Argus Biofuels Europe Conference & Exhibition

Collect your badge and explore the Argus Biofuels Europe Conference & Exhibition. Grab your morning coffee from our barista stand ahead of the start of the Marine focus day.

*The exhibition area on Monday 20 October is open to Marine, SAF, or Networking ticket passholders access only. Select 'Biofuels & Marine Ticket' when registering for access to the Marine Focus Day sessions and content.

Are you new to biofuels? Need a refresher? This session will give you the knowledge you need to power up your discussions during the Argus Biofuels Europe Conference & Exhibition, and for your all important discussions with the industry. 

• What are biofuels? What does the production process look like?
• What are the feedstocks for biodiesel in the market today?
• Differences between 1st generation or 2nd generation biofuels

• Overview of the current regulatory requirements for the maritime sector. What does it mean for fuel price options?
• Marine fuels available now in ARA, major trade routes and arbs
• Biodiesel deep dive: Singapore – ARA market dynamics, anti-dumping duties and what this means for European players?

• Why is the absence of biodiesel in the long-term significant? How quickly are is maritime sector adopting new technologies for vessels?
• What does the fuel mix look like in the medium term? What role can uncommercialised biofuels technologies play?
• Open industry question: IMO does not preclude crop based biofuels but FuelEU Maritime does?

• Reviews of EU regulations and EU ETS 2026 — what does this mean for shipowners and bio-bunkering players?
• New RED III — Which biofuels can really be used by European shipowners? How much do they need to pay?
• What’s the impact of the MEPC 83 outcomes for the IMO Net-Zero Framework?
• How can shipowners comply using the different fuel options available today? How does it work for those operating only in Europe compared with those that have a global footprint?

• What do shipowners need from fuel suppliers to make the transition to low-carbon fuels available in market today?
• What pressures are shipowners under from their own customers?
• What are the options shipowners are looking at to comply with regulations? How are they assessing the different options to reach compliance?

• How much biofuel do you need to hit carbon reductions under FuelEU Maritime? How does that compare to IMO requirements?
• Trading surplus units under FuelEUMaritime and IMO: what are the options and how is this developing?
• What are the alternatives: investment into new fuels, physical blending, paying the penalty

• What investments taking place in key regions such as ARA?
• How are players across the value chain including ports, storage and logistics players playing a role?
• What more is needed or what are the main bottlenecks?

Collect your badge and explore the Argus Biofuels Europe Conference & Exhibition and grab your morning coffee from our barista stand, start networking ahead of the start of the conference sessions.

• Geopolitical and regulatory drivers in Europe and beyond impacting global biofuels trends
• Feedstock distribution across end-use sectors for transportation
• Electrification trends in Europe
• Hydrogen and efuels post 2030?

• How are majors balancing the energy transition with the need for biofuels to be competitive and affordable?
• Mandates need to hold in the EU and the UK: What do majors need to see from regulators?
• Measuring the temperature of the sector: What is the current view on the majors’ role in the biofuels industry from FAME to HVO

• Principles of the Union Database: sustainability verification for biofuels supply chains
• The case for adoption: marketing testing, onboarding and next steps. How to connect to the UDB? What are the expectations?
• How will it work with systems companies already have in place?

• How are non-compliant operators disturbing the rest of the market? What are the latest signals from regulators?
• How could the European Commission and member states change the structure of the market to support the verifiability of biofuels?
• How are voluntary schemes looking at the space — planning to expand?

• A waiting game? Who’s getting closer? What are the proposals submitted so far?
• What is the commission doing to support transposition of RED III in member states?
• How are key member states changing their approach? What does the market need to be looking out for? What further clarity has been received from regulators?

• Which member states have been taking the lead? What have been the main lessons so far?
• Energy mandates to GHG mandates in the Netherlands and Belgium
• Biomethane and the different demand-supporting schemes influencing the market on price and volume (such as the Netherlands’ blend-in obligation)

• Tariffs: Transatlantic trade — what are the implications for feedstock flows?
• Feedstock pinches: Supply from Asia? What is happening in Indonesia and what will happen? Anti-dumping duties on China
• Crops talks — feedstock gaps to comply with 2050 mandates. Where are all these feedstocks going to come from?

• Investments in feedstock expansion for annex 9: how much can be grown and how quickly?
• Certification guidelines around valuable feedstocks: where are we now?
• How to engage policy makers to make this happen? How to maximise value from agricultural materials and building out business case and scale? 

• Feedstock adaptation: adapting to new raw materials and residues for efficiency
• Challenge of developing operational capacity to respond to new raw materials and adapting existing units

• Feedstock availability and price pressures on biodiesel: what’s been happening in this market and where to next?
• What is happening to earlier generation biofuels? To what extent are feedstocks being pulled to SAF?
• How has the industry managed the low price environment while maintaining margins? What role has futures trading played?

• How are global geopolitics including tariffs impacting the market?
• What’s happening in the US and Asia and what does that mean for European biofuels?

• How have geopolitics impacted trade flows of key feedstocks including UCO and UCOME? Have US tariffs led to a fall in UCO consumption? Have new arbitrage opportunities emerged?
• With increased means of hedging, how are market players managing risk on physical trade flows for UCO and UCOME?
• What role are futures contracts playing in UCO markets? Market examples

• Demand-side picture for HVO: with higher targets, RED III and blend walls, how is the market shaping up?
• What GHG savings could be made by switching from B7 to B10? How much additional demand? What are the challenges and implications?
• Will hydrotreating producers switch between SAF and HVO production?
• Hedging for HVO and SAF: why is it needed and how does it work?

• Where do new products fit in the bigger picture of biofuels?
• What other products should we be watching out for?