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International Seminar OAPEC/IFP: The importance of conversion processes in oil refining and their role in the production of clean fuels. 20-22 June 2006 - IFP/Rueil-Malmaison, France

13 March 2006

IFP and OAPEC jointly organize a regular international seminar dealing with world-related problems currently making the headlines.

The 2006 seminar will focus on the downstream conversion technologies best adapted to respond to distillate products demand, and the refinery improvements required to adapt existing facilities to produce the products meeting future marketing constraints.

The program will address the following main topics:

• oil refining outlook 2020,
   
• quality of Arabian crudes
   
• world petroleum products demand assessment and specifications on a region-by-region basis through 2020,
   
• mechanisms and main factors influencing the price differential between various crudes,
   
• upgrading heavier crudes: strategy, technologies, economics assessments and targeted markets,
   
• adapting existing OAPEC refineries to produce Euro V grade products
   
• how to capture higher value from lower valued crudes?

IFP is a research and industrial development, training, and information services center active in hydrocarbons (oil and gas), their uses - in particular by vehicles -, and new energy and environmental technologies (production biofuels, synthetic fuels, hydrogen, capture and storage of CO₂, etc.).

The OAPEC (Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries) was established in 1968 with the following major goals:
- to promote cooperation and close ties between the member countries in economic activities related to the oil industry;
- to determine ways of safeguarding their legitimate interests, both individual and collective, in the oil industry;
- to unite their efforts so as to ensure the flow of oil to consumer markets on equitable and reasonable terms;
- to create a favorable climate for the investment of capital and expertise in their petroleum industries.
Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates are the 11 members of the OAPEC
www.oapecorg.org

 
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