August 3-4,2010 - Industry leaders will gather together to discuss the best practices across refineries and chemical plant’s shutdowns and turnarounds. They will be discussing key challenges that companies face as they plan and manage shutdowns and turnarounds since the economic downturn.marcus evans invites senior level directors from top petrochemical, chemical, oil, and gas industries with responsibilities in Refinery, Plant, Site Operations, Maintenance, Turnarounds/Shutdowns, Reliability, Safety, and Engineering to attend the 2nd Chem/Petrochem & Refinery Shutdowns & Turnarounds Conference.The complexities of a plant shutdown and turnaround have only grown with the economic downturn.
Proper planning and management can save companies from serious budget over runs and costly delays in a time where plants are operating at a near full capacity and margins are low.The purpose of this event will be to demonstrate and deliver beneficial information relating to acquiring and maintaining the skilled workforce and manpower, efficient planning and scheduling of turnarounds, and cost and time effective techniques to executing turnarounds and shutdowns.Wayne Oswald, The Executive Director of Houston Business Roundtable, will be heading this event as Conference Chairperson. In the past Oswald has held the position of Maintenance Process Leader for Dow Jones Chemical Company and consulted in workforce development training.
He has also been Chairman for the Texas Skills Standard board.Current speakers presenting at this conference include Shell Oil Products, ConocoPhillips, The Dow Jones Company, Huntsman Corporation, Eastman Chemical Company, Tesoro, Safway, and many more. Key Conference topics include:
- Observe Huntsman’s timely and cost effective turnaround and shutdown processes
- Discuss Shell Oil’s integration of capital projects within shutdowns operations
- Understand what Dow is doing to minimize scope creep during turnaround procedures
For more information on this conference please visit: http://www.marcusevansch.com/Chem.Petrochem2 This is not a trade show; our 2nd Annual Chem/Petrochen & Refinery Shutdowns and Turnarounds is targeted at a focused group of senior level executives to maintain an intimate atmosphere for the delegates and speakers. Since we are not a vendor driven conference, the higher level focus allows the delegates to network with their industry peers and speakers.
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