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Turning Natural Gas into Petrochemicals Training

  • Calgary, Canada
After years of evaluation, the province of Alberta is now moving forward to convert natural gas and gas liquids into chemicals and plastics. In the near future, Alberta’s natural gas and natural gas liquids producers will have additional significant exposure to the petrochemicals markets. Wood Mackenzie’s 1-day training seminar will provide a comprehensive understanding of the ethylene, propylene, polyethylene, and polypropylene industries, including interactive analyses of chemistries, technologies, demand, pricing, economics, logistics and key stakeholders. Attendees will leave the seminar with a thorough understanding of the petrochemical industry, as well as a chance to network with subject matter experts and peers in this sector.

Agenda

  • 11 March 2020

    • Registration

    • Introduction

      Overview and Objectives Basic Chemistry and Chemical Value Chains Drivers for Petrochemical Investment in Alberta

    • Ethylene and Propylene Session

      Introduction and overview The Ethane-to-Ethylene and Propane-to-Propylene value chain Supply: steam crackers, refineries, metathesis, Propane dehydrogenation, Methanol-to-Olefins Demand: Polyethylene, Vinyls, Styrene, Ethylene Oxide/Glycol Read More...

      Speakers

      • John joined Wood Mackenzie’s Chemical Research team in 2018 with six previous years of industry and consulting experience. He is currently responsible for ethylene and propylene analyses in the Americas region. Previous to Wood Mackenzie, John was a Principal Analyst at IHS Markit, as the lead analyst for the North American ethylene market and the accompanying advisory services; he also was responsible for the development of many econometric and supply/demand models, specifically for value chains in C2 and C4 olefins, ethylene oxide, cyclohexane, and acrylic acid. He started his career as a reliability engineer at Baker Hughes. John holds an electrical engineering degree from Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN).

    • Lunch: identify the plastic game

    • Polyethylene and Polypropylene Session

      Introduction and overview Basic chemistry and properties: polymerization, types of polypropylene, Melt Index, Tensile strength, Flex Modulus Production and technologies: process overview, technologies types, production grades Demand, conve Read More...

      Speakers

      • Currently leads Wood Mackenzie’s polyolefins service, with a decade of experience in research and consulting for the commodity and specialty polyolefins; has developed strategic research tools and analytics products to integrate commodity polyolefins into the existing Wood Mackenzie chemical research Has a broad background with projects ranging from refining to petrochemicals, solvents to specialty polymers and catalysts to plastics converted goods Before joining Wood Mackenzie, Ashish held several roles at Chemical Market Resources, Inc. Here, he consulted numerous clients with market entry strategy, mergers and acquisition, project feasibility, opportunity analysis, technology evaluation and market assessment of chemicals, polyolefins and catalysts sector. Graduated from SUNY Buffalo with a BS and MS in Chemical and Biological Engineering

    • Recycling and plastic bans

      Recycling value chain and industry Mechanical vs chemical recycling Plastics bans impact Decarbonization and impact on the plastics and petrochemical industries

      Speakers

      • Currently leads Wood Mackenzie’s polyolefins service, with a decade of experience in research and consulting for the commodity and specialty polyolefins; has developed strategic research tools and analytics products to integrate commodity polyolefins into the existing Wood Mackenzie chemical research Has a broad background with projects ranging from refining to petrochemicals, solvents to specialty polymers and catalysts to plastics converted goods Before joining Wood Mackenzie, Ashish held several roles at Chemical Market Resources, Inc. Here, he consulted numerous clients with market entry strategy, mergers and acquisition, project feasibility, opportunity analysis, technology evaluation and market assessment of chemicals, polyolefins and catalysts sector. Graduated from SUNY Buffalo with a BS and MS in Chemical and Biological Engineering

Fees

Training

$990.00