Tuesday, 9 September 2025

Raffles Hotel, Singapore

Argus Asia-Pacific Oil Markets Forum: Asia in the Driving Seat

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About the forum

Where: Raffles Hotel Singapore (Level 3 - Jubilee Ballroom)

When: Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 8.00 am to 12.00 pm Singapore Time

Oil markets have been buffeted by the turmoil of reconfigured trade relations in 2025. But what does the future hold in the key demand centres?

Asia will continue to exert the strongest pull on internationally traded oil, but what will be the region’s new source of supply as OPEC+ comes up against seemingly robust non-OPEC supply growth? As the baton of demand growth passes from China to India and southeast Asia, what are the implications for crude and refined products trade?

Tariffs, sanctions and re-routed trade will remain part of the market landscape, so join us to learn how dirty and clean freight markets are adapting. And how will the refining sector adapt to shifting crude slates and demand trends amid competition from rising NGLs and biofuels supplies?

Gain insights on this and more, plus the very latest on innovations in price indexation from Argus.

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Agenda: Tuesday, 9 September

08.00 - 10.00

Networking Breakfast

10.00 - 12.00

Asia-Pacific Oil Markets Forum: Asia in the Driving Seat

Chair’s opening remarks

Oil fundamentals and flows in a fragmenting trade world

Macro overview — regional winners & losers from Trump’s tariff shock
Asia’s Petroleum Future: The Last Big Short, China’s Waning Demand, and Why India Can’t Go It Alone
Crude vs. products self-sufficiency: Southeast Asia to become more refined products import-dependent
A 40-year-old question: build refineries locally or import?

Global crude market: flows to Asia

Crude market snapshot: Opec v.s. non-Opec and freight impact
WTI’s footprint in Asia
The impact of Canada’s TMX crude

Asia’s rising appetite for long-haul crude: Middle East still anchors supply

China and India: Redefining Asia’s crude demand and the impact of Russian oil
Southeast Asia from Producers to Purchasers: Navigating southeast Asia’s Shifting Crude Balance
Mideast Gulf Crude: Resilience amid Red Sea disruptions

Asia and Middle East oil products outlook

China’s demand shifts and export rebalancing
Margin pressures on southeast Asia’s refiners and traders
Middle East gasoline flows and Fujairah’s blending influence

MEBOB: gasoline dynamics in the Mideast Gulf

Trade flow dynamics of Mideast Gulf, India and East Africa gasoline market
Need for a reflective price benchmark — decoupling from freight netback

Navigating oil markets with precision and trust

Argus global crude benchmarks and relevance for Asia
Refined products: proposed Argus solutions for Middle East gasoline and NEA naphtha

Notes:

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