Host sponsor
CME Group
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.
Diamond sponsor
Sparta
Sparta enables traders to identify opportunities with complete clarity and conviction. We are built by traders, for traders, so we know the competitive advantage you need is to be able to identify and capture opportunities first. We know that your current processes make that difficult. We know that maximising your speed to market will give you the edge. We know that you need intelligence and insights, not just data. We know that traders want to trade, not just populate spreadsheets. That's why we built the first all-in-one pricing and live intelligence platform to deliver actionable, tradable market insights. Sparta sources and cleans high-quality data from world-leading brokerages and data houses, then analyses and interprets that data for you in real-time, enabling you to confidently determine where opportunities exist, maximise your speed to market and, ultimately, trade with conviction. Currently available for gasoline, distillate, jet and naphtha, Sparta for Crude is set to launch in Q1 2024.
Gold sponsors
Enterprise Crude Oil LLC
Enterprise Crude Oil LLC is one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. The partnership’s assets currently include more than 50,000 miles of pipelines; over 260 million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, crude oil, petrochemicals and refined products; and 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity.
LOOP
Over the last three decades, LOOP has handled more than 12 billion barrels (1.91 billion cubic meters) of foreign and domestic crude oil into the U.S. LOOP has shown itself to be a safe and efficient partner for the delivery of large volumes of crude oil.
Silver sponsor
IIR Energy
IIR Energy is a dedicated market research organization that delivers critical global intelligence for the energy markets. IIR Energy’s database warehouses 30 years of history and 10 years forward of unit-level research across the globe to help energy professionals make well-informed decisions based on accurate fundamental knowledge before, during, and after outages, turnarounds, new capacity add-ons and more.
Gunvor Group
Gunvor Group is one of the world’s largest independent commodities trading houses by turnover, creating logistics solutions that safely and efficiently move physical energy, bulk materials, and base metals from where they are sourced and stored to where they are demanded most. With strategic investments in energy infrastructure—refineries, pipelines, storage, power plants, and terminals —Gunvor further generates sustainable value across the global supply chain for its customers. In 2022, Gunvor Group generated US $150 billion in revenue on 165 million metric tons of turnover. The Group’s main trading offices are in Geneva, Singapore, Houston, Stamford, Calgary, Dubai, and London, with a network of more than 20 representative and other trading offices around the globe. More information can be found at GunvorGroup.com or @Gunvor.
Global analytics partner
Vortexa
Vortexa provides market-leading real-time data and advanced analytics for energy and shipping markets, giving the most accurate and complete picture of waterborne energy flows and freight dynamics. We provide an end-to-end granular view of global crude and condensate flows, providing comprehensive insights for over 500 unique crude and condensate grades globally. Vortexa also covers refined products, LPG and LNG, across all vessel classes, helping traders, analysts and shipping professionals gain a competitive edge into complex and opaque markets by making better trading decisions with confidence. Vortexa is a multidisciplinary force of over 100 employees combining the best of energy and shipping expertise, data science and engineering across our offices in London, Singapore, New York, Houston and Dubai.
Exhibitors
Refinery Calc
Meet Refinery Calc – we are your global refining operations intelligence partner. As a vanguard in the industry, we specialize in integrating live, diverse data feeds into a sophisticated ecosystem, delivering unparalleled, actionable insights and answers. Our platform is designed with an intuitive, "apple-like" interface, enabling users to effortlessly navigate our powerful, cloud-based refining optimization engine. Our cutting-edge technology allows for the generation of key performance indicators (KPIs) including crude runs, refined product yields, refinery margins, energy and hydrogen consumption, carbon emissions, and much more. Refinery Calc stands out with its seamless connectivity options; users can effortlessly integrate with our system using Excel or through our API, supported by pre-built SDK clients. Join us at the Argus Americas Oil and Gas Crude Oil Conference to experience how Refinery Calc is transforming the landscape of refinery intelligence, making it more accessible, efficient, and insightful than ever before. Let us be your guide to a more informed, data-driven future in the refining industry.
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