Argus Global Base Oils Conference

James Booth

Senior Manager Global Tech Sales & Business Development, Chevron

Jayanta Chatterjee

Global Supply Chain Director - Industrial, Marine and Energy, Castrol

Jayanta is an accomplished leader with close to 3 decades of leadership experience in Supply Chain across multiple functions – Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Customer Fulfilment and Business Process Implementation – in Asia Pacific, India, ME, KSA and now currently in Global businesses. Jayanta has progressed through roles of increasing responsibility in Supply Chain and is currently based out of the HQ of Castrol business in the UK as the Global Supply Chain Director - Industrial, Marine and Energy. Prior to moving to the UK, he was in the Board of Castrol India Limited as an Executive Director (Supply Chain). Jayanta has a diverse international experience in leading teams and operations across geographies and brings in end-to-end supply chain leadership and insight - from strategy development till implementation - across the value chain – from procurement to manufacturing and customer service - through building of strong processes, teams, and systems.

Xavier Vilallongue

Product Line Manager Driveline and Industrial Engine Additive Lubricants, Chevron Oronite

Robert Plant

New Engine Sales Manager, MAN Energy Solutions

Damien Browne

Product Manager, Lubrizol

Mark Lord

Managing Director, Aztec Oils

Mark is approaching 40 years in the lubricant industry. Mark is the founder and CEO of Aztec Oils Ltd, an independent lubricant blender based in the UK and established in 1995, supplying Automotive and Industrial lubricants through a worldwide distribution chain.

David Wright

Director General, UKLA

Since 2014 David has managed the UKLA’s operations in Europe providing effective management, leadership and development of UKLA’s Secretariat team; he is constantly developing and maximising membership of the UKLA; delivering quality focused membership services and ensuring efficient, effective management and administration of the organisation. David is also currently the Company Secretary for the Verification of Lubricant Specifications (VLS, a subsidiary of the UKLA). David is an established and experienced senior leader with extensive experience within a variety of association, membership and public sector, not for profit charitable organisations (ExxonMobil and Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors), operating in challenging, fast-moving politically sensitive and regulated environments at board level including leading organisations in senior roles involving defining and setting industry standards, working in partnership with government on programmes of change, and partnering with key industry stakeholders on lobbying and influencing the policy agenda of the day.

Alex Brewster

Product Manager, Lubrizol

Bhupinder Singh

Regional Director, Duckham's Oils

Nikhil Agarwal

Managing Director, Globestar Energy FZE

Mr Nikhil Agarwal is a dynamic, result oriented leader with a rich experience of 25 plus years in Fortune 500 organisations. He is an engineer and holds an MBA (Marketing & Sales) and MBA (Energy Management) from University of Houston, Texas and Indian Institute of Management. Mr Agarwal used his deep industry knowledge, strong educational background and commercial acumen to set up Globestar Energy FZE, a highly reputed name in base oil trade. Globestar is successfully trading all base oil grades and petrochemicals in MENA, Far East Asia, India and Africa. His past work experience includes senior sales and marketing positions at Elf Lubricants, TotalEnergies India, Reliance Industries and Diamond Petroleum.

Guo Harn Hong

Global Lead Base Oils, Argus

Guo Harn graduated from the National University of Singapore with First Class Honours in Economics. He was on the university’s Dean List in 2014/2015 and 2016/2017. Guo Harn also holds a diploma with highest distinction in Business Information Technology from Temasek Polytechnic. He was on the institute’s Director’s Honour’s List in 2009 and 2010.

Gabriella Twining

Global Editor - Base Oils, Argus

Gabriella is the global editor of Argus' Base Oils publication, leading the global editorial team and publishing the weekly report. She previously worked as a reporter in IHS Markit’s Maritime & Trade department covering all areas of shipping. And prior to that worked for several years at a ship management company in the Safety Security and Environment department.

Christian Hotten

Reporter, Argus

Christian's role includes contributing spot prices, market analysis and news to the Argus Global base oil services. Christian is an experienced journalist who holds a first-class degree in Philosophy from the University of Southampton.

Christian's previous experience includes working as a reporter for a remote US internship covering global political news. Following six months covering agriculture for Argus, he joined the global base oils team.

Julio Viana

Market Reporter - Base Oils, Argus

Base Oils and Asphalt Reporter covering the Latin American market at Argus Media. Julio studied journalism at USP and has been following the oil market since 2019.

Tara Tang

Senior Reporter, Argus

Li Li Chng

Associate Editor, Argus

Chng Li Li joined Argus Media in 2023 as Base Oils Associate Editor. She previously worked with ICIS for more than six years covering petrochemicals market. Prior to joining the price reporting industry, she worked several years as a communications professional in the financial services and energy sectors.

John Dietrich

Associate Editor - Base Oils, Argus

John Dietrich is the base oil reporter for the Americas at Argus. He has covered the base oil market for the past two years and has covered commodity markets for 12 years. John is a product of the University of Missouri’s journalism school and is based in Houston, Texas.