StocExpo ME 2006 - Programme
The StocExpo Middle East conference programme will address major areas of concern to terminal operators and suppliers in the region who are currently assessing the likely impact of incoming regulations, and who want to operate more efficiently using global best practices. A high-level audience from across the Middle East will, over two days, gain insight into the latest developments in the regulatory process, best practice and technological developments affecting the storage of petroleum products and petrochemicals.
Papers from leading representatives of some of the region's key operators and suppliers will facilitate discussion and knowledge sharing to enable safer, more efficient and more cost-effective management of tank farms. A concurrent exhibition will showcase the latest advances in equipment and service provision for the sector.
Topics to be covered include:
- Middle East energy market developments and growth in storage opportunities
- Impact of emission regulations in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and UAE
- Vapour recovery: commercial and economic benefits - case studies
- Designing a terminal: environmental and safety aspects
- New tank design and construction
- Tank overfilling, a risk assessment
- Business risk in the Middle East
- Fire safety considerations for bulk liquid storage terminals
- Inspection of tanks and associated pipework - a full review of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) methods
- Tank maintenance management
- Tank secondary containment
- Role of the independent terminal operator in the Middle East
- Terminal automation - a Saudi case study
- Tank seals on external floating roofs
- Tank sludge accumulation - preventative and remedial approaches
- Tank gauging
- Renewable fuels
- Lightning conductors for tanks
- Multiple product handling
- Full lift vent technology
Who should attend:
Terminal managers
Commercial and business development managers
Inspection and maintenance personnel
EHS managers
Security managers
Procurement managers
Tank engineers and technicians
Suppliers and product manufacturers
Conference schedule
(Please note: Papers are not necessarily confirmed and schedule is subject to change)
Day One, Monday September 11th
9.30 Welcome from Peter Patterson, Managing Director, StocExpo
Opening remarks from Session Chairman: Andy East, Director - International Business Development Group, HMT
Keynote presentation: Middle East oil product storage: what does the future hold?
- Market snapshot
- Analyse refining capacity development: current and future refining capacity
- Assess regional oil product trade outlook
- Emerging trends: discover where the potential for growth in the region’s storage sector lies
REGULATORY SESSION: EHS/environmental controls/emissions
10.00 The EHS Management System of Horizon Terminals Ltd
- The policy of oil and chemical terminals
- The elements of the EHSQMS
- Recent developments and integration of security and quality with EHS in effective management systems
- Insight into the HTL Corporate Auditing Tool and its development
- HTL’s management commitment to EHSQ & S
10.30 Hydrocarbon emissions from storage and distribution operations, with emphasis on vapour recovery and case study
- Discover the various HC emission sources in storage & distribution operations
- Analyse the environmental effects of HC emissions
- Examine Western countries' HC emission regulatory standards with respect to bulk storage & distribution
- Overview of available vapour recovery processes
- Case study: Emarat's plans to address HC emissions
11.00 Coffee and networking break
11.30 Environmental Protection Initiatives in Eastern and Central Regions Distribution Department of Saudi Aramco
- Saudi Arabia's environmental protection regulations: an overview
- Saudi Aramco's environmental protection policy and implementation of initiatives at storage facilties
- Groundwater protection initiatives including: tank bottom plate inspection, leak detection systems
- Air quality protection initiatives including: secondary seals installation, vapour recovery system study, aluminium dome roofs, automatic tank drainage study
- Summary
12.00 Vapour recovery: challenges and applications in extreme climates
- Problems associated with the Middle East’s climate
- The vapour pressure of the absorbent (cooling, increased back pressure)
- The use of modern additives in gasoline (alcohol, MTBE)
- Energy consumption versus emission level
- Recovery of crude oil vapours (sulphur) on activated carbon
12.30 Panel discussion - emissions and vapour recovery
Participants invited from Emarat, Saudi Aramco, CarboVac, Protego, Refrigeration Engineering
1.00 Lunch
3.00 SESSION ON REGIONAL TRENDS: new tank terminal design and construction and new opportunities
Opening remarks from Session Chairman Tony Quinn, Managing Director, Global Storage Agency Ltd (TankBank)
Latest developments in tank design and construction, including jacking up method
Tank design:
- The Scope of tank design provided by API 650
- Case Studies of typical design used in project execution in the UAE by Cylingas.
- Developments expected in API 650 design code.
Tank erection:
- Tank erection by conventional method and technological advancement through jacking up method.
- Benefits of the jacking up technique and method statement.
- CYLINGAS experience in tank erection by jacking.
3.30 The role of the independent terminal operator in the Middle East
- Analyse the basic concepts for independent terminals i.e. location hubs, production clusters, trading centres
- Examine the improvements possible in utilisation and cost performance by sharing of common infrastructure
- Discover the advantages of having a flexible level of infrastructure shutdowns, outages, contangos etc
- What is the ability of the terminalling industry to meet requirements for security, confidentiality and service?
4.00 Renewable fuels 2006
- Why are renewable fuels used?
- What are renewable fuels?
- What are their properties?
- What are the global trends?
- Renewable fuels at the loading terminal
4.30 Close Day One
Day Two, Tuesday September 12th
9.30 OPERATIONAL SESSION I: Risk, inspection and tank integrity
Opening remarks from Session Chairman: Cees Cornelis Bal, Managing Director, Global Oil Recovery
Tank overfilling, a risk assessment
- Incident case studies
- Causes of tank overfill: equipment and human factors
- What is an acceptable level of risk?
- Managing the risk
- Good practice: API 2350
10.00 Fire Safety considerations for storage terminals
- Defining fire safety
- Basics of a fire
- Probability of a tank fire and typical fire scenarios in tank terminals
- Measures to reduce the probability of tank fires
- Preveventing fires by design
- Operational measures to prevent fires
- Determining and optimising fire protection measures
10.30 Business risks in the Middle East – measures for mitigating the political-, security- and terrorism-related risks associated with operating in the region
- The Middle East in 2006 - Ingredients of risk and regional implications
- Iraq
- KSA
- Israel-Palestine
- Iran
- Regional Overview
- Case study in Lebanon
- Case study in KSA
- Future challenges in the MIddle East
11.00 Coffee and networking break
11.30 Alternative economic solution for impermeable AST dyke secondary containment liners
- Increasing stringency of environmental legislation: means impermeable secondary containment is required for most ASTs
- Analysis of causes and probability of spontaneous catastrophic tank collapse
- Discussion of the risk-reward of sealing entire tank field area with impermeable lining for largest tank’s full capacity
- New solution: environmental and economic benefits, experiences during installation and operation.
- Solving fire issues with the use of the solution to conventional dyke liners
12.00 Non-destructive testing (NDT) inspection of tanks and their associated pipework - a current look
- Currently a variety of differing NDT techniques are being applied to the inspection of storage tanks and their associated pipework.
- NDT techniques can be intrusive or non intrusive
- NDT techniques may be carried out remotely without the requirement for scaffolding
- A review of NDT techniques, to include Acoustic Emission, Pulsed Eddy Current, EMAT, Long Range UT, TOFD, Thermal Imaging, UT Robotic Scanners, Tank Floor Tester
- For this current NDT technology, how confident are we in the equipment and the competency of the Inspector delivering it?
12.30 ‘Every Drop Counts’: Quantifiable benefits from improved tank gauging
- Assess how the value of ‘lost’ product has risen in line with crude prices
- What are the uses of tank gauging- level, temperature, pressure
- Quantify the value that can be associated with improved tank gauging measuring accuracy- tank case studies
- Benefits of improved tank gauging to other company functions
- New technology
1.00 Lunch
2.15 OPERATIONAL SESSION II
Opening remarks from Joint Session Chairmen, G.S. Raghavan - Manager Projects, and Prem C. Upadhyay- General Manager - Operations, Cylingas Company
Truck scheduling & transfer automation — a Saudi case study
This paper will present a state-of-the-art truck scheduling and transfer automation module for the industry, which will provide:
- Control of product movement and truck loading/offloading operation to ensure product availability
- An increase in truck loading/offloading operation efficiency
- Avoidance of traffic jams
- A reduction in truck waiting time
2.40 Mega storage tank roof replacement
- Case study of catastrophic double deck floating roof collapse
- Causes of collapse
- Removal of damaged roof
- Installation of replacement
- Measures taken to avoid recurrence
3.05 Tank seals on external floating roofs: selection and application
- Recent developments in tank seals
- Tank seal design and engineering mechanisms
- Material selection for tank seals
- Fire safety of tank seals
3.30 Coffee and networking break
4.00 Deal with sludge forming holistically and optimise crude oil production
- The phenomenon of sludge forming in crude oil processes and accumulation of sludge in storage tanks
- Assess whether preventive methods should be used or whether a remedial approach should be adopted
- Review the technical consequences of both methods
- Case study: treating sludge in a 40,000 cubic metre capacity storage tank with an accumulated amount of 28,000 cubic metres of sludge
4.25 Lightning phenomena & relationship to storage tanks
- Characteristics & behavioural effects of lightning
- Fast and slow lightning components
- Lightning interaction with tanks
- Current lightning protection methods in use
- Optimum protection method.
- New Submerged Grounding System protection method for external floating roof tanks
4.50 Multiple product handling on jetties
- Storage/ (un)loading multiple products
- flexibility ( space on jetty, loading time, cross loading)
- safety
- extensions (product and plant)
- Solutions (MPLAF hosetower)
5.15 Close Day Two
