Welcome The Regional Partners Of AUTOMA 2023 AUTOMA 2023 Welcomes The Honourable Regional Partners

12 September 2023

This year, the Oil and Gas Automation and Digitalisation Congress 2023 (AUTOMA) is supported by Bonatti, Tecnimont, Tekfen Engineering, MOL Group, KMG Rompetrol and DESFA S.A. as the honourable regional partners. AUTOMA 2023 gathers key players of the oil and gas market in Austria, on November 27-28, to discuss innovative technologies for building a smart industry.

This year, BGS Group is honoured to be supported by Bonatti, Tecnimont, Tekfen Engineering, MOL Group, KMG Rompetrol and DESFA S.A as the Regional Partners of AUTOMA 2023 and also, join oil and gas majors to find the key drivers of success of today’s digital transformation.
The companies are constantly searching for the digital innovations that  will be efficient, safe, and cost-effective for the whole value chain. Within the business programme, some Regional Partners of AUTOMA 2023 are ready to share their thoughts to the audience and answer the questions. Nikos Katsis, Chief Officer of Asset Management at DESFA S.A., is going to talk about digitalisation of operation, maintenance, and inspection processes – system architecture, on the first day of the Congress. On the same day, Soner Soycercel, Business Development Coordinator at Tekfen Engineering, shares insights on effective ways to digital twins.

On the second day of the Congress, Antonio Schiavone, Construction Home Office Head of Department at Tecnimont SpA, who has been participating at AUTOMA as a speaker for the past 5 years, is going to present the speech dedicated to digital process collaboration between EPC contractor and vendor or construction company.

In addition to the topic of digital solutions, at the Congress, MOL Group is going to talk about research that was done by MOL Automation and Process Intelligence team  in 2022 with the aim to identify available IIoT technologies, communication protocols and shortlist the best available technologies for the refining and petrochemicals industry. As the core communication LoRaWAN was selected. MOL Duna refinery’s IIoT journey: from concept to implementation is going to be presented by Péter Hegedüs, Group DS Production Digitalisation expert at MOL Group, and András Buti, Automation and Process Intelligence Manager at MOL Danube Refinery, during AUTOMA 2023.

KMG Rompetrol are also among honourable Regional Partners of AUTOMA 2023. KMGI is the sole owner of the Rompetrol Brand, first Romanian brand internationally expanded, an important player in South Eastern Europe aiming to become a strong European brand. Delegates of KMG Rompetrol are going to join the networking and meet representatives of the whole value chain of oil and gas industry.

As companies are willing to find the real mutually beneficial partnerships in a fast changing reality and unstable market conditions, AUTOMA 2023 provides the opportunity to establish new connections and meet industry key players. Dario Camozzi, Head of Technology Development Business Unit Green Systems at Bonatti, shared his thoughts on visiting the previous edition of AUTOMA in 2022:

“It’s a great opportunity to bring together people with the same specific theme. Digitalisation and everything that rounds around digitalisation is the theme of the Congress, so it's very beautiful to find all the people working on the same subject from different points of view. Everyone focuses on the same theme.” This year, Bonatti joins the Congress again with the new status - of honourable Regional Partner. Gianluca Rospo, EMPS Head of Asset Management at Bonatti, is going to present the speech about streamline shut down execution through processes digitalisation.

Connect with the Regional Partners of AUTOMA 2023 and learn more about the current state of the market and share the ideas on the future development of automation and digitalisation: https://sh.bgs.group/y3