Webcasts

Sponsor: Schneider Electric

Refineries are challenged with sustaining and improving margins, and retaining knowledge from a retiring workforce. Embarking on a journey of transformation based on Refinery Digitization is imperative for improved profitability and sustainability. RefineryWise™ from Schneider Electric Industry Solutions focuses on improving refinery operations business processes and workflows. A holistic approach for the oil and gas industry, it includes performance management, technology adoption and lifecycle optimization, RefineryWise helps to improve revenue by up to 5% and lower operation costs by up to 10%. Learn how RefineryWise can be part of your business strategy to drive higher profitability. 

• Minimize CAPEX by reducing relief capacities
• Reduce the risk of equipment damage, maintenance costs, system trips and operator interactions
• Provide key information to commissioning teams
• Utilize relief, surge, startup and commissioning analysis to reduce costs

Sponsor: Schneider Electric

Adoption of a model-based culture has great potential to improve the performance of Natural Gas Processing operations. Throughout the entire plant lifecycle, from master planning and feasibility studies to design, start-up, operation and debottlenecking, process and economic models can be used to improve profitability for the various business scenarios encountered. This webinar will provide a glimpse of the many opportunities available for Natural Gas Processors to incorporate a model based culture to achieve operational excellence with greater agility. Various process and economic modeling approaches will be explained as well as the potential benefits that may be expected. Actual examples of the effective use of process and economic models that have provided a competitive edge for Natural Gas Processors will also be presented.

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.