DeWitt cancels pre-NPRA conference, switches online

An announcement on the DeWitt website shows that its usual pre-NPRA conference in Houston in March has been pulled in favour of an on-line event:

DeWitt & Company has modified its 34th Annual World Petrochemical Conference. Given that so many companies are deciding to restrict or ban travel during these troubled times, DeWitt has decided to bring its 34th Conference and our views and vision to you directly. We have thus deferred our plans with the Hotel ZaZa until 2010. We will adopt the technology of the Internet to present our PowerPoint Presentations along with our verbal discussions of critical issues through streaming FLASH technology and offer simply a web access ticket and a CD.

The rival pre-NPRA Houston conference from CMAI is showing 418 delegates signed up, although even this is markedly down from the same time last year.