Webinar Recording – “Marine Fuels in Transition: Market Dynamics, Future Fuels, and Shipping Policy”

Aired on November 18, 2025

The global shipping industry has entered a new era of transformation. Rising market pressures, emerging fuel technologies, and ambitious climate targets are driving change across the marine fuels landscape.

In this webinar, we’ll explore how the bunker fuel market has developed and where it stands today, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for existing fuels. We’ll take a forward look at emerging alternatives such as methanol and ammonia, examining their advantages, limitations, and the assumptions behind future demand forecasts.

The discussion will also cover how shipping fleets are preparing for transition, with dual-fuel vessels already on the water, signaling a shift in long-term investment strategies. Finally, we’ll assess the role of policy in shaping the future, from the EU ETS and FuelEU Maritime to the IMO’s Net-Zero framework, and what these regulations mean for shipowners, fuel suppliers, and global trade.

Join us for a forward-looking view of the marine fuel market as it transitions toward a more sustainable, competitive, and resilient future.

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Speakers:

  • Mike Nash, Vice President, Syngas, OPIS
  • Nicola Christina Williams, Director of Shipping, OPIS
  • Tom Sosnowski, Associate Director, Global Marine Fuels, OPIS
  • Eric Wieser, Associate Director, Global Marine Fuels, OPIS
  • Shivam Chadha, Senior Research Analyst, Ammonia-Urea, OPIS

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Mike Nash

Vice President, Syngas

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Tom Sosnowski

Associate Director, Global Marine Fuels, OPIS

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Eric Wieser

Associate Director, Global Marine Fuels

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Shivam Chadha

Senior Research Analyst, Ammonia-Urea, OPIS

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Mike Nash

Mike NashVice President, Syngas

Mr. Nash works with a global team of regional consultants and overlays their analyses with a global perspective. His responsibilities include the weekly World Methanol Report and monthly World Methanol Analysis, including the weekly and monthly Global Acetyls Market Reports and the related World Analyses for Methanol, Acetyls, and Formaldehyde.

Before joining the IHS Markit base chemicals business (now known as Chemical Market Analytics) in September 2012, Mr. Nash worked for BP’s petrochemicals division for 19 years preceding a two-year stint in Total’s UK fuels business. He performed various commercial roles within BP, in international business management, marketing, project management, and logistics, based in London, Duesseldorf, and Kuala Lumpur. His last role in the Total UK was the Logistics Director for Specialties.

Tom Sosnowski

Tom SosnowskiAssociate Director, Global Marine Fuels, OPIS

Tom Sosnowski is Associate Director, Global Marine Fuels for OPIS, A Dow Jones Company. Tom has more than 15 years of experience in the heavy fuels markets and currently oversees bulk and bunker fuel pricing for the Americas.

In the past, Tom has been certified in ship chartering by the Law Society of England and Wales. Tom is a graduate of Gettysburg College, where he earned a BA in Communications.

Eric Wieser

Eric WieserAssociate Director, Global Marine Fuels

Eric Wieser is an associate director with OPIS , A Dow Jones Company. He joined OPIS in 2019 and covers shipping and feedstocks markets for the Americas regions. Before joining OPIS, Mr. Wieser spent 16 years covering the North American power and natural gas markets. Prior to that, he spent six years covering national and international policy developments in the areas of the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle and electricity market restructuring.

Shivam Chadha

Shivam ChadhaSenior Research Analyst, Ammonia-Urea, OPIS

Shivam Chadha is the Senior Research Analyst, Ammonia-Urea at Chemical Market Analytics by OPIS, a Dow Jones Company. His responsibilities include supporting the Global Ammonia Analysis report, maintaining databases related to ammonia as a marine fuel and upcoming low carbon ammonia projects and developing green ammonia price models.

Shivam joined Chemical Market Analytics by OPIS in 2024 and previously has had a background in the finance industry. He had worked at JP Morgan Asset Management in London in their Equities division for two years and at Credit Suisse’s Equities Capital Markets division in New York. Shivam graduated from Dartmouth College with a dual major in Economics and Mathematics. He later earned a Master of Arts (MA) in Economics from Duke University.