Program Details
Day 1 8 th November 2012
08:00
Registration & Coffee
KEYNOTE SESSION
09:00 – 09:30

Welcome Address
Mr. S. Mitra
Executive Director – Petrochemicals
Indian Oil Corporation

09:30 – 10:00

Keynote Address – I
Mr. Prabh Das
Managing Director & CEO
HPCL – Mittal Energy

10:00 – 10:30

Keynote Address – II
Mr. Prasad Chandran
Chairman
BASF Companies in India & Head South Asia

10:30 – 11:00

Keynote Address – III
Mr. Sanjay Sharma
Managing Director – India
IHS/CMAI, UAE

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

Shale gas developments in USA – A game changer
Mr. Carlos Camacho
Managing Director
Jacobs Consultancy, USA

12:00 – 12:30

Petcoke to ethylene – New paradigm
Dr. Partha P. Maitra
President
Reliance Industries

12:30 – 13:00

Gasification – Advantages for the petrochemical industry
Mr. Shardul Kulkarni
Principal – Energy Business
TATA Strategic Management Group

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

New technologies to improve your phenolics or styrenics business

Mr. Mark Healey
President
Badger Licensing, USA

15:00 – 15:30

China petchems in transition – Smooth or Turbulent?s
Mr. Larry Tan
Vice President – BD & Consulting
ICIS Consulting, Singapore

15:30 – 16:00

Innovations in catalyst technology
Dr. Ahmad Moini
Senior Research Associate, Chemicals Catalysis Research
BASF, USA

16:00 – 16:30

Russian petrochemical industry – An overview
Mr. Evgeny Griva
General Manager
SIBUR Petrochemical India

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

New technologies for the production of linear alpha olefins from laboratory to commercial plant
Mr. Florian Penner
Product Manager – Linear Alpha Olefins
Linde Engineering, Germany

17:30 – 18:00

Logistics solutions
Mr. Dibyendu Deepak
Chief Operating Officer
Katoen Natie IOT Logistics

18:00 – 18:30

Recent developments in INcat catalysts by INEOS: Pushing the horizons for polymer producers
Mr. Kevin Latham
General Manager – Polyolefin Catalysts
INEOS Technologies

18:30 – 19:00

Customer Relationship Management in chemical industry
Mr. Rajesh Bhargava
Chief General Manager
Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Co.

19:00
Networking Cocktails & Dinner
Day 2 9 th November 2012
SESSION III
09:00 – 09:30

Global polymer business & the role of trading companies
Mr. Sanjay Moolji
Global Product Manager
Tricon Energy, USA

09:30 – 10:00

Indian polyolefins markets
Mr. R Nanda Kumar
Dy. General Manager (PC-MO)
Indian Oil Corporation

10:00 – 10:30

UNIPOL™ PE process for the growing Indian PE market
Dr. Carol Fitzpatrick
Product Development Manager
Univation Technologies, USA

10:30 – 11:00

Capturing maximum value from Naphtha cracker derivatives
Mr. Anil Khatri
Licensing Engineer
GTC Technology

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

Tightness in Aromatics™ – Markets at a time of global slowdown
Mr. Andy Nicholson
Vice-President Aromatics EMEI
Argus-DeWitt, France

12:30 – 12:30

Global Px&PTAscenario
Mr. Steve Jenkins
Head – Global Paraxylene&Derivatives Business
PCI Xylenes & Polyesters, Malaysia

12:30 – 13:00

Recent advancements in LAB technology
Dr. Srikantiah Raghuram
Technology Manager, Olefins and Detergents
UOP, USA

13:00 – 13:30

Consider Catalytic Olefins Technology in Olefins Revamps
Mr. Sourabh Mukherjee
Senior Technical Professional Leader – Process
KBR Technology

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

Butyl rubber – Market dynamics
Mr. Virendra Rathod
Head – Synthetic rubber business
Reliance Industries

15:30 – 16:00

Badger Ethylbenzene from dilute Ethylene – Proven technology for low cost EB
Mr. Vincent Welch
Director – Styrenics Licensing
Badger Licensing,USA

16:00 – 16:30

New catalyst development in C2 tail end application
Mr. Omid Askarsadeh
Product Manager EMEA Petrochemical Catalysts
Sud Chemie, Germany

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

PET material & niche applications
Mr. R. K. Gera
Asst. Vice President – Business Development
Reliance Industries

17:30 – 18:00

Advantages of Lummus/Polimeri Cumene/Phenol technology
Mr. Tahir Khan
Sr. Principal Process Technology Engineer
Lummus Technology

Mr. Mukund Yallambalse
Business Development Manager
Lummus Technology

18:00
Closing Remarks