The Challenges of Natural Gas in the Energy Transition - London, October 25 2018

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NGW's Editor in Chief, William Powell, moderated a roundtable discussion with our Advisory Board and invited Speakers about "The Challenges of Natural Gas in the Energy Transition" on October 25^th2018 between 9am and 12pm at the Hotel Pullman St. Pancras, London.

The only certainty is that natural gas will have to compete fiercely with other energy sources for both market share and financing. In order to remain relevant and competitive, the gas industry must adapt, remain flexible, and continue to improve its impact on the environment. The industry must seek out new business models and creative solutions to undertake major infrastructure projects, work hard to gain—and sustain—public support for greater natural gas use, and ultimately offer a competitive product to consumers around the world.

We discussed the different elements regarding natural gas:

- Pricing/competitiveness

- Financing (infrastructure)

- Climate

- Advocacy

- Technology

This event was exclusively for NGW Basic and NGW Premium Subscribers of Natural Gas World.

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For more information please contact:

João Salviano - joao.salviano@naturalgasworld.com

Lili Jenei - lili.jenei@naturalgasworld.com

Speakers & Moderator:

Rune Bjørnson
Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

Thierry Bros
Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

Tatiana Mitrova
Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

Jupiter Ramirez
Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

Jean-Arnold Vinois
Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

William Powell (Moderator)
Editor in Chief Natural Gas World

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Karen Sund

Partner - Sund Energy

Karen is the founder of Sund Energy AS. She has a Master degree in international management with energy. Karen has extensive consulting experience, especially focusing on commercial and strategic natural gas issues, and has worked with these issues globally since the late 1980s. She has also served as a non-executive director in several companies (IT for gas optimisation, oil and gas companies, electricity traders/analysts)

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Joseph Dutton

Policy Advisor - E3G

Joseph joined E3G in April 2017 and works across EU energy, infrastructure and climate change policy, and on the Clean Economy Briefing Service. His previous employment covers the energy sector, with a particular focus on EU energy and governance, and the natural gas sector.

Rune Bjørnson

Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

Since joining Statoil in 1985, Mr Bjørnson has held numerous senior management positions in Statoil’s natural gas business. From 2004 to 2011 Mr Bjørnson served as the executive vice president for Natural Gas in Statoil’s executive committee, responsible for all elements of Statoil’s global natural gas value chains. This responsibility included marketing, trading, sales, shipping and processing of pipeline natural gas and LNG from conventional resources in Europe and the Caspian region, and shale gas in the USA. From 2014 he headed up and was responsible for all Statoil’s global marketing and trading of crude oil, natural gas, oil products, power and emissions as all Statoil marketing and trading activities were gathered under the same management. In his career he has worked closely with other customers, international oil and gas companies, governments, regulators etc. He has had several expat postings, including head of Statoil UK and Statoil Belgium. Mr Bjørnson is now retired from Statoil and works as an independent consultant and advisor.

Thierry Bros

Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

Dr. Thierry Bros is a senior research fellow of The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, a member of the EU-Russia Gas Advisory Council and an advisor to the World Energy Council - Global Gas Centre. He is also a senior energy expert at Energy Delta Institute and a visiting professor at SciencesPo Paris. In 2016, he founded thierrybros.com to provide independent research, independent advice, training & expertise on energy markets after 25 years in the energy field, from the policy side to trading floors. Thierry Bros holds a Master of chemical engineering from ESPCI ParisTech and a PhD from Ecole Centrale Paris.

Tatiana Mitrova

Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

Head of Oil and Gas Department in the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ERI RAS) Dr. Mitrova has twenty years of experience in dealing with the development of Russian and global energy markets, including production, transportation, demand, energy policy, pricing and market restructuring. She is leading annual “Global and Russian Energy Outlook Up To 2040” project. In 2011-2012 Head of Global Energy in SKOLOKOVO Energy Centre responsible for analyses of the global energy markets development and the Russian Federation’s energy export and import policy. In 2006-2011 Head of the Center for International Energy Markets Studies in ERI RAS. Dr. Mitrova is a member of the Governmental Commission of the Russian Federation on fuel and energy complex and member of the Board of Directors in E.ON-Russia JSC. Dr. Mitrova is a graduate of Moscow State University’s Economics Department. She is an Assistant Professor at Gubkin Oil and Gas University and Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) Paris School of International Affairs. She has more than 120 publications in scientific and business journals and four books.

Jupiter Ramirez

Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

Jupiter has worked in the LNG industry for 38 years in various overseas LNG project locations including Indonesia, Qatar, Japan, Nigeria & Mozambique. He was involved in the Arun LNG, Qatargas 1 & 3 LNG and Mozambique LNG projects. He started as an engineer and moved into marketing & commercial LNG related jobs. His work included startup of LNG projects and transitioning into their operational phase. His work involved SPA negotiations, marketing, annual delivery program scheduling, specification & technical matters associated with contracts, corporate branding, and coaching & mentoring for his international colleagues. He earned an electrical engineering degree from Texas A&M University. He is still involved with Texas A&M as a board member of the Texas A&M/Halliburton Global Engineering Board. He was involved with the International Gas Union on the LNG Committee and a member of the World LNG Report team.

Jean-Arnold Vinois

Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

Jean-Arnold Vinois is Adviser on European Energy Policy at the Jacques Delors Institute. He is Honorary Director of the European Commission. He retired from the European Commission January 1st 2013. Since July 2011, he was acting as Director of the internal energy market within the Directorate General for Energy, covering in particular the wholesale and retail electricity and gas markets, security of energy supply and energy networks. In April 2006, he became Head of the Unit responsible for Energy policy, security of supply and networks. Since 1992, he occupied, within the Directorate General for Energy and Transport, several management posts dealing successively with human and financial resources, trans-European networks, transport research, railway transport and interoperability. He also practiced as lawyer before joining the European Commission in 1987.

William Powell (Moderator)

Editor in Chief Natural Gas World

William has been reporting and commenting on Europe's gas markets for 20 years. He started in journalism at PH Energy Analysis (now ICIS Heren) in 1995, shortly before the UK devised the National Balancing Point -- Europe's first gas hub. His subsequent career has included senior management and editorial positions at FT Energy, Petroleum Economist, Argus Media and Platts, where he latterly edited International Gas Report. His focus has been on regional markets and how they function. William also speaks Russian and has had several literary/academic translations published.

Partner - Sund Energy

Policy Advisor - E3G

Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

Advisory Board Member of Natural Gas World

Editor in Chief Natural Gas World

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