Past event: Operational Excellence in Refining and Petrochemicals Summit

Achieving world-class operational efficiency, agility and reliability performance

Join over 100 Plant and Asset Managers, Operations Leaders and Heads of Operational Excellence at this year's Operational Excellence in Refining and Petrochemicals Summit and improve operational efficiency, reliability and safety performance now. Learn how to:

  • Align Business Strategy with Operations
  • Enhance Executive Support for Operational Excellence
  • Improve Reliability to Improve Bottom Line Performance
  • Construct an HSE Program that Reduces Incidents - and is Optimized Operationally
  • Blend Different Improvement Tools and Methodologies and Build a World-Class OE Framework
  • Institute a Systematic Approach to Identify - and Eliminate - Sources of Value Loss
  • Close the Execution Gap on Operations Management System Performance
  • Leverage Digital Technology to Drive out Operations Costs
  • Achieve Operational and Environmental Excellence
  • Improve Process Safety through Lean Leadership
  • Transform Data Into Actionable Insight
  • Create a High Reliability Culture

2016 Speakers

  • Aamir Farid, Vice President, Manufacturing - Americas, Shell Oil
  • Emmitt Wooten, Director, Continuous Improvement, Dow Chemical
  • Troy Hill-Anderson, Global Director, Reliability & Maintenance, BP Refining
  • Trevor Williams, Vice President, Engineering and Organizational Effectiveness, Agrium
  • Freddy Martinez-Guzman, Director of Continuous Improvements and Operational Excellence, AkzoNobel
  • Michael Bauer, Director of Continuous Improvement, Philadelphia Energy Solutions
  • Ozie Owen, Director, Hydrocarbon Management, Global Operations, BP
  • Danny Durham, Director, Global Upstream Chemicals, Apache
  • Cindy Gross, Director of Reliability – Olefins, Flint Hills Resources
  • José Pires, Global Vice President and Director of Business Excellence, Black & Veatch
  • Bob Koonce, former Navy Submarine Commanding Officer, US Nuclear Navy
  • Adam Gillan, Associate Director, Training, Philadelphia Energy Solutions
  • Keith Ort, Director of Operational Excellence, Axalta Coating Systems
  • Kevin Diamond, Vice President, Americas, Hitachi Consulting
  • Todd Muscroft, Solution Architect, Innovatia
  • Steve Smith, Product Manager Procedure Management Solutions, Innovatia
  • J. Scott Lockhart, SVP, Operational & Risk Management, IHS
  • Christian McDermott, Country Manager, Voovio
  • Ken Taylor, Plant Manager, Cameron
  • Chris Seifert, Partner, Wilson, Perumal & Company
  • Chris Hamlin, Director, Industry Consulting, Emerson Process Management
  • George Barry, Senior Consultant AMERICAS, eVision Software

Please fill in your name and email to receive the conference agenda of this event.


Pre-conference Workshops - Monday September 26, 2016
  • Workshop A: Creating a High-Reliability Culture
  • Workshop B: Building an Integrated Continuous Improvement framework that makes sense for your organization: Blending tools to achieve greater results
  • Workshop C: Optimising data and analytics to support early event detection and resolution
  • Workshop D: Systematic improvement:  Leveraging your Operations Management System to drive high performance
  • Workshop E: Asset Management Strategies: Best practices for sustained asset reliability improvement
  • Workshop F: Vision without Execution is Hallucination
  • Workshop G: Persuasion in chaos: Operational Excellence is a breeze (until you add people!)
  • Workshop H: Achieving Operational Excellence through effective, reliable information management
Conference Day One - Tuesday September 27, 2016
  • Including: Morning & Afternoon Networking Break, Networking Luncheon
Conference Day Two - Wednesday September 28, 2016
  • Including: Morning Networking Break, Networking Lunch

The agenda is available as PDF under downloads at the right side of the page.

Venue

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Venue

Norris Convention Centre - Houston CityCentre
816 Town & Country Blvd, Suite 210
Houston, Texas
77024 , United States
Website:  http://norriscenters.com/HoustonCC/
Phone: + 001 (713) 590-0950

Accommodation
Travel and accommodation are not included in the conference fee; however we have discounted rates at the Hotel Sorella nearby. Please see the information listed below to make a reservation;

HOTEL SORELLA:
Traditional Room $179.00
The rates are per room night, single or double occupancy, and do not include tax, currently at 17%.
The above rates include complimentary WI-FI in each guest room, complimentary self-garage parking and complimentary Breakfast.

RESERVATION PROCEDURE:
Hotel Sorella’s Reservation Department by
calling toll free +001 866.842.0100 or +001 713.973.1600
or online at www.hotelsorella-citycentre.com
We encourage you to book online by using the corporate code of NEGNORRIS.
When the reservation is made over the telephone, the negotiated rate must be requested at the time of booking.
Where Operations Leaders meet to drive operational, cultural and digital transformation in their business.
Event details
Organizer : IQEU
Event type : Conference
Reference : ASDE-15509