Argus Clean Ammonia Europe Conference

Main Conference Day 1

08:00

Registration open

08:00 - 09:00

Networking breakfast

08:00 - 09:15

CEO Roundtable (by invitation only)

Morning sessions

09:20 - 09:30

Welcome from host sponsor - Port of Rotterdam

Boudewijn Siemons

CEO

Port of Rotterdam

09:30 - 09:40

Chair's opening remarks

Tim Cheyne

SVP - Global Head of Agriculture, Fertilizers, Ammonia, DEF

Argus

09:30 - 09:40

Argus insight: structuring the ammonia low carbon NW Europe price index

Speakers Include:

Ruth Sharpe

Editor - Ammonia

Argus

Oliver Hatfield

VP Fertilizers

Argus

09:50 - 10:35

Keynote Panel: Decarbonising Ammonia: Market Signals, Regulation, and End-User Demand

• Where are we on the roadmap to low-carbon ammonia? Are regulations driving real offtake, and is the market willing to pay for greener molecules?
• Which industrial sectors are showing the most immediate potential for clean ammonia uptake in Europe?
• How far down the chain do we need to go to unlock demand? What new business models are emerging, and who are the critical voices still missing?

Speakers Include:

Duna Uribe

Program Manager Clean Ammonia

Port of Rotterdam

Jeffrey Norman

Vice President Low Carbon Ammonia

Air Products

Sebastian Budischin

SVP

SEFE (Securing Energy for Europe)

Jens Aßmann

VP Business Management Ammonia Value Chain & Operations Amino Resins

BASF

Tim Cheyne

SVP - Global Head of Agriculture, Fertilizers, Ammonia, DEF

Argus

10:35 - 11:10

Europe’s Ammonia Dilemma: Domestic Capacity or International Supply? Fertilizer market perspectives

• How much ammonia will be locally produced versus how much will be imported?
• Is there infrastructure in place across the continent for ammonia to be imported? What capacity exists today and where are the gaps?
• Clean ammonia for the European fertilizer industry: how does the industry see the future? When will low carbon ammonia become a commodity in its own right?

Speakers Include:

Aviv Bar Tal

Global Vice President Commercial

OCI

Stephen Jackson

CEO

Ammonia Europe

Ivar de Maa

Business Development Manager

Vopak

Brend Michiels

Market Intelligence Advisor

Port of Antwerp-Bruges

Ruth Sharpe

Editor - Ammonia

Argus

11:10 - 11:40

Networking break

11:40 - 12:10

Argus views: Future of clean products in Europe

• Pricing forecast for five years, what could be the scenarios?
• What will happen to existing market for ammonia in Europe
• CBAM: can we plot the point where clean ammonia market becomes a reality?

Speakers Include:

Marina Simonova

Principal - Consulting, Fertilizer & Clean Ammonia Analytics

Argus

Jake Preseton

Senior Analyst - Consulting

Argus

12:10 - 13:00

Financing the future: What makes clean ammonia projects bankable?

• From concept to FID: What are the key impediments holding projects back from reaching financial close, and what do financiers need to see to back clean ammonia and green hydrogen investments?
• Ammonia as a hydrogen enabler: How does ammonia solve hydrogen’s transport and storage challenges, and is it the key to unlocking global green hydrogen trade?
• Policy, markets and project viability: With Europe’s fragmented support landscape, how can developers align with target markets and build scalable projects which can be financed by 2030?

Speakers Include:

Andrej Nötzel

Director, Energy

KfW IPEX-Bank

Antonia Vlek

Director, Project & Infrastructure Finance

ABN AMRO Bank

Pierre-Germain Marlier

Investment Director, Head of Northern Europe

Hy24

Keshni Sritharan

Senior Originator, Low Carbon Commodities

EnBW Energie Baden Wurttemberg

Jake Preseton

Senior Analyst - Consulting

Argus

Networking lunch sponsored by Höegh Evi

13:00 - 14:00

Networking lunch highlighting women in clean ammonia

Speakers Include:

Keshni Sritharan

Senior Originator, Low Carbon Commodities

EnBW Energie Baden Wurttemberg

Andrea Guati-Rojo

Head of Stakeholder Relations and Public Affairs

Ammonia Energy Association (AEA)

Corinne Sandberg

Chief Marketing Officer

EVREC

Duna Uribe

Program Manager Clean Ammonia

Port of Rotterdam

Ruth Sharpe

Editor - Ammonia

Argus

Afternoon sessions

14:00 - 15:00

Panel discussion: Global Supply Momentum - Tracking Clean Ammonia Project Progress

• Key production hubs and project pipeline: What is happening on the supply side in major countries like the US Gulf coast, the UAE and China? Which blue and green ammonia projects are moving toward FID or commissioning?
• From announcements to action: How are key players progressing? What separates speculative projects from those reaching commercial reality?
• Carbon intensity and market readiness: With low-carbon indexes maturing, how are producers benchmarking carbon intensity (CI)?

Speakers Include:

Jong Chen Foo

Head of Global Ammonia

Woodside Energy

Jonathan Flynn

Director Clean Energy

CF Industries

Corinne Sandberg

Chief Marketing Officer

EVREC

Wim Damme

Head of Green Hydrogen & Ammonia Trading

Envision Energy

Jack Merriott

Senior Manager - Consulting

Argus

15:00 - 15:40

Roundtables and coffee break

1. North America led by Jong Chen Foo, Global Head of Ammonia, Woodside Energy
2. Europe led by Dr. Jens Aßmann, VP Business Management Ammonia Value Chain & Operations Amino Resins, BASF
3. China led by Wim Damme, Head of Green Hydrogen & Ammonia Trading, Envision Energy

Join our interactive roundtable sessions designed to spark meaningful conversations and connections. Sign up now to secure your spot and engage with peers, share insights, and explore new ideas in a collaborative setting. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your network and gain fresh perspectives - follow the sign-up form when you register today.

Roundtable leaders include:

Jong Chen Foo

Head of Global Ammonia

Woodside Energy

Jens Aßmann

VP Business Management Ammonia Value Chain & Operations Amino Resins

BASF

Wim Damme

Head of Green Hydrogen & Ammonia Trading

Envision Energy

15:40 - 16:25

Why now? European ports preparing for future handling of low carbon ammonia today

Building a clean ammonia ecosystem in Europe

• What is the government missing in terms of the role of ports as demand aggregators to help get projects kick-started?
• Role of ports in cracking projects: How are ports preparing to offer flexibility to cracking project for supply and offtake? When to invest in cracking infrastructure and import terminals
• Case study: Pecem to Rotterdam to Duisburg

Speakers Include:

Johannes Eng

Corporate Development and Strategy

Port of Duisburg

Wouter Demenint

Program Manager Hydrogen Supply Chains

Port of Rotterdam

Sjoerd Jenneskens

Director Ammonia Distribution & Trade

OCI

Alexander Fokker

General Manager

LBC Tank Terminals

Oliver Hatfield

VP Fertilizers

Argus

16:25 - 17:10

Progress on ammonia crackers: What are the latest updates from key projects in Europe?

• Are there any developments taking place outside of Europe from which the industry can learn?
• What is the expected performance level of crackers? Development of cracking technology efficiency and costs
• How are technology companies working with partners in the hydrogen and ammonia space to develop the business case for ammonia cracking?
  
  

Speakers Include:

Nils Jakob Hasle

EVP Clean Energy

Hoegh Evi

Vaios Kitsos

Head of Technical Sales Ammonia Cracking

thyssenkrupp Uhde

Tobias Roelofs

Senior Business Developer CCS & CCU

TNO

17:10 - 17:30

Why is PGS 12 an important starting point for international ammonia terminal design?

• How can PGS 12 be used as a model for developing further safety standards for clean ammonia globally?
• What further developments or technologies are contributing to unlocking ammonia's role in Europe?
• How is the industry working together to bring innovation to the next generation of onshore ammonia terminals

Speakers Include:

Natalia Zubenko

Business Development Manager

GTT

17:30

Chair’s closing remarks & end of day 1 main conference

Tim Cheyne

SVP - Global Head of Agriculture, Fertilizers, Ammonia, DEF

Argus

Main networking drinks reception

17:30 - 19:00

Main networking drinks reception

Main Conference Day 2

08:00

Registration open and morning coffee

08:15 - 08:50

End-user breakfast roundtables

1. Fertilizer sector led by Oliver Hatfield, VP Fertilizers, Argus
2. Shipping led by MeiKei Lai, Manager - Consulting, Argus
3. Refining transition: how are oil refiners looking to integrate ammonia to meet decarbonisation goals—and what is the pace of adoption? ? Led by Joyce Aviso, Principal – Hydrogen, Argus
4. Beyond physical: Navigating ammonia price risk with derivatives led by Kieran Walsh, Commodity Broker, FIS

Join our interactive roundtable sessions designed to spark meaningful conversations and connections. Sign up now to secure your spot and engage with peers, share insights, and explore new ideas in a collaborative setting. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your network and gain fresh perspectives - follow the sign-up form when you register today.

Roundtable leaders include:

Oliver Hatfield

VP Fertilizers

Argus

Joyce Aviso

Hydrogen Principle, Consulting

Argus

Mei Kei Lai

Manager - Consulting

Argus

Morning sessions

09:00 - 09:05

Chair’s opening remarks

Speakers Include:

Oliver Hatfield

VP Fertilizers

Argus

09:05 - 09:35

How can the industry create more demand for low carbon ammonia? Transitioning from demand to offtake contracts

• Finding new demand: where are the early market signals? Why are things not happening at pace we want?
• To what extent has the IMO Net Zero framework served as a driver of momentum in the market? What role will refineries and demand for green hydrogen play?
• How can the industry convert demand into offtake contracts? How do we get to investments and contracts?
• Why are pricing structures so important in formulating these first-of-a-kind offtake contracts?

Speakers Include:

Saravanan Manivel

Director – Low Carbon Fuels

Engie Trading

Harish Jayaram

Vice President, Business Development

Hygenco Green Energies

Haris Zografakis

Senior Consultant

Stephenson Harwood

Oliver Hatfield

VP Fertilizers

Argus

09:35 - 09:55

Ship-to-ship transfers: Exploring the technical and safety challenges of ammonia as a shipping fuel

Successful case studies

Speakers Include:

Naomi van den Berg

Program Manager Sustainable Transport

Port of Rotterdam

09:55 - 10:35

Panel discussion: Clean ammonia at sea: is the shipping industry ready?

• Technology readiness and fleet orders: how close are we to commercial deployment of ammonia-fuelled vessels? Who is placing orders, and how many ships are in the pipeline?
• Blue versus green ammonia preferences: are shipowners open to using blue ammonia, or is green the only acceptable option for decarbonisation strategies in the longer-term? How does this compare to other low carbon fuels?
• Offtake and fuel commitments: are we seeing real momentum in offtake agreements and ammonia procurement? What signals are emerging from early movers in the maritime sector?

Speakers Include:

Oeyvind Lindeman

Chief Commercial Officer

Navigator Gas

Kristof Coppé

Director Fleet Operations & Technical Business Development

Exmar

Eva Boje Errebo

Head of Time Charter

Maersk Tankers

Emile Herben

Director of Product Management

Yara Clean Ammonia

Jack Merriott

Senior Manager - Consulting

Argus

10:35 - 10:55

Powering progress: ammonia engines and the race to adoption

• How close are shipowners and engine makers to commercial deployment? With wartsila targeting a 2026 release, what is the realistic outlook for ammonia-powered vessels?
• Dual-use innovation: beyond shipping, could ammonia engines play a role in off-grid power generation? What are the crossover opportunities for developers and investors?
• Are engine makers moving fast enough to meet demand? What do they need to demonstrate now to keep momentum -and market interest - alive?

Speakers Include:

Jorgen Vedsted

Principal Promotion Manager

Everllence

10:55 - 11:15

Networking break

10:15 - 11:40

Powering Europe with the innovations from Japan: will Europe come around to the use of ammonia for maritime and generating power?  

• With Japan’s government supporting ammonia for maritime and power generation to offset conventional costs, will Europe follow suit with similar incentives or compensation mechanisms?
• Can Europe justify the high cost of clean ammonia in its power sector, and what role will it play in long-term decarbonisation strategies?
• Could European regulations evolve to support ammonia in power generation, or will policy gaps continue to limit its adoption in the power sector?

Speakers Include:

Susumu Tokura

Managing Director & CEO

IHI Europe Ltd

11:40 - 12:00

thyssenkrupp Uhde and JM presentation

12:00

Chair's closing remarks

Speakers Include:

Jake Preseton

Senior Analyst - Consulting

Argus

Networking lunch

Port of Rotterdam site visit - Portlantis

12:30 - 16:00

Site visit sponsored by Port of Rotterdam