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Published on 7 September, 2014
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Under the Patronage of
H.E. Shaikh Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa
Minister of Finance
Minister in charge of Oil and Gas Afairs
Kingdom of Bahrain
Ethylene Middle East Technology Conference
www.ethylene-me.com
19th

October 2014: Welcome Reception
20th & 21st October: Conference & Exhibition
Gulf Hotel, Kingdom of Bahrain
Meeting Technical Challenges in the Ethylene Industry
through Efcient & Sustainable Technology
EMET 2014 Chairman
Dr. Halim Hamid Redhwi
CEO (A), Dhahran Techno-Valley
Company (DTVC)
Professor, ChE, KFUPM
EMET 2014 is the ideal event for professionals looking
to develop their technical knowledge and optimize
their position in the fast evolving Ethylene industry
through increased operational efciency, sustainability
and excellence.
This event will bring together technical experts from
all over the world to share their practical experiences,
innovative ideas and strategies for reducing costs,
maximizing returns and value creation on issues related
to planning, design, operations and maintenance.
Conference Topics
- Latest Developments in Olefn Production
Technologies and Catalysts for increased
Product Yield
- Operational Efciency & Sustainability
- Process Safety, Maintenance & Reliability
- Feedstock Availability and Challenges with
Emerging Resources Improving Process
Performance of Ethylene Crackers
- Latest trends in Design, Engineering &
Construction
- Improving Process Performance of
Ethylene Crackers
Ethylene
Middle East
Technology
Conference
Theme
Advisory Committee
Asaad Ahmad Al-Saad, CEO, PIC (Kuwait)
Dr. Mohammed Yousef Al-Mulla, Vice Chairman &
CEO, QAPCO
Mohammad Husain, CEO, EQUATE
Musab Al-Mahruqi, CEO, Orpic
Adel Almoayyed, Chairman, Board of Directors, Bapco
Esam F. Himdy, CEO & Managing Director,
Sahara Petrochemicals Company
Said M. Bajodah, Executive President, SCP & JCP, S-Chem
Mohammad Al-Bibi, President, TASNEE
Petrochemicals Complex
Ibrahim Al Zaabi, Vice President,
Olefns and Utilities, Borouge
Ziad Al-Labban
CEO
Sadara Chemical Company
Advisory Committee
Chairman
Abdullah Saif Al-Saadoon, President, Operations, Sipchem
Fayez M Alsharef, Director, Chemicals Business,
Saudi Aramco
Fahad A Al-Sherehy, General Manager, Technology
Management Chemicals SBU, SABIC
Yasuhiko Kitaura, Sr. Vice President, Manufacturing,
Petro Rabigh
Hasan Dandashly, CEO, Downstream Technology
Solutions, GE Oil & Gas
John Hague, Senior Vice President & Managing Director
(MENA), Aspen Technology
Dr. Tobias Scheele, Vice President and
General Manager, Invensys
Jean-Paul Laugier, Vice President,
Ethylene Product Line, Technip
Dr. Zuhair Allawi, President, DOW Saudi Arabia Company
Stephen Stanley, Vice President, Olefns Business Group,
CB&I
Aman A. Ahmad, Director Technology Sales,
Middle East & Africa, KBR
Dr. Pierce Riemer, Director General,
World Petroleum Council
Technical Committee
Uwaidh Al-Harethi
Vice President Global
Procurement,Shared Services,
SABIC
Technical Committee
Chairman
Dhafr Ali Al Shehri, Lead Planning Engineer,
Business & Services Commercial/Planning,
SADARA Chemical Company
Misfer Al-Ghamdi, Operational Consultant, SABIC
Pascal Coenen, Licensing Technical Manager,
Shell Global Solutions
Dr. Pol Hoorelbeke, Vice President, Safety Division,
Total Refning & Chemicals
David Thomas, Principal Consultant,
Ethylene Optimization, Invensys
Satyam Mishra, Global Marketing Manager,
Ethylene and Natural Gas Adsorbents, UOP
Ahmed Al Mehrezi, Ethylene Unit Manager, Borouge
Jim Brigman, Managing Director, Ingenero Inc.
Nafees Ahmad, Area Process Engineer, TASNEE
Ahmad Hamad, Sales Application Engineer 4, OG-DTS
Downstream Technology Solutions, GE Oil & Gas
Saurabh Shende, Manager-Technical Services,
Dorf Ketal Chemical (I) Pvt. Limited
Dr. Muhammad Muhammadieh, Regional Business
Development Manager, Petrochemical Plants Linde AG
James Armour, Regional Manager - Middle East,
Engineered Products, Elliott Group
Sandeep Goel, Director - Business Development, CB&I
Steve Waring, Operations Manager, Ethylene/MPH, S-Chem
19th October 20th October 21st October
7:00
Registration and Breakfast Registration and Breakfast
7:00
7:30 7:30
8:00 8:00
8:30
Welcome Address and Exhibition
Inauguration Keynote Session
8:30
9:00 9:00
9:30 Cofee Break 9:30
10:00
Keynote Session
Cofee Break 10:00
10:30
Technical Session
Stream 1
Technical Session
Stream 2
10:30
11:00 11:00
11:30 11:30
12:00
Lunch
Company
Presentations
Lunch
Company
Presentations
12:00
12:30 12:30
13:00 13:00
13:30 13:30
14:00
Technical Session
Stream 1
Technical Session
Stream 2
Closing Keynote Session
14:00
14:30 14:30
15:00 15:00
15:30 Cofee Break 15:30
16:00
Registration
Technical Session
Stream 1
Technical Session
Stream 2
Rafe Draw 16:00
16:30 16:30
17:00 17:00
17:30 Rafe Draw 17:30
18:00
Welcome Reception
18:00
18:30 18:30
19:00 Gala Dinner 19:00
Agenda at a Glance
20th October 2014
7:00 onwards
Registration
Registration will open at 7:00 at the Gulf Hotel Convention Center.
Sponsored by:
7:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
Complimentary breakfast will be available for all registered delegates until
8:30.
Sponsored by:
8:45 - 9:15
Welcome Address
H.E Shaikh Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, Minister of Finance
and Minister in charge of Oil and Gas Afairs, Kingdom of Bahrain
Ziad Al-Labban, CEO, Sadara Chemical Company and EMET 2014
Advisory Committee Chairman
9:15 - 9:30
Exhibition Inauguration
H.E Shaikh Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, Minister of Finance
and Minister in charge of Oil and Gas Afairs, Kingdom of Bahrain
9:30 - 10:00
Cofee Break
Sponsored by:
Ethylene
Middle East
Technology
Conference
Technical
Program
19th October 2014
16:00 Registration
Registration for delegates will open the day before the conference at the
Gulf Hotel.
Sponsored by:
18:00 Welcome Reception
The Welcome Reception will enable all participants to meet and network
in a relaxed atmosphere enjoying refreshments
and canaps.
Sponsored by:
10:00- 12:00
Keynote Session
Moderator: Kaizad Sunavala, Advisor, Global Refning, Chevron
Yousef Abdullah Al-Benyan, Executive Vice President, Chemicals,
SABIC (TBC)
Salem Al Subayee, Division Head, Saudi Aramco Chemicals
Abdullah Suwailem, CEO, Petro Rabigh (TBC)
Hasan Dandashly, CEO, Downstream Technology Solutions, GE Oil &
Gas
John Derbyshire, President, KBR Technology
Sanjay Sharma, Managing Director, Middle East & India, IHS Chemical
Consulting
Sponsored by:
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Ethylene
Middle East
Technology
Conference
Technical
Program
12:00 - 14:00
Company Presentations
Entry to these sessions is at the discretion of the
presenting company
12:00 - 12:40 Technip
12:30 - 13:10 Schneider Electric
12:40 - 13:20 KBR Technology
13:10 - 13:50 GE Oil & Gas
Stream 1 Stream 2
14:00 - 15:30 Ethylene: The full circle history flled
with uncertainty
David Bronikowski, Sadara Chemical
Company
New Approach for anticoking
technologies qualifcation for
Ethylene Furnaces
Ahmed Al Zenaidi, Sabic
Sponsored by:
Middle East Cracker Feedstacks - How
do you solve a problem like Ethane?
Dr. Richard Charlesworth, IHS
Chemicals
Inspection and remnant life
assessment of ethylene cracker
tubes
Kevin Stevens, Quest Integrity
Improving process performance
of ethylene crackers through close
cooperation between technology
provider, operations and catalyst
supplier
Ernesto Angueira, CRI Catalysts
Driving the last 20% of safety
and reliability: New innovations
in engineering modeling
software to optimize processes
for safety
Saif Sheikh, Aspen Technology
Versalis Priolo Ethylene Plant, major
upgrade project
Riccardo Fabbri, GE Oil & Gas
Software driven real-time
tracking of DSG fouling
Mangesh Shenwai, Ingenero
The development and application of
coatings for Ethylene cracker rotating
equipment to reduce fouling and
corrosion
Phillip Dowson, Elliott Group
Selective hydrogenation -
Fundamental catalyst Principles
and new product development
Dr. Gareth Headdock, Johnson
Matthey
15:30 - 16:00
Cofee Break Sponsored by:
Ethylene
Middle East
Technology
Conference
Technical Program
16:00 - 17:30
Stream 1 Stream 2
Improving Compressor Reliability
with Advanced Dorf Ketal Chemical
Treatment
Erwin J. Leitner, Dorf Ketal
Catalyzed-Assisted
Manufacture of Olefns
(CAMOL): Innovative
Technology to Improve Steam
Cracker Operating Efciency
Craig B. Ostrof, BASF Qtech
Sponsored by:
Improvement in efciency of ethylene
plants by removal of black powder
and other contaminants in furnace
feeds
Ram Venkatadri, Pall Corporation
Value Cracking: A method
for maximizing revenues of
Naphtha Crackers
Dr. Heinz Zimmermann, Linde
Engineering
Disruptive change in performance
support and training through design,
simulation and optimization
Graham Provost, Schneider Electric
Process Engineering role in
equipment inspection for
Ethylene plant
Vishal Karate, Sadara
Chemical Company
CGC Inter Stage Cooler Fouling and its
renedial approach to avoid unplanned
shutdown
Nafees Ahmad, Tasnee
Maximizing feed to the
Ethylene unit at S-Chem
Altaf Khan, Aspen Technology
17:30
Rafe Draw Sponsored by:
19:00
Gala Dinner
Sponsored by:
Ethylene
Middle East
Technology
Conference
Technical Program
21st October 2014
7:00 onwards
Registration
Registration will open at 7:00 at the Gulf Hotel Convention Center.
Sponsored by:
7:00 - 8:30
Breakfast
Complimentary breakfast will be available for all registered delegates
until 8:30.
Sponsored by:
8:30 - 8:35
Welcome Address
Dr. Halim Redhwi, CEO, Dharan Techno-Valley Company
EMET 2014 Chairman
Sponsored by:
8:35 - 10:00
Keynote Session
Moderator: Dr. Pierce Riemer, Director General, World Petroleum
Council
Ziad Al-Labban, Chief Executive Ofcer, Sadara Chemical Company
Asaad Ahmad Al-Saad, CEO, PIC
Ali Vezvaei, Senior VP, Linde AG, Engineering,
Member of the Board, Linde Eng. Middle East
Stephen Stanley, VP Olefns Business Group, CB&I
Andy Gosse, Vice President, CRI Catalyst Company
10:00 - 10:30
Cofee Break
Sponsored by:
Stream 1 Stream 2
10:30 - 12:00 Creating the agile and adaptive
workforce through operational
intelligence
Altaf Khan, Aspen Technology
Technical challenge of
compressors and steam
turbines for mega ethylene
plant
Satoshi Hata, Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries Compressor
Corporation
Sponsored by:
Tightening environmental regulations
and energy reduction opportunities
guide the future for spent caustic
treatment
Senthil Rajappan, Sadara Chemical
Company
Better combustion control
with live O2 and CO analysis,
using Tunable Diode Laser
(TDL) Gas Analysers in
radiant sections on an
Ethylene cracker furnace
Jan Hordijk, Servomex
Ethylene
Middle East
Technology
Conference
Technical Program
Stream 1 Stream 2
Extending furnace run length and
extending coil life through decoking
procedure optimization
Vinod Mishra, Ingenero
Contaminant removal for
improved process reliability in
Ethylene Plants
Satyam Mishra, UOP
Sponsored by:
HRC(II) Energy Saving Coating
Materials
Toyofumi Ogura, Nippon
Netsuhoshazai Kenkyusho
Cooling Water GRP Network
Ramireddy Annapureddy,
TASNEE
Enhanced heat transfer solutions
Thomas Lang, Wieland
Feed gas compressor system
fouling and corrosion
monitoring and mitigation
B.S.RAO, Ingenero
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
Company Presentations
Entry to these sessions is at the discretion of the
presenting company
12:00 - 12:40 Linde
12:30 - 13:10 AspenTech
12:40 - 13:20 Elliott
13:10 - 13:50 Dorf Ketal
14:00 - 15:30
Closing Keynote Session
Art Titus, Chief Operating Ofcer, Elliott Group
Hiroaki Osaki, President, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor
Corporation
Ron Beck, Director - Industry Marketing, AspenTech
Zuhair Allawi, President, DOW (Saudi Arabia)
Jim Foster, Editorial Director, Petrochemical Analysis, Platts
Sponsored by:
15:30
Rafe Draw
Sponsored by:
For more information on EMET 2014, contact:
Ms. Raunaq Jamal - Project Lead
Email: [email protected]
Conference Registration Fee
Conference Pre-event Registration USD 1,200
Conference Onsite Registration USD 1,400
Conference Group Booking (10 delegates and above) USD 1,000
Tel: +971 4427 0739
Website: www.ethylene-me.com