Argus Biofuels & Feedstocks Asia Conference

Reaching the heights of success – why SAF could be the next golden ticket

• What are the airlines’ views on feedstocks, including use of UCO, palm residue and POME?
• How can you get prices to come down in an unincentivised industry?
• How much will customers be prepared to pay for “greener” travel?

• How can companies meet the growing demand for feedstock for SAF production?
• Exploring the need for more conversion pathways
• Will we expect more feedstock to say within Asia versus being exported globally?

• Views on the SAF outlook within Asia and the parameters for success
• How does the refining expansion create a significant role for SAF availability across Asia and globally?
• What is the role of policy vs. voluntary demand in triggering further investments?

• What subsidies are available to create a new supply chain?
• Exploring the options to utilise co-processing to produce SAF from waste and residue
• Investing in storage facilities to store renewable raw materials connecting the plant

Speakers:

Sami Jauhiainen, Vice President, APAC, Renewable Aviation, Neste

Hiro Suenaga, Managing Director, Head of Group 3, Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transport & Urban Development

• What are the incentives for alternative pathways to SAF and feedstock availability?
• Reviewing the early stage developments of native technology?
• Understanding GHG savings

• Advancing technologies that tackle net-zero ambitions
• From feedstock to technology – verifying benefits through carbon intensity calculations
• How process technologies and hydrotreating work as an accelerator in reducing carbon emissions

• Current SAF blending components for JET A/A-1
• Exploring the outlook of the use of 100% SAF
• What are the co-processing options?

Join this interactive discussion with 10-15 attendees. Get your main pressing questions answered around a specific topic and collaborate with industry experts with the same business strategies as yours

Roundtable 1: What are the expected overall production costs and who will pay the fee?

Roundtable 2: Feedstock availability – how much will the SAF market need to find and where from?

Roundtable 3: SAF credits – what are the developments and how are they priced?

Led by: Max Eichelbaum, Digital Solutions Manager, RSB

Roundtable 4: Technical focus: Will blends reach 100pc and what that means for aircrafts?

• How are governments encouraging growth of the biodiesel markets?
• Exploring the advantages of B7 implementation and the technical characteristics
• Defining a plan for the adoption of biodiesel across the supply chain including ports

Join this important session to gain better clarity on new governmental policies in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, India and Australia. What mandates are in place that create growth opportunities within Asia, how can regulatory fragmentation be reduced so that doing business is made easier, and what new incentives will become available?

• How are governments encouraging growth of the biodiesel and bio naphtha markets?
• What new ethanol mandates are emerging and the regions backing them?
• Speeding up the adoption of Euro 5 by 2023 to upgrade environmental standards

Moderator:

Clarence Woo, Executive Director, Asian Clean Fuels Association

Panellists:

Bala Mukundan, President, Biodiesel Association of India

Vinesh Sinha, CEO, Fat Hopes Energy

A short 10 minute presentation followed by Q&A

• What are the proposed changes to RED II?
• Europe’s views on the use of palm oil and the impact on imports from Asia
• Understanding proposals for a common union database for future traceability of all feedstocks and finished products and what the requirements will be

• Assessing Asia’s renewable diesel, HVO, FAME and HEFA demand
• An outlook on conventional biofuels trends to Europe over the next 2-5 years including volume and pricing
• Marine spotlight: marine pricing, B24 blends and volumes

With demand for feedstock rising globally, Asia continues to be positioned as the feedstock powerhouse. With new concerns over Europe’s demand on palm oil, alongside new capacity in Asia and a need for diversification, the feedstock landscape is dramatically changing

• What are the current supply trends of HVO, UCOME and waste-based biofuels?
• Are concerns over feedstocks running out justified and how will feedstock competitiveness grow?
• How do we see European demand changing over the next 2-3 years?
• What are the trends for importing feedstocks from Latin America and Africa?

Panellist:

Naji Atiyeh, Biofuels Trading Manager, Apeiron Biofuels

Rahul Rajashekar Shastry, Senior Manager, Biofuels, Wilmar Trading

Ramon Álvarez Blázquez, Chief Commercial Officer, UCO Trading

Victor Allemandou, Biofuels and Feedstocks Broker, Nexus

• Understanding the developments of UCO, UCOME, HVO and SAF
• Exploring feedstock supply chains and improving efficiencies
• Working with RSB to improve product sustainability

• How companies can generate more value from waste-based feedstocks
• Understanding the differences between palm oil and PFAD, including its sustainable value
• What are the global opportunities for exporting PFAD where palm oil is banned?

• How are companies diversifying the feedstock base to cope with increasing demand and that meets sustainable regulation?
• Investments at plants that allow for switching of raw material in response to market trends
• Could there be incentives in place that encourage the discovery of new feedstocks?

• Increasing the amount of ethanol for blending to 6pc and the changes it brings
• Exploring the developments of sugarcane-based ethanol for blending
• How will India’s role with the market serve the Asia market?

• Can tallow oil become an affordable and beneficial contender for the Asian market?
• Assessing compliance and supply chain sustainability surrounding tallow oil
• What is the current supply of tallow from Australia and how do we explore growing demand?

• Understanding new developments with sustainability standards within the Asian market
• Drawing up guidelines focusing on waste and residues: how is it defined?
• What work is being done with the EU in terms of RED II and the “union database”?
• Maritime focus: how will new standards enable sustainable solutions for the sector?

• Monitoring and testing to meet new sustainability specifications
• Quality control and contamination analysis
• What are the key benefits of scaling up to improve quality?

• Exploring the new provisional marine biofuel standard and what this means for industry
• The need for ISCC certified biofuels and what companies need to do to meet these standards
• Meeting the density and viscosity specifications alongside the use of correct technology

Hear from our keynote speakers on biofuels as the fuel of choice for the marine sector. Learn how FAME and UCO can be blended into bunker fuels, what volumes are expected and at what price

• What are the benefits of utilising biofuels over LNG or methanol?
• How will the ban of the combustion engine by 2025 open a new biodiesel marine market?
• What investments need to take place in logistics, blending and distribution?
• How can companies cut carbon emissions whilst retaining fuel infrastructure and engines?

Moderator:

Prapisala Thepsithar, Project Lead, Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation

Speakers:

Jing Xieng JX Han, General Manager, Asia-Pacific, GoodFuels

Ming Zhen Koh, Asia Pacific Policy Planning Advisor, ExxonMobil Asia Pacific

Ashwani Agarwal, Director – Fleet Operations, OSM Maritime

• Exploring the outlook of bio naphtha: how much supply will enter the market?
• What are the expectations for bio naphtha demand in the next 3-5 years?
• How is the price point different for alternative production techniques to make bioplastics?

• Where do we see governments across Asia promoting bioplastics and the use of bio naphtha?
• What steps need to be taken to create a robust industry around bio naphtha?
• How will creating a chemical application price aid industry development and trading?