• WPC 2024
  • March 18-22, 2024

Xiaodong Zhang

S&P Global Commodity Insights

Director, Aromatics APAC

Xiaodong joined S&P Global Commodity Insights from Shanghai as Director, Aromatics APAC. She focusses on PX/PTA /polyester industry research in Asia, especially in Great China.

Xiaodong has been in petroleum and petrochemical industry for almost 3 decades. She started her career in Sinopec and has comprehensive experience in refinery and petrochemical complex which including areas of operation, technical management, engineering and planning etc. After Sinopec, she worked for 3 years with Shenghong Group, a leading private petrochemical company in China for establishment of new PTA and polyester projects and witnessed the quick development of Chinese private enterprises. Before joining S&P, she worked in Petrochemical business of BP for 16 years in various commercial roles, including market analysis and strategy, product sales, commodity procurement and trading etc.

Sessions With Xiaodong Zhang

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 TX - Eshwar 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