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20 March 2008

Session 1 (Geostrategy) will be chaired by Gerald Doucet, Secretary General of the World Energy Council

19 March 2008

Session 2 (Technology) will be chaired by John Wright, Director, Energy Transformed Flagship, CSIRO (Australia)

18 March 2008

The carbon footprint of World CTL 2008 will be assessed.

15 March 2008

Session 4 (Associated Industries) will be chaired by Alexander Landia, Chairman of the Board of SUEK (Russia)

3 March 2008

The list of organizations represented at the Conference is available - see "Attendance"

28 February 2008

The list of represented organizations is available on Attendance.

20 February 2008

The panel « Downstream Industries » (at the end of Session 1) is canceled

25 January 2008

World CTL 2008 will host the World CTL Award ceremony - see “Program” and “World CTL Award”

Program

Thursday, April 3, 2008

8:00 to 8:50 am	Registration
8:50 am	Welcome remarks by the President
9:00 am	KEYNOTE ADRESS World energy supply and demand, notably fossil fuels; medium term outlook Gerald Doucet, Secretary General, World Energy Council (UK) Session 1 ENERGY SUPPLY AND DEMAND (2010-2050): OPPORTUNITIES FOR COAL-TO-LIQUIDS Chair: Gerald Doucet, Secretary General, World Energy Council (UK) Opportunities for coal and CTL: reserves, illustration with competitiveness approach Milton Catelin, Chief Executive, World Coal Institute (UK) Conclusions of IEA's Coal Survey 2007 Brian Ricketts, Energy Analyst, Coal, International Energy Agency (France)

10:30 to 11:00 am	Morning Networking Break
11:00 am	Specific country cases Mongolia Khurelbaatar Chimed, Minister for Fuel and Energy of Mongolia Poland: country case and projects Jerzy Buzek, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-President of the European Energy Forum, Former Prime Minister of Poland USA: country case and US Air Force policy The Honorable William C. Anderson, Assistant Secretary of the United States Air Force, Installations, Environment & Logistics (USA) China: country case and Shenhua projects Du Minghua, Deputy Director, China Shenhua CTL Research Institute (China)
12:30 to 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Session 2 : TECHNOLOGIES: CTL AVAILABLE ROUTES Chair: John Wright, Director, Energy Transformed Flagship, CSIRO (Australia)
	Introduction to the two main CTL routes Indirect CTL - Christiane Schmid, Director of Business Development, Siemens Fuel Gasification Technology (Germany) - Merrick Kerr, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Rentech (USA) - Jannie Scholtz, Manager of Technology and Business Development, Sasol Synfuels International (South Africa) - Samuel Tabak, Licensing Executive, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering (USA) Direct CTL - John Duddy, Technology Manager, Axens (USA) - Theo Lee, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Headwaters (USA) - Sadao Wasaka, Executive Director, NEDO, New Energy and Industry Technology Organization (Japan) Synthesis and discussion
4:00 to 4:30 pm	Afternoon Networking Break
4:30 pm	Coal and Oil Industries Panel Moderator: Didier Houssin, Director of Oil Markets, International Energy Agency (France) - Martin Considine, Vice President, Btu Conversion, Peabody Energy (USA) - Terje Martin Halmø, Senior Advisor, Strategy, StatoilHydro (Norway) - Alfred Seema, CTL Business Development Manager, PetroSA (South Africa) - John Sichinga, Country President, Sasol India - Robert Neale, Chief Executive Officer, New Hope Coal (Australia)
6:00 pm	Conference Reception

Friday, April 4, 2008

9:00 am	Session 3: ENVIRONMENT Greenhouse effect, CO2 capture & sequestration, synthetic fuel benefits, R&D Chair: Hanspeter Rohner, Vice President Europe and Australia, Schlumberger Carbon Services (France)
	Fossil Fuels and Sustainable Development Alexandre Joly, Director, French Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Special Planning CTL through WWF’s eyes Gary Kendall, Senior Energy Business & Policy Analyst, WWF Climate Change Programme (Belgium) CO2 capture, storage Pierre Le Thiez, Executive Vice President, Geogreen (France) Well to wheels approach: principle and application in several cases Richard Boardman, Senior Lead, Coal-To-Liquids Research and Development, Idaho National Laboratory (USA)
10:30 to 11:00 am	Morning Networking Break
	Quality of synthetic fuels, an improvement for the environment Keith Allaun, Vice-President of Corporate Development, Linc Energy (Australia) Great Plains (US) / Weyburn (Canada) carbon dioxide operation with efficient CO2 industrial use Mark Demchuk, Team Lead - Weyburn Unit, EnCana Oil & Gas (Canada) Reducing CO2 emissions in CTL : Putting theory into practice Diane Hildebrandt, Director of the Centre of Material and Process Synthesis (COMPS), University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
12:30 to 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Session 4: ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES Chair: Alexander Landia, Chairman of the Board, SUEK (Russia)
	Financing: approach of the financial risk on CTL Christiane Bergevin, President, SNC-Lavalin Capital (Canada) Engineering: the specifics of CTL Takuya Ono, Chief Engineer, Engineering Division, JGC Yokohama (Japan) Industrial gases Nicolas Perrin, Marketing & Business Director, World Energy Conversion Market, Air Liquide (France)
3:00 to 3:30 pm	Afternoon Networking Break
	Coal-To-Chemicals, focus on Coal-To-DME Jean-Alain Taupy, Vice Chairman, International DME Association (France) Biomass-To-Liquids Matthias Rudloff, Business Development Manager, Choren (Germany)
4:30 pm	Presentation of the 2008 World CTL Award to Dr. Sadao Wasaka, Executive Director, NEDO (Japan),New Energy and Industry Technology Organization (Japan) by Yves Chauvin, 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry CONCLUSION AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS Olivier Appert, President of IFP (France)

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