Conferences
Opportunity Crudes 2008 Conference
In May 2008, Hydrocarbon Publishing Company and the Crude Oil Quality Group (COQG) co-hosted Opportunity Crudes 2008 in Houston, Texas (US). The conference was held to promote the knowledge of business gurus and technical experts, to discover the latest challenges and benefits of processing high-acid crudes (HACs) and bottom-of-the-barrel (BOB) oil, and to network and share ideas with peers.
The two-day event brought together industry-renowned leaders in
- Crude oil marketing
- Transportation and logistics
- Quality evaluation
- Crude oil blending and compatibility
- Corrosion and fouling monitoring and control
- Conventional and emerging catalysts for BOB processing
The conference was a huge success, with over 175 attending industry professionals from 15 countries and 50 companies working in crude oil advising, quality characteristics, refining fuel coordination, processing technology development, R&D, desalting, crude and vacuum distillation, delayed coking, fluid catalytic cracking, production planning, strategy and business development, economic and market analyses, plant health and safety, and corrosion and materials.
Conference participants represented a number of major companies, including
- BP (UK and US)
- Chevron (South Africa and US)
- ConocoPhillips
- CRI/Criterion
- ExxonMobil R&E
- Flint Hills Resources
- Fluor
- Gulf Chemical and Metturgical
- Hunt Refining
- Intercat
- Intertek Caleb Brett
- Johnson Matthey
- KBC Advanced Technologies
- Lion Oil
- LyondellBasell
- Marathon Petroleum
- Merichem
- Nygas (Belgium)
- Shell E&P
- Sunoco and Sunoco Logistics
- Tesoro
- Total (France and US)
- Veolia Water Solution and Technologies
A satisfaction survey was given out to attendees, of which over 90% rated their experience at the Opportunity Crudes 2008 conference as Excellent or Good.
View photographs from the Opportunity Crudes 2008 conference.
View papers presented at the Opportunity Crudes 2008 conference.
View details on the Opportunity Crudes 2010 conference.
