reduce risk. Industry case studies provided.

Speaker: Ryan Wong

Exxon Mobil Corporation

Speaker: Shanahan Mondal

CVR Energy

Learn how you can improve operational decisions with data and its proper analysis and how to face the challenges in data availability, quality, analysis and sharing.

Learn how to leverage historian data to field verify your HAZOP/LOPA assumptions. Operating company case studies will be provided.

Facilitator: Tracy Sadowski

Monroe Energy

Speaker: Tony Downes

Honeywell PMT

• Describe the key terminology of data science
• Discuss how to use data science tools to help you improve your technical communication and storytelling skills
• Explain specific examples of how predictive modeling and statistical techniques can improve production capabilities

Facilitator: Robert Ohmes

Becht

Facilitator: Eric Legare

Marathon Petroleum

Speaker: Adam Richards

PhD Galvanize

Case studies on how refiners and catalyst vendors can work together through process monitoring tools to maximize unit performance and troubleshoot.

Facilitator: David Sacks

Delek US

Speaker: Montri Vichailak

Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Speaker: Nandita Akunuri

Axens North America

1. Walk the Line from a Maintenance perspective
2. How to utilize the WTL toolbox
3. Case study on how WTL has helped improve site safety and culture

Facilitator: Andy Woods

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company

Speaker: Tjokro Hermanto

AmSty

Speaker: Mike Shivers

CVR Energy

Understand the impact of timely and high-quality crude oil knowledge on purchasing and planning decisions.

Facilitator: Bill Poe

AVEVA

Speaker: Alex Woods

AVEVA

Foster a culture of getting the most important things done. This session will help you achieve high-quality implementation in the shortest possible time and create maximum leader and team engagement with minimum disruptions to business operations.

Gain a better understanding of how pressure balance is related to standpipe aeration, circulation, slide valves, and reactor and regenerator pressures. This interactive session provides a high-level overview for attendees that want to understand pressure balance fundamentals and the importance it has on FCC operations. Focus will primarily be on slide valve controlled units, but will also briefly discuss pressure balance controlled units. After the session, attendees will have a better understanding of how the pressure balance is related to standpipe aeration, circulation, slide valves, and reactor and regenerator pressures.

Facilitator: Ann Benoit

W.R. Grace & Co.

Speaker: Drey Holder

W.R. Grace & Co.

Session Description: Two mini panels covering, Equipment Decontamination, specifically, primarily desalters, lessons learned, new improvements/procedures and working capital project inside a turnaround.

Session Description: Understanding the Hazard and Mitigations; Assessing the Risk; Design for Defense; Hydroprocessing Safety and Temperature Instrumentation; Hydrocracker Temparture Excursion including safety instrumented systems and auto-arming & auto-disarming.

Facilitator: Wendy Wildenberg

Flint Hills Resources, LP

Facilitator: Ken Chlapik

Johnson Matthey

Panelists: Jeff Johns

Chevron

Panelists: Christoph Schmitz

BP

Panelists: John Kulach

Honeywell UOP

Panelists: Taylor Fama

Daily Thermetrics

Panelists: Robert Torgerson

WIKA

Panelists: Rodney Braun

Flint Hills Resources, LP

Learning objective: Reforming, alkylation and oligerimization. The benefit is we can discuss all of these technologies as well as the benefits, applicability and limitations.

Facilitator: Mike Mitzner

Axens North America

Speaker: Kaitlin Desalvo

Axens North America

Speaker: Richa Sarkar

Axens North America

Learning objective: Panel discussion on different operating companies approach to implementing a connected worker program. Rounds and LOTO applications will be highlighted.

Facilitator: Rebecca Bourg

PBF

Panelists: Ben Way

Phillips 66

Panelists: Jordan Oligmueller

AdvanSix

Octane Balance, Maximizing Diesel, Maximizing Butylenes, and Environmental Compliance.

Facilitator: C J Farley

G. W. Aru, LLC

Panelists: Todd Hochheiser

Johnson Matthey

Panelists: Bob Riley

W.R. Grace & Co.

Panelists: Representative

BASF

Panelists: Cliff Avery

Albemarle

Selection criteria for opportunity or new crudes and crude compatibility.

Live only. Not recorded.

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Facilitator: Ziad Jawad

Phillips 66

Facilitator: Marc Secretan

Suncor Energy, Inc.

Panelist: Chase Drake

Diamond Refractory Services

Panelist: Jackson Espinoza

Turnaround Specialty Group

Panelist: Kristian Richards

Irving Oil

Panelist: Don Bremault

Alliance Refractories

Discussion of IOW implementation and ongoing management and sustainability

Facilitator: Gerry Brooks

Westlake Chemical Corporation

Speaker: John Reynolds

Intertek Asset Integrity Management Inc.

Speaker: Chad Patschke

Ethos Mechanical Integrity

Review techniques and tools for evaluation of your crews and develop techniques to reduce the indirect (non-productive) time.

Facilitator: Clayton Shoemaker

Valero Energy Corporation

Facilitator: Abbas Dhalla

Chevron Corporation USA

Speaker: Joel Levitt

Springfield Resources

Session One: Performance Benchmarking; integrating reality into process modeling and sing readily available data to bring reality into process modeling to improve decision making
Session Two: Equipment Discussion- Pumps 101; types, curves, turn-down, single stage vs multistage and matching control valves to pumps

Facilitator: Maureen Price

Fluor Corporation

Facilitator: Sam Lordo

Becht

Speaker: Garry Jacobs

Fluor Corporation

Speaker: Jesus Cabrera

Fluor Corporation

Speaker: Pat Cooper

Bechtel

Speaker: Richard von Brecht

Bechtel

The supply and demand impacts from COVID 19 and their effect on refiners was and continues to be extraordinary. This session focuses on how the flexibility of FCC helped refiners meet these challenges. You’ll hear from operators, technology companies, and catalyst companies in round table format discussing their real life examples, technology solutions, market trends, and insights

Update on Section 6, of API RP 751, Rev 5 - Inspection and Maintenance. Panel Q&A.

Not Available On Demand

Facilitator: Clayton Shoemaker

Valero Energy

Facilitator: Hardy Kemp

Flint Hills Resources, LP

Facilitator: Gerard Celestine

Motivao

Facilitator: Clayton Shoemaker

Valero Energy

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Facilitator: Chet Thompson

President & CEO, AFPM

Facilitator: Rainer Bass

HollyFrontier Corporation

Speaker: Dr. Katherine Lemos

Chairperson and CEO, US Chemcial Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

Understanding available technology options & planning implications.

Facilitator: Christy Anderson

Albemarle Corporation

Facilitator: Sergio Robledo

Haldor Topsoe, Inc.

Facilitator: Brian Watkins

Advanced Refining Technologies

Speaker: Alfredo Romero

Eurecat U.S. Incorporated

Speaker: Danny Kurtz

Cat-Spec , Ltd.

Speaker: David Wilkins

Petroval

Gain insight into the connectivity tools that will expand on the structural improvements that allow DCS raw data to be converted to value, through industry-leading reactor simulations, to rigorous modelling and finally to the applied advanced process control gain matrix.

Facilitator: Tim Olsen

Emerson Automation Solutions

Speaker: Brian Burgio

KBC — A Yokogawa Company

This session will cover tools, tips, and exercises for how to become the Spiderman of your career, from developing webs or networks of people, to the career instincts needed to make strategic career decisions.

Speaker: Meha Jha

Emerson

Gain insight from recent risk reduction strategies being evaluated for alkylation units

Facilitator: Randy Peterson

Dupont Stratco

Panelist: Tim Shepperd

Becht Engineering

Speaker: Jon Keuler

Honeywell UOP

Speaker: Gary Kemeny

PBF Energy Inc.

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Facilitator: Christy Anderson

Albemarle Corporation

Facilitator: Sergio Robledo

Haldor Topsoe, Inc.

Facilitator: Brian Watkins

Advanced Refining Technologies

Panelist: Rahul Singh

Haldor Topsoe, Inc.

Speaker: Steve Aycox

Albemarle Corporation

Obtain insight on the technical and organizational issues of the combination of machine learning and optimization-based control within APC leading to Non-Linear Model Predictive Control and the new approach this brings to the workplace. These issues will affect recruitment, application maintenance, career development and project costs as well as realized benefits

This session will cover some best practices for leading and engaging the workforce or your colleagues in today's period of extreme change.

Speaker: Mark Tanenbaum

Lee Hecht Harrison

Unique Challenges around Preparation for TA of gasoline units with recent regulation updates.
Topics to be discussed:

• Corrosion in Alkylation Units
  

  Randy Peterson

  Dupont-Stratco

• Issues with Higher Utilization of Naphtha Reformers
  

  Steve Philoon

  UOP

• Chloride Management issues around Refomrer/Isom Units
  

  Bill Kostka

  Axens

• Unique Challenges around Preparation for TA of Gasoline Units with recent regulation updates
  

  Russell Wiltse

  Valero

• Light Naphtha Balance Challenges
  

  Dominic Varraveto

  Burns & McDonnell

• Issues around Gasoline Blending Qualities
  

  Rainer Bass

  HollyFrontier

Overview of turnaround planning process

• Process engineer interface in determining scope/ critical path
• Shutdown and Decontamination
• Discovery scope of work
• Commissioning Startup

Speaker: Joe Rydberg

CITGO Petroleum Corporation

Speaker: Hardy Kemp

Flint Hills Resources, LP

Speaker: Bob Steinberg

Motiva Enterprises

Speaker: Ryan Roth

RTI – Cruz Alta

Speaker: Brian Beard

RTI – Cruz Alta

Gain insight into measurement technologies, software and procedures for improving mass balance closure as well as operating company experience in justifying investments to improve the balance on either specific process units, or refinery-wide.

Facilitator: Bill Poe

AVEVA

Panelist: Julie Valentine

Emerson Automation Solutions

Speaker: Bill Fairleigh

KBC — A Yokogawa Company

Speaker: Elizabeth Swinney

Chevron Corporation USA

This session will walk through a personal story about a Native American's experience in our industries. The story will be followed by an open discussion about how there are perceived advantages and disadvantages to minorities in the industry. One takeaway will be how we handle these difficult situations and conversations with more sensitivity.

Speaker: Fred Brown

Athlon

Dr. Simone Ahuja, innovation expert and bestselling author, shares engaging stories from her work in emerging markets to Fortune 500s that get to the way of diversity, equity, and inclusion - and specific steps individuals and organizations can take to harness the power of difference.

"It's a Wrap! Join our thought leaders and subject matter experts in a wrap of the 2020 Summit's top takeaways.

Speaker: Chet Thompson

AFPM

Speaker: Bill Cates

Hunt Refining Company

Speaker: Hardy Kemp

Flint Hills Resources, LP

Speaker: Ziad Jawad

Phillips 66

Speaker: Michael Barham

Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Speaker: Harold Eggert

Athlon, A Haliburton Service

2020 Peter G. Andrews Lifetime Service Award

The Peter G. Andrews Lifetime Service Award honors those who have made significant long-lasting contributions to the value and quality of the AFPM Summit. This year’s recipient is Harold J. Eggert, Chief Global Technical Advisor, Athlon, A Halliburton Service.

Topics:

• DCU Troubleshooting and Lessons Learned
• Impact of different feed qualities on product yield and coke mophology
• Optimizing drum cycle to increase feed
• Best Practices for DCU furnace design and operation
• Slop reprocessing in DCU

Facilitator: Raul Romero

Nalco Water

Facilitator: Sam Lordo

Becht

Panelists: Mitch Moloney

Becht

Panelists: Al Faegh

Chevron Lummus Global

Hydroprocessing

Discussion on what technologies companies are leveraging for maintenance, reliability, and turnaround activities.

Through the lens of Army mahine reliability, Industrial AI will be discussed. Case studies and key steps for success will be discussed. Industrial AI will be discussed through the lens of Army machine reliability. Key steps for success will be highlighted through case studies.

Facilitator: Blake Larsen

Sinclair Oil

Speaker: Major General Edward Dorman

retired US Army

Speaker: Cheryl Wiebe

Teradata

Obtain insight on the importance of a comprehensive system to manage all relevant blend optimization and quality measurement data and showcase options for online analyzer measurement validation and online release/certification criteria.

Facilitator: Bill Poe

AVEVA

Speaker: Eric Gildea

AVEVA

Topics:

• Maximizing asset value
• Trouble from outside the unit battery limit
• Troubleshooting exercises

Facilitator: Jeff Zurlo

SUEZ

Facilitator: Chris McDowell

Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Panelists: Ken Thomas

PBF Energy Inc.

Panelists: Harold Eggert

Athlon, A Halliburton Service

Topics:

• Share and exchange lessons learned from previous regulatory implementations such as Tier III and IMO 2020, especially forward looking perceptions versus final reality
• Options to rationalize and close performance benchmarking gaps on regulatory driven units.
• Provide information on potential programs and regulations that will impact our industry
• Provide insights into meeting Energy Usage, CO2 Reduction, Bioprocessing, and Renewables within the Hydroprocessing space
• Ability to take information back to your organizations on how these regulations could impact your site and how you can start assessing and addressing these regulatory changes on site strategy

Facilitator: Mel Larsen

Becht

Speaker: Robert Ohmes

Becht

Speaker: Mel Larsen

Becht

Speaker: George Hoekstra

Hoekstra Trading LLC

Employ advanced analytics methods to identify operating conditions prior to and during a process unit event.

Facilitator: Bill Poe

AVEVA

Speaker: Jose Bird

Valero Energy Corporation

Case studies will be provided from operating companies and solution provider perspective on how to develop and execute a digital transformation program at your company.

Facilitator: Peter Reynolds

ARC Advisory Group

Speaker: Douglas White

Emerson Automation Solutions

Speaker: Todd Dixon

Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Speaker: Bruce Taylor

Sinclair Oil Corporation

Evaluate how captured data can determine how work is executed on the floor with applicable demonstration.

Facilitator: Jimmy Jernigan

LyondellBasell Industries

Speaker: Ian McKinnon

Reliability Solutions

Discover changing drivers for MSAT-2 compliance

Speaker: Jennifer Muir

TechnipFMC

Speaker: Erik Moy

TechnipFMC

Speaker: Terry Helton, Exxon Mobil Corporation

Design basics, maintenance, health monitoring, impact on process safety, calibration, decision strategy regarding repair on the following equipment; catalyst slude valves, flue gas slide valves, orifice chambers and variable orifice valves. Will also include the latest equipment developments and response to industry incidents.

Facilitator: Matthew Wojtowicz

Honeywell UOP

Speaker: Mike Sandacz

Honeywell UOP

Speaker: Richard Johnson

Honeywell UOP

Review new wireless sensors, the advances in predictive monitoring technologies of a cloud-based platform and its application to a facility.

Discuss current issues with regard to reliability and approaches to manage them in aging units and higher maintenance equipment in naphtha gasoline CCR reforming units.

Speaker: Russ Wiltse

Valero Energy Corporation

Speaker: Matthew Hutchinson

Axens North America

Speaker: Steve Philoon

Honeywell UOP

This will be an interactive session that is a blend of fundamental FCC principles and the use of advanced tools to help FCC engineers and those that support them understand basic operational moves, how to estimate their benefits and optimize them.

Facilitator: Lee Wells

LyondellBasell Industries

Speaker: Paul Haugseth

KBC - A Yokogawa Company

Identify industrial autonomy and how it is different from automation.

Speaker: Thomas Fiske

Yokogawa Corporation of America

The purpose of the MISG is to reduce the process safety risks and number of events associated with the operation, inspection and maintenance of fixed equipment in refineries and petrochemical plants. The presentation is an overview of the MISG initiative and review of recent work products. (Fixed Equipment KPI’s, Ammonium Chloride Corrosion and IOW’s, which is a separate session)

Speaker: Allison Hardy

LyondellBasell Industries

Speaker: Josh Yoakam

HollyFrontier Corporation

Speaker: John Reynolds

Intertek Asset Integrity Management

Speaker: Mark Geisenhoff

Flint Hills Resources

Demonstration, training and best practices discussion

Gain in depth knowledge on implication of composition on optimal naphtha separation.

Facilitator: Dominic Varraveto

Burns & McDonnell

Speaker: Andrew Becker

Dupont Stratco

Speaker: Randy Petersen

Dupont Stratco

Topics include, damage mechanisms, piping design elements, lessons learned, recommended practices for effective operation, monitoring, and turnaround maintenance activities.

Facilitator: Ziad Jawad

Phillips 66

Speaker: Chris Oliver

Chevron

Forum for anyone, particulary young engineers to have their specific questions answered by experts. Learn different operatinf company perspectives on the same topics.

Introduction to the concept of Mechanical Integrity Regional Networks (MIRN). MIRN will provide a forum for the sharing of common Fixed Equipment Mechanical Integrity issues that MI practitioners (inspectors and engineers) are facing. These networks will support the APS program by facilitating interaction and practice sharing between site MI Practitioners and APS program resources in easily accessible, local areas.

Speaker: John Reynolds

Intertek Asset Integrity Management

Speaker: Mark Geisenhoff

Flint Hills Resources

Learn how to access and use one of AFPM's newest technical resources, the QA transcript online search. Access discussions from teh past several years of Question and Answer sessions online.

Speaker: Lara Swett

AFPM

Where is the FCC going in the next 10 years in regards to FCC configuration, unit integration in the overall refinery flow, and advances to FCC design and products.

Basics of Renewable Diesel Production; credits, feedstocks, and product placement. Learn about 100% and co-processing renewable diesel production flowsheets, main equipment and process considerations.

Facilitator: Eric Legare

Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Speaker:Henrik Rasmussen

Haldor Topsoe

Speaker: Jostein Gabrielsen

Haldor Topsoe

Learn about the outlook and challenges facing the U.S. and global refining industries, including how COVID-19 has affected the short term global demand for refined products, the prospects for demand longer term, how refineries have adapted in the short term and how the global refining industry will change going forward.

Facilitator: Susan Grissom

AFPM

Speaker: John Auers

Turner Mason

Speaker: Robert Auers

Turner Mason

Discussion on company applications of HOP, achieved benefits, and case study examples.

Facilitator: Abbas Dhalla

Chevron Corporation USA

Speaker: Sahika Korkmaz

Chevron Corporation USA

Speaker: Chelsea Miller

Chevron Corporation USA

A change in investigation methodology is used to promote broader learning across the organization while engaging the people who do the work as subject matter experts. This shift promotes visual look at multiple causes, where multiple solutions can be applied like Layers of Protection to reduce risk, improve safety and reliability. Case studies discussed.

FCC Turnaround Safety- Shutdown and Clean up, Maintenance Execution and Restart.

Facilitator: Richard Grove

Chevron

Panelists: John (Andy) Kite

Chevron

Panelists: Andrew Mezera

Valero