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Asian Downstream Summit sees increased focus on downstream sector’s decarbonisation drive

The annual Asian Downstream Summit and co-located Asian Refining Technology Conference were held last week at the Sands Expo & Convention Centre in Singapore, as part of the Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW). With a focus of examining the decarbonisation pathway, the event sought to ask how refiners and petrochemical companies were preparing for the…

Asian Downstream Summit sees increased focus on downstream sector’s decarbonisation drive

The annual Asian Downstream Summit and co-located Asian Refining Technology Conference were held last week at the Sands Expo & Convention Centre in Singapore, as ...

Integrating Capital Project Work into Maintenance Turnarounds

INTRODUCTION Maintenance Turnarounds represent significant cost expenditures for any refinery or petrochemical plant. An overrun in time and money on a turnaround can significantly impact ...

NGEL and Nayara Energy collaborate in production of Green Hydrogen

NTPC Green Energy Limited (NGEL), a wholly owned subsidiary of NTPC Limited-India’s leading integrated power producer and Nayara Energy, a new-age international downstream Energy Company ...

PETRONAS, MOL and MISC to jointly develop LCO2 carriers for CCS projects

PETRONAS CCS Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PETRONAS, has signed a Term Sheet with Mitsui O.S.K Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and MISC Berhad for the potential ...

Singapore hosts world’s first bulk liquified hydrogen carrier

Singapore recently welcomed the world’s first bulk liquefied hydrogen carrier, Suiso Frontier, on 31 August 2023. The vessel was berthed at the Shell Energy and ...

Key Performance Practices that Drive Top Quartile Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages (STO) Outcomes

Authors: Mike O’Kane, Global Director, and Daniel Phan, Regional Manager, AP-Networks Introduction The most expensive, complex projects that operating facilities such as refineries and petrochemical ...

PETRONAS, AIQ developing AI solutions for more sustainable energy industry

PETRONAS and AIQ, an Abu Dhabi-based technology company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to share experiences in building Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions that ...

Pertamina continues SAF development

Indonesia’s Pertamina has decided to continue developing environmentally friendly fuel innovations, which include Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) development for commercial aircrafts. This follows a series ...

PETRONAS FutureTech 3.0 shortlists 20 APAC startups

PETRONAS has announced the selection of 20 startups from across Asia Pacific to participate in the third edition of PETRONAS FutureTech, an intensive technology accelerator ...

PETRONAS FutureTech 3.0 expands to Asia Pacific region

PETRONAS FutureTech 3.0, an accelerator programme to nurture technology startups, is now open to applicants in the Asia Pacific region, the first time the programme ...

HIMA opens Singapore Customer Solutions Centre

On 22 June, HIMA celebrated the simultaneous opening of Customer Solutions Centres in Singapore and Germany, with the aim of creating new opportunities to experience, ...

Qpinch’s heat transformer a natural solution

Biomimicry is hardly new. In fact, one of the earliest examples of biomimicry was the study of birds to enable human flight – a study ...

Reaching out to consumers key to post-COVID recovery: Phoenix Petroleum CEO

As President of Phoenix Petroleum, Bong Fadullon has many responsibilities to juggle - which include keeping employee morale high through the pandemic. Bong Fadullon is ...

Unlock Your Heat Exchanger Potential using Health Monitoring Solutions

Heat Exchangers are an integral part of the oil and gas industry, and have a significant impact on the overall efficiency, and performance. Identifying scenarios ...

Market Moves: A look at the changing world of post-pandemic oil markets

Amidst growing awareness of climate change and environmental impact, the markets are banking on sustainability, with investors increasingly channeling their capital into renewables. But transition ...

Decarbonising Asia, a work in progress

It is often said that the journey of a thousand miles begins with but one step; and for Asia, this statement rings true with regards ...

New Energy: Spotlight on how Vietnam is revitalising its fuels, technologies, and business

The energy sector is a keystone of the Vietnamese economy, and is consistently evolving to keep up with this fast-developing nation’s demands. In 2019, oil ...

Advanced analytics-driven Energy Dashboard carves a pathway for sustainable manufacturing

The Oil and Gas industry has found itself at a crossroads since the turn of the decade. While the demand for oil and gas has ...

Key pillars for the future of downstream

The crude oil refining industry is currently facing a great challenge, as refiners continue to face the realities of the ongoing energy transition, price volatility ...

Relying on digitalisation: How digital reliability is the backbone of a healthy downstream 4.0

In an increasingly competitive and unpredictable refining industry, reliability will be downstream leaders’ lighthouse in an economic storm. Volatile demand and new operational, economic, and ...

Shell pioneers new virtual manufacturing technology

Shell’s Pulau Bukom manufacturing site, and the home of Singapore’s first refinery, recently piloted the “Digital Twin”, technology that will help to digitise their manufacturing ...

Upskilling downstream: A look at the workforce of the future

Faced by a global humanitarian crisis and an unprecedented drop in fuel demand, the oil and gas workforce is facing more existential issues than working ...

How next-gen hybrid digital twinning technology transforms refinery performance

By Jari Marci & Thomas Diehl Digital twin technology and machine learning are buzzwords – but what do they mean for refineries?  Digital twins are ...

In the loop: Bringing back returns to downstream leaders

The concept of a circular economy – a system built around the constant re-use and recycling of existing resources and materials – can be applied ...

An industry with impact: why ESG should be a key driver of downstream’s post-pandemic recovery

As business revamp themselves for their post-pandemic comeback, they are doing it with a conscience. ESG – environmental social and governance reporting – is the ...

The strongest link. How blockchain technology is redefining the downstream supply chain

The downstream sector is like a jigsaw. Where thousands of processes are required to refine every drop of crude into its finished product, unconnected transactions ...

Destination EV. Spotlight on Asia’s growing electric vehicle market and what it means for fossil fuels

On the road to recovery, it’s best to drive. Drive electric to be precise: a booming EV market is expected to account for almost half ...

Smart petrochemicals: A smart business move

Petrochemicals leaders are getting smart about Smart technologies. A sector previously “lagging behind” when it came to digital progress, now digitalisation and automation are saving ...

The Key to the Energy Transition is an Orderly Transition of the Downstream Oil Industry

There is an old Roman adage: ‘Caveat emptor’: Buyer beware. This is the principle that the buyer is responsible for checking the goods before a ...

Navigating the Greenhouse Gas Conundrum, and meeting new renewable growth demands

Reliability of energy delivery saves lives. Fires in California and Australia, rolling blackouts in the UK and grid failure in the dead of water in ...

Driving change across the downstream industry

Exclusive Interview with Andy Saunders-Tack, Director, Asia-Pacific and Mel Larson, Strategic Consulting Manager at Becht The coup in Myanmar may be pivotal for the energy ...

Inspiring Change: PTT Global Chemical on leadership for a digital era

Exclusive interview with Napaporn Ratanapoka, Vice President Refinery, PTT Global Chemical Public Company In the new digital era, machine is man’s solution. Increasingly, oil and ...

Making your data work for you. A versatile data model for individual requirements in the oil & gas industry

On the roadmap to post-pandemic recovery, innovation is our guide. It’s a digital GPS, analysing, predicting and guiding operators on the best path forward. But ...

Putting the catalysts to the test: the importance of catalyst testing for increased profitability

When catalyst loading represents an investment of up to US$ 20MM, making the right catalyst choice can be critical for business success. But operators lack ...

Major opportunities for digital disruption: exclusive interview with Ron Beck, Aspen Technology

Please introduce yourself and your role at AspenTech. I am the Director of Marketing Strategy. In my 14-plus years at AspenTech, I have been in ...

Exploring the economic risk, metrics and digital solutions powering the next phase of the Energy Transition

Transition is a familiar friend to the downstream industry. Fluctuating oil and gas prices, geo-political shifts and health and safety risks have helped shape a ...

Tides of change for Thailand. An outlook on the kingdom’s growing green energy economy

Last March, as many businesses halted operations in the wave of COVID-19 disruption, Thai Oil was celebrating new beginnings. The country’s largest oil refinery held ...

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Increasingly Autonomous Operations in Energy and Chemicals. Aspen Technology on the next era of Smart plants

In the next phase of the market, downstream operations will be self-sustaining, self-learning and self-optimized for autonomous success. The rise in tech talent and advances ...

Programmers planning for a data protection system

Downstream Digital Defence. Next steps in cybersecurity for oil and gas leaders

“Cyber-attacks are always in the news and headlines”, states the Head of Cybersecurity Risk and Governance at a major Saudi Arabian oil company. He isn’t ...

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Asia’s post-COVID outlook – top predictions from ADI for the elusive new normal

As the world charts its journey to post-pandemic recovery, industries are on the lookout for signs of market trends to come. Here’s what to look ...

Stepping into a new digital frontier. Insights from a Downstream Innovation Leader

We’re stepping onto the threshold of a new digital frontier. With the majority of operators wanting to embrace innovation into their infrastructure in the near ...

Man talks Machine: a group of downstream industry leaders discuss how AI is shaping the market

Artificial intelligence is revamping the downstream industry. ML is streamlining manpower. Algorithms are predicting unplanned downtime. But how much is digitalisation really driving business decisions? ...

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Clearing the Fog on Digital Transformation

There are many manual tasks in plants which require personnel and contractors to come to a site, which prevents working from home or other remote ...

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Downstream’s balancing act: juggling risk, cost and performance

Navigating the next normal is a risky business. And how to create the perfect balance between risk, cost and performance was the subject international downstream ...

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Building a sustainable business. Industry leaders debate sustainability and the future of fossil fuels

There’s a lot to say about sustainability, especially when you’ve built your business on fossil fuels. And when a group of international business leaders from ...

Long term trends of transportation fuel: Exclusive insights from Argus Media

The future is something we all think about. And for 97% of the downstream community, it features petchems in some form. A recent poll of ...

The petrochemical presence. How the shift to petrochemicals is reshaping the downstream industry

Petrochemicals are part of everything we do. They’re in the plastic that packages our food, the fertilizer that boosts our crops, the detergent that cleans ...

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Next generation downstream. Looking ahead at the industry’s future. And what needs to change

The future of the downstream industry: a vast, uncertain horizon, marked by new technologies, and the drive for new business models. At a recent executive ...

Optimised Assets: how digitalisation is upgrading the APM vision

Redefining your asset performance for business success

If APM is the heart of the organisation, data is the lifeblood, pumping vital information and assets across all departments to ensure a healthy, safe ...

Optimised Assets: how digitalisation is upgrading the APM vision

Unplanned shutdown time across the downstream Oil & Gas reduces asset availability by an estimated 5%. With operators functioning at only 95% of their full ...

The workforce’s changing tides

Asian Downstream Insights speaks with Charles Becht V, President of Becht, to find out more about current regulatory uncertainties, as well as shifting perspectives on ...

“Concepts of diversity and inclusion are not new”

Celebrating the women in oil and gas: In this Asian Downstream Insights exclusive interview, Neeti Tandon, Global General Manager Utilities, Industrial Decarbonisation, Shell, muses over ...

“I would like for women to be treated exactly the same as men”

Celebrating the women of oil and gas: In an exclusive interview, Asian Downstream Insights sits down with Cécile Plain, Technology Group Manager, Axens, to understand ...

Interview with Austin Schneider, Director of Technology at Crystaphase

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your role at Crystaphase. Currently, I manage the day-to-day operations of technical service, product R&D, and intellectual ...

Interview with Dr. Teodor Trotus, Segment Lead Hydroprocessing, hte

Tell us how you got involved in the industry and about your current role at hte. During my training as a chemist I grew fascinated ...

Navigating the new normal

In an exclusive interview with Chris Van der Beek, Becht Director of European Operations, Asian Downstream Insights learns more about the company, fuels of the ...

Interview with Dr. Purandar Chakravarty, Head of Innovation and Alternate Energy, Nayara Energy

Dr. Purandar spoke about how new technologies can shape the recovery of the industry and questions if we are entering the era of virtual refinery. ...

Digital Implementation for Oil & Gas – Exclusive insights from Shell

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a period of changing old behaviours to fit new situations, and for Ibrahim Al-Syed, Global Digital Implementation Lead at Shell, ...

From challenges to opportunities in chemicals

Asian Downstream Insights sits down with Khun Chokchai Montreeamornchet, Managing Director at REPCO NEX, an ASEAN asset performance solutions leader whose services range from general ...

Keeping with the times

Hasnor Hashim, Principal Engineer at PETRONAS, talks machine learning, pandemic blues, and the future of the energy industry. What does a typical day in your ...

PETRONAS Head of Innovation on navigating the technology solutions market

Fadhlan Nik Abdul Aziz, Head of Innovation at PETRONAS. As the downstream sector enters Industry 4.0, a booming technology solutions market is developing to help ...

Channeling your inner downstream superhero

Exclusive interview with Zulfan Adi Putra, Process Engineer at PETRONAS Group Technical Solutions Zulfan Adi Putra, Process Engineer at PETRONAS Group Technical Solutions As we ...

Explore, evaluate, excel: SCG Chemicals CTO on the main drivers influencing change in the downstream industry

In Partnership with SCG CHEMICALS THAILAND What does a typical day in your role look like? What are the biggest challenges? Typically, we explore, evaluate, ...

Connectivity and Collaboration: Pertamina on working together in a post-pandemic future

The new distributed workforce may be isolated. But in this disconnected climate, integration between sectors and strategies is all the more important. This is the ...

Driving change across the downstream industry

Exclusive Interview with Andy Saunders-Tack, Director, Asia-Pacific and Mel Larson, Strategic Consulting Manager at Becht The coup in Myanmar may be pivotal for the energy ...

Inspiring Change: PTT Global Chemical on leadership for a digital era

Exclusive interview with Napaporn Ratanapoka, Vice President Refinery, PTT Global Chemical Public Company In the new digital era, machine is man’s solution. Increasingly, oil and ...

Major opportunities for digital disruption: exclusive interview with Ron Beck, Aspen Technology

Please introduce yourself and your role at AspenTech. I am the Director of Marketing Strategy. In my 14-plus years at AspenTech, I have been in ...

Long term trends of transportation fuel: Exclusive insights from Argus Media

The future is something we all think about. And for 97% of the downstream community, it features petchems in some form. A recent poll of ...

Innovating the Energy transition: insights on a digital, sustainable future with Shell

Exclusive perspectives on the future of petrochemicals, and how new technologies are helping Shell achieve their net zero emissions goals. Andreas Krobjilowski, General Manager, Shell Jurong ...

Oil and gas well profiled on dramatic sky

Interview with Vikas Deshmukh, VP of Technology CoE, Hydrocarbon Business, Reliance Industries

We discussed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry, how new technologies can shape the recovery of the industry and more. What does ...

Interview with Sharul A-Rashid, Custodian, Instrument and Control from PETRONAS

We discussed the biggest challenge faced by the refining and petrochemical industry today and the biggest opportunities for the market in the next 12 months. ...

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Interview with Prisana Homhuandee, Supply Chain Operation Improvement Specialist, SCG-DOW Thailand

We recently interviewed Prisana Homhuandee, Supply Chain Operation Improvement Specialist from SCG-DOW Thailand on her thoughts about gender diversity in the oil & gas industry. ...

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Sustainability and Success. Building A Game Plan for The Future

Gain exclusive insights on why sustainable means profitable, how to navigate increasing regulatory demands and a game plan to incorporate sustainability into your business strategy. ...

Interview with Dr. Marcio Wagner da Silva, Process Engineer & Project Manager, Petrobras

Dr. Marcio Wagner da Silva, Process Engineer & Project Manager from Petrobras shares his views on biggest challenge faced by the refining and petrochemical industry. ...

Green planet against blue sky and clean nature

Interview with Kemas Adrian, Environmental and Sustainability Engineer, Pertamina Hulu

How can vertical integration help the industry move towards sustainable success and can the era of virtual refinery help secure a clean energy future? What ...

Interview with Eliza Habna Lana, Olefin Hot Process Engineer, PT Chandra Asri

Eliza explores gender diversity in the oil and gas industry and how the current climate has affected opportunities for women in oil and gas. Please ...

Interview with Dr. Purandar Chakravarty, Head of Innovation and Alternate Energy, Nayara Energy

Dr. Purandar spoke about how new technologies can shape the recovery of the industry and questions if we are entering the era of virtual refinery. ...

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Video Interview with Tibor Komróczki, Head of Process Information & Automation, MOL

Learn how digitalisation and new technologies can help streamline processes and transform business operations and how to stand out in a busy marketplace. Tibor Komróczki, ...

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Video Interview with Supratim Mukhopadhyay, Director, Pre-Sales, APAC at Hexagon

Top tips on how to stay ahead – how AI and digital transformation can streamline operations, drive business growth, and help businesses achieve their sustainability ...

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Video Interview with Simon Charewicz, Technology Service Owner, Denver

Exclusive insights on using today's climate as a catalyst for innovation, how technology can help businesses be sustainable, and executing digital strategy at speed. Simon ...

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Exclusive Insights On Business Success with Ingenero CEO Pratap Nair

Hear from Pratap Nair on staying ahead in a competitive and hyper-connected market in this exclusive one-on-one interview. To keep you up to date on ...

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Interview with Norzaimah M Alias, TP Principal, Group Technical Solutions, PETRONAS

Norzaimah shared some main challenges that come with being a woman in the traditionally male-dominated oil industry. Please introduce your role at PETRONAS I’ve been ...

Interview with Napaporn Ratanapoka, VP Refinery, PTT Global Chemical

Napaporn Ratanapoka, VP Refinery from PTT Global Chemical shares on her thoughts on gender diversity in oil and gas industry and other industry topics. Please ...

New Technologies Driving the Next Normal with Chip Hilarides, President, OnPoint

In the next normal, innovation will shape the way we do business. New technologies and partnerships will improve safety, provide critical insights and drive greater ...

Interview with Arief Frianda Rahmadi, Digital Technology Engineer, PT. Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk

Arief Frianda Rahmadi, Digital Technology Engineer, PT. Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk shares his thoughts on the biggest challenges faced by the refining & petrochemical industry. ...

Moving Towards more Autonomous Operations in Energy and Chemicals

The global pandemic, shifts in consumer demand, and the challenging economic climate have posed an existential threat to the downstream industry as we know it. ...

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APM 4.0 – Redefining your Asset Strategy

Assets are said to be the heart of any business. As Asset Intensive Organizations are starting to move towards Industry 4.0, it is imperative that ...

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Post-Pandemic Success For Oil And Gas Leaders with Albemarle Corporation’s Dan McQueen

Top tips for FCC operators to build business success and remain competitive during post COVID-19 recovery in this exclusive one-on-one webinar. The current COVID-19 related ...

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Exclusive Insights On Business Success with Ingenero CEO Pratap Nair

Hear from Pratap Nair on staying ahead in a competitive and hyper-connected market in this exclusive one-on-one interview. To keep you up to date on ...

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New Technologies Driving the Next Normal with Chip Hilarides, President, OnPoint

In the next normal, innovation will shape the way we do business. New technologies and partnerships will improve safety, provide critical insights and drive greater ...

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Webcast: Managing Business in A Changing Downstream Industry

The pandemic has overturned the way we do business. Now, as lockdowns ease, business leaders are navigating the new challenges of the next normal. Hear ...

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