Understand the Issues Impacting the European Gas Trading Market at the European Gas Market Forum
Programme Last Updated on 21st February 2012
With growing demands for both LNG & pipeline gas and the emergence of new markets in the recent years, it is known to be a high priority task for the policy makers in the European Commission, national regulators, industry bodies and gas companies to transform the traditional gas supply and trading landscape into a more competitive, streamlined, liquid and transparent marketplace.
While a few countries like the UK and Germany have moved ahead in forming liberalised markets and optimising their trading practices more than the others, there is an underlying need to streamline the entire midstream gas value chain across the region to ensure security of supply at competitive and fair prices.
Due to the increasing popularity of trading at hubs and exchanges, and long term gas supply contracts being re-negotiated, there has never been a better time to gather industry experts from all sides and debate the most pertinent issues and challenges affecting their businesses and gas markets as a whole.
The European Gas Market Forum brings together…senior level decision makers from gas supply, origination, trading, power plant operations
and utilities along with industry associations and regulators for 2.5 days of learning, best practice benchmarking, networking, partnership-building and the best and the
latest thinking in European gas leadership.
The European Gas Market Forum will address key issues including:
- The challenges of the European gas trading markets in a global context – analysing the role of LNG, pipeline and unconventional gas in addressing "security of supply" in Europe and rising demand in Asia
- Assessing the scope of the new policies and regulation, their implementation and direct implications for gas traders – understanding REMIT, MIFID II, Basel II, MAD and EMIR – (Interactive Post-ConferenceWorkshop Topic)
- Europe's hybrid gas pricing system: examining the links and implications of oil-indexed and hub-based pricing – exploring effective ways to develop the best mechanisms for managing price volatility
- The role of the Central European Gas Hub in serving as a major gas hub linking Eastern and Western Europe – understanding the soon to be launched trading system and how CEGH is growing to become a major gas hub in Europe
- The changing role of exchanges in the European gas trading markets – examining the reasons for expansion of trade on exchanges
- Understanding new challenges of the forward trading markets – assessing whether the forward market is liquid enough to hedge price and volume exposure
- Optimising contracts for profitability and competitive advantage: best practices for negotiating long-term supply contracts – analysing the underlying factors that cause disputes in long-term contracts and how to mitigate such risks
Key speakers confirmed at the European Gas Market Forum include:
- Andreas Holzer, Vice-Chairman, EFET German Gas Task Force
- Helmut Hammerschmid, Head of LNG North Africa, RWE Supply and Trading
- Sergei Komlev, Head of Directorate, Contract Structuring and Price Formation, Gazprom
- Cristiano Campi, Head of Gas, Power & Coal Sales-Origination, Credit Agricole CIB - in partnership with EDF Trading
- Bernhard Seiberl, Chief Operation Officer, Central European Gas Hub
- Jan-Willem Schapink, Head (SVP) of Pricing, Structuring and Forecasting, Essent
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