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
Arvind Kumar, Director – Refineries, IOCL
Address by Guest of Honour
S. Khanna, CMD, BPCL
Address by Guest of Honour
Sanjiv Singh, Group President & Member O2C Team, RIL
Vote of Thanks & Presentation of Mementos
Adarsh Soni, Chairman, Organising Committee
Chairman: Rajiv Agarwal, Director (Tech), EIL
Chairman: Rajiv Agarwal, Director (Tech), EIL
10:00 – 10:20 Nuclear-Hydrocarbon Integration
Speaker: Dr. Partha P Maitra, President (S&I ), RIL
10:20 - 10:40 Hidden costs of bad data
Speaker : Jochen Geiger, Process Analyzer Expert, Ametek Process Instruments, USA
10:40 - 11:00 HP-DUCER®: Reducing Pressure Drop and Extending Catalyst Life in Hydroprocessing Units
Speaker: Kanuparthy Naga Raja, DGM, HPCL R&D
11:00 – 11:20 Integrated Profit and Energy Optimization for Crude Distillation Unit Operations
Speaker : Dr. 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
Chairman: Dr. Jagadesh Donepudi, Director-BD, South Asia, KBC
12:15 - 12:35 Engineering "Reliable Radiometric Measurements - How Early Collaboration Improves Performance and Reduces Lifecycle Costs"
Speaker: David Williams, Global Business Development Manager, Berthold Technologies, USA
12:35 - 12:55 Digital handover from Project data to Lifetime Asset and Digital Twin Readiness
Speaker: Shalini Verma, CGM, EIL
12:55 - 13:15 Accelerating Refinery Optimization with AI Models
Speaker: Dr. Jagadesh Donepudi, Director-BD, South Asia, KBC
13:15 - 13:35 Super fractionators: Conventional vs Heat Pump System
Speaker: Dipak D. Shukla, Sr. General Manager, Reliance
13:35 - 13:55 CHANGE: Rethinking How We Measure, Protect and Realize Precious Metal Value
Speaker: Kuldip M. Rawat, Executive Director MEA & SA, Sabin Metal Technologies
1355 - 1405 Q&A Session
Chairman: Yatendra Lodha, President (S&OR), RIL
15:00 - 15:20 Low Carbon Intensity Syngas: Emerging Technologies
Speaker: Ajay Misra, Sr. Consultant-BD, JNK India
15:20 - 15:40 Decarbonizing Compression: Fully Electric Stepless Capacity Control for Reciprocating Compressors
Speaker: Lukas Krautzer, Technical Product Manager, HOERBIGER
15:40 - 16:00 Ethylene Production Pathways to Net Zero
Speaker: Samya Gupta, SM-Tech, BPCL Ref
16:00 - 16:20 TK-930 D-Wax Catalyst – Unlocking the potential of SAF production through bio feeds co-processing
Speaker: Sanjeev Bansal, Principal Technical Service Engineer, Topsoe India
16:20 – 16:30 Q&A Session
Chairman : Jay Jeong, Refinery Process Specialist, Alfa Laval
17:00 - 17:20 Tailoring Syngas Conditioning for various downstream applications
Speaker: Sai Avinash Revanur, Sales Lead, UOP
17:20 - 17:40 Alfa Laval solutions for problems in conventional CDU OVHD condensers
Speaker : Jay Jeong, Refinery Process Specialist, Alfa Laval
17:40 - 18:00 Solving the Sulphur dilemma in a Green Refinery
Speaker: Ayan Dasgupta, Sr Process Engineer & Global SME, FLUOR
18:00 – 18:20 Eliminating measurement & uncertainty in Refineries
Speaker: Ms. Padmashri Padmanabhan, Sr. Industry Manager (Oil and Gas, Petrochemical), VEGA India
18:20 – 18:40 Q&A Session
Day 2
Chairman: Subhajit Sarkar, ED (Ops), IOCL RH
09:00 – 09:20 Innovative scheme to recover refinery flare gas using Blowdown system of Delayed Coker Unit
Speaker: Debdulal Dasgupta, Sr. GM (Tech), RIL, Jamnagar
09:20 – 09:40 Decarbonizing Petrochemical Refining through Electrification
Speaker: Claudio Stefano Tarenzi, Director-Process Heating, Zoppas Industries, Italy
09:40 – 10:00 ROGC Feed Maximization - Hydrogen Header Debottlenecking
Speaker: Shriman Dave, Sr. Technologist, RIL, Jamnagar
10:00 – 10:20 Transforming Assay Management for Integrated Refinery Optimization
Speaker: Shekar , Senior Manager, BPCL SCO, Mumbai
10:20 – 10:40 Higher Margin with Integrated Refinery / Petrochemical Scheme
Speaker: Minaz Makhania, Chief Technical Advisor-Refining, KBR
10:40 – 10:50 Q&A Session
Chairman: S. Sriram, CGM R&D, HPCL
1120 – 1140 Beyond Separation: Desalter Optimization as a Driver for Sustainable Refining
Speaker: Ralf Matthaes, Department Manager-BD, Endress+Hauser
1140 – 1200 Digital Transformation in Project Governance: AI/ML-Enabled Drone Monitoring
Speaker: Abhineet Srivastav, Sr Project Manager, IOCL, Gujarat 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
Chairman: Arun Bhardwaj, VP (Operational Excellence), HMEL
14:00 - 14:20 Driving Industrial Decarbonization: NASH Vacuum Technology Role in India’s Net Zero Ambitions
Speaker: Dr. Dhruv Joshi, Sales Manager, NASH India
14:20 - 14:40 Bio-Bitumen: Enhancing Sustainability using Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Residue
Speaker: Dr. Irudayaraj Devotta, General Manager (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 Technology
Speaker: Rajesh Debnath, Associate Director, S&P Global
15:20 – 15:30 Q&A Session
Chairman: Jochen Geiger, Process Analyzer Expert, Ametek Process Instruments, USA
16:00 – 16:20 Rebalancing resid FCC product selectivity – Adapting to a New Refining Landscape
Speaker: Dohyun Nam, Professional Manager, SK Energy, South Korea
16:20 – 16:40 Accelerating Indigenous Technology Commercialization: Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Scalable Pathways
Speaker: Deepak Kumar Jha, Chief Manager, HPCL-R&D
16:40 – 17:00 Practical Energy-Driven Capacity Expansion in Brownfield Pre-heat Networks
Speaker: Sadhana Singh, CGM, EIL
17:00 - 17:20 Hybrid Aromatics Extraction-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