Abstract: The increasing shale gas production of North American results in lower hydrogen price than that from naphtha as feed and makes hydroprocessing technology and petrochemical industry has a competitive advantage. The United States becomes a net exporter of petroleum product. The soared shale oil production together with insufficient export ability results in tight oil price declined, making the West and Mid-continent refineries in U.S benefit a lot. Just under such a background，The 2013AFPM annual meeting was held in U.S. This paper outlines the 2013 AFPM annual meeting technical sessions. The meeting discussed the challenge & opportunities for U.S refineries, focusing on the influence of increasing shale oil and shale gas. The progress in oil processing technology in term of FCC，hydro-processing, bio-fuel, as well as shale oil processing were also introduced. The meeting presented the great advances in catalyst R&D at molecular level for FCC and hydro-technology, having a guiding significance for the development of new functional catalyst. Several technologies have been successfully developed for coking and residues processing, like new coking additives and non-hydrodesulfurization. The meeting indicated that the biofuel technology development prospects, many technologies are expected to industrial application in the future.