StocExpo 2009 - Programme
If you own, operate or manage terminals or storage facilities and have a suggestion with regards the programme or if you would like to submit a paper for consideration please contact cathy@stocexpo.com.
*Please note that speakers/topics may be subject to change. Please check this page for updates.
Day One – 24 March 2009
Commercial Outlook of the Storage Industry & the Way Ahead for Trading & Pricing
This day will cover topics such as:
- Overview of storage outlook & opportunities within the ARA region - 2009 & beyond
- Analysis of current capacity
- Development of storage facilities in the region
- Considerations post-Buncefield – lessons learnt
- The challenge posed by Process Safety
- The importance of storage in European oil trade
- Drivers for development of the oil terminal & storage business
- Quality & blending needs, biofuels
- Compulsory/strategic storage requirements
- Investor classes & their motivations
- Basis for future M&A & construction
- Forecast & outlook
- Financing & investment for storage projects
- Joint ventures & strategic alliances
- Market structure & trends
- Analysis of current capacity
- New build projects – locations, permits & market issues
- Current status of energy resources & scenarios for tomorrow
- The supply & demand balance
- Forecasting potential crises & creating a crisis management plan
- Preparing for business continuity
- Short-term losses & mitigation of long-term effects
09.00 Introduction from Conference Chair
Richard Kellaway, Senior Advisor, Global Infrastructure Partners
09.10 Overview of Storage Outlook & Opportunities within the ARA Region - 2009 & Beyond
- Review of market sector & analysis of current capacity
- Rotterdam’s position as Europe’s leading oil & chemical cluster
- Development of storage facilities in the region
09.40 Considerations Post-Buncefield – Lessons Learnt
- The unfolding of the event & the emergency response to it, & the immediate impacts including the investigation into what happened & how
- The main lessons learned from the incident
- How the Board’s recommendations fit together
10.20 Post Buncefield & Texas City – Where Next for Process Safety?
- What happened & how has it impacted downstream oil in the UK
- The challenge posed by Process Safety
- What are the issues?
- What are the UK oil industry & Regulators doing?
- Where do we go from here?
10.50 Tea/Coffee Break & Exhibition Showcase
11.30 The Importance of Storage in European Oil Trade
- Inter-regional Trade
- Risks of supply disruptions
12.00 Drivers for Development of the Oil Terminal & Storage Business Trade Flows
- Quality & blending needs, biofuels
- Compulsory/strategic storage requirements
- Investor classes & their motivations
- Basis for future M&A & construction
12.30 Independent Bulk Liquid Storage – Market & Development 2009
- The role of bulk liquid storage
- The main players & their ownerships
- The changing structure of storage
- Investments to be made this year & the reasons
13.00 Lunch & Exhibition Showcase
14.30 Introduction from Conference Chair
Ben Holt, Vice President Downstream Oil, EMEA, Wood Mackenzie Limited14.40 New Build Projects – Location, Permit & Market Issues
- Location – where, how much land, infrastructure, conflicting port ambitions
- Permit – changing legislation, Buncefield implications, individual country concerns
- Market – is it a good time to buy & expand – or is it time to sell
- Compulsory stock issues
15.10 Biofuels Storage - Strategic or Opportunistic
- Biofuels are relatively new & still evolving in WE, so are 3rd Party storage needs
- Real opportunity for storage companies to play key role in the emerging supply chain
- Inherent risks & uncertainties in respect of what this role will be & where
- Flexibility & adaptability key factors in identifying the strategic opportunities
- Where we stand today, & likely developments in coming years
15.40 Tea/Coffee Break & Exhibition Showcase
1620 Panel Discussion - Open Forum for All Speakers & Delegates
16.50 Joined-up Risk Management
- Joining up enterprise risk management with business continuity: getting a better result with less effort
- Avoiding complacency due to the industry’s crisis management capabilities
- Making use of work done in underwriting reports, & improving insurance provisions
- Integrating business continuity with crisis management & emergency response plans
- Planning for supply chain risk
17.20 Closing Notes from Conference Chair Followed by
17.30 Networking Reception in Exhibition Hall
Day Two – 25 March 2009
Strategies for Operational Excellence & Regulatory Updates (including REACH)
This day will cover topics such as:
- HSE considerations
- EHSQ Competency Assurance Systems
- Tank cleaning excellence
- Best practices emphasising cost-efficiency, quality of service & health, safety & environment (HSE)
- Looking beyond equipment, people & processes
- Future emission legislation & future technologies
- Terminal maintenance; reliability & availability
- Life cycle cost considerations affecting terminal design
- Optimizing terminal equipment spare parts
- Balancing cost & repair times & vendor managed inventories
- Risk based maintenance: assessing failure risks versus required terminal performance standards
- Asset register configuration: managing knowledge on maintainable units
- Can vapour treatment technologies keep up with future Emission Legislation?
- A review of REACH
- An overview of scope, application, classification & labeling principles
- Safety systems for tank farms
- Developing a program for international certification of emergency & disaster managers
- National & international standards for emergency & disaster management
- And others…
09.30 Introduction from Conference Chair
Mark Warner, Managing Director, Den Hartogh Logistics9.40 Developing the EHSQ Competency Assurance System for all Terminal & Berth Operations in the HTL Group.
- Behavioural safety & organisational behaviour
- Why has training become even more important today; legal, business & corporate responsibility
- Investigating in the future
- Challenges of today's terminalling business
- HTL training & development strategies, today & the future
10.10 Striving for Tank Cleaning Excellence
- Tank cleaning excellence
- Best practices emphasising cost-efficiency, quality of service & health, safety & environment (HSE)
- Future tank cleaning operations looking beyond equipment, people & processes
10.40 Tea/Coffee Break & Exhibition Showcase
11.20 Can Vapour Treatment Technologies keep up with Future Emission Legislation?
- Emission reduction is limited by physical-chemical laws. Therefore these laws should dictate emission legislation
- Increasing the efficiency of vapour treatment may result in negative environmental effects
- The environment may benefit from a less restricted re-use of recovered VOC-condensate
11.50 Terminal Maintenance; Reliability & Availability Considerations in the Design Phase of New Terminal Infrastructure
- Life cycle cost considerations affecting terminal design: justifying higher initial investment costs by reliability & maintainability gains
- Optimizing terminal equipment spare parts: balancing cost & repair times & vendor managed inventories
- Risk based maintenance: assessing failure risks versus required terminal performance standards
- Asset register configuration: managing knowledge on maintainable units
12.20 Lunch & Exhibition Showcase
14.20 Introduction from Conference Chair
HJP Standaar, Secretary General, FETSA (Federation of European Tank Storage Associations)14.30 Working together in the Substance Information Exchange Fora (SIEFs)
- How to start working in SIEFs
- Dos and don’ts for SIEF management and participation
- How to proceed towards a joint submission
15.00 Globally Harmonized System of Classification & Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) & the Consequences on the Storage Industry
- What is GHS? An overview of scope, application, classification & labeling principles
- Application of the building block approach
- How is it applied for the transport of dangerous goods sector
- Summary on the status of implementation worldwide
15.30 Tea/Coffee Break & Exhibition Showcase
16.10 Safety Systems for Tankfarms
- Safety concepts for plant
- Evaluation of risk to define the SIL (Safety Integrity Level)
- Integrated control & safety
16.40 ISO 31000 as a Base for Certification of the Emergency Manager - Safety & Disaster Management
- TIEMS concept for developing a program for international certification of emergency & disaster managers
- Overview of existing similar programs world-wide with pros & cons
- Existing national & international standards for emergency & disaster management & national requirements
- Certification offered in cooperation with international universities & training centres
17.10 Closing Notes from Conference Chair
Day 3 – 26 March 2009
Technology Updates & Best Practice Solutions
This day will cover topics such as:
- How to make technology work for you
- Troubleshooting services for oil storage tank farms & refineries
- VOC control using biotechnological interventions
- Sludge accumulation & related problems in oil storage tanks
- Original engineering approaches for access & process application
- HSE advantages & cost benefits to the terminal operators
- Conservation vents are no substitute for flame arresters
- Flame arresters as an effective measure in case of explosive atmospheres
- Introduction on tank inspection methods
- Storage tank VOC-emission measurement, international developments
- Emission reductions, future requirements
- Using the right roof for the job
- Reducing emissions & vapour recovery
- Shaping the future in tank gauging
- Foundations & tank-relocation
- Storage tank fire protection – associated risks & best practices
- And others…
09.30 Introduction from Conference Chair
Andrew East, Business Development Director, HMT9.40 Troubleshooting Services for Oil Storage Tank Farms & Refineries Involving No Man Entry Tank Cleaning & VOC Control Using Biotechnological Interventions
- A flexible biotechnological “no man entry” tank cleaning technology
- Adaptation of “no man entry” systems for desludging damaged tanks
- Case histories of achievements for the “no man entry” BioRecOilÔ technology
- Application of biotechnological VOC emission tank control system
- Advantages over other conventional VOC control systems
- Storage tank management using environmentally friendly technologies
10.10 No Substitute for Safety
- Conservation vents are no substitute for flame arresters
- Flame arresters as an effective measure in case of explosive atmospheres
- ISO 28300 standard recommendations
10.40 Tea/Coffee Break & Exhibition Showcase
11.10 Faulty Foundations & Tank Relocation
Speaker to be confirmed, Verwater11.40 Atmospheric Storage Tanks, Emissions Measurement & Reduction
- Introduction on tank inspection methods
- Storage tank VOC-emission measurement, international developments
- Emission reductions, future requirements
12.10 Combating Incidents by Specialised Industrial Fire Fighters
- Mission Gezamenlijke Brandweer (Unified Industrial & Harbour Fire Department)
- Industrial fire protection pool (IBP)
- Mobile tank terminal fire fighting system
12.40 Lunch & Exhibition Showcase
14.00 Metering Turn-Key Solutions
- Complete, secure & on time
- One supplier’s responsibility
- Fully engineered for customer needs
14.30 Tank Gauging & Overfill Prevention.
- Overfill safety systems
- SIL rated equipment
- Proof resting methods
- Overfill prevention & redundancy configurations
- Practical customer solutions
15.00 Effective Destruction of Irregular Flows of Waste Gasses & Vapours in Tank Park & Load/Unload Operations
- Introduction to the issue of gas/vapour flow
- Conditions limiting the efficient application of gas/vapour recovery & energy/heat recovery systems
- Tools for overcoming legislation focusing on the reduction of overall emission levels in tank parks forcing minimization of venting of waste gases & vapours
15.30 Terminal Business Optimisation
- Terminal operators' investment in plant hardware & instrumentation moving towards systems to maximise profitability of facilities.
- Existing systems tend to be old & involve manual data entry, lots of paper, phone calls & faxes & large printing requirement, all time consuming & bring associated risks of data entry errors.
- A fully integrated, collaborative solution has been developed to assist in improving profitability
- Fully integrated with berth scheduling to ensure logistical consistency with marine operations & harbour management
- Will improve business efficiency, move staff out of fire-fighting mode & improve productivity, customer satisfaction & greatly reduce the paper trail.
16.00 Closing notes from Conference Chair
*Please note that speakers/topics may be subject to change. Please check this page for updates.
If you own, operate or manage terminals or storage facilities and have a suggestion with regards the programme or if you would like to submit a paper for consideration please contact cathy@stocexpo.com.
