ERTC Ask the Experts 2026

Refiners are being asked to process more variable crude slates, improve energy efficiency, manage hydrogen and hydroprocessing constraints, and protect availability through capital discipline. The challenge is not only how to optimize the process, but how to understand how the underlying infrastructure responds to it.

The event brings together refining leaders and technical experts around the issues shaping day-to-day performance: crude distillation and feedstock flexibility, energy efficiency, operational excellence, digitalization and AI, process safety, reliability, and turnarounds.

Each topic points to the same operational question: can operators safely extract more performance from existing infrastructure?

Akselos Structural Performance Management (SPM) connects operating decisions to structural response—translating stress, fatigue, and damage mechanisms into business context in real time. This gives teams a stronger basis for turnaround and capital decisions, showing where operations can safely adapt and where asset life can be protected or extended.