Argus Biofuels & Feedstocks Asia Conference

Reaching the heights of success – why SAF could be the next golden ticket

• What are the airlines’ views on feedstocks, including use of UCO, palm residue and POME?
• How can you get prices to come down in an unincentivised industry?
• How much will customers be prepared to pay for “greener” travel?

Interviewer:
Jonty Richardson, Senior Consulting Manager, Argus

Interviewee:
Hiroaki Sugimori, Director, Decarbonization, Corporate Planning, All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. 

• How can companies meet the growing demand for feedstock for SAF production?
• Exploring the need for more conversion pathways
• Will we expect more feedstock to say within Asia versus being exported globally?

• Views on the SAF outlook within Asia and the parameters for success
• How does the refining expansion create a significant role for SAF availability across Asia and globally?
• What is the role of policy vs. voluntary demand in triggering further investments?

• What subsidies are available to create a new supply chain?
• Exploring the options to utilise co-processing to produce SAF from waste and residue
• Investing in storage facilities to store renewable raw materials connecting the plant

Moderator:

Jonty Richardson, Senior Consulting Manager, Argus 

Panellists:

Sami Jauhiainen, Vice President, APAC, Renewable Aviation, Neste

Shutong Liu, Founder, MotionECO 

Jennifer-Aurandt-Pilgrim, Director of Innovation and Market Development, Marquis

Hiro Suenaga, Managing Director, Head of Group 3, Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transport & Urban Development

• What are the incentives for alternative pathways to SAF and feedstock availability?
• Reviewing the early stage developments of native technology?
• Understanding GHG savings

• Advancing technologies that tackle net-zero ambitions
• From feedstock to technology – benefits of innovative technology on processing renewable feedstock
• How process technology and hydrotreating work as an accelerator in reducing carbon emissions

• Current SAF blending components for JET A/A-1
• Exploring the outlook of the use of 100% SAF
• What are the co-processing options?

Join this interactive discussion with 10-15 attendees. Get your main pressing questions answered around a specific topic and collaborate with industry experts with the same business strategies as yours

Roundtable 1: Feedstock availability – how much will the SAF market need to find and where from?

Led by: Jennifer-Aurandt-Pilgrim, Director of Innovation and Market Development, Marquis

Roundtable 2: SAF credits – what are the developments and how are they priced?

Led by: Max Eichelbaum, Digital Solutions Manager, RSB

Roundtable 3: Technical focus: Will blends reach 100pc and what that means for aircrafts?

Join this important session to gain better clarity on new governmental policies in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, India and Australia. What mandates are in place that create growth opportunities within Asia, how can regulatory fragmentation be reduced so that doing business is made easier, and what new incentives will become available?

• How are governments encouraging growth of the biodiesel and bio naphtha markets?
• What new ethanol mandates are emerging and the regions backing them?
• Speeding up the adoption of Euro 5 by 2023 to upgrade environmental standards

Moderator:

Fabricio Cardoso, Manager, Consulting Services, Argus

Panellists:

Clarence Woo, Executive Director, Asian Clean Fuels Association

Bala Mukundan, President, Biodiesel Association of India

Vinesh Sinha, CEO and Founder, FatHopes Energy

A short 10 minute presentation followed by Q&A

• What are the proposed changes to RED II?
• Europe’s views on the use of palm oil and the impact on imports from Asia
• Understanding proposals for a common union database for future traceability of all feedstocks and finished products and what the requirements will be

• How is the Asian demand landscape changing for waste feedstocks?
• How suppliers meet growing demand and a close look at supply strategies
• Will we expect more feedstock to say within Asia versus being exported globally?

• Assessing Asia’s renewable diesel, HVO, FAME and HEFA demand
• An outlook on conventional biofuels trends to Europe over the next 2-5 years including volume and pricing
• Marine spotlight: marine pricing, B24 blends and volumes

With demand for feedstock rising globally, Asia continues to be positioned as the feedstock powerhouse. With new concerns over Europe’s demand on palm oil, alongside new capacity in Asia and a need for diversification, the feedstock landscape is dramatically changing

• How might competition for feedstocks from international markets such as Europe and the US develop?
• Which regions are able to increase supplies of waste feedstock, and to what extent will international buyers rely on Asia-Pacific?
• How can trust in the global supply chain be managed, given a finite availability?
• How will investors in renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel manage feedstock sourcing? 

Moderator:

John-Houghton Brown, Europe & Asia Biofuels Lead, Argus

Panellists:

Naji Atiyeh, Biofuels Trading Manager, Apeiron Bioenergy

Rahul Rajashekar Shastry, Senior Manager, Biofuels, Wilmar Trading

Ramon Álvarez Blázquez, Chief Commercial Officer, UCO Trading

Victor Allemandou, Biofuels and Feedstocks Broker, Nexus

• Understanding the developments of UCO, UCOME, HVO and SAF
• Exploring feedstock supply chains and improving efficiencies
• Working with RSB to improve product sustainability

• How does varying feedstock affect pricing value based on carbon intensity?
• Understanding how mandates and subsidies affect pricing and flows
• How ACX and technology will contribute to achieving your goals

• Exploring the renewable fuel standard (RFS) programme: origins and concepts including fuel types
• Understanding how the system is managed (RIN lifespan, RFS volume mandates)
• Recent developments in APAC: new feedstock flows, challenges and perspectives

• Understanding the current UCO landscape across South East Asia
• How can companies build trust across the supply chain?
• Verifying quality and quantity of feedstock for sustainable validation

• Methodology comparison of conventional vs alternative bunkers
• Introduction of B24 Singapore: pricing, fundamentals, outlook

Hear from our keynote speakers on biofuels as the fuel of choice for the marine sector. Learn how FAME and UCO can be blended into bunker fuels, what volumes are expected and at what price

• What are the benefits of utilising biofuels over LNG or methanol?
• How will the ban of the combustion engine by 2025 open a new biodiesel marine market?
• What investments need to take place in logistics, blending and distribution?
• How can companies cut carbon emissions whilst retaining fuel infrastructure and engines?

Moderator:

Prapisala Thepsithar, Project Lead, Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation

Speakers:

Jing Xieng JX Han, General Manager, Asia-Pacific, GoodFuels

Ming Zhen Koh, Asia Pacific Policy Planning Advisor, ExxonMobil Asia Pacific

Ashwani Agarwal, Director – Fleet Operations, OSM Maritime

• Where do we see governments across Asia promoting bioplastics and the use of bio naphtha?
• What steps need to be taken to create a robust industry around bio naphtha?
• How will creating a chemical application price aid industry development and trading?

Interviewer:
Fabricio Cardoso, Manager, Consulting Services, Argus

Interviewee:
Han Cheng, Biofuels and Bio-feedstocks Lead Asia, Trading & Shipping, Total Petrochemicals (Shanghai)