Agenda
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Biomethane Focus Day | Tuesday 17 November
- 08:30 - 09:00
Morning registration and networking
- 08:55 - 09:00
Chairperson’s opening remarks
Speakers Include:
Lawrence Templeton
Business Development Manager - European gas, power and LNGArgus- 09:00 - 09:20
European biomethane market: Supply, demand and price signals
- European biomethane production, supply and demand outlook
- Natural gas fundamentals as the underlying cost base for biomethane
- How feedstock, GHG value, certification and end use shape biomethane premiums
- Where the highest-value demand is emerging across road transport, heat, industry and shipping
Speakers Include:
Justin Colley
Manager - Electricity and Environmental Markets • GenFuelsArgus- 09:20 - 09:40
Presentation: European Commission
Speakers Include:
Mikolaj Jasiak
Public and Regulatory Affairs AdvisorEuropean Commission- 09:40 - 10:00
Building the internal market for biomethane: Turning 35bcm from target into reality
- Why EU integration matters for a resilient, competitive and clean Europe
- What it will take to scale biomethane across Europe
Speakers Include:
Gunner Steck
Senior Policy AdvisorEnergy Traders Europe- 10:00 - 10:45
RED III and national implementation: Where will biomethane demand come from?
- How RED III is changing the regulatory basis for biomethane demand across Europe
- Germany’s implementation and the future of biomethane under the THG quota
- France’s CPB model and what different national approaches mean for producers and suppliers
- Certification, guarantees of origin and the challenge of creating a more integrated European market
Speakers Include:
Alberto Castagnini
Senior Technical Manager Policy, TransportEurogas
Davide Rubini
Head of Regulatory AffairsVitolAnna Venema
ChairAIB Gas Scheme Group- 10:45 - 11:05
Morning coffee and networking
- 11:05 - 11:30
Natural gas: The cost base beneath biomethane
- European gas balance heading into winter 2026/27: storage, LNG supply and the Hormuz aftershock
- TTF and THE forward curves and what they imply for the biomethane premium
- How gas price volatility feeds through to biomethane contract pricing and indexation
- Where gas and carbon prices together set the floor for unsubsidised biomethane
Speakers Include:
Antonio Peciccia
Global EditorArgus- 11:30 - 11:50
ETS and ETS2: Carbon pricing and the value of biomethane
- How biomethane interacts with the existing EU ETS and the emerging ETS2 market
- Carbon pricing exposure across buildings, road transport and industrial gas demand
- Sustainability requirements, proof of sustainability and the treatment of biomethane under emissions trading
- How carbon prices could change willingness to pay for renewable gas
Speakers Include:
Nils Holta
Net Zero AdvisorEcohz- 11:50 - 12:30
Subsidised versus unsubsidised biomethane: What makes a market bankable?
- How far European biomethane production still depends on direct support and national support schemes
- Whether mandates, carbon pricing and end-user premiums can support new production without production subsidies
- What producers need from long-term offtake agreements, floor prices and counterparties to finance new capacity
- How developers decide between road transport, heat, industry and maritime when each market values biomethane differently
Speakers Include:
Jamie Oliver
Origination LeadAcornWouter Le Rutte
Originator, Biomethane & Bio-LNGCentrica EnergyLorenzo Parola
Managing PartnerParola Associati- 12:30 - 12:50
Matching biomethane supply to buyer requirements
- Patterns across deals in what producers offer and what buyers specify on feedstock, GHG value and end use, and where the two diverge
- The commercial and contractual sticking points that recur across transactions, and how they get resolved
- The role certification plays in whether a deal gets done
- What deal flow reveals about the gaps in European biomethane market infrastructure
Speakers Include:
Jennifer Hulskotter
Account ManagerAgriportance
Kelsey Winkel
Associate Account ManagerAgriportance- 12:50 - 13:50
Networking lunch
- 13:50 - 14:35
Biomethane in road transport: Competing in the biofuels complex
- The economics of biomethane under national road fuel quotas and its position against HVO, biodiesel and ethanol
- Where bio-CNG and bio-LNG offer a competitive proposition for heavy-duty road transport
- Fleet demand, vehicle availability and the future of gas refuelling infrastructure
- Whether road transport can remain the premium biomethane market as demand develops elsewhere
Speakers Include:
Philip Fjeld
CEOCNG Fuels
Maximilian Ruhe
Head of SalesEnvitecMoritz Puhrsch
Origination & Trading – THG Quota & BiomethaneACTDr. Ralph Wagner
Lead Market AnalystUniper- 14:35 - 14:55
Contractual developments in biomethane: Navigating evolving offtake and certification frameworks
Speakers Include:
Kenneth Wallace-Müller
Energy Transition LawyerDLA Piper- 14:55 - 15:40
Bio-LNG and maritime: Can shipping become the next premium market?
- How maritime regulation is creating a new source of demand for biomethane and bio-LNG
- Turning grid-injected biomethane into a compliant marine fuel proposition
- The economics of supplying shipping compared with road transport and other end-use markets
- How quickly marine demand can scale and what this means for competition for available biomethane
Speakers Include:
Willem Olde Kalter
Bio-LNG Trading and Business DevelopmentCargill
Stefan Fahrnholz
Manager R&D - DecarbonisationCarnival Maritime
Catherine Caulfield
VP Business Development, Global Marine Fuels, Oil MarketsArgusHamish Watson
Renewable DerivativesClarksons- 15:40 - 16:30
Sourcing and trading: Building a European biomethane market
- The role of producers, originators, utilities and traders in moving biomethane between markets
- How certification, guarantees of origin and proof of sustainability affect cross-border trade
- Contract structures, tenors and the transition from bilateral transactions towards more standardised products
- Price discovery, index adoption and where liquidity can develop as demand broadens
Speakers Include:
Ivo Morawski
Origination ManagerReneraJulian Auderieth
PresidentErGaR (European Renewable Gas Registry)Arne Flatchet
Global Head of Trading - Renewable Gas (Biomethane)STX Group- 16:30 - 16:35
Chairperson’s closing remarks
- 16:35 - 18:00
Off site drinks reception at Giorgia Trattoria
Join us for the off site networking reception, just a 2 minute walk away.
Weißenburger Str 2 · 81667 Munich
Day 1 | Wednesday 18 November
- 08:30 - 09:25
Morning Registration and Networking
- 09:25 - 09:30
Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
- 09:30 - 09:45
Argus Welcome
- 09:45 - 10:30
PANEL DISCUSSION – Geopolitical Disruption, Energy Security and Fuel Market Volatility
- How the Middle East conflict repriced European road fuels and what risk premium remains
- The exposure that import dependency created and whether it can be reduced
- How suppliers, traders and large consumers managed through the peak of the disruption
- What a re-escalation scenario would mean for European supply
- Has the crisis changed how the industry hedges, stocks and contracts?
Speakers Include:
Rob McLeod
Global Head of Energy Risk SolutionsHartree Partners- 10:30 - 11:15
Networking Break
- 11:15 - 12:00
PANEL DISCUSSION – Diesel Supply Security: Sanctions, Sourcing and Europe's New Import Map
- The impact of the ban on products refined from Russian crude, ten months in
- US Gulf coast barrels as the new marginal supply and the durability of that reliance
- Whether Indian and Turkish flows return at scale, and under what compliance conditions
- Russian export restrictions and the risk of a full diesel export ban
- Due diligence, documentation and the cost of proving compliant barrels
Speakers Include:
Benedict George
Editor - Oil ProductsArgus- 12:00 - 12:30
PANEL DISCUSSION – The Future of European Refining: Survivor Premium or Managed Decline?
- What record distillate margins mean for assets that were marked for closure
- The diesel-gasoline yield dilemma and how refiners are optimising between them
- Ownership churn: majors exiting, traders acquiring, and what it means for investment
- Refining as strategic infrastructure: is the political mood shifting?
- Where the next closures come from once margins normalise
Speakers Include:
Benedict George
Editor - Oil ProductsArgus- 12:30 - 13:45
Networking lunch break
- 13:45 - 14:15
Germany vs ARA: Shifting Gasoil Trade Flows and Market Dynamics
- How the German gasoil market is performing compared with ARA
- Germany's shift from a traditional net importer to exporting meaningful gasoil volumes
- Why German prices have traded below ARA for sustained periods
- The impact of weak heating-oil demand on domestic supply, pricing and exports
- Whether these changes represent a short-term imbalance or a more structural market shift
Speakers Include:
Hagen Reiners
Editor – Oil ProductsArgus Media- 14:15 - 15:00
PANEL DISCUSSION – Gasoline: From Structural Overhang to Supply Squeeze
- How the refining pivot to distillates starved the gasoline pool ahead of summer
- Dangote self-sufficiency and the erosion of Europe's core export market
- Transatlantic arbitrage: a reopened window or a temporary reprieve?
- Hybrid uptake and the case for resilient European gasoline demand
- Positioning FCC-heavy assets for a smaller export market
- 15:00 - 15:30
Afternoon Coffee and Networking
- 15:30 - 16:30
PANEL DISCUSSION – Polish Fuel Market: So Close, So Different
- German refineries, logistics routes and fuel security from the Polish side of the border
- Biofuels and biocomponents: cross-market impact
- RED III implementation
- Alternative fuels development
Speakers Include:
Wojciech Labuda
Chief Regulatory OfficerPOPiHN
Wojciech Iwulski
Climate Solutions DirectorUNIMOT
Jakub Jablonski
Sales Director, WholesaleANWIMGrzegorz Jozwiak
Executive Director for Biofuels and HydrogenORLEN- 16.55 - 17.00
Chairperson’s closing remarks
Day 2 | Thursday 19 November
- 08:45 - 09:25
Registration and Morning Networking
- 09:25 - 09:30
Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
- 09:30 - 10:00
Pump Politics: Price Intervention, Tax Cuts and the Impact on Fuel Markets
- What recent government interventions have revealed about the resilience of European fuel markets
- Price controls, tax cuts and the unintended consequences for retailers and distributors
- Cross-border impacts: Fuel tourism, shifting demand and changing supply patterns
- How governments can protect consumers without creating further market distortion
- What the downstream fuel industry needs from policymakers ahead of the next disruption
Speakers Include:
Daniel Kaddik
General ManagerBundesverband freier Tankstellen (BFT)- 10:00 - 10:45
PANEL DISCUSSION – The Policy Reset: What the 90% Target and ETS2 Delay Mean for Liquid Fuels
- A durable post-2035 market for liquid fuels: how large, and for which fuels?
- The new compliance role for renewable fuels within fleet CO2 targets
- What does RED III implementation mean for RFNBO demand and investment?
- Preparing for ETS2: auction design, hedging and pass-through strategies
- National measures versus EU frameworks: managing a fragmented compliance landscape
Speakers Include:
Maria Ziesche
Head of Sales Environmentals and Global CommoditiesEEX- 10:45 - 11:15
Biofuels and HVO Market Outlook: Pricing the RED III Era
- FAME, HVO and feedstock price developments through 2026
- The end of double counting and the repricing of German and Dutch compliance
- Feedstock availability as the binding constraint on mandate delivery
- Price outlook as new capacity meets rising obligations in 2027
Speakers Include:
Alex Kauffmann
Manager, Analytics & ConsultingArgus- 11:15 - 11.45
Networking Coffee Break
- 11:45 - 12:30
PANEL DISCUSSION – Biofuels Economics Under RED III: Compliance, Feedstocks and the Cost of Delivery
- Meeting physical blending obligations in a double-counting-free market
- From mandate to molecules: does Europe's storage, blending and distribution infrastructure support higher renewable fuel obligations?
- Certification integrity and fraud risk after a year of registry disruption
- Import dependency, trade defence and the case for European production capacity
- What obligated parties should be securing now for 2027 compliance
- 12:30 - 12:35
Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
- 12:35
Networking Lunch and Close of Conference
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