Key topics that will be covered include:
- Refining
- Marpol VI definitions, regulations, requirements and enforcement
- Current status of Marpol preparation in the shipping industry
- Refinery planning for Marpol related investment
- How Marpol will affect sweet-sour spreads, key refinery cracks and supply/demand of HSFO, VGO, MGO, low sulfur distillate and gasoline
- Major effects of Marpol and timing
- Types of bunker fuels that will emerge
- Marpol shipping and terminal compliance options
- Marpol refining compliance options
- Impacts on demand for and valuation of HSFO, low sulfur distillate, ULSD, low Sulfur VGO, low sulfur VTB and ATB, anode-grade PetCoke, asphalt and gasoline