About the Summit

The 3rd edition of India Refining Summit was successfully held on 19 - 20 July 2018 at Hotel Shangri-La Eros, New Delhi. Organised by Messe Frankfurt India, the conference witnessed the participation of 45+ public sector and private multina-tional companies which includes big leagues from Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum, Nayara Energy, Indian Institute of Petroleum, PwC India, Engineers India Ltd, Federation of Indian Petroleum Industry, Numaligarh Refinery, Mangalore Refinery, Technip, Honeywell UOP, Fluor India, Tubacex Group.

The Summit deliberated on the theme Refining and Petrochemicals – Innovation and Excellence’ and covered the challenges faced by refining sector from all spheres including the oil imports, environment challenges, refining capacity expansion projects, biofuel blending programs by refineries, Opportunities in refining and petrochemical Integration.

The Inaugural session discussed on the Increasing the refining capacity by 2030 which was enriched with the very insightful presentations of the Inaugural guests Mr. Suresh Chopra, Executive Director, Projects, Indian Oil and Mr. Debasish Bera, Associate Director, Oil and Gas, PwC India. The Chief Guest Shri. R P Gupta, Addi-tional Secretary, Energy, NITI Aayog supported the discussion by presenting various Government policies undertaken in energy sector impacting the oil downstream industry and refining expansion projects.

Participants90+

Companies45+

Conference Highlights:

Participants Composition:

46%

17%

6%21%10%

Govt. Bodies

Consultants and Researchers

Solution Providers

PSUs

Private players

It discussed the upcoming refinery expansion projects aiming to achieve refining capacity 2030

Reducing the dependence on oil imports by implementing various refinery profitability programs

Refinery looking at integration with fuels from renewable sources like biomass

Challenges in using the biofuel blending in refineries

Opportunities of refining and petrochemical integration in India

Waste management and water treatment in refineries

Advance coating solutions in extreme refinery environment

Alternative project execution technologies

Hydrogen management, concept of sourcing hydrogen from BOO operatorBest practices in refinery operations.

Key Speakers:

Shri R P GuptaAdditional Secretary, NITI Aayog

Mr. Suresh ChopraExecutive Director, Projects, Indian Oil

Mr. M RambabuExecutive Director, Refinery Co-ordination, HindustanPetroleum

Ms. Vartika ShuklaExecutive Director, Technical, Engineers India Ltd.

Dr. Anjan RayDirector, CSIR, Indian Institute of Petroleum

Dr. Partha P MaitraPresident, Strategy and Initiatives, Reliance Industries

Mr. N K BansalDirector, Oil andMarketing,FIPI

Mr. Vinayak R MaratheHead Planning, Biofuel Projects and Operations, Reliance Industries

Mr. Nandakumar VCGM, Petrochem andR&D, MRPL

Mr. Y B RamakrishnaChairman, Working Group,MoPNG

Mr. Ajay JainDirector, Project Management,Fluor India

Dr. Alok K SaxenaManaging Director, GTCProcess Technology

Mr. Arup GangulyDirector Business Developmentand Sales, KBR Technology

Key Speakers:

Shri R P GuptaAdditional Secretary, NITI Aayog

Mr. Suresh ChopraExecutive Director, Projects, Indian Oil

Mr. M RambabuExecutive Director, Refinery Co-ordination, HindustanPetroleum

Ms. Vartika ShuklaExecutive Director, Technical, Engineers India Ltd.

Dr. Anjan RayDirector, CSIR, Indian Institute of Petroleum

Dr. Partha P MaitraPresident, Strategy and Initiatives, Reliance Industries

Mr. N K BansalDirector, Oil andMarketing,FIPI

Mr. Vinayak R MaratheHead Planning, Biofuel Projects and Operations, Reliance Industries

Mr. Nandakumar VCGM, Petrochem andR&D, MRPL

Mr. Y B RamakrishnaChairman, Working Group,MoPNG

Mr. Ajay JainDirector, Project Management,Fluor India

Dr. Alok K SaxenaManaging Director, GTCProcess Technology

Mr. Arup GangulyDirector Business Developmentand Sales, KBR Technology

Industry Speaks:

India Refining Summit is a very insightful and useful forum for the refineries to keep in touch with the new development and latest technologies implement in the refineries. Such summits should take place more often.

Mr. M Rambabu Executive Director, Refinery Co-ordination, Hindustan Petroleum

Ms. Vartika Shukla Executive Director, Technical, Engineers India Ltd.

The conference has covered all the relevant and newer aspects of the refining industry, which conventional refineries needs to adopt to make itself more competitive, greener and more sustainable. The conference has captured each and every relevant issues and brought out the perspectives apart solution and leaves a lot of room for participants and owners to think strategically and envelop wide horizon which exists making this industry more vibrant, sustainable and greener as the world requires.

Mr. Ajay Jain Director, Project Management, Fluor India

We are delighted to attend conference and present as a speaker. The summit did provide an opportunity to listen to other speakers and friends from the industry and enrich from their experiences and knowledge sharing. Look forward to coming to the summit again and again.

India Refining summit 2018 was a wonderful opportunity for the industry experts to gather and exchange views on various new idea. I thank Messe Frankfurt for organising such a beautiful event.

Mr. Nandakumar VCGM, Petrochem and R&D, MRPL

India Refining Summit has covered all the possible topics of the refining industry on best practices, challenges and opportunities across the globe and India. Speakers from various domains has happily presented wide diversified views on various topics. This kind of interaction will definitely improve the understanding about the industry and its challenges very closely. I wish India Refining Summit a grand success in years to come.

Mr. N K BansalDirector, Oil and Marketing, FIPI

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