08:30 REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE

09:00 OPENING REMARKS Stefan Chapman, Vice President,

EURO PETROLEUM CONSULTANTS (EPC)

09:15 WELCOME ADDRESS from the co-host Ardhy N. Mokobombang, Refineries & Petrochemical

Mega Projects Director, PERTAMINA

09:30 THE PRESENT & FUTURE OF ASIAN REFINING & PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY

Chairman: Stefan Chapman, Euro Petroleum Consultants (EPC)

09:30 EURO PETROLEUM CONSULTANTS (EPC) MARPOL VI - LOOKING TO MEET THE CHALLENGES

- Key Challenges for Refiners & Ship Owners

- Compliance Strategies – the Different Options

- Objective 2020: Shipping & Refining Industry Response – the main hurdles

Stefan Chapman, Vice President

09:50 NEXANT ASIA ASIAN REFINING & PETROCHEMICALS PERSPECTIVES

- Overview of recent industry developments

- Current industry trends & drivers

- Industry profitability outlook

- Impending challenges & possible opportunities

Clive Gibson, Vice President, Asia, Energy & Chemicals Advisory

10:10 PETRONAS WINNING IN A CHALLENGING MARKET ENVIRONMENT

- The petrochemical industry for the past 2 years since the crude oil crash

- Impact to the producers/ players

- Immediate outlook for the industry

M. Yusri M. Yusof, Vice President Refining & Trading

10:30 IHS MARKIT THE ARC OF PETROCHEMICAL PROCESS TECHNOLOGY EVOLUTION

Richard Charlesworth, Managing Director, Chemicals

10:50 Q&A. Discussion

11:05 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK hosted by:

11:35 DISCUSSION SESSION: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE IN DOWNSTREAM

Chairman: Hasan Shafi, A.T. Kearney

11:35 HONEYWELL UOP LEVERAGING THE CLOUD TO DRIVE OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Katherine Jones, Product Line Manager, Connected Performance Services

Monday, 9 October

08:30 - 18:00 UOP Pre-Conference Seminar: Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Future

The seminar is open only for pre-registered and pre-approved delegates:

refining & petrochemical producers

18:30 ASIA-TECH WELCOME DINNER hosted by:

DAY ONE

Tuesday, 10 October

PRE-CONFERENCE DAY

11:55 KBC INTEGRATING YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMISATION PROCESSES & TOOLS.

MODEL-CENTRIC APPROACH TO PLANNING AND OPTIMISATION

- Case study: applying process simulation models to form a common

underlying optimisation platform with consistent representation

- The linkages between process K13 production planning, scheduling and unit

monitoring acitivites

Simon Angell, Senior Vice President

12:15 AXENS MANAGING COMPLEX PROJECTS IN AN EVER-CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

Sébastien Huchette, Regional Sales Manager

12:35

13:10 NETWORKING LUNCH hosted by:

14:40 REFINING & RESIDUE UPGRADING TECHNOLOGIES & EQUIPMENT

Chairman: Pawan Bassi, CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICAL COMPANY

14:40 PTT GLOBAL CHEMICAL &

CHIMEC

CASE STUDY: ADVANCED COKE REMOVAL/DECONTAMINATION IN HIGH

COMPLEXITY INDEX UNITS FOR SAFE MAINTENANCE

Patthamika Chutichao, Senior Process Engineer;

Kornel Buzder, Senior Business Development Area Manager APAC

15:00 PAUL WÜRTH OIL & GAS AUTOMATIC BOTTOM UNHEADING VALVE: COMBINING THE ADVANTAGES

OF EXISTING CLASSICAL CONCEPTS IN AN INNOVATIVE WAY

Wolfgang Zingsem, Sales Manager

15:20 ALFA LAVAL LUND MAXIMAZING PROFIT FROM BOTTOM OF THE BARREL PROCESSES BY

LOWERING FOULING RATES

- Mitigating heat exchanger fouling

- Case Study on FCC bottoms slurry fouling

- Case Study on Visbreaker residue fouling

Jay Jeong, Refinery Market Manager

15:40 Q&A. Discussion

15:55 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK hosted by:

16:15 REFINING & RESIDUE UPGRADING TECHNOLOGIES & EQUIPMENT - Continued

Chairman: TBA, ZYME FLOW

16:15 AXENS EXTENDING THE ENVELOPE OF YOUR DIESEL HYDROTREATER UNIT

Mai Phuong Do, Technology Team Manager, Middle Distillates &

Conversion, Process Licensing

16:35 EXXONMOBIL ADVANTAGES OF CATALYTIC HYDROPROCESSING FOR THE PRODUCTION OF

HIGH QUALITY LUBE BASE STOCKS

Terry Helton, Catalyst Sales Manager

16:55 MAMMOET ASIA PACIFIC HOW TO IMPROVE HEAVY EQUIPMENT ERECTION SCHEDULE IN GREENFIELD

AND BROWNFIELD REFINERY & PETROCHEMICALS PROJECTS AND REVAMPINGRobin Koenis, Managing Director

17:15 ENI REFINING & MARKETING SLURRY TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION FOR MAXIMUM RESIDUE CONVERSION

WHILE MEETING THE LOW SULPHUR MARINE FUEL SPECIFICATIONS

Nicoletta Panariti, Licensing Commercial Development Manager

17:35 Q&A. Discussion

17:50

19:00 ASIA-TECH GALA DINNER at The Ritz-Carlton's Lobo Restaurant, hosted by:

End of Day 1

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION DISCUSSION

08:30 WELCOME COFFEE & NETWORKING

09:00 PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INNOVATIONS & PROJECTS

Chairman: Richard Charlesworth, IHS MARKIT

09:00 GTC TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED AROMATICS RECOVERY TECHNOLOGY: EXTRACTIVE DISTILLATION

TO REMOVE BTX

- Extraction solvent for highest extraction efficiency, largest relative volatility,

lower capital & energy costs between aromatics and non-aromatics

- Examples from the largest aromatics extraction unit in the world

Sashikant Madgula, Regional Sales Manager

09:20 ANDRITZ SEPARATION SOLID / LIQUID SEPARATION EQUIPMENT IN OIL & GAS & DOWNSTREAM

PETROCHEMICALS

Christine Reinermann, Senior Sales Manager & Product Specialist;

Lokman Colak, Sales Engineer

09:40 EXXONMOBIL CRUDE TO CHEMICALS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

David Ayrapetyan, Licensing Manager Residue Conversion Technologies

10:00 Q&A. Discussion

10:15 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK hosted by:

10:55 PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INNOVATIONS & PROJECTS - Continued

Chairman: Valentin Kotlomin, Euro Petroleum Consultants (EPC)

10:55 CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICAL COMPANY LOOP SLURRY PROCESS – POISED FOR THE CHALLENGES AHEAD

- The MarTECH™ Process: Legacy Single Loop Technology and the new

Advanced Dual Loop (ADL) Technology

- High reactor heat removal and no wax formation while able to produce a

wider range of products like bimodal PE-100 pipe grades

Pawan Bassi, Global Licensing Director

11:15 BOREALIS AN UPDATED VIEW ON A LEADING BIMODAL PE PROCESS & CATALYST

TECHNOLOGY

Meinolf Kersting, Director Catalyst Business

11:35 BP HIGHLY OPTIMIZED & COST ADVANTAGED ROUTE TO PARAXYLENE

SEPARATION

- Energy efficient award winning process for paraxylene recovery

- Achieving lowest environmental footprint, efficient fractionation, feedstock

flexibility & excellent reliability

- CASE STUDY and lessons learned from the world’s largest PX plant -

RELIANCE Industries Limited, Jamnagar

Craig Colling, PX Process Technology Advisor

11:55 Q&A. Discussion

DAY TWO

Wednesday, 11 October

12:10

12:30

and proudly co-hosted by:

ASIA-TECH 2017 is organised by:

We would like to thank the ASIA-TECH 2017 sponsors for their support:

NETWORKING LUNCH - joint lunch with the delegates from ASIA-CAT at Sailendra Restaurant, hosted by:

RAFFLE PRIZE DRAW & CLOSING REMARKS

12:30 ASIA-CAT REGISTRATION

12:30

14:00 OPENING REMARKS Stefan Chapman, Vice President, EURO PETROLEUM CONSULTANTS (EPC)

14:05 WELCOME ADDRESS from the co-host Toharso, Refinery Director, PERTAMINA

14:20 REFINING & PETROCHEMICALS OUTLOOK, OVERVIEW OF CATALYSTS TECHNOLOGIES

Chairman: Stefan Chapman, Euro Petroleum Consultants (EPC)

14:20 KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (KISR)

FUTURE TRENDS IN PETROLEUM REFINING

- Evolution of the refining industry

- Trends in energy, oil & petroleum products

- Challenges of the refining industry

- Scenarios for the future

Abdulazim Marafie, Senior Research Scientist

14:40 EURO PETROLEUM CONSULTANTS OIL REFINING AND PETROCHEMICAL CATALYSTS MARKET OVERVIEW

- Market trends & outlook

- New developments & innovations in catalysis

- How industry trends & challenges will shape catalyst sector

Valentin Kotlomin, Director Strategic Studies & Downstream Economics

15:00 EXXONMOBIL ADVANCED CATALYST TECHNOLOGIES & APPLICATIONS FOR HIGHER QUALITY

FUELS, LUBES, AND PETROCHEMICALS

Terry Helton, Licensing Manager

15:20 Q&A. Discussion

15:35 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK hosted by:

16:00 OPTIMISING UNIT PROFITABILITY THROUGH IMPROVED CATALYST SOLUTIONS

16:00 GRACE RAISING THE PROPYLENE BAR: IMPROVING RESID FCC UNIT PROFITABILITY

UNDER DYNAMIC MARKET CONDITIONS

Christophe Chau, Marketing Manager

16:20 AXENS OPTIMISING NAPHTA BLOCK FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE

Mai Phuong Do, Technology Team Manager, Middle Distillates & Conversion,

Process Licensing

16:40 PETRONAS OPTIMISING CATALYST BED TO ACHIEVE BEST-IN-CLASS RELIABILITY FOR

POLYMER PLANT

- Understanding the Challenges in a Polymer Plant

- Strategy to Overcome the IssueNor Hashimah Mat Nor, Staff Engineer (Polyethylene)

WELCOME LUNCH at Sailendra Restaurant,

jointly held with the ASIA-TECH 2017 delegates, hosted by:

DAY ONE

Wednesday, 11 October

17:00 CRI/CRITERION SAFE OPERATION IN TRICKLE PHASE HYDROGENATION REACTORS

- Solutions and key requirements for proper flow distribution in the trickle

phase flow regime to ensure safe operation

- Commercial data of 4 different units showing safe operations and the risks of

temperature runaways. Lessons learned

Kaspar Vogt, CRI Technical Service Manager

17:20

18:00

08:30 WELCOME COFFEE & NETWORKING

09:00 CATALYSTS R&D, TESTING, HANDLING & MANAGEMENT

09:00 HOOVER FERGUSON SHUT-DOWN CATALYSTS CHANGEOUT SOLUTIONS

Eugene Yeo, Area Development Director, Asia

09:20 NICKELHÜTTE SPENT CATALYSTS RECYCLING

- Technical possibilities for base metal reclaim of spent catalysts

- Spent catalyst recycling solutions for petrochemical, oleochemical, gas,

fertilizer Industry

- Benefits of catalyst recycling

Ben Ortlepp, Area Manager Asia-Pacific

09:40 CRYSTAPHASE MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR CHANGEOUT

- Sampling & analytical techniques for maximising materials performance

- Consistent sampling methods enabling long-term improvements in

hydrotreater profitability

- Case Studies demonstrating the value of combining good materials analysis

Austin Schneider, Director of Technology

10:00 Q&A. Discussion

10:15 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK hosted by:

Q&A. Discussion

GALA DINNER at Pearl Restaurant hosted by:

DAY TWO

Thursday, 12 October

10:45 REFINING CATALYSTS

10:45 PERTAMINA BUILDING INTEGRATED COMPETENCY & CAPABILITY IN FCC CATALYST

TESTING & EVALUATION

- Reviewing Pertamina’s three FCC/RFCC units installed in it’s refineries in

Indonesia

- Building added capacity at Balikpapan refinery as part of Refinery

Development Master Plan (RDMP) – adding 63 MBSD to the existing

145 MBSD capacity

- Developing Pertamina’s capability in FCC catalyst testing &

evaluation to support it’s own refinery operation

- Troubleshooting FCC catalyst performance to support refinery objectives

Rizki Ekananda, Specialist Process Development Research

11:05 CRI/CRITERION BEYOND ULTRA LOW SULPHUR DIESEL (ULSD) WITH DEWAXING CATALYST

TECHNOLOGY

- Introducing Shell dewaxing technology

- Dewaxing Process line up to enhance energy efficiency

- Utilised Dewaxing technology to improve refinery margin through deeper cut

point

Chua Meng Loong, Technical Service Manager

11:25 HONEYWELL UOP UNITYTM HYDROTREATING CATALYSTS FOR ULTRA-LOW SULFUR DIESEL

- UOP’s UnityTM Hydrotreating catalysts for ULSD service

- Case study on improving unit performance to meet ULSD specifications

Syukri Abd Rahim, Sales Technical Support Engineer

11:45 Q&A. Discussion

12:00 NETWORKING LUNCH hosted by:

13:30 RESID UPGRADING CATALYSTS

Chairman: Valentin Kotlomin, Euro Petroleum Consultants (EPC)

13:30 PERTAMINA HYDROPROCESSING CATALYST EVALUATION IN PERTAMINA

- Catalyst Development through Process Evaluation

- Modern Catalyst Performance Testing

Indah Kurniawaty, Engineer II Product & Process Development

13:50 PTT GLOBAL CHEMICAL &

HONEYWELL UOP

PTTGC Hydrocracking Unit - Improved Distillate Yields and Better Operating

Flexibility with Honeywell UOP Hydrocracking Catalysts

Nattapong Pongboot, Process Engineer;

Hemant Gala, Fellow, Technology Services – Hydroprocessing

14:10 AXENS NEW HYDROCRACKING CATALYTIC SOLUTIONS FOR MAXIMIZING FUELS

PRODUCTION

Cyril Collado, Senior Technical Services Engineer

14:30

14:45 RAFFLE PRIZE DRAW & CLOSING REMARKS

Q&A. Discussion

We would like to thank the ASIA-CAT 2017 sponsors for their support:

and proudly co-hosted by:

ASIA-CAT 2017 is organised by: