Argus Methanol Forum

Valenz

Valenz is a market leader in methanol supply solutions, headquartered in Wollerau, Switzerland with two further principal offices in Houston, USA and Singapore. It provides comprehensive methanol logistics and marketing solutions – unlocking efficiencies so customers can focus on what they do best. Bringing together regional leaders in the European, Asian and American markets, Valenz has forged strategic partnerships across the globe, making us uniquely positioned to meet customers’ needs. Valenz is a joint venture between the industry leaders and long-term partners HELM AG and Proman AG.

bp

bp’s Trading & Shipping business serves as an energy supplier and asset manager across North America. bp offers a unique combination of physical and financial expertise across natural gas, electricity, natural gas liquids and lower carbon/carbon offset products as well as financial risk management products through bpEC (bp Energy Company), a provisionally registered swap dealer with the CFTC. bp is North America’s largest natural gas marketer at nearly 16 bcf/day1, moving gas across 235 pipelines, storage and LDC systems daily. We are a top power marketer, active in all RTOs/ISOs across the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and we market and trade more than 500,000 bpd of NGLs on trucks, railcars and pipelines across the U.S. and Canada.

DNV

DNV is an independent assurance and risk management provider, operating in more than 100 countries. Through its broad experience and deep expertise DNV advances safety and sustainable performance, sets industry standards, and inspires and invents solutions.  We provide assurance to the entire energy value chain through our advisory, monitoring, verification, and certification services. As the world's leading resource of independent energy experts and technical advisors, we help industries and governments to navigate the many complex, interrelated transitions taking place globally and regionally, in the energy industry. We are committed to realizing the goals of the Paris Agreement, and support our customers to transition faster to a deeply decarbonized energy system.

Lloyd’s Register

We started out in 1760 as a marine classification society. Today, we’re one of the world’s leading providers of professional services for engineering and technology in over 75 countries. The profits we generate fund the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a charity which supports science and engineering-related research, education and public engagement around everything we do. We provide classification, compliance and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, helping our clients design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance, using our expertise and over 250 years’ experience to deliver the smart solution for everyone.

Carbon Recycling International

Enerkem

Founded in 2000, Enerkem develops and commercializes its groundbreaking gasification technology transforming non-recyclable waste into biofuels, low-carbon fuels and circular chemicals for hard-to-abate sectors, including sustainable aviation and marine fuels. Its solution tackles both challenges of waste management and dependency on fossil fuel products while contributing to the development of a circular economy for a sustainable, net-zero-carbon future. Headquartered in Montreal, Enerkem employs close to 300 people in Canada, the United States, Europe and the UK, and has various projects worldwide, including the world’s first commercial scale biorefinery producing advanced bio-methanol and circular methanol from non-recyclable waste in Alberta, Canada. In partnership with key strategic partners, a large-scale facility based on Enerkem’s waste-to-methanol platform is under construction in Quebec, Canada, and is scheduled to start operations in 2025. In Tarragona, Spain, Enerkem’s technology is at the heart of the Ecoplanta project which will produce biomethanol and circular methanol from non-recyclable waste.

Mitsui & Co.

Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (8031: JP) is a global trading and investment company with a diversified business portfolio that spans approximately 64 countries in Asia, Europe, North, Central & South America, The Middle East, Africa and Oceania.　Mitsui has over 5,600 employees and deploys talent around the globe to identify, develop, and grow businesses in collaboration with a global network of trusted partners. Mitsui has built a strong and diverse core business portfolio covering the Mineral and Metal Resources, Energy, Machinery and Infrastructure, and Chemicals industries. Leveraging its strengths, Mitsui has further diversified beyond its core profit pillars to create multifaceted value in new areas, including innovative Energy Solutions, Healthcare & Nutrition and through a strategic focus on high-growth Asian markets. This strategy aims to derive growth opportunities by harnessing some of the world’s main mega-trends: sustainability, health & wellness, digitalization and the growing power of the consumer. For more information on Mitsui & Co’s businesses visit, www.mitsui.com.

Oberon Fuels

California-based Oberon Fuels is on a mission to decarbonize the fuel and energy sectors through the commercialization of renewable dimethyl ether (rDME). Oberon’s low or carbon-negative rDME can reduce the carbon intensity of propane by up to 60 percent when blended, offering potential reductions in global CO2 of 750 million metric tons per year. rDME’s characteristics also makes it a compelling means for transporting hydrogen for its myriad, fast-growing applications.

SunGas Renewables

SunGas Renewables is working to make a meaningful contribution to world-wide decarbonization. We are a clean energy and technology solutions company providing technology systems that transform sustainable sourced renewable feedstocks into a wide range of clean fuels. Deep decarbonization of traditionally fossil-based transportation, industrial and residential energy applications can be accelerated by the introduction and use of low- and negative-carbon liquid and gaseous fuels. By offering technology and developing projects that produce low and negative carbon fuels we help accelerate the world’s clean energy transition.

Topsoe

Topsoe is a global leader in supply of catalysts, licensed process technology, and services to the chemical and refining industries. Topsoe aims to be the global leader within carbon emission reduction technologies by 2024. Topsoe-designed methanol production plants combine advanced syngas generation and syngas-to-methanol processes with a full range of catalysts to the methanol plant, including our high-activity methanol synthesis catalysts and comprehensive services. They are designed specifically to help you maximize yields and drive down costs. Our expert services can help increase capacity, efficiency or even feedstock flexibility, creating the foundation for optimal day-to-day operation and increased profitability.