Webcasts

Sponsored by: Cognite

Time is the one, universal, finite resource that refineries can’t increase. With a hard limit of 24 hours in a day, how can operators spend time more productively?

Turnarounds are one of the largest offenders in stealing productive time, with around 50% of shutdown projects going over budget and schedule. Smarter upfront planning can help operators get back this precious resource, but doing this well remains challenging and inefficient. Today, TAR planners still face disjointed processes due to siloed information, lots of manual work, and difficulty collaborating across teams.

In this webinar, Cognite experts will discuss how refineries can claim back more time - their most precious resource - with smarter data-driven TAR planning processes. Using real-world examples and case studies, we will talk about the obvious and hidden ways that turnarounds steal time from your organization, and how to utilize new data contextualization solutions to claim that time back, year round.

Sponsored by: AspenTech

The hydrogen economy has been gaining momentum in North America for the past two years, and this has only accelerated as the U.S. Department of Energy begins to implement the incentives provided in the recent IRA legislation.

Attend this webinar to get an update on the regulatory and investment landscape from Roxana Bekemohammadi, Founder and Executive Director of the US Hydrogen Alliance. Joining her will be Lee Nichols, VP of Content and Editor-in-Chief from Hydrocarbon Processing and Ron Beck, Senior Solution Marketing Director from AspenTech.

Some of the timely topics that will be covered include:

• Current insights into hydrogen’s regulatory and investment landscape
• The biggest opportunities found in the hydrogen economy
• How digitalization increases feasibility of the green premium on hydrogen
• Ways to deploy and scale commercialization of hydrogen

Learn how to optimize your hydrogen projects for maximum value. A Q&A session will follow so we encourage you to come prepared with questions.

Sponsored by: Swagelok

Emissions reduction is at the forefront of many companies’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) commitments. As oil and gas facility owners reach agreements with governing bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to curtail emissions, now is the time to understand how to capitalize on “easy wins” for emissions reduction so you can make necessary changes to your supply chain, specifications, and upgrade plans. Learning to control fugitive emissions is a good place to start, as these leaks not only threaten regulatory compliance, but can negatively impact your company’s profitability if left unchecked. 

Join us on September 12 to grow your knowledge in this important area. In a free webinar, we’ll cover:

• Establishing a Low-E protocol for components, regardless of piping or tubing, focusing on API 641/624, ISO-15848-1, and EPA Method 21
• Standardizing training for employees and contractors per IOGP, which will help increase safety, reduce leaks, and increase reliability of small bore systems
• Auditing your utility systems and equipment to find efficiencies, focusing on boiler efficiencies to reduce base load

Sponsored by: W.R. Grace

In this session, W. R. Grace & Co. will introduce PARAGON^™ FCC catalyst, which incorporates a novel, rare earth-based, vanadium trap into the highest matrix surface area catalyst solutions for the FCC. With PARAGON^™ technology, refiners can widen their FCC operating window and increase feed flexibility for greater profitability. Find out more about the V-trapping technology and how this leads to maximum bottoms upgrading along with improved conversion at constant coke yield, allowing refiners to produce fuels in a more sustainable manner.

Sponsored by: Honeywell UOP

Through our relationships with strategic partners, Honeywell UOP is observing a rapid change of companies looking to co-process renewable feedstocks along their more traditional fossil feedstock. Honeywell UOP is the original energy trailblazer who pioneered the production of renewable fuels and petrochemical feedstock with a range of successful commercial technologies such as Ecofining™. Honeywell UOP’s expertise and range of co-processing solutions can help reduce the carbon footprint of conventional refining processes including hydrotreating, hydrocracking, and fluidized catalytic cracking. Honeywell UOP offers bankable and quickly implementable process revamp studies, equipment offerings, and catalyst solutions to co-process a variety of renewable feeds reliably and cost-effectively. Our solutions ensure the high yields of desired products, reduce energy consumption and raw material usage for lower carbon footprint reduction. Building on the proven reliability of Honeywell UOP technologies over a century, our customers can continue to reduce the carbon footprint of their operations with UOP Co-Processing technologies for a sustainable future. Join us to learn more about the co processing marketplace and how Honeywell UOP is powering the future of refining and petrochemicals.

Sponsored by: Honeywell 

With the global drive for improving sustainability, companies across industries are focused on meeting aggressive sustainability targets and are making investments in digitalization to accelerate innovation and technology adoption. UniSim Design has prioritized development in features that support customer’s sustainability initiatives in areas of energy savings projects, Green hydrogen eletrolyzers, & reduction in carbon foot print, helping our customer to meet their sustainability goals. The webinar will also cover live demo on UniSim Design for Sustainability.

Sponsored by:  ART Hydroprocessing 

Investments in renewable diesel (RD) and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production are gaining considerable momentum and are expected to play a vital role in reducing carbon emissions for heavy-duty transportation. Currently, the majority of these projects focus on the production of HEFA (Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids).

Against this backdrop, ART Hydroprocessing, announces the launch of ENDEAVOR^TM catalyst systems for the hydroprocessing of renewable feeds. ENDEAVOR^TM consists of EnRich® guard and hydrotreating catalysts, as well as EnHance^TM isomerization catalysts, enabling customers to process a wide range of 100% renewable feeds, with the maximum yields.

This webcast discusses some of the legislation and incentives driving demand for RD and SAF, the challenges associated with the processing of renewable feeds, and the catalyst technologies developed to address this.

ART is a joint venture between Chevron and W.R Grace, and is a leading supplier of hydroprocessing catalysts used in production of cleaner fuels.