Asian Refining and Petrochemicals Summit

Beni Suryadi is manager of the Power, Fossil Fuels, Alternative Energy and Energy Storage Department at the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), an intergovernmental organisation within the ASEAN structure that represents the 10 ASEAN Member States’ interests in the energy sector. He supports ASEAN in optimising their use of conventional energy sources and alternative energy towards the energy transition to achieve the goals of energy security, accessibility, affordability and sustainability for all, under the umbrella of the ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) 2016-2025, a regional blueprint on energy cooperation that was endorsed by the ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting.

Mr Woo is currently the Executive Director of Asian Clean Fuels Association that supports governments and encourages industries to pursue the use of cleaner fuels for a cleaner environment through the attributes of sound science, cost effectiveness and sustainability.

Sarah Greenough is Head of Maritime Sustainability and Supply Chain Excellence at BHP, Singapore. She currently leads BHP’s maritime decarbonisation agenda with an ambitious pipeline of initiatives that focus on introducing lower carbon marine fuels, implementing on board vessel innovations and enhancing chartering choices through real time insights and analytics, to meet the organisations net zero target by 2050.

Anoop Singh is the head of tanker research for Braemar ACM Shipbroking. Braemar ACM research is a market-leading provider of business intelligence to the shipping and ship finance industries. He is responsible for global tanker modelling, forecasting and bespoke research and consultancy work.

After finishing his education in the UK, Dr. Wong commenced the plastic recycling business and became the founder and CEO of Fukutomi, established in 1984. Fukutomi operates in a global market alongside its well-established networks and associates/affiliates/business partners worldwide.

Harry Ubhi leads Origination and Business Development for Eni Trade & Biofuels (ETB) in Asia Pacific. ETB is the sole entity responsible for the international trading of crude oil, petroleum products, bio-fuels and related financial derivatives for the Eni group. Harry is an experienced oil and energy industry professional with deep business knowledge and extensive commercial expertise developed through diverse senior business roles globally across Origination, Business Development, Trading, Supply, Strategy, Sales & Marketing.

Ashutosh works at Essar as Vice President and is responsible for managing commodity risks for Essar’s Stanlow refinery in the UK. He has more than 22 years of experience in trading physical and paper energy markets covering traditional Crude Oil, Petroleum products, Freight, Coal, LNG, as well as, new age Petrochemicals , Biofuels, Renewable Transport Fuel Certificates and Carbon markets.

Stephen has over 43 years of experience in the oil and gas, refining and petrochemical business in a number of roles. He is now working as a Feedstock and Petrochemical Technologies Manager for Evonik Performance Materials. This involves all aspects of base chemical feedstocks and technologies for the production of feedstocks, olefins and aromatics and his experience is used across the company.

Timothy worked as a Strategy Manager at PwC in London and Madrid and was the General Manager at AP Moller Maersk terminal business in the Netherlands. Since 2010 he is the CEO of his family business, Fratelli Cosulich. Fratelli Cosulich is a diversified multinational Group, fully owned by the Cosulich family, now at its 7th generation. The Group started in 1857 as a shipowner and today operates out of 34 countries with revenues in excess of USD 1.5bn per year and over 2,000 employees. Main activities include ship agency, marine fuel trading and physical supply, manning, catering, yacht services, freight-forwarding.

Tae-Yoon Kim is a Senior Energy Analyst at the International Energy Agency (IEA). Working in the Energy Supply and Investment Outlooks Division, he leads IEA’s analysis on oil refining, petrochemicals and critical minerals as a main contributor to the IEA’s flagship publication, the World Energy Outlook.

Mathew George is Head of Petrochemical Exports at Indian Oil Corporation in Mumbai. An Indian Oil veteran of 30 years, Mathew has held a number of key assignments at Indian Oil, including heading the polymer marketing group, heading the lubricants group at subsidiary company Lanka IOC in Colombo, and assignments spread across many locations in the lubricants and aviation departments. In the field of petrochemicals he has handled polymers, PX, PTA, benzene, LAB, glycols and butadiene business. A well-known supply chain and ERP/CRM expert and analyst, he also has core experience in ship chartering for chemicals and petroleum.

Hisashi Miyagawa is currently the crude oil manager covering Asia as part of Phillips 66 global crude trading strategy. He has more than a decade of successful experience in the oil trading business in Singapore and Japan.

Royston joined PetroChina Singapore last year under Strategy and Market Research (SMR). As a group SMR strives to provide robust analytical support in order to support, influence and enhance its Business Units' key decisions. Royston joined PetroChina after 7 years in Refinitiv and 5 years of Middle Office experience in oil trading companies.

Yaacob Salim is currently the Head of Strategic Planning & Ventures for PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad. He has over 34 years of experience in the energy, petrochemical and chemical industries both in technical and senior management roles. Earlier in his career, he worked in the energy support industry in oilfield chemicals for the upstream industry before moving on to capital project management role.

Khalid Moinuddin Hashim, CEO of Precious Shipping (PSL) Bangkok, is an adjunct lecturer at Singapore Management University. He comes from a family engaged in shipping/trade. His father, the late Moinuddin Hashim, was the Chairman of the Indian National Shipowners Association and his late greatgrandfather was a founding director of Scindia Steam Navigation Company.

Christine Halim started with plastic waste collection from a small garage in Surabaya. From this garage, she started to learn how to export PET flakes to China and also importing polyester fabrics or known as Dacron fabrics into Indonesia. Through trading PET Flakes & finished products, she also started investing in PET recycling factory, which also produced non-woven fiber. In 20 years, the businesses have also grown into various regions in Indonesia.

With more than 26 years of experience in Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemical industry, Rajesh has been involved in various functions in Project Design Engineering & Execution, Operations and Acquisitions. He has been with Reliance Industries for nearly 20 years initially at Jamnagar Refinery in its Fluidised Catalytic Cracker (FCC) Unit during the commissioning & operation stage. Subsequently he moved to Petrochemical Businesses in Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG) and is currently heading the (Olefins) Cracker Business. He also has brief exposure to upstream energy business and execution of Merger and Acquisition deals in Oil & Gas and Mining Business in Latin America. Cracker Business involves feedstock and product optimisation across Crackers in Reliance - Naphtha, Gas & now Refinery Offgas Crackers and integrating its operation with upstream Refinery & Gas and downstream Petrochemical business. It is a key element in Reliance’s O2C Integrated Business.

Sanjeev has 30+ years of Global experience in Leadership positions across strategic business management, market development, efficient sourcing, planning & optimisation, and people development in large-sized diversified organizations. Working in important leadership positions, with globally leading companies in the petrochemical industry like Reliance Industries Ltd. and Indorama Petrochemicals, Sanjeev has immensely contributed to the growth of Polyester Chain in Southeast Asia and India.

As part of Standard Chartered Bank Asian industry team Galid has worked on numerous transactions, supporting clients across the region. Currently Galid is globally responsible for the bank’s activities in the downstream market covering companies that operate refineries and (petro)chemical installations as well as energy distribution and energy infrastructure. In this role he provides M&A advice, structures and arranges project and acquisition financing, assists clients with capital market transactions and provides risk management solutions to the bank’s industry clients. He’s also closely involved in assisting the bank’s sector clients transition to a more sustainable and inclusive future.n

Adi Imsirovic has over 30 years of experience in oil trading. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies. Previously, he held a number of senior positions, including Global Head of Oil at Gazprom Marketing & Trading, Director of Petraco and the Head of their Singapore office and The Regional Manager of Texaco Oil Trading for Asia.

Ganesh Gopalakrishnan is the Global Head for Petrochemicals Trading for Total and oversees teams in Singapore, Shanghai, Geneva, and Houston. He started as a Technical Service Engineer in Singapore and, after multiple roles, moved to the USA to manage Styrene and Aromatics businesses for the Americas. He later moved to Hong Kong to start up the Petrochemical marketing and trading activity for Asia in 2012. He has been with the company for 24 years and is now based in Singapore, managing the global trading activities and price risk management for Petrochemicals.

Doctor Fairy Wang Pei is Head of Research and Strategy at Unipec, the trading arm of Sinopec. She has a wealth of experience in oil marketing, oil trading and oil industry analysis. She is also responsible for carbon trading and electricity trading in Unipec. Based at the firm’s Beijing office since 2010, Dr Fairy has been working as a senior analyst, mainly covering oil fundamentals and corporate strategy. Dr Fairy has written many professional articles — she and her team also published China’s first Petroleum Blue Book. Dr Fairy has a PhD in Economics from the Chinese Academy of Social Science in Beijing.

Zhang Jing is an experienced oil market fundamentals professional, with a strong specialty in the Chinese oil market. Ms Zhang has written numerous academic articles on the subject and continues to be a trusted opinion.