Agenda
ENERGY BUYERS’ CONFERENCE
TENTATIVE AGENDA
Ritz Carlton South Beach Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
October 24-26, 2010
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2010
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM REGISTRATION & RECEPTION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2010
7:00 AM-8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION – Don Bonett, Conference Chairman
ENERGY AND THE ECONOMY – Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, Department of Energy (Invited)
• Relationship between affordable energy and the economy
• Impact of the BP oil spill
OIL IN THE MIX OF FUELS – Organized and moderated by Lawrence Axelrod, Principal, Axelrod Energy Projects, LLC
After providing an overview of their respective companies, panelists will discuss the role of oil and other energy sources as well as the outlook for oil usage.
EXPLORATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN DOWNSTREAM SECTOR – Alan Gelder, Wood MacKenzie, Inc.
• An outlook for supply, demand and price for crude products
• Implications on the refining industry
• Strategies for survival
FUEL OIL IN CHINA – -Guoqiang Zheng, Managing Director, Jifeng Petroleum Consulting, China
• A perspective on the fuel oil production and trade as well as fuel oil for inland burning and fuel oil bunkers
• Assessment of the fuel oil refinery feedstock
• Outlook for the future of fuel oil in China
RESIDUAL FUEL OIL SUPPLY AND DEMAND THROUGH 2015 – Stefka Ilieva, Poten and Partners
• The net short and net long fuel oil world regions outlook
• Factors which impact residual fuel oil supply and demand for the next five years
12:30 PM LUNCH FOR NON-GOLFERS
12:30 PM BOX LUNCH FOR GOLFERS,
LEAVE HOTEL VIA BUS FOR NORMANDY SHORES GOLF CLUB
2:30 PM ROUNDTABLE SESSION
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM RECEPTION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2010
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30 AM
MARKET REPORTING AND SPOT MARKET TRADING – Daniel Massey, President, Argus
LNG AND NATURAL GAS PERSPECTIVE – Mike Bryant, Director Gas Control Florida Gas Transmission; Kevin Beasley, BP Americas (Invited)
A look at the emerging roles of LNG and natural gas and the supply and demand picture in North America
LOW SULPHUR FUEL OIL AMERICAS AND GLOBAL – Andrew Kelleher, Managing Director Head of Physical Oil, J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation
• Demand of low sulphur fuel oil in the Americas
• Maximum limit on sulphur content
• Volatile price differential between high and low sulphur grades
• Ensuring the quality of low sulphur fuels is not compromised in the fuel blend formation
LIQUID FUEL SPECS FOR USE IN GAS TURBINES-Pratyush Nag, Siemens (Invited)
• Overview of GT fuels
• High level overview of the H/W changes made for fuel flexibility
• Ultra low sulphur diesel and its impact to GT’s
• Alternate fuels-LNG, bio-diesel, crude oil, etc.
12:00 PM ADJOURNMENT