• WPC 2024
  • March 18-22, 2024

Eshwar Yennigalla

S&P Global Commodity Insights

Senior Analyst, Petrochemicals

Eshwar Yennigalla is a senior analyst, Petrochemicals at S&P Global Commodity Insights, specializing in aromatics and olefins. Eshwar is responsible for refinery petrochemical simulations and forecasts, developing models for short-term and long-term petrochemical outlooks, production cost analysis tools and contributes to the development new analytics products. He extensively covers the global aromatics and olefins value chains and is a regular speaker at petrochemical forums.

After joining Commodity Insights, Eshwar moved to Singapore to cover global petrochemical analysis and promote Commodity Insights’ analytics footprint in Asia, after an earlier spell in Houston. He earned his Master’s Degree in Petroleum Engineering from University of Houston and has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering.

Sessions With Eshwar Yennigalla

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