| 2025 12th Annual Bolting Symposium Schedule (January 7th-9th) | |||||
| Tuesday - January 7th (End User Only) | Wednesday - January 8th | Thursday - January 9th | |||
| Time | Session | Time | Session | Time | Session |
| 8:00 | End User Introductions Group Discussion |
8:00 | Introduction Scott Hamilton (VSP) |
8:00 | Ring Joint Flange Deformation and Continuation of a Study on Graphite Oxidation Carlos Girao (Teadit) |
| 8:30 | 8:30 | 8:30 | |||
| 9:00 | Bolting Bingo Scott Hamilton (VSP) & Barrett Meigs (VSP) |
9:00 | How Accurate is Torque? Barrett Meigs (VSP) & James Province (Houston Fastener) |
9:00 | Industry Update Frank Blake (Former Deputy Secretary of US Department of Energy) |
| 9:30 | 9:30 | Determining Load Loss Factors for Tensioning Charlie Gregory (ITS) & Brett Thibodeaux (Citgo) |
9:30 | ||
| 10:00 | Break | 10:00 | Break | 10:00 | Break |
| 10:30 | Bolting Therapy & Panel/Bring Your Topics to Discuss! Pannel Discussion |
10:30 | Update on Bolting Inspection Certification by API Andri Orphanides (API) |
10:30 | Proof of Concept - Stress Measuring Gasket Matt Hinman (EPRI) |
| 11:00 | 11:00 | Heat Exchanger Case Study Adam Collier (Marathon) |
11:00 | PCC-1 Update Kelly Schupp (Methanex) & Brett Thibodeaux (Citgo) |
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| 11:30 | 11:30 | 11:30 | Closing | ||
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | 12:00 | Lunch Break | 12:00 | Feel free to schedule times to meet with us or with anyone you want to in our conference area! |
| 12:30 | 12:30 | 12:30 | |||
| 1:00 | Importance of monitoring the “bits” in flange reliability. Barrett Meigs (VSP) & Ben Hantz (Valero) |
1:00 | We’re working on it | 1:00 | |
| 1:30 | 1:30 | 1:30 | |||
| 2:00 | Incremental Reliability: Working the right side of the decimal. Group Discussion |
2:00 | Optimizing Turnaround Tooling and Equipment Mike Burton & Aaron Moody (Industrial Bolting) |
2:00 | |
| 2:30 | 2:30 | 2:30 | |||
| 3:00 | Break | 3:00 | Break | 3:00 | |
| 3:30 | Magic Show: disassembly and assembly cheats! Andy Smith (VSP) |
3:30 | Second Annual Bolting Hall of Fame Presentation Scott Hamilton (VSP) |
3:30 | |
| 4:00 | 4:00 | 4:00 | |||
| 4:30 | End User Networking | 4:30 | End User Networking | 4:30 | |
| 5:00 | 5:00 | 5:00 | |||
| 5:30 | 5:30 | 5:30 | |||
| 6:00 | 6:00 | 6:00 | |||