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The Industries of the Future process helps entire industries articulate their long-term goals and publish them in a unified vision for the future. To achieve that vision, industry leaders jointly define detailed R&D agendas known as roadmaps. OIT relies on roadmap-defined priorities to target cost-shared solicitations and guide development of a balanced R&D portfolio that yields useful results in the near, mid, and long term. Petroleum refining is one of nine energy-intensive industries that is participating with the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) in a collaborative R&D strategy called "Industries of the Future." In February 2000, petroleum industry leaders signed a compact with OIT to work together through the Industries of the Future initiative. This initiative is now paving the way for strategic joint development of technologies by government, national laboratories, academia, and industry in alignment with the industry-defined vision, Technology Vision 2020. The Petroleum Industry of the Future's mission is to provide strong technological options to allow refiners:
- to have significant impacts on energy
- savings, environmental performance,
- productivity and capacity utilization.
A key driving force behind the Petroleum Industry of the Future is the American Petroleum Institute's Technology Committee, which, along with the National Petrochemical and Refiner's Associations, has identified the technical areas of greatest concern to the industry and developed a technology roadmap to address them. The roadmapping process is encouraging new government-industry partnerships that will further strengthen the industry, while providing benefits to the nation in terms of energy efficiency and environmental performance.
Petroleum Refining VISION (PDF 683 KB) Download Acrobat Reader
Technology Vision 2020: A Technology Vision for the U.S. Petroleum Industry identifies major goals for the future and outlines broad technology needs.
ROADMAP (PDF 317 KB) Download Acrobat Reader
The goals and research priorities outlined in Technology Roadmap for the Petroleum Industry, Draft 2000, form the basis for making new research investments by both government and industry. U.S. petroleum refiners recognize that energy efficiency.
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