Hydrocarbon Processing

🛢️ Refiners are being asked to do more with less forgiving crude — squeeze out profitability while processing increasingly challenging slates. So how do you keep FCC economics strong when your feedstock keeps getting harder to work with?

In this webinar, experts from W. R. Grace dig into how a collaborative, run-over-run approach to resid desulfurization (RDS) pretreat catalyst system optimization can drive sustained performance gains 📈 and stronger downstream FCC economics.

Through real-world case studies 📊, you'll learn how combining catalyst innovation, advanced modeling, and hands-on operational expertise has helped refiners:

🔧 Process higher metals opportunity crudes without sacrificing performance
⚗️ Improve FCC feed quality run over run
💪 Build greater operational flexibility into their units
💰 Deliver long-term profitability gains

If you're looking for practical strategies to get more out of your RDS pretreat system, this is a session worth your time.

📅 Register now: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/5459010/80E8FB30CEFF957CEA4A415B2D8F2ABA?partnerref=SocialMedia

Teadit® is joining the PVIC 2026 exhibitor lineup, bringing decades of expertise in the development and manufacturing of innovative fluid sealing products.

The wide variety of sealing solutions developed by Teadit® have been important tools for many industries including the Refining, Chemical Process, and Power Generation industries.

Connect with the Teadit® team at PVIC 2026!

📍 November 2–3, 2026 | Pasadena, TX

Don't miss out: pviconference.com

One week from today, IRPC 2026 opens at the Hyatt Regency Houston West in Houston.

Thursday, October 8 begins with registration and breakfast at 8:00 a.m., followed by Day 1 keynotes from Saudi Aramco and CITGO. The morning continues with parallel tracks on Refining Optimization and Digital Transformation. The America First Refining luncheon keynote follows. Afternoon sessions cover Refining Optimization and Petrochemical Optimization. Day 1 closes with the SAF panel discussion and a drinks reception.

Friday, October 9 opens with Day 2 keynotes from LyondellBasell and Valero. Morning parallel tracks cover Biofuels and Renewable Fuels and Catalysts, followed by the networking lunch. The Sustainability session closes the conference.
Register now at https://hpirpc.com/registration/

October 8-9, 2026 | Hyatt Regency Houston West | Houston, TX

IRPC 2026 opens next Thursday, October 8. Standard registration is still open.

The sessions confirmed for this program cover FCC decarbonization from KBR, CCR catalyst optimization from Saudi Aramco, hydrocracker internals from CITGO, advanced AI transformation from Lummus Technology, nuclear power for petrochemical steam compressors from NuScale Power, sustainable aviation fuel pathways from Honeywell UOP and SunGas Renewables, and a greenfield US refinery build keynote from America First Refining. The technical takeaways from this program will circulate in the industry for months.

If your company has not sent someone, this is the last window to be in the room where those presentations are made.
Register now at https://hpirpc.com/registration/

October 8-9, 2026 | Hyatt Regency Houston West | Houston, TX

What can we learn from the challenges, decisions, and successes that happen in the real world?

At PVIC 2026, Margaret Misera will join our Panel Discussion: “Lessons Learned From the Field.”

She is a Lead Rotating Equipment Engineer at Venture Global LNG with more than 12 years of experience in the specification, selection, and application of rotating equipment across the oil and gas value chain and broader energy industries. Throughout her career, she has supported complex capital projects while working equipment solutions that improve reliability, efficiency, and operational performance.

Don’t miss the conversation Nov. 2–3 in Pasadena, TX.

Register at pviconference.com

These companies are part of what makes IRPC 2026 possible. We are proud to recognize our sponsors and exhibitors.

Sphera joins as Gold Sponsor, bringing its operational risk and environmental performance expertise to one of the most technically rigorous downstream events of the year.

Lummus Technology, Chevron Lummus Global, and Lummus Digital are Silver Sponsors, representing the full scope of what the Lummus family brings to refining and petrochemical operations: technology licensing, process engineering, and digital solutions built for the downstream industry.

Deloitte is presenting the IRPC VIP Dinner, including the NextGen Greenhouse Experience, for guests on the evening of October 8.

On the exhibit floor we add FET Forum Energy Technologies, Southwest Research Institute, and Velan who are bringing direct access to technology expertise, equipment solutions, and field-proven engineering to every attendee.

Join them next week in Houston. Register today: https://hpirpc.com/registration/

October 8-9, 2026 | Hyatt Regency Houston West | Houston, TX

That is a wrap for the first EnergyAI Users Group Annual Conference 2026. Thank you to the companies that made it possible.

Cloudera, Title Sponsor and host of tonight's reception. Island, Platinum Sponsor. Accenture and Dell Technologies, Gold Sponsors. DataRobot, Neurohive and Rescale, Bronze Sponsors. Rescale also hosted the VIP dinner. Cohere, Lanyard and Badge Sponsor, Microsoft Break Sponsor, Salt AI Valet, and Minio and NobleAI as exhibitors.

They did not just put their names on the program. They sent the people who build this technology to explain it to the people running it, and stayed at the tables all day to keep the conversation going.

Thank you, from all of us at Gulf Energy Information. See you next year.

https://houstonenergy.ai/conference

That is a wrap on the first EnergyAI Users Group Annual Conference 2026.

A full day of people who have built and deployed AI in energy, describing what it took. Operators, service companies and platform providers on the same stage, comparing approaches in front of an audience doing the same work.

Thank you to every speaker who came prepared to be specific. To our sponsors, for backing a program built to that standard. And to everyone who stayed through the final panel and carried the conversation into the reception.

If today's agenda is the conversation your team should be part of, next year's program builds from here.

https://houstonenergy.ai/conference

Operators, service companies and platform providers on one stage, working through what it actually takes to run AI in energy operations.

Now the part everyone stays for. The reception is open until 7pm, hosted by Cloudera. Cocktails, conversation and a room full of people who spent today comparing notes.

Thank you, Cloudera, and thank you to everyone who was here for it.

Powering What's Next: The Technology Stack Behind Energy AI, closing the day.
John Filla of HPI Energy Services moderating Nate Beyor of Salt AI, Morgan Bowling of Cloudera, David Holmes of Dell Technologies, Derek McCoy of Rescale, Jesse Russell of Booz Allen Hamilton and Venky Veeraraghavan of DataRobot.

Three questions to finish on, each one a planning input rather than a prediction.
Which capability that does not work reliably today becomes table stakes within 24 months, which shapes what a team builds now versus waits for. Which layer of the stack, data, compute or models, changes most next, which shapes where it is safe to commit and where flexibility is worth paying for. And what has to be true before autonomous operations become the norm.

Six practitioners sitting at different layers of that stack, with genuinely different vantage points on all three. Where they diverge is the most useful hour of the day.

https://houstonenergy.ai/conference