23 - 25 July, 2019
Four Points by Sheraton Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Four Points by Sheraton Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Conference Day Two: Wednesday, 24 July 2019
8:00 am - 8:45 am Registration, coffee and networking
8:45 am - 8:50 am Welcome remarks
Suraj Rao
Conference DirectorIQPC
8:50 am - 9:00 am Opening remarks from Chairman
Digital Corrosion Management
The oil and gas industry worldwide spends close to $1.3 billion per year on
corrosion related downtime and equipment failures.
9:00 am - 9:30 am Improving asset life cycle with continuous corrosion monitoring and risk management
Digitalising your corrosion management program through real time data monitoring and corrosion management will prevent asset failures
Is enhancing your asset life cycle a priority?
- Avoiding shutdowns through smart sensors for inspections thus reducing cost and enhancing safety
- Enhancing asset life cycle through collection and analysis of real time data
- Proactive pipeline corrosion management through predictive corrosion management
9:30 am - 10:00 am Preventing pipeline failures by developing a corrosion management framework
Oil and pipeline leaks can be catastrophic. Some of them have caused major casualties and have had severe consequences on the environment
Pipeline failures can be catastrophic. Do you have a corrosion management framework that can prevent and protect?
- Preventing oil leaks through a digital corrosion management framework
- Combining a sound corrosion strategy with a mature management system to optimise corrosion control
- Leveraging real time and historic data to tackle corrosion and related issues
The intelligent refinery – Is your refinery embracing the digital?
Close to 80% of refineries around the world who have adopted digitalisation reported
a gain of $50 million annually through artificial intelligence and machine learning
10:00 am - 10:30 am Leveraging artificial intelligence to drive operational and maintenance excellence
A digital refinery is said to be 70% safer than the other refineries, digitalisation has helped personnel stay safe and secure throughout
How is artificial intelligence impacting refinery operations?
- Implementing predictive maintenance techniques through implementation of machine learning technologies in refineries
- Collecting and analysing real time data to transform processes within refineries
- Accurately predicting asset failures and minimising unplanned shutdowns through AI
10:30 am - 11:00 am Decreasing the safety risk through effective application of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
IIoT allows oil and gas companies to tap into data that was previously unavailable, with such access to data security of personnel is optimised.
Are your personnel safe? How will digitalisation help keep them safe?
- How is safety being improved in the refineries with through IIoT
- Asset tracking and equipment monitoring through remote sensors and wearable technology
- Securing your pipelines through real time alert system and pipeline leakage detection systems
11:00 am - 11:20 am Speed networking, coffee and refreshments break
Moving from managing performance to controlling – Introduction to process automation
Process automation will save close to 20% of operational costs for refineries. By 2025, process automation
will be the leading technology that oil and gas companies will procure to optimise operational efficiency
11:20 am - 11:50 am Driving high productivity by reducing of repetitive tasks through process automation
Automating repeated processes can increase operational efficiency. Process automation has saved oil and gas companies across the world 15% of their operating costs.
Do you want to leverage this technology for your refinery? Is reducing operational cost a priority or you?
- Selecting the right vendor for a seamless process automation journey in your refinery
- Analysing massive amounts of data and turning them into actionable information through process automation
- Enabling remote monitoring capabilities through integration of IoT with process automation
11:50 am - 12:20 pm Improving performance by integrating control systems with production through process automation
Process automation improves process availability, production and profitability of the plant, while ensuring safety and security of personnel, equipment and the plant environment.
How is process automation helping refineries achieve their KPIs?
- Maintain a system of safety and optimising production quantity and quality through process automation
- Implementing a plant information system through integration of enterprise software
- Receiving continuous accurate performance feedback leading to excellency in business operations
Seamless integration – Integrating technology with your refinery
Technology to improve operational efficiency is great. Integration of this technology with assets
and existing software is even more important for a refinery’s successful digital operations.
12:20 pm - 12:50 pm Building a robust IT infrastructure to support digitalisation of operations
The IT department plays a pivotal role in implementing digitalisation in the refinery. It is necessary for IT teams to have infrastructure in place to support digitalisation as a core business strategy
How is 5G transforming communication and networking at refineries?
- Secure communication: How does 5G enable seamless communication across departments
- Transforming the enterprise cloud concept into a handy & simple technology through 5G
- Transforming industry with 5G cloud robotics to drive increased business productivity
12:50 pm - 1:20 pm Creating a unified data dashboard to increase operational efficiency
System integrators are extremely important for a refinery to adopt new technologies.
Unsuccessful integration can lead to cyber attacks and vulnerabilities within systems Breaking it into bits: What are the challenges you face when integrating new technology into existing operations?
- Utilising technologies to convert data from various sources into actionable information
- Examining various available and custom technologies most suited for your operations
- Best methods of designing and executing data integration strategies for your refinery
1:20 pm - 2:20 pm Networking lunch
Resistance to change
People are the biggest determining factor of how fast and how successful digitalisation is – it’s not going
to be successful unless the workforce adopts it. How are organisations integrating KPIs with digitalisation?
2:20 pm - 2:50 pm Digitalisation does not mean the reduction of personnel, it leads to integration of personnel with technology driving a high-level of operational efficiency Bringing a change in the attitude of workers to accept digitalisation as a necessity
Why is it necessary for workers to accept digitalisation as the new necessity?
- Creating a grey collared workforce through the integration of personnel and technology
- Developing learning and development tools required to convert the existing workforce to a asset based personnel
- Strengthening relationships and collaborations by identifying opportunities available through digitalisation
Digitalising the Nigerian oil and gas sector for effective monitoring
The National Production Monitoring System (NPMS) will enable surveillance, perform
production monitoring and to be able to utilise the data for analysis and forecasting.
The objective of this project is basically to provide an online platform to accurately monitor national crude oil production and exports, through the provision of a system for direct and independent acquisition of production data from oil and gas facilities in Nigeria to ensure timely and accurate reporting of production figures and export data. It replaces the current paper based report. NPMS ensures ready production reporting to FIRS, NEITI and other agencies.
Do not miss this session if you want to know how NPMS will impact refinery operations in Nigeria.
2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Empowering efficiency: Exercising surveillance and production monitoring through digitalisation
Speakers:
Umar Hassan Asst. Chief Systems Analyst Department of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria
Engr. Enorense Amadasu Head, Upstream Monitoring and Regulations Department of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria
Engr. Lukeman Ayorinde Cardoso Assistant Director, ICT - Engineering and Standards Department of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria
Umar Hassan Asst. Chief Systems Analyst Department of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria
Engr. Enorense Amadasu Head, Upstream Monitoring and Regulations Department of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria
Engr. Lukeman Ayorinde Cardoso Assistant Director, ICT - Engineering and Standards Department of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria
How can digitalisation of operations lead to better productivity and efficiency?
- Performing field tasks with ease through relevant and sufficient amounts of data and analysis under the NPMS program
- How will NPMS help in predictive maintenance and operation optimisation for oil and gas assets
- Role of NPMS in improving processing capacities of Nigeria’s refineries
Umar Hassan
Asst. Chief Systems AnalystDepartment of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria
Engr. Enorense Amadasu
Head, Upstream Monitoring and RegulationsDepartment of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria
Engr. Lukeman Ayorinde Cardoso
Assistant Director, ICT - Engineering and StandardsDepartment of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria
3:30 pm - 3:40 pm Closing remarks
3:40 pm - 3:40 pm Networking break and refreshments
The published programme is correct at time of printing. However, given the seniority of our speakers and the nature of their roles, speakers may subsequently substitute or remove themselves from the programme. This is always regrettable, and we will always try to replace the speaker with a speaker with equivalent insight.