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Catalagram 123 Spring 2019 No. 123 SPRING 2019 AreAre You You Ready Ready for for IMO IMO 2020? 2020? Whether your goals are handling difficult feeds or producing more diesel, Advanced Refining Technologies (ART) offers you a better perspective on hydroprocessing. Partner with us to meet IMO 2020 regulations head on and come out ahead. ART is the proven leader in providing excellent solutions for today’s refining industry challenges. • High Si Capacity Solutions • High Metals Capacity for Coker Naphtha Hydrocracking Solutions • High Metals Capacity Solutions • High Metals Capacity Catalysts for for FCC Pretreat Opportunity RDS and EBR Feeds • Distillate Selective Catalysts for • Specialized Catalyst(s) for Increasing Diesel Demand DAO Containing EBR Feeds Visit arthydroprocessing.com EDITORIAL Global Connections Help Solve Global Challenges Scott Purnell, Vice President, Research and Development, Refining Technologies, W. R. Grace & Co. As we near the end of the second decade base. Our sales and technical service and future FCC challenges. We met of the 21st century, the world in which teams are deployed across the globe to with senior executives from our key we live continues to be more and more better serve our customers. In most cases clients in the Arabian Gulf during the globally connected. This is obvious for this includes being in the same time zone Gulf Downstream Association (GDA) technology and communications. We and speaking the same language as our Conference in the Kingdom of Bahrain. all now carry phones in our pockets customer. Our research and development We celebrated 35 years of serving the with more computing power than the resources are centrally organized and are KMG Pavlodar refinery in Kazakhstan, spacecraft that carried men to the moon. innovating to solve global challenges. In and we sponsored and were a key These devices allow us to send messages addition, these same R&D resources are presenter at the 5th Latin American and instantly around the world and even hold also very focused on customer-centric Caribbean Refining Congress held in video conferences from the palm of our projects which can be leveraged to the Buenos Aires, Argentina. Further in this hand. And these same phones allow us broader market. issue you can read answers from our rapid access to information via the entirety experts to industry questions from the of the world wide web. 2018 AFPM OPT Summit and will also "As we progress on this note that the ART and Grace teams are Markets are also more global than ever. ready to be part of your solution to IMO Commodities are priced and traded path to one connected 2020 compliance. globally. Economic results in one country world, we continue to or region ripple across the world, affecting As we progress on this path to one global equity and currency markets. be focused on you, our connected world, we continue to be Politics and trade tensions only serve to customers. ” focused on you, our customers. We want reemphasize these effects. to solve your problems and add value Scott Purnell to your bottom line. We can do this best Our refining industry is no different. Vice President, when we are working closely together. Refineries are located across the globe Research and Development, Include us as part of your team and I think and are impacted by global ebbs and Refining Technologies you’ll see the benefits. flows of the crude oil, transportation fuels, and petrochemicals markets. As always, we welcome your feedback Regions which were once remote and In this issue of Catalagram, you will and look forward to more ways in which undeveloped have become vibrant see repeated evidence of the global we can work together to deliver value now centers of growth and investment. reach and focus of the Grace and ART and into the future. organizations. Since our last issue, we At Grace and ART, we have witnessed led an FCC Technology Conference in these trends and adapted our businesses Rotterdam with more than 140 delegates accordingly. Our manufacturing plants from 55 companies. At this same are located around the world and able conference we convened a panel of to efficiently supply our global customer industry executives to discuss present grace.com | 1 WHAT'S INSIDE 7500 Grace Drive ® Columbia, MD 21044 USA IN THIS ISSUE of Catalagram , our experts demonstrate the value of doing 410.531.4000 business with Grace. From improved product performance to increased grace.com profitability, Grace’s FCC catalysts and additives and ART’s hydroprocessing catalysts and catalysts systems deliver significant value in today’s challenging refining environment. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Scott Purnell What’s Inside MANAGING EDITOR: Shelly DeButts EDITORIAL BOARD: GRACE IN THE NEWS SUCCESS STORIES Eboni Adams 4 HUDSON LA FORCE 11 INDUSTRY LEADERS WEIGH IN Shelly DeButts SUCCEEDS FRED FESTA ON THE FUTURE OF REFINING Nathan Ergonul AS GRACE CEO Scott Purnell 16 GENERATING VALUE IN THE Bob Riley 4 ART RECOGNIZED AT LEADING FCC THROUGH INNOVATIVE MIDDLE EAST CONFERENCE CATALYST TECHNOLOGIES CONTRIBUTORS: AND TECHNICAL SERVICES Alfredo Barbaro 5 GRACE CELEBRATES MORE Ann Benoit THAN THREE DECADES WITH Ken Bryden KMG PAVLODAR REFINERY ASK THE EXPERTS Ivan Chavdarov Michael Federspiel 5 ART ROLLS OUT NEW 22 Q&A FROM THE 2018 AFPM Alan Gelder LOOK, WEBSITE OPERATIONS AND PROCESS Rafael González TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT Steven Gremillion 6 GRACE TALKS SULFUR Chris Haynes REDUCTION AT TECHNICAL Adrian Humphries AND COMMERCIAL Alexandr Ivanov CONFERENCE FOR LATIN Stephane Morin AMERICAN REFINERS Tom Petti Aleksey Popov 6 TEACHING THE Dicho Stratiev FUNDAMENTALS OF VALUE Pappu Sundaramoorthy Eithne Treanor 6 ART PRESENTS ADVANCES IN EBR TECHNOLOGY GRAPHIC DESIGN: AT RPTM 2019 Lisa Schemm 7 REMEMBERING BETSY METTEE 8 MORE PROFIT FROM YOUR FCC? RIVE MAY BE YOUR SOLUTION © Copyright 2019 W. R. Grace & Co. GRACE IN THE NEWS grace.com | 3 GRACE IN THE NEWS Hudson La Force Succeeds Fred Festa as Grace CEO W. R. Grace & Co.’s Board of Directors to the Secretary at the U.S. Department said Steffen. “Hudson is a talented leader designated Hudson La Force as of Education. Before entering public with command of the strategic levers President and Chief Executive Officer service in 2005, he held general needed to grow our company, and is a upon the retirement of Fred Festa on management and financial leadership strong successor to Fred Festa.” Nov. 1, 2018. Festa will remain as non- positions with Dell, Inc., AlliedSignal, Inc. executive Chairman on the Grace board. (now Honeywell), Emerson Electric Co., and Arthur Andersen & Co. La Force has been Grace's President and Chief Operating Officer since Christopher J. Steffen, Lead Director February 2016 with responsibility for and Chair of the Board’s Nominating Grace's Catalysts Technologies and and Governance Committee, pointed Materials Technologies business to La Force’s deep understanding of segments and global manufacturing and Grace’s customers and operations, supply chain operations. He joined the strategic vision, proven leadership, company as Senior Vice President and and track record as key reasons for Chief Financial Officer in 2008. Prior the selection. “Grace is well positioned to joining Grace, he served as Chief with market leading businesses and Operating Officer and Senior Counselor excellent prospects for solid growth,” Hudson La Force, President and CEO ART Recognized at Leading Middle East Conference In October of 2018, Grace and Advanced Grace's Refining Technologies President, Company (KNPC), and Abu Dhabi National Refining Technologies (ART) sponsored Tom Petti, joined André and members Oil Company (ADNOC), along with CEOs and exhibited at the Gulf Downstream of Grace and ART's global commercial from several private companies. Association (GDA) Conference in the teams to meet with representatives from Kingdom of Bahrain, which is a leading key Middle East refineries, oil ministries, Grace and ART both hosted exhibits, with conference for regional and international and national oil companies such as Saudi ART collaborating with Chevron Lummus stakeholders in the downstream Aramco, the Bahrain Petroleum Company Global (CLG). segments of the refining industry. (BAPCO), Kuwait National Petroleum ART, along with Chevron Lummus Global (CLG), was formally recognized at the event by GDA Conference Chairman Suleman Al Bargan, who is also Vice President of Saudi Aramco's Downstream and NGL Fraction. ART Managing Director, André Lanning, is a member of the GDA steering committee. GDA is a non-profit organization aimed at bringing downstream players from business and academia together to further develop the industry and draw benefits from knowledge sharing and best practices. From left: Audah Al-Ahmadi, GDA Secretary General; Suleman Al Bargan, GDA Conference Chairman; André Lanning, Managing Director, ART; and Leon de Bruyn, Co-Managing Director, CLG; Dr. Dhafer Al Jalahma, National Oil & Gas Holding Company, Kingdom of Bahrain. 4 | Catalagram® No. 123 | Spring 2019 GRACE IN THE NEWS Grace Celebrates More Than Three Decades with KMG Pavlodar Refinery In 2018, Kazakhstan's state-owned Pavlodar Refinery management with Euro-4 fuels and will transition to Euro-5 JSC National Co. KazMunayGas a crystal gift signifying the teamwork standard fuels as needed. Grace worked (KMG) celebrated the 40th anniversary between the companies. During our with the refinery, licensor, and the of its Pavlodar Refinery in Pavlodar, 35-year cooperation with Pavlodar, project team to advise on post-restart Kazakhstan. Grace was invited to Grace has delivered FCC catalysts, optimization, including recommendations participate in the two-day celebration optimization, unit inspections and for catalysts and additives to further which included presentations by vendors, troubleshooting, and exceptional improve FCC performance. suppliers and partners, as well as a technical service to the refinery. refinery tour, roundtable discussion, and This relationship is a testament to gala dinner with fireworks. Grace was a close partner during the Grace values and industry leadership. refinery's recent major modernization and It represents hard work and dedication Grace was recognized as a key FCC unit expansion.
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