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S&P Global Platts, Refinitiv & SGX Asian Petrochemicals Market Outlook webinar.

While the near future remains uncertain, there are legitimate reasons to expect overall improvement in the global petrochemical markets. Join us for this timely webinar to discuss Asian Petrochemicals Market Outlook and hear from our experts from S&P Global Platts, Refinitiv & SGX.

— Asian Olefins - Navigating changing demand-supply dynamics

— Asian Naphtha flows, price summary & demand/ supply outlook

— Asian Petrochemical Derivatives Market

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Speakers

Speaker
Dobashi Fumiko
Senior Editor
S&P Global, Platts
Speaker
Krystal Chung
Senior Analyst, Oil Research – Naphtha
Refinitiv
Speaker
Kenneth Ng
Director, Digital Services, Equities & FICC

Dobashi Fumiko
Senior Editor
S&P Global, Platts
Speaker
Fumiko Dobashi is a senior editor of Asian Petrochemical team. She joined Platts in 2003 as an oil reporter, covering gasoline, bunker fuel, LPG and Japan's domestic oil product markets. After she moved to Asian Petrochemical Team in 2005, she covered a wide range of products, such as olefins, polyolefins, intermediates as well as aromatics. Her main market now is butadiene, synthetic rubber, as well as PVC. Prior to Platts, Fumiko was a financial reporter at AFX News, a subsidiary of French news agency Agence France-Presse. Fumiko graduated from the University of Leeds and received a master’s degree in politics. She is now based in Singapore, after working in Tokyo and London.

Krystal Chung
Senior Analyst, Oil Research – Naphtha
Refinitiv
Speaker
Krystal Chung is a Senior Analyst at Refinitiv Oil Research in Asia, part of its Commodities Research & Forecast division. She has been covering the oil and energy markets since 2014 and joined the Oil Research Team at Refinitiv in 2018.

She is currently leading the team’s coverage of the Asian naphtha market, providing fundamental assessments of cargo flows to and from demand and supply regions, as well as producing forward curves for the light distillates complex.

Kenneth Ng
Director, Digital Services, Equities & FICC
Speaker
Mr Kenneth Ng is the Director of Digital Services at SGX. He is responsible for driving the adoption of SGX TITAN OTC PRO, a state of the art broker assisted OTC order management and information platform.

Mr Ng joined SGX in July 2001 and has held various positions in the Intermediaries, Product Development and Commodities Sales units. He works closely with commodities market participants globally to promote the use of commodities derivatives for price risk management and SGX as the central counterparty for OTC traded products.

Mr Ng is one of the pioneer members of the team behind the 2005 launch of SGX AsiaClear, Asia’s first multi-asset class central counterparty clearing facility.

Agenda

2:00pm

Opening/ Welcome Address

2:05pm

Asian Olefins - Navigating changing demand-supply dynamics

  • Price trends and drivers of Asia Olefins
  • Impact of upcoming Olefins capacities to trade flows
  • Performances of downstream polyolefins sectors

Dobashi Fumiko

2:30pm

Asian Naphtha flows, price summary & demand/ supply outlook

  • Impact of COVID-19 on naphtha flows
  • Naphtha demand outlook (Support from petrochemical sector)
  • Naphtha supply outlook (Refinery run cuts weigh on supplies)

Krystal Chung

2:55pm

Asian Petrochemical Derivatives Market

  • What are petrochemical derivatives
  • Potential uses
  • Role of exchanges in the petrochemical derivatives market

Kenneth Ng

3.20pm

Q&A

3:30pm

End

Agenda subject to change