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Biofuels Downstream, Trading & Logistics

 

17th March 2010

8.00 Registration Opens

Developed together with Kingsman this day will examine the practical issues of integrating biofuels into the downstream fuel supply chain and assess the global primary market for biofuels as well as the maturing market of biofuels derivatives.

9.00 - 10.45
Downstream Biofuels

  • How are oil majors integrating biofuels into their fuel distribution supply chains?
  • How are they meeting the challenges, the fuel quality standards, legislation and biofuels blending?
  • What other fuel quality impacts are there eg: air emissions, VOC’s etc? 
  • What are the regional and national challenges of achieving retail availability?
  • Are alternative fuel infrastructures required and achievable for low to high blends?

10.45     Networking Break & Exhibition Visit

11.30 - 13.00
Biofuels Logistics: Storage, Pipelines & Shipping

  • What upgrades are required and possible to improve biofuels logistics and reduce costs?
  • What are the logistical challenges to developing ethanol as a blendstock in EU petroleum markets?
  • What are the correct storage handling techniques?
  • What are the requirements of the global biofuels industry?
  • How is the world’s maritime fleet planning for the development of the biofuels industry? 

13.00     Lunch & Exhibition Visit

14.30 - 16.15
Biofuels Trading: Markets, Prices, Byproducts and Feedstocks

  • How are the trading markets evolving?
  • What changes are occurring in global biofuels demand and trade patterns?
  • What is the profitability of different biofuels from different feedstocks?
  • Do feedstocks or end products drive biofuels markets?

16.15      Networking Break & Exhibition Visit

16.45 – 17.30
Biofuels Derivatives and Risk Management

  • How are swaps and paper markets developing?
  • How can liquidity be developed in paper and futures markets?
  • How can risks be managed as a producer and trader?
  • What is the correlation between feedstock and end market prices?
  • What is happening with RINS and swaps trading in the US?

17.30      Close of Congress

Speakers Include: 
Michael Cooper, Vice President, Ultra Green Energy Services
Simo Honkanen, Senior Vice President Sustainability and HSSE, Neste Oil
Robert Gmyrek, Director Alternative Sources of Energy Department, PKN Orlen
Maelle Pinto Soares, Biofuels Director - Europe, International Fuel Quality Centre (IFQC)
Douglas Bradley, President, Climate Change Solutions
Felix Gómez Cuenca, Head of Quality Systems & Technology Management, CLH Group - Hydrocarbons Logistic Company
John Cusick, Vice President of Biodiesel Trading, Morgan Stanley Commodities
Jonathan Kingsman, Chief Executive Officer, Kingsman
David Jackson, Head of Oils and Oilseeds, LMC
Olivier Gross, Founder, Commosupply
Alfredo Langesfeld, Chief Executive Officer, GEA Biodiesel
Kevin McGeeney, Chief Executive Officer, Starsupply Renewables
Aurélien Lejeune, Managing Director, Ren-X, Mer 7
Richard Stevens, Director, Research & Product Development, CME Group

 

Agenda >> Biofuels Downstream, Trading & Logistics