2026 PRELIMINARY AGENDA
This year's summit offers a carefully curated agenda that explores the industry's most critical issues, including refining, petrochemical and chemical integration and expansion, new process and catalyst technologies, process optimisation and energy efficiency, digitalisation, analytics and AI, as well as energy transition technologies and more.
With India's refining capacity targeted to increase to 450 million tonnes per year by 2030, this year's conference provides an ideal platform to demonstrate how your solutions can help India achieve its ambitious expansion goals. Book your ticket today and be part of the industry’s next chapter!
Day 1
Welcome by Paul Mason
Director-BD, PTQ / Digital Refining
Keynote Address
• S. Bharathan, Director – Refineries, HPCL
• Arvind Kumar, Director – Refineries, IOCL
Address by Guest of Honour
S. Khanna, CMD, BPCL
Inaugural Address by Chief Guest
Sanjiv Singh, Group President & Member O2C Team, Reliance
Vote of Thanks & Presentation of Mementos
Adarsh Soni, Chairman, Organising Committee
Chairman: Rajiv Agarwal, Director (Tech), EIL
10:00 – 10:20 Nuclear-Hydrocarbon Integration
Speaker: Dr. Partha P Maitra, President (S&I), RIL Mumbai
10:20 - 10:40 Hidden costs of bad data
Speaker: Jochen Geiger, Ametek Process Instruments
10:40 - 11:00 Reducing Pressure Drop and Extending Catalyst Life in Hydroprocessing Units
Speaker: Kanuparthy Naga Raja, DGM, HPCL R&D
11:00 – 11:20 Integrated Profit & Energy Optimization for Crude Distillation for CDU Operations
Speaker: K.B. Srinivas, DGM, IOCL R&D
11:20 - 11:40 C4 Synergies: Unlocking Integrated Refining & Petrochemical Performance
Speaker: Vishal Varshney, BDM, Lummus
11:40 – 11:50 Q&A Session
12:15 - 12:35 Improving Refinery Reliability and Energy Efficiency Through Advanced Desalter Density Profiling
Speaker: David Williams, Berthold Technologies
12:35 - 12:55 Digital handover of project data
Speaker: Shalini Verma, CGM, EIL
12:55 - 13:15 AI / ML Models in refinery optimization
Speaker: Dr. Jagadesh Donepudi, Director-BD, KBC
13:15 - 13:35 Advances in process optimization with energy and cost-efficient operation
Speaker: Balamurugan Mohan, Sr Technologist & DGM, RIL
13:35– 13:45 Q&A Session
14:45 - 15:05 Low Carbon Intensity Syngas: Emerging Technologies
Speaker: Ajay Misra, JNK India
15:05 - 15:25 Decarbonizing Compression: Fully electric control as a low risk high impact lever
Speaker: Lukas Krautzer, Technical Product Manager, HOERBIGER
15:25 - 15:45 Pathways to Net Zero in Petchem production
Speaker: Samya Gupta, SM-Tech, BPCL Ref
15:45 - 16:05 Energy saving and emission reduction Essential steppingstones to Net Zero
Speaker: Jay Jeong, Refining Process Specialist, Alfa Laval
16:05 – 16:15 Q&A Session
16:45 - 17:05 Tailoring Syngas Conditioning for Success: Why One Size Does Not Fit All in Gasification Projects
Speaker: Sai Avinash Revanur, Sales Lead, UOP
17:05 - 17:25 From Catalysts to Capital: Rethinking precious metal value in refining
Speaker: Kuldip M. Rawat, Sabin Metal Technologies
17:25 - 17:45 Innovative Pathway for Petchem
Speaker: Karthik Ramesh, Sr. Mgr(PP), IOCL Ref
17:45 - 18:05 Solving the Sulphur dilemma in a Green Refinery
Speaker: Ayan Dasgupta, FLUOR
18:05 – 18:25 Eliminating measurement & uncertainty in Refineries
Speaker: Gaurav Chandakkar, VEGA
18:25 – 18:40 Q&A Session
Day 2
09:00 – 09:20 Innovative scheme to maximize refinery H.P. flare gas recovery using Coker Blowdown system of DCU
Speaker: Debdulal Dasgupta, Sr. GM (Tech), RIL
09:20 – 09:40 Decarbonizing Petrochemical Refining through Electrification
Speaker: Claudio Stefano Tarenzi, Director-Process Heating, Zoppas
09:40 – 10:00 ROGC Feed Quality Maximization: Debottlenecking Hydrogen gas system
Speaker: Shriman Dave, Sr. Technologist, RIL
10:00 – 10:20 Slopless and Flareless FCCU Startup: A Structured Approach
Speaker: Mohd Anas Arif, Manager-Tech, BPCL Mumbai Ref
10:20 – 10:40 Higher Margin with Integrated Refinery / Petrochemical Scheme
Speaker: Minaz Makhania, CTO, KBR
10:40 – 10:50 Q&A Session
1120 – 1140 Radiometric Density Profiling: Turning Process Insight into Energy and Chemical Efficiency
Speaker: Ralf Matthaes, Endress+Hauser
1140 – 1200 Digital Transformation in Project Governance
Speaker: Abhineet Srivastav, Sr Project Manager, IOCL Ref
1200 – 1220 Maximizing Refining Throughput with Optimized Reactor Internals
Speaker: Neeraj Bulchandani, Director of Sales – Asia, Energy & Processing Technologies, Johnson Screens
1220 - 1240 Enhancing sulphur recovery unit reliability with deep kinetic models
Speaker: Dr. Anand Govindarajan, Director, Three Ten Initiative Technologies LLP
12:40 - 12:50 Q&A Session
14:00 - 14:20 NASH Vacuum Technology Role in India’s Net Zero Ambitions
Speaker: Dr. Dhruv Joshi, Sales Manager, NASH Vacuum India
14:20 - 14:40 Bio-Bitumen: Enhancing Sustainability using Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Residue
Speaker: Dr. Irudayaraj Devotta, GM (Bitumen & Separation Processes), IOCL R&D
14:40 - 15:00 Exploring Waste-to-Fuel Pathways for Enhancing Energy Security and Sustainability
Speaker: Dr. Chanchal Samanta, DGM, BPCL R&D
15:00 - 15:20 Sustainable Polyurethane Technologies
Speaker: Rajesh Debnath, S&P Global
15:20 – 15:30 Q&A Session
16:00 – 16:20 Rebalancing resid FCC product selectivity
Speaker: Junghwa Yoon, FCC Technical Service Consultant, Ketjen
16:20 – 16:40 Accelerating Indigenous Technology Commercialization: Challenges and pathways
Speaker: Deepak Kumar Jha, Chief Manager, HPCL-R&D
16:40 – 17:00 Energy-Driven Capacity Expansion in Brownfield Pre-heat Networks
Speaker: Sadhana Singh, CGM, EIL
17:00 - 17:20 Hybrid Extractive Distillation: Membrane Technology for Ultra High Purity BTX Production
Speaker: Dr. Gaurav Agrawal, Process Technology Expert, Sulzer Chemtech, Houston, USA
17:20 – 17:30 Q&A Session
Adarsh Soni & Paul Mason