Call for Papers: 12th Refining India Conference 2025

 PTQ-Petroleum Technology Quarterly has announced a call for papers for the 12th Refining India conference, scheduled for 22-23 September 2025 in New Delhi.

India is projected to be a huge consumer of petroleum products over the next decade and beyond. As such, all the big names, as well as many of the smaller ones, will be involved. It is a great event to be involved in if you have any interest in working in the region.

More details are available at: https://refiningindia.com/refiningindia2025/en/page/home

Here is the text of an email alerting me to the event …

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Brought to you by PTQ Magazine and IDS, Refining India will host senior management and engineers from every refinery and head office in India, along with international technology companies, to highlight the latest processes, technologies, products, and services available to them.
With India's refining capacity set to expand from 256 to 309 million metric tons by 2028, this year's conference offers an ideal opportunity to showcase your solutions.
We're looking for, but not limited to, the following key conference themes:
- Refining, Petrochemical and Chemical Integration / Expansion
- New Process / Catalyst Technologies
- Process Optimisation / Energy Efficiency
- Digitalisation, Analytics and AI
- Energy Transition Technologies
We would also welcome submissions that go beyond these themes. All submissions will enter a review process and are not automatically guaranteed for inclusion.
If you would to suggest a presentation now, please email your 200 word abstract to Rene Gonzalez editor@petroleumtechnology.com.
https://refiningindia.com/refiningindia2025/en/page/home
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Engineering Alert: Saudi Arabia’s Net-Zero World Narrative

 Saudi Arabia’s Net-Zero World Narrative , produced by the esteemed Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (https://www.fraunhofer.de/en), is a rich read. In essence, the report is an objective description of the Saudi long term plan to go green, and an assessment of how realistic the plan is.

The study argues that there is a substantial gap between the Kingdom’s ambitions and implementation  and questions some of the practical complexities of the overarching Circular Carbon Economy  (CCE) approach.

The CCE is presented as a management system aimed at minimizing, reusing, and storing carbon, viewing it as a tradable commodity rather than a negative externality.

Policy makers will read this document carefully. Not just to remind themselves of things they already know, but also to help themselves understand how all the facts interweave into a fabric consisting of the warp and woof of aspiration and accomplishment in the effort to address climate change.

Engineers … the smart ones … will read this document as well. They will read it to understand how they can create solutions to make the aspirations a reality.

TIP : View and read, or at least browse, the open access Saudi Arabia’s Net-Zero World Narrative at https://www.kas.de/en/single-title/-/content/saudi-arabia-s-net-zero-world-narrative

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Jean Steinhardt served as Librarian, Aramco Americas (https://americas.aramco.com/ ), Engineering Division, for 13 years. He now heads Jean Steinhardt Consulting LLC, producing the same high quality research that he performed for Aramco.

Follow Jean’s blog at: http://desulf.blogspot.com/  for continuing tips on effective online research
Email Jean at jstoneheart@gmail.com  with questions on research, training, or anything else