Argus European Bitumen and Asphalt

• How will the new IMO regulation affect bitumen production and supply
• Bitumen’s connection with fuel oil set to change
• Changing routes of supply and logistical challenges for bitumen
• Refinery changes affecting fuel oil and bitumen production

• Russian material’s quality and availability
• Update on tax legislation and regulation that will affect exports
• Addressing challenges in transportation and delivery logistics

• How will IMO regulation influence production and supply
• Market outlook and prospect
• Assessing other pressures in the industry

• Analysing the change in bitumen supply over the past 10-15 years
• Asphalt and bitumen volumes: Market trends and outlook
• IMO 2020, market shifts and availability: Bitumen quality and contract structure in Norway
• Logistical challenges
• Carbon footprint, HSSE: Why WMA is taking off in Norway and the rest of Scandinavia

• Overview of bitumen production in Italy: Consumption
• Creating a customer-centric product
• Adding value to the product and for the user
• Enhancing the performance of road bitumen and reducing environmental impacts
• Environmental sustainability in production and storage
• Results of changing stakeholder's mind-sets to help the context

• An overview of shipping dynamics
• Supply and demand overview
• Refinery modernisation
• Minimising HSFO product while producing bitumen
• Analysing how IMO has affected the region
• How have rising exports supported stability in the global picture?
• Can streamlining regional operations help increase market share and supply post-IMO?

• Grade availability
• Future uses of different specifications and grades

Expert Leader: Vasile Paraschiv, Managing Director, SC Bitholder

Roundtable two: Northwest European logistics

Expert Leader: Emmanuel Cornet, Bitumen Manager, Colas 

Roundtable three: Opportunity to increase supply in the Mediterranean

Expert Leader: Carlo Giavarini, Honorary President, SITEB

• Assessing regional imports: Where does this sit in relation to global traffic?
• Specification, grades and cooling temperatures: Exporting vs. importing to ensure a competitive price, timely delivery and the correct specification
• Analysing trade, import and export flows from Europe and the Middle East

• Reviewing the bitumen industry outlook in light of implementation of the revised IMO bunkering regulations
• Future regulatory challenges
• Tax regulation and trading areas
• Increasing exploration and development tax: How will this impact price?

Panellists include:

Yury Burenko, Trading Director, DYM Resources

Tayfun Ozatalay, General Manager, EnergyPro Petrol Trading

Vasile Paraschiv, Managing Director, SC Bitholder

• Specification availability
• Trends and supply forecasts
• New roads and maintenance: Project investment and budget allocation
• Improving road development

• Demand for asphalt in Norway
• Specification and grade availability
• Fossil-free transportation to 2030 in Sweden
• Regional logistical challenges

• Strategies to reduce traffic noise: Laying porous asphalt wearing courses or SDA asphalts with lower void content
• Developing a mastic asphalt wearing course with a surface structure that achieves a reduction in traffic noise
• Noise reduction through surface chippings on mastic asphalt
• Project summary and outlook

• The differences and similarities between hot and warm recycling
• Innovation for materials and processes
• Improving the multi-recycling mixes
• The combination of recycling and the lowering of mix manufacture temperatures
• The advent of multi-recycling