Argus Green Ammonia - Virtual Conference

Magnus became president of Yara’s newly established clean ammonia unit in February, having previously served as president of Yara North America, where he was responsible for the company’s sales, supply chain and production activities in the region, including its ammonia plants in Freeport and Trinidad. Before this, Magnus was chief financial officer of Yara’s Industrial business and director of corporate strategy. He joined Yara after five years at Boston Consulting Group, before which he served in the Royal Norwegian Navy. Magnus holds a BSc in nautical engineering and an MBA from the Norwegian School of Economics. Read less

Rosalinde van der Vlies is the director of the Clean Planet Directorate in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. Before her appointment as director, van der Vlies was head of co-ordination in the Inter-institutional Relations Unit and acting head of the Communication & Citizens Unit. In the past, she has held positions at the Directorate-General Environment, Directorate-General Justice and Home Affairs and in the private office of Janez Potočnik, the European commissioner for the environment. Before joining the European Commission, she worked as a competition lawyer in an international law firm in Brussels and was a part-time teacher at the Catholic University in Brussels. Read less

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Shigeru Muraki has been Representative Director at the Clean Fuel Ammonia Association (formerly Green Ammonia Consortium) since July 2019 and had been an Executive Advisor to Tokyo Gas since 2015. Shigeru joined Tokyo Gas in 1972 after graduating from the applied chemistry department of the University of Tokyo. He was appointed Chief Representative in New York from 1989 to 1994. In 1996-2004, He worked for the gas resources department. He was promoted to Chief Technology Officer in 2004. In 2007, he moved to the energy solution division where he oversaw commercial and industrial marketing and power businesses. He was appointed Executive Vice-President in 2010 and Vice-Chairman in 2014. Shigeru Muraki was also appointed the Regional Vice-Chair of Asia-Pacific and South Asia of the World Energy Council in May 2016 and was Program Director of Energy Carriers for SIP (Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program) from June 2014 to March 2019. He was awarded the Medal of Honor with Blue Ribbon in May 2017. Read less

Rob started his career at Yara in product and technology development for fertilisers. Over the next 20 years, he held several management positions at Yara related to ammonia production and use in the Netherlands, Qatar, Norway and Australia. Rob brought forward ammonia energy as General Manager at Yara Pilbara in Western Australia. He executed the clean ammonia energy agenda as Vice-President of Technology Scouting and Vice-President of Ammonia Energy and Shipping Fuel at Yara HQ, ultimately contributing to the establishment of the Yara Clean Ammonia business unit. Rob is now Vice-President of Ammonia Opportunities at Saga Pure, facilitating clean ammonia energy investments, and board member with Horisont Energi. Since August 2021 Rob has been the elected president of the Ammonia Energy Association. Read less

RB joined the World Bank Group in 2012 after a long career in the chemicals industry in R&D, technology development, technology marketing, licensing and technology transfer, business and market development, IP management and corporate strategy. As principal industry adviser to the global chemicals and fertilizers investment portfolio of IFC, he guides the investment teams and decision-making committees throughout the lifecycle of IFC’s investment, including business development, due diligence, project execution and portfolio supervision. RB leads the IFC’s efforts in helping shape the transformation of the chemicals industry to reduce its environmental footprint while sustainably producing the critical chemicals needed for everyday life. His areas of focus include: green ammonia for fertilizers; bio-derived and bio-degradable chemicals; flared gas reduction; pathways to meeting industry’s energy needs with on-demand renewable energy; and carbon capture and utilisation solutions. He holds a PhD in Polymer Science from the University of Akron, Ohio, an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut, and a BTech in Chemical Engineering from the University of Madras, India. He has published his research in several scientific journals and presented at various academic and industry conferences; he also holds many patents for his work on specialty polymer films. Read less

Trevor Brown, CFA is the Executive Director of the Ammonia Energy Association, a global industry group that promotes the responsible use of ammonia in a sustainable energy economy. He is also an independent ammonia industry analyst; in 2013, he founded AmmoniaIndustry.com, a website that provides data on capital investments in new ammonia plants, as well as on research and development in new ammonia production technology. Since 2012, he has been an agitator for the commercialization of sustainable ammonia synthesis technologies. Read less

Mark is involved in a range of port projects focusing on decarbonisation, resilience and sustainability, including leading the Resilience4Ports programme for think-tank The Resilience Shift. His work explores how to enable a transformation of global infrastructure by taking a whole-systems approach to change and integrating the work of multidisciplinary teams. He is based in London, and during his time as a senior engineer at Arup has worked on projects around the world. Read less

Before joining Hydrogen Europe in 2016, Jorgo represented Infineon Technologies in Brussels. He was a Member of the European Parliament in 2004-14, and sat on the industry, technology, research and energy committee, helping lay the cornerstones for the first and second joint undertakings on hydrogen and fuel cells. In 2007, he was voted MEP of the year by his colleagues in the research and innovation category. In 2015, he was appointed ambassador at large for Greece. Jorgo has a degree in political science from the University of Bonn. Read less

Tim is Vice President, Business Development in the fertilizer sector at Argus. Tim worked a process manager at an ammonia/urea plant in South Africa before moving to the UK to join KBR (then M.W. Kellogg) as a process engineer in the ammonia technology team. More recently Tim has covered fertilizer and industrial nitrogen as a market analyst. Read less

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Neil is the Principal (Energy Economics and Policy) in the Argus Singapore office. During his tenure at Argus, Neil has undertaken a wide range of projects that include refined product price benchmarking and valuation studies, regulatory and policy impact analysis, refinery pre-feasibility analyses, hydrocarbon product procurement risk assessments, LPG advisory studies, and generation fuel supply advisories. He led the Argus team on assessing the feasibility of hydrogen in Singapore, a study awarded by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) of Singapore. Prior to joining Argus, Neil worked as an energy economist for a leading Singaporean energy policy institute and has led several consulting projects for the government of Singapore and multilateral agencies such as the International Energy Agency (IEA), ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) and the Institute for Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ). Neil holds a doctoral degree in Energy Economics, a Masters in Energy Economics and Policy and an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. Read less

Rajat Seksaria, Chief Executive Officer of ACME Group, has made the organization the powerhouse of young and talented professionals.One of the youngest non-promoter Chief Executives in the country,dynamism is his forte. An IIM Calcutta alumnus, an electrical engineer from Gujarat University, he possesses rich experience of over 17 years. Rajat is steering the ACME Group into becoming futuristic, nimble footed and yet structured organization and enabled the organization to play a vital role in rapid energy transition, which will throw up unique opportunities and challenges. Under his leadership, ACME Group has successfully streamlined the organizational processes for the execution and timely delivery of projects and other strategic financial transactions. Rajat has played a key role in strategic deals for the company including the issuance of offshore green bonds,partnerships with global firms like SCATEC, UNOPS S3i, IFU & Brookfield Renewables and divestment of assets to Petronas and Actis. Rajat is also at the forefront of ACME’s move into setting up a pioneering global green hydrogen business. With earlier stints with Shell (earlier BG India Ltd), Punj Lloyd and India Power Corporation Limited (IPCL), he has also handled international project development in renewables and infrastructure in Africa, Asia and Europe. Read less

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Under Benjamin’s leadership M-RETS developed and successfully implemented an industry-leading environmental attribute registry that tracks across North America. The M-RETS platform brings unprecedented innovation to the industry, as well as access to data in pioneering ways such as hourly production data and peak period production data. M-RETS recently launched a renewable thermal tracking system, the first of its kind in North America. Read less

Elias is president of GTA, a company whose mission is to apply offshore wind and marine renewable energy to power large-scale green hydrogen production. Before joining GTA he was group leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Elias is a UT-Battelle Distinguished Inventor, a member of the board of directors of California Hydrogen Business Council, and a member of the Green Hydrogen Working Group of the (Yes? Or are these two separate things?) Business Network for Offshore Wind. Read less

Neeraj Gupta is the Chief Finance Officer of ACME Solar Holdings Private Limited and is part of the executive committee of the company. He has over 15 years of experience inequity capital markets, debt capital markets, mergers and acquisition and project finance and has been with ACME for over 5 years now. He has successfully raised approximately US$ 1.4 billion of equity from marquee investors, US$ 1.7 billion of debt through domestic Fund raise and has led multiple M&A and equity raise transactions with marquee funds and institutions like Macquarie, Blackstone, APG, Brookfield, Piramal, Actis, Petronas, SCATEC, UNOPS, IFU. Prior to joining the Company, he worked at Hindustan Power and Tech Mahindra in corporate finance and strategy functions. He holds an MBA in Finance and Strategy from Indian Institute of Management, Indore and B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Read less

As a commercial director for bunkering value chain partnerships at Yara’s newly established clean ammonia unit, Natalie is responsible for supporting the development of the market for ammonia as a shipping fuel. Previously, Natalie worked as an international consultant in the maritime industry with a focus on ports, trade facilitation and decarbonisation of the industry. She has a PhD in development economics and an MSc in finance and financial law. Read less

Mr. Jacob Hansen took over as the Director General of Fertilizers Europe in 2011. Prior to that he worked for the Danish Agriculture and Food Council in Copenhagen and then as Director of their office in Brussels. From a farming background and having studied Political Science at the University of Aarhus in Denmark (MA 1989), he understands first-hand the importance of fertilizers to society and the need to communicate this. Having worked and been actively involved in a range of committees, platforms and task forces for over 20 years, Mr. Hansen has developed an extensive network within the agri-industrial sectors in Brussels. Read less

Tim heads up the Argus Hydrogen and Future Fuels Service. Before involved in metals, Tim assisted the financialisation of the steel industry, establishing benchmarks in iron ore, ferrous scrap, coking coal and flat steel for Argus, Platts and The Steel Index. Previously a consultant at CRU Group, Tim holds an MBA from Aston Business School. Read less

Charles joined Lloyd’s Register in 2001 and worked in various ship repair and construction yards in the UK, France and Poland, before working in South Korea container ship, tanker and LNG carrier projects. He then moved to the Middle East, conducting audits and in-service surveys, before transitioning to client management for the Middle East, Africa and the UK. Charles has worked with several clients on zero-emission projects, spurring his passion to help the shipping industry achieve the International Maritime Organisation 2050 ambitions. Read less

Oliver Hatfield, is VP Business Development for Argus Media in London. Oliver joined Argus in October 2018 following its acquisition of Integer Research, where he spent 15 years as head of the fertilizer market research team. Oliver has more than 20 years of experience in business analysis and consulting, and he was also one of the founders of Integer. Oliver has worked extensively on multi-client and bespoke fertilizer market analysis studies, covering market forecasts, strategy, due diligence, market entry and project feasibility. He has worked as an analyst on all the key fertilizer and related chemical markets: nitrogen, phosphates, potash, sulphur and sulphuric acid. Oliver is a graduate of economics and development economics from the University of Manchester in the UK. Read less

Bjørgulf holds a master's degree in cybernetics from NTNU in Trondheim, Norway. He worked in oil and gas within projects, technology and business development as a consultant and in various disciplinary and management positions at Equinor, from 2004 to 2019. Bjørgulf has always been interested in innovation and business development, and focused on what can be achieved tomorrow with what we have today. His time at Equinor gave him a solid industrial basis and broad leadership experience. In 2019, the entrepreneur in him woke up, and he founded Horisont Energi to build an energy company that delivers on climate and value creation on an industrial scale. Read less

Charles is Vice President of Argus Media’s consulting practice in London. Charles specialises in providing market due diligence analysis in the bio and fossil fuel industries, helping clients to plan investment, acquisition and market entry strategy. Over the past five years, Argus has advised oil majors, national oil companies, fuels wholesalers, feedstock providers and national governments, on the development and outlook for the biofuels industry globally. Beginning in the energy strategy practice at Accenture, Charles spent seven years managing client engagements in biofuels and bio-based specialty chemicals. Prior to joining Argus Media, he worked for the UK government as Head of Foresight, on long-term policy making in the energy and transportation sectors. Read less

Dr. Tue Johannessen is Head of Maritime Application & Viability at the new Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping. His academic track as Assoc. Prof. in Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark ended in 2005 where he co-founded Amminex and then served as CTO in the CleanTech spin-out during the development and launch of an award-winning automotive NOx reduction technology. In 2019 he made a transition from automotive to shipping sector – starting at A.P. Moller-Maersk where he was part of conceptualizing the new center and he is now fully dedicated to accelerating a journey towards carbon-neutral shipping. Read less

Helmut has more than 30 years’ experience in the energy sector, mainly in central and southeast Europe and Chile/Latin America. Prior to joining AustriaEnergy he led Jenbacher, a leading biogas engine manufacturer, in the Iberian Peninsula until the company was sold to General Electric during his management . Helmut managed the development and construction of more than 1 GW of renewable power plants prior staring the green hydrogen project in Chile. He holds a technical degree in engineering and the economical university of Vienna. Read less

Florian has 14 years of experience in the finance sector, having worked at Sweden’s Handelsbanken as an equity analyst with a focus on E&P and at Denmark’s Danske Bank covering equity institutional sales before joining Saga Pure in January 2021. He has a master’s in finance from the Norwegian School of Economics. Read less

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Carlos has more than 14 years of experience in the shipping and climate change fields. This includes extensive experience in the development of data analytics tools, such as a model for assessing the evolution of shipping fleets, which for the first time assessed the Total Cost of Operation of zero-emissions vessels, and a model for assessing the cost drivers for producing marine zero-carbon fuels. He has authored several publications on the topic of transition to zero-emissions vessels and advises industry on decarbonisation strategy. Carlos has a PhD from the University College London on the potential of hydrogen as a fuel for shipping. His research is among the first to suggest the use of hydrogen to decarbonise the shipping industry. Read less

Christian started working for Thyssenkrupp in 2014 as a research engineer, then moved in 2015 to head up the product development group. He is now responsible for eight technologies, including green methanol and ammonia. Christian studied chemical engineering and carried out catalyst research for his PhD at the Karlsruher Institut for Technology. Read less

Jonty studied economics at the University of Cambridge. He spent his first four years with the Argus Consulting Services team in London, covering the European market. During his time in London, he worked predominantly on both short and long term crude and refined products forecasting. In 2018, Jonty joined the Singapore consulting, focusing on the delivery of single client projects related to downstream petroleum, biofuels and marine fuels. This has involved the delivery of a number of bespoke projects requiring in depth analysis of the outlook for alternative marine fuels. Read less

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Ruth has been editor of the Argus Ammonia report since 2017, most recently overseeing the report’s expansion into the green ammonia space. She joined Argus in 2009 and covered the coal, biomass and freight markets in the UK and US, before moving into fertilizers in 2016. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Brunel University London. Read less

Hasan oversees and leads fertilizer consulting services for the Americas, with a focus on single-client studies. Before joining Argus, Hasan worked for Canpotex, BHP and Accenture, where he led fundamentals analysis and strategic planning, developed analyses of competitors’ strategies, modelled the price impact of various market entry approaches, and analyzed acquisition targets. Hasan is an alumnus of McGill University, where he received a degree in economics and Rice University where he received a masters in energy economics. Read less

Oscar began covering steel markets in 2008 as a reporter at Steel Business Briefing in London. He went on to run the iron ore index for The Steel Index (TSI) in Shanghai and Singapore, supporting the growth of iron ore futures on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). He joined Argus in China three years ago, where he set up the Shanghai office and develop the Argus iron ore index, now used by the world’s largest miners. He recently returned home to London where he manages business development for the Argus metals team. Read less

Denis started his career in the photovoltaic (PV) sector in Belgium, advising the government on the launch of a new support scheme to develop solar PV in Wallonia, southern Belgium. He has also worked for the European Photovoltaic Industry Association in Brussels as an industry analyst for the solar PV market and participated in the ‘Set for 2020’ strategic study that aimed to produce 12% of Europe’s electricity from solar PV by 2020. Before this, he worked as sales manager for a major solar PV engineering, procurement and construction company in Belgium that focused on MW-size rooftop PV systems. Denis has a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Liège in Belgium and a European master’s degree in renewable energy from the University of Oldenburg (Germany) with a specialization in biomass energy at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). Read less

Andrea Valentini heads up Argus’ fertilizer consultancy services in Asia and the Middle East and has several years of experience as a fertilizer market analyst. He led consulting work on a number of projects, including feasibility studies for nitrogen, phosphates, and potash investments, and specialty fertilizers marketability research in Southeast Asia. Prior to joining Argus, he was the head of consulting for Integer Research. He is a graduate in Economics from the University of Padua in Italy and holds an MBA from McGill University, Canada. Read less

Having worked for Yara since 2004, Sammy this year took the role of senior vice-president of product solutions, responsible for developing circular, green, fertigation foliar and bio-stimulant-based solutions for Yara. Before this, he worked in ammonia production management, innovation management, global product management in sales and marketing, and most recently, served as vice-president of climate neutrality, leading the company towards a low-carbon future and overseeing the clean ammonia project portfolio. He has an MSc degree in bio-engineering and a master’s degree in management. Read less

Bert recently joined the European Investment Bank to support innovative energy transition scale-ups with quasi-equity investments. He is a structured finance and energy sector expert, having worked in this area at Shell, EBRD, ABNAMRO and ING. His special interest lies with sustainable hydrogen, for which he was responsible as global lead during his time at ING. Read less

Kajsa joined H2 Green Steel — a Swedish venture founded in 2020 to build large-scale fossil fuel-free steel production in northern Sweden — on 1 October 2021, tasked with scaling up the company’s 800MW electrolyser plant concept globally. She formerly headed up the vacuum conveying division at Piab, part of Investor AB, and before that was Vice-President for Corporate Innovation at Yara and headed Sandvik’s fuel cell components unit. Kajsa also sits on the board of Norway’s Hylleraas Center for Quantum Molecular Sciences. Read less

Lise is responsible for the development of Yara’s portfolio of green and blue ammonia projects and R&D activities in Yara’s clean ammonia unit. Before joining the company in 2016, Lise worked at Royal Dutch Shell as head of cleaner production, Shell Technology Norway. In the past, she has held managerial positions at oil and energy companies. Lise has an MSc in chemical engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology and an additional grade in strategic management from the Norwegian School of Economics. Read less

Frank has been leading renewable energy projects, transactions and technology development for more than 30 years, and played a lead role in the development of renewable energy projects valued at over $5bn in total. He served as Deputy Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency from 2012 to 2014. Frank has served on the board of energy companies in Europe, Asia, the US and Africa, and along with his EU-GCC and MENA Hydrogen Alliance roles, he is currently Senior Vice-President of Energy Transition at Reliance Industries, a Fellow at Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines, Chairman of the MENA Hydrogen Alliance, Chairman of the Dii Advisory Board, Non-Executive Board Director of Gore Street Capital, and Non-Executive Board Director of Vast Solar. Frank has written several books on renewable energy and green hydrogen. He has a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University in the Netherlands. Read less

Based in Tokyo, Tsutomu has been with NYK for 28 years and is responsible for the expansion of NYK's renewables business, which encompasses offshore wind, hydrogen and ocean energy, as well as LNG bunkering. He previously headed up other divisions, including LNG carriers, automotive ocean transportation, and port infrastructure development. Read less

Jun joined Marubeni’s Energy Division in 2004. He was in charge of LNG business for over 10 years, and from 2016 was involved in planning and strategy, which included expansion of the business into new energy. In 2018, he participated in Japan’s cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion programme on behalf of Marubeni. This year he was assigned to the Fuel Ammonia Project Section, and is working on establishing a clean ammonia supply chain. Read less

Suda was appointed to his current role this year, where he manages engineering firm IHI’s carbon solution strategy department. Before this, he worked in business development for IHI’s energy and environment sector from 2018, specialising in ammonia and CO2 capture and utilisation technology. Suda joined IHI in 1995 after graduating from the department of chemical engineering oatthe University of Tokyo. He has spent more than 20 years researching solid fuel combustion and developing clean and high-efficiency thermal power plants. Read less