Program Details
Day 1 16th November 2009
08:00
Registration & Coffee
09:00 – 09:15

Welcome Address
Mr. P. K. Johri
CEO
ONGC Petro-additions

09:15 – 09:50

Key Note Address – I
Global petrochemicals – The path forward
Mr. Gary Adams
President
CMAI, USA

09:50 – 10:25

Key Note Address – II
Petrochemicals feedstocks: Challenges and innovation
Dr. Rajeev Gautam
President & CEO
UOP, USA

10:25 – 11:00

Key Note Address – III
Polyethylene : A changing landscape
Mr. John Hotz
Vice President – PE Business
NOVA Chemicals, USA

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00

A perspective on crude oil & petrochemical feedstock markets
Mr. John Vautrain
Senior Vice President
Purvin & Gertz, Singapore

12:00 – 12:30

Global restructuring – Opportunities and challenges
Mr. John King
Vice President & Director
Nexant Asia, Thailand

12:30 – 13:00

Competitiveness in petrochemicals in uncertain economic times
Dr. Thorsten Ploss
Partner
Roland Berger, UK

13:00 – 14:30
Lunch Break
SESSION I
14:30 – 15:00

Refinery-petrochemical integration for the PCPIR -Away ahead for Indian petrochemicals?
Mr. Sanjay Shah
Consultant
Jacobs Consultancy, UK

15:00 – 15:30

Growth drivers for petrochemicals
Mr. Roger Lee
Managing Director
Tecnon OrbiChem, UK

15:30 – 16:00

Chemicals sector consolidation
Mr. Chris Iannaccone
Managing Director – Investment Banking Division
Morgan Stanley, USA

16:00 – 16:30

Novolen® polypropylene technology improvements and update
Dr. Godofredo Follmer
Managing Director
Lummus Novolen Technology, Germany

16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break
SESSION II
17:00 – 17:30

Hetrogeneous catalysis – Yesterday, today & tomorrow
Dr. Chris K. F. Wai
Regional Sales Director
BASF, Hong Kong

17:30 – 18:00

Specialty and value added polyolefins – A new global race – Role of India&South East Asia
Dr. Balaji Singh
President
Chemical Market Resources, USA

18:00 – 18:30

The tiger and the camel: Adding value to every naphtha molecule
Mr. Cameron Hibbert
Licensing Manager
LyondellBasell Industries, Germany

18:30 – 19:00

Project management & execution – A key to success
Mr. B. Narayan
Group President – Procurement & Projects
Reliance Industries

19:00

Networking Cocktails & Dinner
Dinner Speech
Dr. S. Sivaram
Director
National Chemical Laboratory

Day 2 17th November 2009
SESSION III
09:00 – 09:30

Asian benzene, toluene, PX – what’s driving these markets in 2009
Mr. Shahrin Ismaiyatim
Global Editorial Director, Petrochemicals
Platts, UK

09:30 – 10:00

Is polyester demand recovery the only salvation for the raw materials?
Mr. Y. J. Kim
Managing Director
PCI Xylenes & Polyesters Asia

10:00 – 10:30

Polyester by 2010
Mr. Anant Kishore
COO
Indorama Synthetics

10:30 – 11:00

Global benzene and derivative markets
Mr. Andy Nicholson
Vice President & Principal
DeWitt & Co, France

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
SESSION IV
11:30 – 12:00

Impact of ME capacity on Asian PO business
Mr. Mitchell Killeen
Vice President – PP and PE
LyondellBasell Industries, UAE

12:00 – 12:30

Indian polypropylene markets
Mr. Ajay Shah
Senior Vice President – PP Business
Reliance Industries

12:30 – 13:00

Linde Engineering’s new generation of mega crackers
Mr. Roland Walzl
Vice President – Sales olefin plants
Linde, Germany

13:00 – 13:30

Indian PE markets
Mr. Jasbir Singh Saini
General Manager (Petrochemicals Mktg.)
GAIL (India)

13:30 – 15:00
Lunch Break
SESSION V
15:00 – 15:30

Climbing the technology pyramid through catalyst application
Dr. Raghu Menon
Regional Industry Group Manager Polyolefin Catalysts
Sud-Chemie, USA

15:30 – 16:00

SABTEC CTR LDPE process – CTR LDPE, your preferred PE technology
Mr. Kees van Breemen
General Manager
SABTEC, The Netherlands

16:00 – 16:30

UNIPOL™ PE process: Single reactor platform, multiple product opportunities
Dr. Jeevan Abichandani
Catalyst Technology Manager
IUnivation Technologies, USA

16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break
SESSION VI
17:00 – 17:30

Role of dealers (in the perspective of Indian chemical market)
Mr. Jiten Desai
Senior Manager (Marketing)
GNFC

17:30 – 18:00

Middle East polyolefins trade flows -A near term outlook
Ms. Prema Viswanathan
Deputy Managing Editor – Asia
ICIS pricing, Singapore

18:00
Closing Remarks