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Hydrocarbon Processing Hydrocarbon Processing has covered all aspects of the downstream petroleum industry for 90 years and counting.

Since 1922, management and technical professionals from petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical/chemical and engineer/constructor companies throughout the world have turned to Hydrocarbon Processing for high quality technical and operating information. Through its monthly magazine, website and e-newsletters, Hydrocarbon Processing covers technological advances, processes and optimization

developments from the throughout the global Hydrocarbon Processing Industry (HPI). Hydrocarbon Processing editors and writers provide real-world case studies and practical information that readers can use to improve their companies’ operations and their own professional job skills.

The compute question does not get asked early enough.Energy AI teams spend months on the model. The data pipeline. The g...
09/08/2026

The compute question does not get asked early enough.

Energy AI teams spend months on the model. The data pipeline. The governance framework. Then they hit the infrastructure wall: the seismic processing job that would take weeks on standard cloud, the reservoir simulation that cannot run at the resolution the model actually needs.

We are glad to welcome Rescale as a Bronze and VIP Dinner Sponsor of the EnergyAI Users Group Annual Conference 2026.

Rescale operates the leading cloud HPC platform for engineering simulation and AI, purpose-built for the compute demands that energy workloads actually require. From well planning optimization to physics-based modeling at scale, their platform gives energy teams the infrastructure to move from promising model to deployed solution.

Join us September 28 at the Thompson Houston in Houston, TX.

Register now: houstonenergy.ai/conference

A major operator. A compute and hardware platform. An AI deployment layer. Three organizations with different incentives...
09/08/2026

A major operator. A compute and hardware platform. An AI deployment layer. Three organizations with different incentives, different mandates, and different definitions of success.

They are presenting together on September 28 because they arrived at the same conclusions about how enterprise-scale agentic AI actually gets built in the energy sector. The deployment they are describing is live and running in Chevron's production systems.

When organizations that compete on parts of the stack agree on how the stack works, you pay attention.

• Venky Veeraraghavan, Chief Product Officer, DataRobot
• Ken Hester, Director of Energy Solutions Architects, NVIDIA
• Cari Armpriester, Facilities and Operations of the Future Program Manager, Chevron

EnergyAI Users Group Annual Conference | September 28 | Thompson Houston | Houston, TX

Register now: https://houstonenergy.ai/conference

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The Digital Transformation session at IRPC 2026 is built from four distinct layers of how the industry is applying data,...
09/08/2026

The Digital Transformation session at IRPC 2026 is built from four distinct layers of how the industry is applying data, AI, and digital systems to downstream operations.

Saudi Aramco presents on artificial neural network modeling for energy duty calculation in a de-ethanizer system. Lummus Technology's CTO addresses the AI transformation of downstream operations at scale. Kuraray Americas covers digital twin deployment for plant operations. Schneider Electric examines the shift from automation to full operational autonomy.
Taken together, these four presentations cover the full arc from specific unit-level modeling to facility-wide operational intelligence. For digital transformation leads, process engineers, and technology strategists, this session is one of the most densely useful on the IRPC agenda.

Register now at https://hpirpc.com/registration/

October 8-9, 2026 | Hyatt Regency Houston West | Houston, TX

A major operator. A compute and hardware platform. An AI deployment layer. Three organizations with different incentives...
09/08/2026

A major operator. A compute and hardware platform. An AI deployment layer. Three organizations with different incentives, different mandates, and different definitions of success.

They are presenting together on September 28 because they arrived at the same conclusions about how enterprise-scale agentic AI actually gets built in the energy sector. The deployment they are describing is live and running in Chevron's production systems.

When organizations that compete on parts of the stack agree on how the stack works, you pay attention.

• Titus Miron, VP of Product Management, DataRobot
• Ken Hester, Director of Energy Solutions Architects, NVIDIA
• Cari Armpriester, Facilities and Operations of the Future Program Manager, Chevron

EnergyAI Users Group Annual Conference | September 28 | Thompson Houston | Houston, TX
Register now: houstonenergy.ai/conference

IRPC 2026 is 31 days away. The attendee list includes the downstream professionals your sales team wants to reach: refin...
09/07/2026

IRPC 2026 is 31 days away. The attendee list includes the downstream professionals your sales team wants to reach: refinery operators, process engineers, plant managers, and technology decision-makers from companies across North America, South America, Asia, and the Middle East.

Speakers presenting include representatives from Saudi Aramco, CITGO, Valero, LyondellBasell, America First Refining, KBR, Lummus Technology, Honeywell UOP, NuScale Power, Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, Braskem, Petrobras, Chevron Lummus Global, and more. The people presenting are the same caliber as the people attending.
Exhibit and sponsorship opportunities are still available, but with 31 days to go and registration building, this is the decision window that matters.

Put your brand in front of them before the room fills.

Contact Melissa Smith at [email protected] or visit https://hpirpc.com/sponsors/

Register to attend: https://hpirpc.com/registration/

October 8-9, 2026 | Hyatt Regency Houston West | Houston, TX

We're proud to have Houston AI Club as a community partner for the EnergyAI Users Group Annual Conference, taking place ...
09/03/2026

We're proud to have Houston AI Club as a community partner for the EnergyAI Users Group Annual Conference, taking place September 28 at Thompson Houston.

Houston AI Club brings together some of the most active AI practitioners in the region, and their members are exactly who this conference is built for: engineers, data scientists, and technology leaders working on real deployments in the energy sector.

As a community partner, Houston AI Club members receive 50% off registration. Use code HAI50 at checkout. The first 100 members to register claim this rate. Once those spots are filled, standard rates apply.

Sessions cover predictive maintenance, autonomous operations, LLMs in HSE, digital twins, edge AI, and more, presented by teams from ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, SLB, Halliburton, NVIDIA, and others. The program is built around real outcomes: what was deployed, what it cost, and what they'd do differently.

Houston AI Club members can register at houstonenergy.ai/conference and enter HAI50 at checkout.

The pilot worked. So why is it still a pilot?Everyone who has run an AI proof-of-concept in the energy sector knows this...
09/03/2026

The pilot worked. So why is it still a pilot?

Everyone who has run an AI proof-of-concept in the energy sector knows this moment. The model performs. The results hold up. The business case makes sense. Then it stalls somewhere between the proof-of-concept environment and the production deployment, and nobody can fully explain why.

Confirmed on the panel: Amir Ravassipour, Workflow Optimization Technical Manager at Chevron, along with representatives from ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell. Moderated by Tyler Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Pipeline & Gas Journal.

Where is AI already paying for itself today? What broke when they tried to scale? What does "production-ready" actually mean when field conditions are involved? These are the operators who wrote the checks and lived with the results.

Register now: houstonenergy.ai/conference

EnergyAI Users Group Annual Conference | September 28 | Thompson Houston | Houston, TX

The models making the biggest difference in energy operations are not always the ones making the headlines.They are the ...
09/02/2026

The models making the biggest difference in energy operations are not always the ones making the headlines.

They are the ones running inside the enterprise. Deployed in environments where data cannot leave the building. Governed by requirements that generic cloud APIs were never designed for.

We are glad to welcome Cohere as the Lanyard Sponsor of the EnergyAI Users Group Annual Conference 2026.

Cohere builds enterprise AI models purpose-built for business deployment: powerful language models that run in your own cloud, on-premises, or in a private environment, without sensitive operational data leaving your control. For energy companies managing proprietary reservoir data and regulated information, that is not a preference. It is a requirement.

Join us September 28 at the Thompson Houston in Houston, TX.

Register now: houstonenergy.ai/conference

🛢️ Refiners are being asked to do more with less forgiving crude — squeeze out profitability while processing increasing...
09/02/2026

🛢️ Refiners are being asked to do more with less forgiving crude — squeeze out profitability while processing increasingly challenging slates. So how do you keep FCC economics strong when your feedstock keeps getting harder to work with?

In this webinar, experts from W. R. Grace dig into how a collaborative, run-over-run approach to resid desulfurization (RDS) pretreat catalyst system optimization can drive sustained performance gains 📈 and stronger downstream FCC economics.

Through real-world case studies 📊, you'll learn how combining catalyst innovation, advanced modeling, and hands-on operational expertise has helped refiners:

🔧 Process higher metals opportunity crudes without sacrificing performance
⚗️ Improve FCC feed quality run over run
💪 Build greater operational flexibility into their units
💰 Deliver long-term profitability gains

If you're looking for practical strategies to get more out of your RDS pretreat system, this is a session worth your time.

📅 Register now: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/5459010/80E8FB30CEFF957CEA4A415B2D8F2ABA?partnerref=SocialMedia

Flow regime identification has been a petroleum engineering problem for decades. Determining whether you are moving oil,...
09/02/2026

Flow regime identification has been a petroleum engineering problem for decades. Determining whether you are moving oil, gas, a slug, or a mixture through a given section of pipe, in real time, from diagnostic data, under varying pressure and temperature, is genuinely difficult work.

Aramco Americas built a serverless LLM platform to do it automatically.

Uchenna Odi, Petroleum Engineering Specialist and Digital Transformation AI Technology Team Lead at Aramco Americas, presents this deployment on September 28. This is what it looks like when an LLM moves past document summarization into field engineering.

Register now: houstonenergy.ai/conference

EnergyAI Users Group Annual Conference | September 28 | Thompson Houston | Houston, TX

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