Registration Registration Area
Technical Sessions (Parallel Sessions)
Human Capital and Talent Management Room A
Raj Jhajharia
Technical and Marketing Manager, Gulf Downstream Association (GDA)
Leverage Tech Trends; Using Digital Storytelling as an Instructional Tool to Develop Young Leaders in Saudi Arabia
Kholood Alabdullatif
Instructional Designer, Aramco
Tracking the Financial Impacts of Structured On-the-Job Training (S-OJT)
Dr. Ronald Jacobs
Principal, SITUATE LLC
Novel Approach to Engineers’ Training & Development
Abdulhamid Al-Omair
Director, Leadership & Engineering Accelerated Development Center (LEAD), EnergyTech
Resilience Room B
Aqeel Almuharraqi
Superintendent FCCU & Utilities, Technical Services, BAPCO
What Makes for a Safe Fired Heater?
Edwar Jimenez
Process Specialist Fired Heaters, BAPCO
De-bottleneck Refinery Cooling Water Summer Constraint to Capture the Loss of Distillate Yield and Sustain High RON Gasoline Production with Rented Chillers
Abdulaziz Al-Alwani
Technical Console Lead, Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Company Ltd. (SAMREF)
Enhanced Grading System to Mitigate Pressure Drop Build Up in Hydrocracking Reactors
Ibrahim Althaali
Process Engineer , Aramco
Digitalisation in Downstream Sector Room C
Bassam Jayed Alshammari
TL Corporate Applications, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)
New Invention for smart digital control of the Sulfur Reduction Additive in Fluid Catalytic Cracking Process- Refining Complex
Saeed S. AlAlloush
Engineering Consultant, Aramco
Dr. Othman Taha
Engineering Consultant, Aramco
Predictive Maintenance (PdM) in Gulf Downstream companies Case Study
Ali Hussain Ali Albaqshi
System Analyst, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)
Enhanced Unit Monitoring Enabled by Digital Twin
Gabriel Winter
Engineering Specialist, Aramco
Jitendra Chellani
Senior Consultant, KBC (A Yokogawa Company)
Expert Workshop Room D
Decarbonising Refining & Petrochemical Assets (by GDA Industry Trends Committee)
The workshop will discuss the key pathways for decarbonizing refinery and petrochemical assets to accelerate the transition to net zero emissions. The discussion will primarily focus on; i) increasing operational efficiency, ii) making lower carbon fuels (such as Biofuels, Hydrogen), and iii) Capturing and storing of emissions. Examples would be highlighted from the Pernis refinery in The Netherlands.
Dr. Nasiru M. Tukur
Engineering Consultant, P&CSD, Aramco
Gurminder Singh
Director, Technology Licensing - MENA, Shell Catalysts & Technologies
Expert Workshop Room E
Using Technology Toward Enhancing HSE Performance And Culture. (by GDA HSE Committee)
Technology has a big impact on enhancing the efficiency of business processes. It effectively contributes to achieving business excellence , reduce errors and increase productivity in terms of HSE aspect required by all stake holders in any company. The workshop will focus on digital transformation best practices related to HSE and how they can successfully contribute to developing and applying innovative concepts and methods to overcome challenges using Microsoft Tools such as Power BI. For example, digitalizing daily work to increase efficiency and to reduce manhours,and building digital communication bridges between workers and the HSE group.
Nada Kamel Alsaleh
Senior Engineer, Process Safety Management, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)
Hebah Bader Asad Hussain
Senior Engineer, HSE Technical Support, Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)
Fawaz Alomair
Engineer - HSE Technical Support, Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)
Panel Discussion: Digital Transformation in Downstream Grand Ballroom
Digital transformation is inevitable for the downstream industry to survive and thrive. It helps to increase plant efficiencies, increase productivity and reduce operating cost by leveraging a plethora of IR4.0 technologies such as AI, Augmented Intelligence, AIoT, ML, VR/MR, Big Data Analytics, and Cloud computing. These technologies could become the corner stone in achieving Autonomous Plants (self-learning, self-optimizing and self-sustaining). Panelists will share their experience and address the following key-questions facing the downstream industry in their digital transformation journey: - How the new-age technologies be applied in the downstream industries? - What are the business verticals within the downstream industries that can benefit the most? - What are the key challenges, risks and obstacles? How to manage them? - What will be the role of human workforce in such autonomous plants? - What are the best practices for achieving a successful digital transformation?
Nadim Haddad
Partner, Oliver Wyman Group
Norm Gilsdorf
CEO, Plant.Digital
Dr. Pratap Nair
President & CEO, Ingenero Inc
Nayef Al Otaibi
VP - Digital Transformation, Aramco
Steven Qi
Senior Vice President, Customer Success, AspenTech
Coffee Break
Technical Sessions (Parallel Sessions)
Human Capital and Talent Management Room A
Dr. Basim Abussaud
Faculty, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
Promoting Innovation Culture in KNPC
Bassam Jayed Alshammari
TL Corporate Applications, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)
Altaf Faisal Fadhel Al-Snafi
Senior Construction Engineer, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)
Safety is good but psychological safety is better
Abdelbasit Ayoub
Leadership Trainer and Coach, Aramco
The Human Energy Equation - Bridging Industry and Academia
Nooruddin Ahmed
Managing Partner, CERTERO Business Corporation
Resilience Room B
Aqeel Almuharraqi
Superintendent FCCU & Utilities, Technical Services, BAPCO
Innovative Approach for Onstream Removal of Ammonium Chloride Fouling Prevents Crude Unit Shutdown
Rakesh Budithi
Senior Process Engineer, BAPCO
Lulwa Alzayani
Associate Senior Process Engineer, Technical Services Department, BAPCO
Low carbon energy hub and future of residue processing
Goutam Biswas
Technology Director, Chevron Lummus Global (CLG)
Raffaele Fronteddu
Licensing Commercial Manager, ENI
Jazan Refinery Sulfuric Acid Reliability Enhancement
Bassel Filfilan
Operations Engineer, Aramco
Digitalisation in Downstream Sector Room C
Nihar Gulwadi
Regional Head - MENA, Ingenero Inc
Asset digitalisation for wiser plant operation
Frederic Le Fur
WinIt Director, Technip Energies
Multi-Unit Harvesting of Real Time Optimiser Technology in Yanbu Refinery
Raad Bassam Mulla
Engineer, Aramco
SASREF Digitalising of Asset-Care Routine (SORA)
Saeed Al-Ghamdi
Maintenance Strategies Manager, Saudi Aramco Jubail Refinery Company (SASREF)
Expert Workshop Room D
Everyone Communicate, Few Connect; Keys to Effective Leadership Communication in the Digital Era (by GDA Leadership & People Development Technical Committee)
For leaders and aspiring leaders, communication and interaction are the two most important aspects of their role. A leader’s guidance depends on clarity, emotional adequacy, and the ability to interact with all people. Therefore, this interactive workshop will focus on latest communication tools that both professionals and leaders can adopt in their workplace and when managing virtual teams. The rationale behind this session is to show that being efficient, comprehensible, impactful, and entertaining will really change peoples’ desire to interact with you, resulting in a reduction of re-work, frustration, and anxiety. The workshop is designed for all professionals who deal with humans. The main objective is to learn how to utilize contemporary communication tools to help in facilitating conversations in multiple professional settings. The workshop will include hands-on group activities to demonstrate new communication concepts such as Non-Violent Communication; a contemporary approach that encourages communicating with empathy and compassion towards others.
Rayyan S. Tayeb
HR Business Partner Global Manufacturing, Aramco
Kholood Alabdullatif
Instructional Designer, Aramco
Leadership Session Room E
The State of Leadership (by SPSP)
1. Keynote: A Global Review (In his keynote, the speaker will share the result of an extensive leadership forecast study. The study is a research work of a global scale and represents the responses of many leaders and professionals. It spans multiple countries and includes multiple major industry sectors. It summarizes best talent practices and highlights key trends for future leaders. 2. Panel Discussion: Leadership trends - What leaders want you to know 3. Agreement Signing Ceremony
Khalid Al Abdulwahed
Center Director, Saudi Petroleum Services Polytechnic (SPSP)
Bassam Al Bokhari
CEO, EnergyTech
Mohammed Al-Zuabi
President & CEO, MARAFIQ
Hafedh Al-Qassab
Acting Deputy Chief Executive & BMP Project Director, BAPCO
Lunch Exhibition Hall
Panel Discussion: Human Capital & Diversity Grand Ballroom
The downstream industry is faced with unprecedented demands on its human capital due to the high percentage of the aging workforce, low intake of the fresh workforce, technology disruptions, cultural & skill diversity, multiple roles, multi-tasking, aggressive deadlines, and handling uncertainties. It is vital to maintain a happy state of mind to ensure maximum productivity with minimal health impacts. This panel will address the following key questions facing the downstream industry now and going forward: - What can we do to achieve effective knowledge transfer from retiring experts to the young workforce at a fast pace (2-3 years)? - How can we attract young engineers to join the downstream industry? - How can we develop programs to ensure skill diversity together with re-skilling and upskilling the workforce? - What needs to be done to build high-performance resilience at work - What power skills are needed to embrace future work environments where humans will have to co-exist with Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning? - How can the multi-cultural workforce be integrated with local society/culture in order to work as a homogeneous team delivering high performance? - What are the long-term human resource consequences of Covid-19, and what needs to be done now to avoid issues in the medium and long term, as its impact may permanently reshape the current young minds who would later enter the workforce?
Dana Bukhammas
HR Manager, BAPCO
Reem Al Ghanim
Downstream Affiliates HR Manager, Aramco
Oleg Konovalov
Thought leader, author and TEDx speaker, olegkonovalov.com
Jamillah Al-Mutairi
Team Leader, Process Engineer, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)
Ibrahim Al-Mugahwi
Director, Industrial Jobs Certification Department, EnergyTech
Coffee Break
GDA Conference Outcome and Closing Remarks Grand Ballroom
Suleman A. Al-Bargan
Chairman, Gulf Downstream Association (GDA)
Exhibition Closing