• WPC 2024
  • March 18-22, 2024

Stephen Jew

S&P Global Commodity Insights

Executive Director, Global Refining and Marketing Research

Stephen Jew is an executive director with the energy downstream research team at S&P Global – Commodities Insights. Mr. Jew is the global lead on the Short-Term and Long-Term Crude and Refined Product Prices and Margins service. He supports various research and consulting projects in the crude, biofuels, lubricants, and downstream oil business. Mr. Jew has provided commercial and technical assistance to client business strategy, including due diligence assistance related to energy mergers and acquisitions, project feasibility, financial and sensitivity analysis, and price forecast modeling. Before joining S&P Global, he worked for UOP, a Honeywell Company. While at UOP, Mr. Jew was a senior field operating technical engineer, assisting customers globally with refinery unit start-ups, troubleshooting, and operations. His primary downstream technical knowledge is in fluidized catalytic cracking and reforming complexes while having considerable experience with other parts of the refinery ecosystem. Prior to this position, he worked in UOP’s hydroprocessing R&D group and aromatics engineering department. Mr. Jew holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

Sessions With Stephen Jew

Thursday, 21 March

  • 08:00am - 09:30am (CST) / 21/mar/2024 01:00 pm - 21/mar/2024 02:30 pm

    How Long can Octane Drive Aromatics?

    How will the energy and materials transition impact aromatics and derivatives?                                        
    Unpacking feedstocks, technology, consumer behavior and margin evolution. How are markets reacting?     

     8:00 AM: Welcome Remarks - Andrew Neale, Executive Director, Aromatics, S&P Global Commodity Insights

    8:05 AM: The fallout of the platinum age of refining - Stephen Jew, Executive Director, Global Refining and Marketing Research, S&P Global Commodity Insights

    The fallout of the platinum age of refining: how much longer will the octane premia last?

    8:25 AM: The long view of PX Xiaodong Zhang, Director, Aromatics APAC, S&P Global Commodity Insights

    8:45 AM: To blend or to polymerize your TXEshwar Yennigalla, Senior Analyst, Petrochemicals, S&P Global Commodity Insights

    TX streams have been blended into gasoline in recent years. This presentation will analize how long this could continue.

    9:00 AM: Evolution of the aromatics complex - Michel Molinier, Director, Americas Aromatics and Derivatives, S&P Global Commodity Insights

    9:15 AM: Q&A