As we do every two years, COQA is partnering with the Canadian Crude Quality Technical Association for an expanded conference program!
Join us for a three day event that will feature outstanding technical presentations, market analysis, a tour of the Anacortes refinery, social/networking events, and more!Please note that the tour is first come, first served and has a firm limit of 60 participants.
Venue
Our Venue will be the Grand Hyatt Seattle
Address: 721 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: (206) 774-1234
Tentative Program Information
Tuesday May 27, 2025
2:00pm - 3:00pm: Light Sweet Crude Subcommittee Meeting
3:00pm - 4:30pm: Vapor Pressure Subcommittee Meeting
4:30pm - 5:00pm: Fats, Oils, & Grease Subcommittee Meeting
*subcommittee meetings are open to any interested attendee*
6:00pm - 8:00pm:COQA - CCQTA Joint Executive Board Meeting Dinner (closed)
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
7:30am - 2:30pm: Tour of Marathon Anacortes Refinery & Lunch
3:00pm - 5:30pm: Technical Presentations (Main Program)
5:30pm - 7:30pm: Joint Conference Cocktail Reception sponsored by CME Group
Thursday, May 29, 2025
7:30am: Breakfast Presented by Crude Oil Quality Association
8:20am - 12:00pm: General Presentations Morning Session
11:30am - 1:30pm: Lunch on Premises sponsored by Camin Cargo Control
1:30pm - 5:00pm: General Presentations Afternoon Session
Preliminary List of Speakers
Joanna Gurnham
Petroleum Quality Supervisor, Trans Mountain
Trans-Mountain Pipeline: Operations, Pools, and Crude Quality Initiatives
Amanda Townsley
Sr. Director of Energy Research and Product Development, CME Group
Updates on CME/NYMEX Benchmarks
Rohit Rathod
Senior Oil Market Analyst, Vortexa
Waterborne Crude Flows on the West Coast of Canada and the US
Dave Murray
Secretary, Canadian Crude Quality Technical Association
&
Amanda Prefontaine
Upstream Lab Supervisor, InnoTech Alberta
Organic Chlorides: Recent Findings
Lee Marotta
Principal Field Application Scientist, PerkinElmer
TGA-FTIR-MS for Deposit Analysis
Kelsi Isom
Assistant Laboratory Manager, Intertek Caleb Brett
Recent Developments in Asphaltene Solvency Testing (ASTM D8253)
Chris Burkhalter
Director of US Laboratory Operations, Camin Cargo Control
Current Sampling and Testing Challenges in the Contract Lab
and much more to come!