21st Annual Shutdowns Turnarounds Superconference - DS

Join Canada’s turnaround community for the must-attend Shutdowns Turnarounds Superconference returning to Calgary.

Reunite with your colleagues and peers at The Canadian Institute's 21st Annual Shutdowns Turnarounds Superconference. Canada's leading event for the turnaround community, is guaranteed to give your team the essential information and practical tools needed to tackle the most critical challenges impacting project outcomes.

Share knowledge with owners, contractors, and solution experts and learn how others have managed their turnarounds in an evolving energy landscape. Get workable strategies from experienced practitioners at Cenovus Energy, Mercer International Inc., Shell Canada, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, Pembina Gas Infrastructure, ConocoPhillips and many other leading organizations.

Highlights for 2022

CHEVRON-DOUBLE-RIGHT In-depth sessions on how to tackle major challenges including project cost, scope, procurement and more

CHEVRON-DOUBLE-RIGHT Dynamic panel discussions on Future Workforce Initiatives and Safety and Policy Changes

CHEVRON-DOUBLE-RIGHT Sponsor Innovation spotlights highlighting specialized technologies

CHEVRON-DOUBLE-RIGHT Multiple networking opportunities in the Exhibition Hall and during the Ice-Breaker Welcome and Casino Cocktail Receptions

CHEVRON-DOUBLE-RIGHT Practical, hands-on workshops where you can roll up your sleeves and gain new skills from turnaround experts

We look forward to seeing you in Calgary in December!

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Alicia Donnelly Operations Director, Maintenance & Turnarounds

Graham Construction

Frank Engli Senior Advisor – Maintenance & Turnaround Becht

Mark Banham

Canadian Capital Projects Manager ConocoPhillips

Ron Bettin

President and Principal Consultant Adduco Inc.

Jayson Bueckert Regional Director, Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo

CLAC

Bob Collins Chief Economist BuildForce Canada

Danielle Connell Human Resources Operations Manager

Graham Construction

Christopher Davison

Turnaround Manager

Graham Construction

Jessica DiSabatino

Vice President

My Safe Work

Vanessa Goodman Manager, HSE and Communications

North West Redwater Partnership

Colin Herbert Shutdowns Supervisor ConocoPhillips

Curtis Hermans

Director of Operations

Progressive Plan Inc.

Alana Hoekstra

Co-Director of Membership

Calgary Women in Energy

Shauna Holmes

Director of Technical Education

Calgary Women in Energy

Laszlo Kardos

Director Technical Operations Advando North America Inc.

Mark Marantica

Principal Consultant

AVEVA

Martin O. Psenicka

Senior T/A Scheduler, Shutdown / Turnaround / Outages

Cenovus Energy

Aashish Sabharwal

Principal Consultant

AVEVA

Darcy Semeniuk

Turnaround Planner Pembina Gas Infrastructure

Teresa Waddington

Sustainability & HSSE Manager

LNG Canada

Dr. Nicholas Weatherly General Manager US & EMEA Sacred Cow Company

Jason Woodward

Turnaround Event Manager Shell Canada Ltd. (Sarnia)

Colin Xander North America Turnaround Director INEOS Styrolution

Merrick Zemp Mechanical Supervisor

Mercer International Inc.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2022

Pre-Conference Workshops

8:30 – 12:00 p.m.

WORKSHOP A

Planning and Scheduling Toolkit Enabling Dynamic Execution

WORKSHOP LEADER:

microphone-alt Laszlo Kardos, Director Technical Operations, Advando North America Inc. Curtis Hermans, Director of Operations, Progressive Plan Inc.

• Leveraging the synergies of planning and scheduling

• Focus on the cross functional dependencies, and opportunities for collaboration between the planning team and scheduling team

• How to tame your dynamic Turnaround schedule and strategies for dynamic execution management

1:00 – 4:30 p.m.

WORKSHOP B

How to Manage the Execution Window of a Turnaround in Today’s Complex Environment

WORKSHOP LEADER:

microphone-alt Colin Xander, North America Turnaround Director, INEOS Styrolution

Key steps, process, deliverables, documents, schedule, cost estimate of TAR for new/intermediate employees.

• Ensuring all stakeholders have approved the execution plan before the unit is shut down

• What essential steps are necessary for schedule control during the execution phase?

• Reviewing the details of the daily execution schedule

• Ensuring all plans and objectives are discussed at critical meetings: Kick off, morning update, safety meeting, schedule update meeting

• Managing emergent and unforeseen obstacles

• Balancing discovery work with the turnaround duration

7:30

Registration and Exhibit Area Opens

8:30

Opening Remarks from the Conference Co-Chairs

microphone-alt Alicia Donnelly, Operations Director, Maintenance & Turnarounds, Graham Construction

Frank Engli, Senior Advisor – Maintenance & Turnaround, Becht

8:45

Outlook for Skilled Labour Supply/Demand

microphone-alt Bob Collins, Chief Economist, BuildForce Canada

• Assessing the impact of deferred projects due to the pandemic, a sector in transition and geopolitical events

• Evaluating areas of growth in construction and maintenance employment across Canada and regions where activity is expected to increase or recede

9:30 CASE STUDY

LABOUR SUPPLY CHALLENGES:

microphone-alt Jason Woodward, Turnaround Event Manager, Shell Canada Ltd. (Sarnia)

This session will cover the large 2022 turnaround at Shell Canada’s Sarnia Manufacturing Centre (Shell Courunna Refinery)

• Discussion of the challenges encountered including:

» Labour shortages due to COVID, skilled labour attrition, travel restrictions and unwillingness to travel

» Simultaneous turnarounds at other facilities in the region creating further labour constraints

• What steps were taken to overcome challenges and lessons learned

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10:15

SPONSOR INNOVATION

microphone-alt Mark Marantica, Principal Consultant, AVEVA

Aashish Sabharwal, Principal Consultant, AVEVA

• Discuss how an end-to-end ecosystem of digital tools can help optimize planned turnaround events

• Provide insight on how the right digital tools can help make more educated decisions during the planning & scheduling stage of a TAR event

• Discuss how the right digital tools empower the "Connected Worker" to Turnaround events

10:45

Networking Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall

11:15

Contractor Management: Determining Agreements for Optimal Contractor/Supplier Management and Productivity

microphone-alt Colin Xander, North America Turnaround Director, INEOS

Styrolution

This 2-part session will discuss how to manage cost and schedule when 20% of your contractors don’t show and their productivity is 30% less than expected.

How do you actually collect productivity data? (Examples will be given) How do you adjust the schedule on the fly to stay on track with overall duration? How do you compete cost vs schedule?

With firms struggling to provide the full headcount and top quality, how can you write contractor agreements to ensure they treat you as a partner, give you their best people, and stay committed to the work until the end?

12:00 PANEL

Future Workforce Initiatives for the New Energy Economy: How to Retain and Develop New Talent amid an Evolving Energy Landscape

microphone-alt Shauna Holmes, Director of Technical Education, Calgary Women in Energy

Jayson Bueckert, Regional Director, Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo, CLAC

Danielle Connell, Human Resources Operations Manager, Graham Construction Alana Hoekstra, Co-Director of Membership, Calgary Women in Energy

• Encouraging continued skills training to develop and retain talent

• Examining strategies for training and mentorship

• Engaging, motivating and managing a multi-generational workforce

• Succession planning- how to develop leaders

• Expanding the scope of your talent pool

1:00

Welcoming Remarks from Luncheon Sponsor

microphone-alt Candice De Melo, Regional Product Development Manager for Managed Services, United Rentals

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Teah Schram, Fluid Solutions, United Rentals

1:15

Networking Luncheon for Speakers and Delegates

Managing a Turnaround During a Time of Uncertain Labour Supply

SPOTLIGHT Leveraging a Digital Ecosystem for a DataDriven Efficient and Safe Turnaround Event

2:15

Supply Chain Nightmares and How to Avoid Them: Building Resiliency and Redundancy to Avoid Delays

microphone-alt Johnathan Finlayson, Project Logistics Director, Canada, GEODIS FF Canada Ltd.

• Managing the turnaround supply chain during the pandemic; lessons learned, how did we do things differently and what protocols will continue?

• Exploring the constraints for procuring resources given global supply disruptions due to overseas port closures

• Adopting new measures for timely delivery of equipment and supplies?

• Preparing for cost increases and changes to make when procuring resources

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3:30

3:00

Networking Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall

TURNAROUND THINK TANK

How a Health Crisis Made Us Stronger: Assessing the Impact of COVID on Company Priorities, Safety and Policy

microphone-alt Teresa Waddington, Sustainability & HSSE Manager, LNG Canada

Vanessa Goodman, Manager HSE and Communications, North West Redwater Partnership

Christopher Davison, Turnaround Manager, Graham Construction

• Sharing best practices, explore challenges and changes to the industry in a post covid world

• How did a health crisis make the industry stronger? What pandemic policies are being integrated into everyday work?

• Assessing the impact of deferred projects due to the pandemic on skilled labour requirements

• Determining who needs to be on-site, how to ensure safety and manage costs more effectively

• Weighing the pros and cons of staggered work times, overall project duration and scope

4:30

Interactive Safety Exercise and Hypothetical Scenarios for Identifying Who is at Risk

microphone-alt Jessica DiSabatino, Vice President, My Safe Work

This interactive session will pinpoint risk factors in your company processes and will bring home the real-life safety concerns that need to be addressed

5:15

Closing Remarks from the Co-Chairs and Conference Adjourns

5:30–7:00

Casino Cocktail Reception Club

7:30

Exhibit Area Opens

8:45

Opening Remarks from the Conference Co-Chairs

9:00 COMMUNICATIONS FOCUS

Effective Communication: Getting Senior Executive Buy-In for Your Turnaround Strategy

microphone-alt Ron Bettin, President and Principal Consultant, Adduco Inc.

• Understanding strategy from a corporate perspective

• Why it is important to gain your executive's buy-in through good communication up

• Why a good turnaround strategy is important for everyone to understand, from the executive table to the tool table

• How a good strategy helps to make good choices

• Getting turnaround project strategic alignment from the top down

9:45

Optimizing Your Communication Strategy:

How Connecting with Your Workforce Will Increase Productivity

microphone-alt Merrick Zemp, Mechanical Supervisor, Mercer Celgar

This presentation will discuss the value that connections have on productivity, learning and happiness

• 3 proven methods to improve your team communication

• How to connect with your team

• How to connect with your employees

• How to connect with your supervisors

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10:30

Networking Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall

11:45

Strategies to Address the Skilled Labour Resource Challenges

microphone-alt Mark Banham, Canadian Capital Projects Manager, ConocoPhillips

This session will look at the challenges in attracting, training and retaining skilled workers to an industry that is in transition.

• Overview of the challenges that are being experienced in the industry since COVID-19

• With the impending loss of older, skilled workers, how can we rethink retirement? Delaying retirement of skilled workers, roles and considerations for recently retired workers

• How can apprenticeship programs be updated and improved to better fit the required job skills?

• How can the industry improve public perceptions and communications?

• What strategies are necessary to manage these challenges and what are some solutions?

12:30

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11:00

Digitizing the TAR Process: How to Apply a Digital Practice During a Turnaround

microphone-alt Darcy Semeniuk, Turnaround Planner, Pembina Gas Infrastructure

• Discuss how equipping the workforce with mobile devices can increase productivity by reducing handover time

• Reduce the need for meetings with software that is transparent up to board level giving providing more time to work on the event

• Upload plans online to remove the need for pens and paper and streamline the TAR event

Networking

Luncheon for Speakers and Delegates

1:30 CASE STUDY

Integrating Operations Planning into The Turnaround Plan

microphone-alt Martin Psenicka, Senior T/A Scheduler, Cenovus Energy

This session will showcase the in-depth and effective scheduling process at Cenovus Energy.

• Developing an operations ramp down, isolation, equipment preparation, cleaning & ramp up plans

• Scheduling strategy to focus on longest path by process systems vs maintenance execution window

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2:45

2:15

Networking

Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall

Optimization: Identifying and Correcting Weakness for Controlling a Turnaround Event

Scope

microphone-alt Colin Herbert, Shutdowns Supervisor, ConocoPhillips

• The reason we care about scope control

• The typical approach, using scope challenge and change control

• Typical weaknesses with scope challenge and ways to fix them

• Typical weaknesses with scope change control and ways to fix them

• Developing a solid planning strategy using risk based scope reviews

• How do you ensure rigorous scope reviews and scope listing? What steps can be taken to manage addendums to the work list and insure minimizing the ‘forgotten’ work?

• Effective challenging of the work scope to eliminate unnecessary jobs

• Timely process of developing a scope for proper planning efforts

3:15

Closing Remarks from the Chair and Conference Adjourns

WHAT OUR ATTENDEES HAVE TO SAY!

It was a good experience. I preferred the speakers from the client side sharing past experiences such as procurement, contractor strategies, and especially scheduling.

Turnaround Coordinator, ME Global

Excellent Conference surrounded by the leaders of the industry, having an impact on the direction of the industry.

Market Manager, Thorcan

The size of the conference allowed warm conversation.

Project Manager, TransAlta

Resource Manager, Randstad

Well organized, knowledgeable speakers and pertinent topics.

Very good mix of owners and suppliers; good networking events; excellent venue; timely topics.

Sr. Manager Capital Procurement, Nutrien

Great experience, always pick up some good pointers that I can utilize for my TA.

TA Planner, Husky Energy

Well planned, relevant content.

Maintenance Coordinator, ENMAX

Plant Manager, Honeywell

Excellent content related to planning/scheduling.

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