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The 3rd Opportunity Crudes Conference

This two-day event brings together upstream, midstream, and downstream people working with the heavy sour crudes, oilsands/bitumen, extra heavy oils, and high TAN crudes. We have assembled a diverse team of 26 high-caliber speakers to present the latest technology innovations, operating experiences, and business strategies. Here are a few reasons why you should join us:

Solutions-based presentations
The presentations are selected to suit the conference theme, "Drivers behind the Success of Processing Opportunity Crudes," to focus on how to maintain refining profits at a time of volatile oil prices and uncertainty in crude supply. There are seven topics:�

• Global crude market outlook, future of Canadian oilsands industry
• Western Canadian and Brazilian crude oil qualities, economics-based feedstock evaluations, crude selection and compatibility , effects of diluent quality in pipeline transportation
• Strategies of refinery opportunity crudes management, corrosion impacts on crude distillation units
• Latest developments in resid and heavy oil FCC and hydroprocessing to boost diesel production
• Novel technologies to produce transportation fuels, petrochemicals, and hydrogen
• Oil company's experience in opportunity crude business and projects
• Shale oil outlook, heavy crudes and shale/tight oils blending problems.

A complete program is available here.