Argus Rio Crude Conference

Registration opens and breakfast served

Conference producer's opening address

Keynote speaker address

To be announced

Managing the known unknowns: effects of geopolitics and macro-economic policy on the future of global crude markets

• What are the wider implications of the US debt crisis? Is there more economic uncertainty?
• How have geopolitics in Latin America reshaped the continent’s energy mix
• Trade-flows from the West: exploring crude movements in Latin America and US

Speaker Include:

Bruno Amorim

VP- Energy, Transportation & Infrastructure-Global Investment Research, Goldman Sachs

James Gooder

Vice-President, Crude

Argus

Networking Break

Morning break to have breakfast meetings. Coffee and breakfast served in exhibition hall

LatAm perspectives: Rapid growth opportunities and the challenges of 2024 deliveries

• Exploring the rise of Argentina and Mexico's production and trade capacity
• Venezuela and the potential dominance of new exploration capacities in LATAM
• Domino effect: will Argentinian growth increase PSA’s across South America?

Speakers include:

Daniel Ciaffone

Vice President - Integrated Supply & Trading

Pan American Energy

Pablo Gristo

Head of Exploration and Production Energy Transition, ANCAP

Vanessa Viola

Senior Vice-President, Latin America

Argus

Brazil’s rapid growth in 2024: New opportunities for Brazilian dominance in global crude supply

• OPEC+ or BRICS: What does it mean for Brazil?
• Increased production and refining capacities: creating a new map for Brazilian export
• Structuring Brazil’s new demand for refined products

Speaker include:

Gustavo Hooper

Head of Trading & Shipping

PRIO

Vanessa Viola

Senior Vice-President, Latin America

Argus

Networking lunch and complimentary workshop

14:00-14:30 Lunch Workshop in Main Conference Hall:

Navigating the Future: AI-Powered forecasting and risk management solutions:
Discussing the role of AI in analysing commodity market trends; a) Establishing a new age of scenarios and stress testing

Speakers Include:

Vlasios Voudouris

Chief Data Officer

Argus

Global demand session: Filling the Russian supply gap

• Exploring mutual growth in Asia and Europe
• Will there be increased demand for LatAm crude in the US

Speaker include:

Gus Vasquez

Argus Americas Senior Crude Editor

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Monica Lesmes Martinez

Manager- Crude Oil Trading, Repsol

Networking break

Sustainability: How to market low-carbon crude efficiently?

• CCS: how can it make crude a more sustainable product
• Advantages of low-carbon crude trade
• Incentivising low-carbon production and trade to ensure global competition
• Innovations: what beyond CCS (efficiency and logistics support)

Speakers include:

Raquel Filgueiras

Project Manager

Innovation Norway

Daniel Elias

CEO

Petrogal Brasil

Evening drinks reception

Doors open

Chairperson's opening remarks

Vanessa Viola

Senior Vice-President, Latin America

Argus

Keynote speaker address

To be announced

Freight keynote: Exploring the many faces of Latin American crude trade

• Economies of scale for Latin American exports: Transit by VLCC vs. Panamax
• The cost of infrastructure constraints for Medanito exports
• Expanding markets for Latin American crude in Europe and Asia
• How IMO and EU regulations are affecting freight costs?

Speaker include:

Alex Younevitch

Head of Freight

Argus

Cristiane David Nascimento

Trader, PRIO

Networking breakfast

Chinese Whispers: Will China bounce back from economic downturns in 2023?

• Brazil in; Angola out: Assessing the impact of OPEC production policy on Chinese crude procurement
• What opportunities does the decline in shipments of Venezuelan crude to China open up for other Latin American producers?
• As supply of their cheap crude feedstocks shrinks, might China’s teapots return to the Atlantic basin crude market?

Chairpersons closing remarks

Speakers Include:

Vanessa Viola

Executive Vice President, Latin America & Global Head of LPG

Lunch and Argus workshops

Workshop 1: Argus Global Freight workshop: new powers and old problems

• The ongoing impact of Russian crude flows
• Black swans and their effect on bottlenecks and freight costs
• Why you should care about new ships and carbon?

Alex Younevitch

Head of Freight

Argus

Workshop 2: Global pricing workshop

- Key updates on global pricing and benchmarks: WTI-Midlands
- What is happening with Liza, Payara and Unity?
- Latest insights from West Africa's production

Gus Vasquez

Argus Americas Senior Crude Editor

Argus

James Gooder

Vice-President, Crude

Argus

End of conference