Our biennial Opportunity Crudes Conferences (https://opportunitycrudes.com/?topics=opcconf) have been providing an exceptional forum to address common issues, share experiences, and identify future opportunities that connect colleagues working in the refining, midstream, and E&P sectors since 2008. The theme of the 2020 Opportunity Crudes Conference is "Making the Grades: Crudes for Fuels & Petrochemicals in Demand." We have assembled a team of high-caliber oil business gurus, operators, and technology experts to share their knowledge and insights into the volatile, uncertain time of our industry due to geopolitical tensions, sanctions, trade wars, the OPEC+ cut, and unforseen events (such as COVID-19) that disrupt oil trades and shift crude types available for refining. At the same time, product demand is changing because of the IMO-2020 mandate, tigher fuel specs., higher octane requirements, rising petrochemical demand, and competition from alternative fuels. Can refiners fight "two battles"-crude supply disruption and new fuel quality and demand requirements-at the same time?
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