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Refiners and Petrochemical Manufacturers Urge Immediate Congressional Intervention to Avert Rail Strike, Potential Fuel Shortages

On Tuesday, November 29th AFPM President and CEO Chet Thompson sent a letter to Congressional leadership urging their immediate intervention to avoid a rail worker strike. Thompson stressed that time is of the essence since shipping embargos and service curtailments capable of disrupting U.S. manufacturing, fuel production and freight deliveries are starting now, well before a December 9 work stoppage. A copy of AFPM’s letter is available here and excerpts can be found below:

Main Column Bottoms Operation and Optimization

101 Series, FCC


This session will review a collaboration between UOP and Marathon to optimize operation of the FCC bottoms section. After detecting fouling in the main column slurry pumparound packing, an innovative internals modification was implemented to minimize this in the future. This presentation will review the observed benefits of the new internals and provide an overview of key variables to monitor in the bottoms circuit. 

Moderator:
Michael Allegro, BASF Corporation

Speakers:
Ryan Brown, Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Nick Turner, Honeywell UOP
Speakers
Ryan Brown
Michael Allegro II
Nick Turner
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Topic
101 Series

Human Performance Success in Incident Investigations

Lessons Learned


Facilitator:
Wren Mills, Valero Energy Corporation

Speaker:
Ryan Grothe, Chevron Phillips Chemical LP

Attendees will learn about:

  1. HOP is a Leadership Mindset Shift

  2. Meet Leaders where they are at

  3. Using HOP in Incident Investigations is a great way to introduce HOP to an organization and prompt an “Aha” moment for Leaders

Speakers
Wren Mills
Ryan Grothe
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Topic
Lessons Learned
Human and Organizational Performance