IFFW Singapore Brief 2026
On 8 September 2026, IFFW held its inaugural Singapore Brief. Ninety practitioners from across the future fuels value chain spent four hours in a closed room working through the gaps between where the industry is and where it needs to be.
Presentations
David Doherty from BloombergNEF opened the substantive agenda with a market-level framing of clean fuels across road, aviation, and maritime, a deliberately honest read of where policy is falling short and where the economics actually stand.
Michael Ma, Head of Global Sustainability for Asia Pacific at the American Bureau of Shipping, took the shipping lens and made the case for why capital decisions cannot wait for fuel certainty, drawing on ABS's latest sustainability outlook.
Aohan Qin from China Classification Society brought the most striking factual update of the morning: China's green methanol and ammonia supply chains are not at pilot stage. They are operational, at commercial scale, and already exporting.
Armand Dumons from Axens addressed what it actually takes to get a SAF or biofuel project across the FID line, focusing on the role technology licensors play — and how early that engagement needs to happen.
Lawrence Loe from BASF made the case for carbon capture as a proven, low-risk enabler for e-fuels projects, drawing on over 500 licensed plants and 50% of the world's LNG production capacity.
Sylvia Low from 1PointFive introduced a concept worth watching: using durable carbon dioxide removal as a carbon intensity management instrument for SAF, pairing engineered removals with fuel production to bring down CI at the portfolio level.
Jimmy Matheussen from Bureau Veritas closed the presentation segment with a practical look at Asia-Pacific feedstock diversity, the certification and traceability challenges that come with it, and why quality methodology matters as much as quantity.
Panel: Building Bankable Future Fuel Markets Across Asia-Pacific
The panel, moderated by Peter Godfrey, was where the session's sharpest exchanges happened. Five points of consensus emerged across a room that rarely agrees on everything: policy is the binding constraint, China is ahead of the narrative, capital is available but bankability is not, book and claim needs physical foundations before it can scale, and infrastructure is the real gap in Asia's future fuels value chain.
Panellists: Alastair Croall (etasca), Ee Lynn Tan (Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer), Gloyta Nathalang (Bangchak Group), Han Wee Chua (Shell), Kent Yeo (US Grains & Bioproducts Council), and Stephen Bartholomeusz (Neste).
