The Energy Transition to a lower carbon future will play a significant role in the Refining Industry. How our industry – in the US and around the world - will adapt to changing market conditions going forward is evolving. However, the US will be well positioned to take advantage of opportunities. This session will highlight challenges and concerns that will impact our Refining outlook.
Facilitator: Susan Grissom, AFPM
Speakers:
John Auers, RBN energy
Alan Gelder, Wood Mackenzie
Debnil Chowdhury, S&P Global
Several new technologies have been developed to produce renewable fuels and petrochemical products. However, monetization of these new renewable streams is important to justify commercialization and utilization. This session will highlight IRA and ISCC+ incentives for monetization.
Facilitator: Jeff Sexton, Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Speakers:
Bill Kessom, GreenStar BCS
Soheil Razjouyan, GreenStar BCS
In the context of a refinery, petrochemical or chemical facility, Digital Twins can be used to model and simulate the structure and behavior of equipment, systems, and processes. This session will decompose and demystify the ‘Asset’ and ‘Visual’ virtual representations and their association with one another as Digital Twins. Supported by key use cases that are commonly faced by every operating facility along with actual achieved benefits.
Participants will:
Gain a basic practical understanding Digital Twins in their primary forms,
Secure guidance as to the accepted prerequisites, methods, and required level of effort to craft and deploy Digital Twins,
Learn about Digital Twin sustainment challenges and mitigation strategies, and
The achievable benefits to be realized from Digital Twin initiatives supported by actual use case experiences.
Facilitator: Bruce Taylor, Digital Transformation SME, FurtherTec
Speakers:
Bruce Taylor, Digital Transformation SME, FurtherTec
Adam Williams, Motiva Enterprises LLC
The industrial sector is going through digital transformation. ExxonMobil's Digital Reality Ecosystem, aka the Industrial Metaverse holds huge benefits with its ability to visualize their sites and offer seamless immersive and connected experiences across their fleet of assets. As this is an emerging technology space, there are diverse sets technologies that will need to be curated as the Industrial Metaverse is still in infancy stage. This session will explore existing and potential industrial use cases of the metaverse, augmented/mixed reality to illustrate the various functions, applications, and benefits of the technology. Participants will:
Gain an understanding of how ExxonMobil is moving to a visual way of working utilizing innovations and new technologies
Learn about the components of the ecosystem
Appreciate the value of data interoperability
Facilitator:
Adi Punuru, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
Speakers:
Athicha 'M' Dhanormchitphong, ExxonMobil Global Services Company
Kyle Daughtry, ExxonMobil Global Services Company
This session explores the issue of making data driven open loop models for a complete plant. This involves many independent and dependent variables and the task is to find meaningful and reproducible relationships between them. This webinar will help anyone involved in the task in the refinery, petrochemicals, or any continuous processing unit.
Facilitator: Atique Malik, AIControl LLC
Speakers:
Adi Punuru, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co.
Rajan Rathinasabapathy, Phillips 66
Vikram Gokhale, Chevron U.S.A.
Stephen Dzuik, Aspen Tech
Aaron Durke, Imubit
Yangdong Pan, Delek US
Alex Kalafatis, Aspen Tech
The carbon intensity of Reforming Units is inherently one of the higher processes in the refinery due to its energy requirements. This presentation will explore ways to improve carbon intensity with various equipment upgrades, as well as showing the positive impact that optimal catalyst performance can have on reducing Carbon Intensity.
Speakers:
Rhett Finch, Marathon Petroleum
Sujoy Ganguly, UOP
Tyler Krupp, Axens North America
Yaz Seif, Marathon Petroleum Company
Generative AI is now widely available, often integrated into existing applications and tools in our facilities. While commonly used for writing, its potential to transform routine work is immense. GenAI can significantly enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and job satisfaction by reducing effort on repetitive low-value tasks. A panel will discuss various practical use cases to showcase how GenAI is being applied in everyday operations.
Take Aways:
Scope of capabilities represented by GenAI (Text, Graphics, Code, and more)
Creative and practical examples of how GenAI has been effectively applied
Insights into the attributes of a good opportunity for GenAI and implementation approaches
Moderator:
Bruce Taylor, FurtherTec
Speakers:
Ryan Byrne, Macedon Technologies
Brandon Taylor, Flatirons Digital Innovations
Andrew Vignes, HF Sinclair Corporation
Patrick Robinson, PBF Energy, Inc.
AFPM released the 4th edition of the Sustainability Report. This report highlights the myriad of examples of the work of AFPM members to deliver on their commitment to sustainably provide the critical fuel and petrochemical products that growing global populations need to thrive.
