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Speakers will discuss technical and regulatory considerations for effective risk management strategies. This includes identifying and differentiating PFAS, regulatory implications, and effective treatment/mitigation technologies.

Speakers: Jaana Pietari, Chris Scott, Jennifer Barks

Moderators: Matt Hodges

This conference session navigates the environmental-related opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) implementation in the refining and petrochemical industry. Our expert panelists will discuss the current state of AI and machine learning technologies, practical applications of AI in the environmental field, conceivable legal risks to using AI, and possible impacts of public access to these AI tools and available environmental data from our facilities.

Speakers: Kyong Song, Amy McDonald, Jed Anderson, Jon Bloomberg

Moderator: Joel Trinkle, Phil Fish

This panel discussion will provide legal and industry perspectives regarding the recent new wave of EPA BWON enforcement including highlighting the common areas where EPA has identified deficiencies in proper equipment and control device design and operations. The panel will also share insights into future requirements that will likely set a new bar for enhanced monitoring and compliance similar to the global consent decrees of the early 2000s.

Speakers: Deever Bradley, Jim Fain, Justin Savage

Moderator: Dave Wall

A significant component in winning the energy transition challenge comes down to managing and reducing the emissions from manufacturing activities of the energy-intensive industries. In most of the facilities in oil & gas production, refining and petrochemical industries, flare is used to burn off waste gases, and typically a manual work process is adopted to ensure complete and smokeless combustion. The work process requires the facility operators to monitor camera feed that shows real-time status of flare operations and make control changes on the DCS to optimize combustion ensuring smokeless flaring.
To automate this manual work process and further enhance operator efficiency and environmental performance in flare operations, we present in this work an end-to-end flare smoke detection, alerting and DCS control solution that leverages existing flare CCTV cameras used at many facilities. The core of this solution is a deep-learning computer vision model that we have developed leveraging an extensive and diverse data set and the model has shown fit-for-use performance in wide-ranging conditions.
We will present results of this application implemented in the plant to further demonstrate the end-to-end solution and its positive impact on sustainable operations.

Facilitator: Adi Punuru, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company

Speaker:
Ye Hu, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company

Facilitators:
Derek Blackwell, Chevron Products Company
Greg Mullek, Chevron Refining

Speakers:
Caroline Lauro, Chevron Products Company
Tommy Wagener, Chevron Products Company

Facilitator: Atique Malik, AIControl LLC

Speakers:
Ray Coker, Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Vikram Gokhale, Chevron U.S.A.
Karen Kuhn, Cenovus Energy Inc.
Yangdong Pan, Delek US
Patrick Robinson, Phillips 66
Johnny Serafin, Phillips 66
Abi Mukund, Imubit
Rajan Rathinasabapathy, Phillips 66

Technology exists to recover ammonia from Sour Water. This ammonia is considered a low carbon intensity (CI) source since it was a waste stream and can be used, for example, as a liquid hydrogen carrier for further low CI uses. This session will highlight technologies to enable ammonia recovery, utilization, and how ammonia recovery meshes into an overall facility nitrogen and sulfur management strategy.

Facilitator: Jeff Zurlo, Veolia Water Technologies and Solutions

Speakers:
Stan Holbrook, Marathon
Carlos Cavalca, Veolia