Program Details
Day 1 9th November 2000
13:30
Registration
14:00 – 14:30

Key Note Address
Mr. C. R. Prasad
CMD
Gas Authority of India

14:30 – 15:15

Indian economy & Global economic outlook
Dr. Ajit Ranade
Chief Economist
ABN AMRO Bank, India

15:15 – 16:00

Trade & Investment policies in India
Mr. N. L. Lakhanpal
Director General of Foreign Trade
Govt. of India

16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:15

Feedstock in Asia-Pacific – A Perspective
Mr. B. N. Desai
Dy. General Manager
IPCL

17:15 – 18:00

Prochemical Projects in India & Asia Pacific & A review
Mr. John Richardson
Editor
Asian Chemical News

18:00 – 19:00

Logistics in the Indian Petrochemical Industry
Mr. Bjorn Giaever
Inge Steensland

19:00

Networking Cocktails & Dinner

Day 2 10th November 2000
COMMON SESSION
11:00 – 11:45

Vinyls and Chlorine – where is the industry headed
Mr. S. S. Dhanorkar
Executive Director F
inolex Industries

11:45 – 12:30

Polyolefins markets in India
Mr. D. P. Lal
Sr. Consultant-Technology
Haldia Petrochemicals

12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:45

Benchmarking cracker operations – A focus on Asia-Pacific
Mr. Gary Adams
President
CMAI, UK

14:45 – 15:30

Downstream processing – Is it worth investing?
Mr. Sujit Banerjee
VP
Reliance Industries Ltd.

15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:45

Polyethylene Technologies – State of the art
Mr. Rocky Vermani
Marketing Manager Licensing,
Novachem

16:45 – 17:15

Polypropylene Technologies – State of the art
Mr. Sandeep Goel
ABB-Lummus, India

17:15

Panel Discussion

18:00
Closing Remarks