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Argus Rio Crude Conference

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
May 2025
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Agenda

Thank you to our expert speakers and sponsors for their contributions to the agenda.

For speaking opportunities on the 2025 agenda, please contact:

Bhuvam Patel
Conference Producer
bhuvam.patel@argusmedia.com

2024 Agenda

Pre-conference welcoming drinks reception

16:00 - 18:00

Welcome drinks reception sponsored by Ocean Point Terminals

Join delegates at the Copacabana Palace for an evening of networking, drinks and snacks sponsored by Ocean Point Terminals

Main conference day one

8:30 - 9:50

Registration opens and networking breakfast

10:00

Conference producer's opening address

10:00 - 10:30

Keynote speaker address: Brasil's roadmap to 2025

Shell President keynote
(Live Translation available)

Rodrigo Soares

President of Shell Energy Brasil
Shell Energy Americas
10:30 - 11:00

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

Tom Reed

Vice-President, China Crude and Products
Argus
11:00 - 12:00

Networking Break

Morning break to have breakfast meetings.

12:00 - 12:45

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 LATAM's dominance in the region?

Speakers include:

Pablo Gristo

Head of Exploration and Production Energy Transition, ANCAP

Agustin Rebello

Executive Manager
YPF

Francisco Imperatore

Manager- Trading & Origination
Pan American Energy

Vanessa Viola

Senior Vice-President, Latin America
Argus
12:45 - 13:15

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

Victor Bomfim

Chief Executive Officer
Vast Infraestrutura
13:30 - 15:00

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
15:00 - 15:30

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
Argus

Monica Lesmes Martinez

Manager- Crude Oil Trading, Repsol

Matt Smith

Head Analyst- US
KPLER
15:30 - 16:30

Networking break

16:30 - 17:00

Navigating the Just Transition in the Oil & Gas Sector: Petrobras' Corporate Strategies, practices and challenges

• Carbon management
• Low carbon businesses
• 'Just Transition' in corporate practices

Speakers include:

Patricia Daiane Marques

Co-ordinator- Climate Change & Decarbonisation
Petrobras
17:00

Evening drinks reception

Main conference day two

9:00

Doors open

9:30

Chairperson's opening remarks

Vanessa Viola

Senior Vice-President, Latin America
Argus
9:30 - 10:00

Keynote speaker address: Exploring Guyanese opportunities

Exclusive Fireside chat with Todd Dillabough, CEO, Ocean Point Terminals

Todd Dillabough

CEO
Ocean Point Terminals

Vanessa Viola

Senior Vice-President, Latin America
Argus
10:00 - 10:45

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

Stefanos Kazantzis

Commercial Director
Mcquilling

Gustavo Hooper

Head of Trading & Shipping
PRIO
10:45 - 11:30

Networking breakfast

11:30 - 12:00

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?

Speakers Include:

Liu Kai

Head of the Crude Oil Dept - Americas Region
Petrochina

James Gooder

Vice-President, Crude
Argus
12:30

Chairpersons closing remarks

Speakers Include:

Vanessa Viola

Executive Vice President, Latin America & Global Head of LPG
12:30

Lunch and Argus workshops

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

• Crude freight pricing for Americas and the TMX effect
• Russian-origin crude freight
• Advanced Argus tools for Crude & Freight analysis

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
14:00

End of conference