ABOUT GOMA FUELS SYMPOSIUM
The GOMA Fuels Symposium is the biennial event primarily focused on fuels production and usage with the topics that cover trends of global oil industry, refinery technology, production excellence, fuels quality, alternative fuels topics and environmental preservation solutions. This event is organized by the Croatian Society for Fuels and Lubricants – GOMA.
Oil refining industry today is faced with great number of challenges including the changes in global oil market, serious concerns over global warming, flexibility of production with efforts put to gaining excellence and competitiveness. These are all drivers for continuing efforts in refining technology development, process optimization and efficient energy consumption.
The symposium will be a good occasion for industry professionals to participate with the presentations and exchange their achievements, ideas and experience in today’s refining challenges. It is an opportunity to meet in one place with refining experts, engineering companies and legislation representatives to discuss demands for fuels production and usage.
TOPICS for FUELS 2026
Abstracts should be submitted via online registration form that can be found here! Topics for the 57th GOMA Symposium – FUELS 2026 are the following:
1. Energy Transition
- Refineries evolving into multi-product energy hubs
- Declining gasoline demand, growing diesel, petrochemical feedstock focus
- Southeast Europe focusing on gradual transition and security of supply
2. Decarbonization
- CO₂ reduction as a design and investment constraint
- CCUS mainly in pilot or partial-scale projects
- Blue hydrogen more realistic than green hydrogen in near term
- Strong focus on energy efficiency improvements
3. Digitalization
- Shift from dashboards to decision-support tools
- Use of digital twins for operations, energy and emissions
- AI for blending, optimization, fouling prediction
- Operator Training Simulators for safety and performance
4. Operational Flexibility
- Handling wider feedstock variability
- Frequent campaign changes and market-driven operations
- Debottlenecking instead of capacity expansion
5. Regulatory Landscape
- EU ETS, CBAM, FuelEU Aviation shaping refinery economics
- Geopolitical risks increasing importance of local refining
- Compliance driving both cost and innovation
6. People & Knowledge Transfer
- Aging workforce and loss of knowledge
- Increased importance of structured training and simulators
- Human + digital tools collaboration
ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION
In preparation of your abstract and paper, please follow the following instructions:
- Abstracts should be submitted online via online registration form
- All abstracts must be submitted and presented in English
- Please avoid tables, charts, complex mathematical formulas and symbols in abstract
- Abstracts may not be longer than 2500 characters including spaces
- Authors should indicate their presentation preference: oral or poster. The Scientific Committee reserves the right to decide on the final allocation and presentation method
- If you encounter any problems during the submission process or you do not receive any confirmation by email, please contact us on email goma@goma.hr or ivana.lukec@goma.hr
NOTES
- All posters will be displayed in the exhibition hall for the duration of the symposium. Poster presenter must be present during the entire session and available for discussion
- The Scientific Committee reserves the right to review all presenting material prior to presentation in order to maintain the highest professional level of presentation
- Speakers or presenters are obliged to submit their biography and photo
- Presentations and Final Papers should be sent by email to goma@goma.hr
DEADLINES
- Abstract Submission Deadline is open until June 30th, 2026
- Notification of acceptance/allocation/rejection: July 15th, 2026
- Presentation in MS Power Point (or pdf) Submission Deadline: October 1st, 2026