• WPC 2025
  • March 17-21, 2025

Larry Tan

S&P Global Commodity Insights

Vice President, Consulting, Asia

An experienced oil & petrochemical executive with almost 4 decades of experience in Asia and in United States. Have worked in most functional areas of the hydrocarbon industry with increasing areas of responsibilities: engineering, technical, plant operations, research & development, manufacturing planning, supply chain, chatering, sales & marketing, commodity trading, general management & consulting. 

Have successfully managed both bulk oil and basic petrochemicals businesses and am experienced in commercial ventures and business development. Have broad experience managing joint venture agreements across different cultures and start-up ventures. 

Current focus is in helping downstream companies shape their strategic growth options in the chemicals sector through providing data, analytics and insights.

Specialties: Sales & marketing, commercial strategy conceptualization & implementation, market trends analysis, petrochemical plants technical & commercial due diligence, lender's markets advisory for project financing, pricing strategy, price forecasting, bespoke petrochemical training workshops in marketing & sales competencies. 

Markets: Oil, naphtha, fuels, aromatics, olefins and derivatives.

Sessions With Larry Tan

Monday, 17 March

  • 08:00am - 05:00pm (CST) / 17/mar/2025 01:00 pm - 17/mar/2025 10:00 pm

    TRAINING: Petrochemical Price Forecasting

    Explore the different considerations involved for short-, medium- and long-term price forecasting. Factors like feedstock  cost, by-product values, variable & fixed costs elements will be discussed and considered. Concepts like industry cost curves will also be explained. Along with S&P detailed supply-demand methodology, these will all be brought together to assess historical margins, industry operating rates and return on investments – all to forecast petrochemical prices based on grounded fundamentals. This is a  hands-on workshop as there will be case studies for attendees to work on for every aspect of the price forecasting process. 
    Bring your laptops with you for this workshop; you will need it!

    Learn More HERE.