Program Details
Day 1 15th November 2010
08:00
Registration & Coffee
09:00 – 09:15

Welcome Address –
Mr. Sharat Meshram
Executive Director (Petrochemicals)
Indian Oil Corporation

09:15 – 09:50

Key Note Address – I
World class project execution as a competitiveness driver for petrochemical industry
Mr. K. Venkataramanan
Whole-time Director & President (Engineering & Construction Projects)
Larsen & Toubro

09:50 – 10:30

Key Note Address – II
Dr. Peter Williams
CEO
INEOS Technologies, UK

10:30 – 11:10
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30

Indian economic scenario
Mr. Kamal Sen
Regional Director
Hindustan Unilever

11:30 – 12:00

Crude & feedstock markets
Mr. N. Ravivenkatesh
Managing Consultant
Purvin & Gertz, Singapore

12:00 – 12:30

Leveraging refinery as a feedstock supplier for petrochemicals
Dr. Partha P. Maitra
President – Planning & Business Development
Reliance Industries

12:30 – 13:00

Badger – Your partner for success in styrenics and phenolics
Mr. Mark Healey
President Badger Licensing,
USA

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

The Middle East influence on global petrochemical markets
Mr. Sanjay Sharma
Director – India Business Advisory Services – Middle East
CMAI Middle East

15:00 – 15:30

China’s methanol market – Battle for survival?
Mr. Anton Ferkov
Senior Editor – Petrochemicals
Platts, Japan

15:30 – 16:00

New projects – A global overview and implementation challenges
Mr. Bharat Gala
President
Essar Engineering Services

16:00 – 16:30

Process catalysts technology for environmental protection
Dr. Kevin Chan
Regional Sales Manager, Chemical Catalysts
BASF

16:45 – 17:15
Coffee Break
SESSION II
17:00 – 17:30

Coal to chemicals – A case for gasification?
Mr. Bharat Naik
Senior Consultant Jacobs Consultancy,
USA

17:30 – 18:00

Creating value – The modernUOPparaxylene complex
Mr. Michael Millard
PBusiness Director CA&S Refining & petrochemical catalysts
UOP, USA

18:00 – 18:30

Improved energy efficiency of ethylene plants with emphasis on cracking furnaces
Dr. Dieter Kaufmann
VProject Manager Sales, Olefin Plants
Linde Engineering, Germany

18:30 – 19:00

Novel mixed oxide Chrome, ZN Catalyst technology for polyethylene/ polypropylene
Mr. Mohammad Rohizat Abdul Aziz
Regional Technical Manager – Asia Pacific
W R Grace, Malaysia

19:15
Networking Cocktails & Dinner
18:30 – 19:00

Can India become a knowledge – based economy?
Prof. Mukul G. Asher
Professor,
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy National University of Singapore

Day 216th November 2010
SESSION III
09:00 – 09:30

Asian olefins – A downturn which has not happened (yet)
Mr. Mazlan Razak
Vice President – Olefins & Derivatives,
Asia Dewitt and Co. Inc., Malaysia

09:30 – 10:00

Indian polyolefins and plastics markets
Mr. Makarand Dixit
Head – Marketing
ONGC Petro additions

10:00 – 10:30

Developing flexible packaging solutions to meet changing market expectations
Mr. Rocky Vermani
Managing Director Licensing & International Sales

NOVA Chemicals, Switzerland

10:30 – 11:00

UNIPOL™ PE process : Advances in application and product development
Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Product Technology Leader
Univation Technologies, USA

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

Polyester raw material balance volatility in emerging Asia
Mr. Y J Kim
Managing Director
PCI Xylenes & Polyesters Malaysia

12:30 – 12:30

Global paraxylene markets
Mr. Steven Jenkins
Senior Consultant
PCI Xylenes & Polyesters

12:30 – 13:00

Refining industry changes and their effect on aromatics markets
Mr. Andy Nicholson
Vice President – European Aromatics&Derivatives
DeWitt and Co. Inc., France

13:00 – 13:30

PET downstream markets
Mr. R K Gera
General Manager – Business Development PET Division
Reliance Industries

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

Advance catalytic olefins process
Mr. Michael Tallman
Manager, Catalytic Olefins Technology
KBR Technology, USA

15:30 – 16:00

C4 and downstream chemicals – An outlook
Mr. Steven Kantorowicz
VP & Principal Consultant, Petrochemicals
KBC Singapore

16:00 – 16:30

A new face to the innovene PP technology
Mr. Matthew Ross
PP Proposal Manager
INEOS Technologies, USA

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

Toluene : Indian scenario
Mr. Rajesh Prasad
General Manager (Chemical Business) Reliance Industries

17:30 – 18:00

Bulk industrial chemicals market in India :Needs, Wants and Demand
Mr. Rajesh Bhargava
General Manager & Chief Marketing Officer
GNFC

18:00
Closing Remarks