Helping plants keep pace with change.

While markets and regulators demand increasingly cleaner fuels, light and sweet crude reserves are declining and much of the world's supply is shifting to heavier and more sour resources.

For refineries, this poses the problem of when, how much and exactly where to invest in the conversions and upgrades that will help them remain competitive in a rapidly evolving industry – and capitalise on the right balance between light product and low-quality crude supply.

Given that this is a marketplace that refines more than 80 million b/d and that the price per barrel has risen to over $100, this is a multi-trillion dollar industry that has a variety of solution providers vying to meet the needs of the downstream marketplace, namely refineries.

The Next Generation Downstream Group is a consortium of 65 CEOs and senior Corporate Officers from small, mid, and large cap downstream producers who are active in their companies on a strategy level, but also have an eye for next generation technologies. The NG Downstream Group organizes highly interactive 3-day strategy sessions. The program topics for the summit are set entirely by industry members.

The Next Generation Downstream Summit Europe is designed specifically to assist forward-thinking downstream decision-makers meet these demands and prepare for the impact of technology, regulation and external factors on the overall success of their organisation's value chain.

This summit is invitation-only, which is why access to the website is password protected. If you would like to find out more about the program or attendees, please contact Joe Thompson.

Please click here to download NG Downstream Summit Europe 2011 Takeaway Document prepared by our analyst partner Roberto Ulivieri, Managing Consultant, Purvin & Gertz.

In order to read the full review of the previous event, please follow this link: Europe's Downstream Leaders Gather at Summit (by Matthew V. Veazey, DownstreamToday.com).

Joe Thompson
Summit Director
T: +44 (0)117 921 1421
E: joe.thompson@gdsinternational.com