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

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 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 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.

Nicola Christina WilliamsDirector of Shipping

Nicola Williams joined OPIS in May 2024 as Director of Shipping, based in the London office. Nicola was previously employed from 1995-2023 as a Director of Clarksons, the world’s largest shipping services provider.

After graduating from Cambridge, Nicola initially worked as a tanker analyst within Clarkson Research for 4 years. Since joining the Clarksons Gas & Specialised Broking Teams in 1999, she was responsible for analysis of market fundamentals and freight across all sectors of the Gas carrier fleet. Her responsibilities included preparing KPI’s and benchmarking of COA’s and Timecharters for clients, business development, market analysis, consultancy and logistics strategy evaluation. For the last 2 decades she was the Head Shipping Analytics for LPG, Ammonia and Petrochemical Gases and also covered LNG intermittently. Nicola has been a guest lecturer for METL and Regents University and spoken at WLPGA, Japan LPG Association and various Industry events, including the flagship Global OPIS annual LPG conference launched in Houston November 2024. Since joining OPIS, Nicola has been engaged in assisting with the development of the Global LPG and Naphtha report and extending the shipping coverage in the OPIS offering across various market segments including Ethane and Ammonia.

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.