THEME
“High Oil Prices, New Challenges and Strategies for Sustainable Growths of Petroleum and Petrochemical Companies”

Full package: $125
Individual packages:
Friday Dinner:$50
Friday Dinner for Spouse:$25
Saturday Package (lunch included):$75
Sunday Package (lunch included):$75
Rockets Game:$60

ORGANIZERS
Chinese American Petroleum Association (CAPA)
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC)
China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC)
CPC Corporation, Taiwan (CPC)
China United Coal Bed Methane Corporation (CUCBM)

July 12, 2007

Dear CAPA Members,

I am pleased to inform you that CAPA will be hosting the 2007 Global Chinese Petroleum and Petrochemical Technical Symposium on Nov. 16 – 18 in Houston . This Symposium will provide a direct platform for Chinese professionals and executives alike, in the petroleum and petrochemical industry, to exchange their ideas, share their experiences and strengthen their collaborations. We invite all of our CAPA members to actively participate in and contribute to this event. The details regarding registration of this event will be announced later. P lease watch your email or check our website periodically for announcements of the Symposium ( www.capaus.org ).

This announcement also serves as a call for technical paper submission. Please see the attachment for technical topics. Paper title, an abstract and a brief biography should be sent to Dr. JC Wan by September 15 for consideration. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Dr. JC Wan or the session chairs. Due to the limited number of technical papers that can be accommodated in the symposium, submittals for integrated studies, frontier technology overview, innovative concepts and important case studies will be given high priorities.

Sincerely yours
Dr. Ben Wang, 2007 CAPA President and Symposium Chairman

Appendix

Important Dates for Submitting Papers

• September 15, deadline for title, abstracts & biography
  • Font size, 12 New Times, single line spacing, 300 hundred words maximum for the abstract and 200 words maximum for biography.
  • If multiple authors, please indicate the presenter.
  • 15 minutes presentation length
• October 1, notification of paper acceptance
• October 15, deadline for paper (PowerPoint file)
• Submit your paper to Dr. JC Wan at jcwan2005@sbcglobal.net

Symposium Program

• Meeting Venue: Renaissance Hotel (to be confirmed), Houston
  • Nov. 16, Friday
    • 12:00pm - 2:00pm , meeting registration
    • 2:00-3:00pm , CAPA Board Meeting
    • 3:00-5:00pm , Social Hours (VIPs and Sponsors)
    • 7:00-9:00pm, Reception dinner  (VIPs, Sponsors and all CAPA members)
  • Nov. 17, Saturday
    • 7:00-8:30am , meeting registration
    • 8:30-9:00am , Welcome Remarks by Dr. Ben Wang, CAPA President
    • 9:00am - 12:00pm , Keynote Speeches by Executives from CNPC, Sinopec,CNOOC, CPC, and CUCBM.
    • 12:00pm - 1:00pm , Luncheon
    • 1:00-5:00pm , Invited Speakers in the following topics:
      The business opportunities and challenges for oil companies under high oil prices
      The competition and collaboration between National oil companies and International oil companies in the world market
      The latest trend of supply and demand in world natural gas market
      The economic value and impact of bio-fuels and renewable energies
      The business opportunity in manufacturing sector brought in by the globalization in petroleum and petrochemical industry
      Building the 21 st Century oil company
    • Rocket Game with Dinner (VIPs, Sponsors, and 30 tickets will be sold to members - see registration for details)
  • Nov. 18, Sunday
    • 7:00-8:00am , meeting registration
    • 8:00am-12:00pm , Technical Session (20-24 papers in 3 parallel sessions)
    • 12:00pm - 1:00pm , Luncheon
    • 1:00pm - 5:00pm , Technical Session (20-24 papers in 3 parallel session

Technical Session Themes and Topics
Technical Program Chair, Dr. JC Wan (832-661-8711, jcwan2005@sbcglobal.net ) 

Grow Reserve through High Cost Projects
Session Chair, Yu Li (281-814-6849, yuli@houston.rr.com )

• Prolong the life of brown fields & develop marginal discoveries
• Enhance oil recovery through EOR techniques
• Unlock unconventional resources (heavy oil, coal-bed methane, deep gas and oil sands)

Grow Reserve through Exploration
Session Chair, Xingong Li (832-282-9588, li@intseis.com )

• Push the exploration frontiers
• Mitigate subsurface risks through technology

Stretch the limit of Production Technology
Session Chair, Jane Zhang (713-446-1798, jane.zhang@shell.com )

• Advance drilling and completion technologies
• Employ new field development concepts & intelligent field management systems
• Develop and deploy new offshore production facilities
• Deal with harsh environment and extreme weather conditions
• Integrated intelligent field technology and applications

Downstream Chemicals & Refineries, Process Control
Session Chair, Linn Fang (832-790-4591, Linn.Fang@lyondell.com )

• Heavy crude processing - margin improvement, environmental issues
• Energy cost reduction, yield improvement and value chain enhancement
• Process/equipment, plant design, operations and troubleshooting
• Process controls, simulation and optimization
• Investment and projects - Refining, petrochemicals and chemicals
• Environmental challenges for refinery operations

Alternative Energy and renewable fuels
Session Chair, Tanya Niu (281-794-6193, tanyaniu@yahoo.com )

• Stranded natural gas monetization via LNG & GTL
• Associated gas processing and utilization
• Renewable fuels development. E.g. Biomass.
• Clean fuel development

Global Business Strategy, Operation, and Marketing
Session Chair, Eva Chu (281-701-9939, evaschu@gmail.com )

• The trend of nationalization of petroleum industry and its implication to international oil companies' strategies
• Merger and acquisition srategies; asset valuation, field economics, investment risks, hedging, and oil price trend.
• Tax planning in international energy investment
• Risk management (e.g. supply, trading, etc.)
• Challenges in supply chain and distribution of the oil industry
• Industry image, public perception, and legislations in high oil price environment
• Knowledge management
• HSE Challenges