Europe’s Largest International Event for the Tank Terminal Industry comes to Antwerp

StocExpo Ltd. (UK) are very pleased to announce that the next StocExpo Europe exhibition and conference is taking place on 30th March – 1st April 2010 at the Antwerp Expo. As Europe’s leading Tank Terminal event, the conference programme during StocExpo Europe attracts some of the industry’s most prominent experts, while presentations from over 25 senior representatives of some of the regions’ key operators and suppliers will facilitate discussion and knowledge-sharing to enable safer, more efficient and more cost-effective management of terminals and tank farms.

A year ago things were looking bleak for the storage sector. Rapid construction had just raised terminal capacity but demand was widely anticipated to slump as the worldwide recession took effect. In reality, business

remained surprisingly buoyant for most and tank occupancy rates and throughputs remained high. And now tank owners stand to make a killing as traders and refiners a like clamour for storage space. With crude

inventories in the most industrialised countries at all-time highs, global demand declining for the first time in a quarter of a century and a contango still in place, it seems likely that a significant amount of oil will remain in storage for the time being.

So with tankage demand now being the highest it has been for the past five years, the StocExpo Europe conference will provide government representatives, industry experts and market analysts with a timely opportunity to explore and discuss the region’s tank storage and terminal operations and look ahead to future plans for this buoyant and exhilarating marketing sector.

Some of the key topics to be covered include: Legislation for Strategic Stocks, European Refining in a Low Carbon World, Measuring and Managing Carbon Emissions in European Chemical Transport, Preparing an Underground Cavern for Transit Storage of Crude, REACH – Updates, Implementation and the story so far, Holistic Safety in Terminal Applications and Changing International Crude Oil and Products Trade Flows and the Implications for Storage Requirements.