Argus Bitumen Trading Asia 2018

Topics

• Overview of the Atlantic market
  • Orderbook for large vessels
  • Europe bitumen demand drivers
  • Review of Asian demand centres
  • New storage capacity to support arbitrage trade flows
  • Indonesia
  • China
  • Vietnam
• A closer look at China`s Belt and Road Initiative
  • Managing risk and financing of new road projects
  • BRI: Reshaping Asian road infrastructure
  • Panel discussion - Opportunities for Asia
• IMO2020 - Strategies for bitumen
  • Opportunities for refiners within blending
  • Will IMO 2020 mean more bitumen supplies?
  • Price impact on the bottom of the barrel
• Review of Asian demand centres
  • Philippines
  • India
  • Japan - post-Olympics 2020
• Quality and contracting
  • Managing contamination and quality certification
• Bitumen supplies
  • Iran
  • Bahrain
  • Saudi Arabia