Executive Leadership Opening Day
Monday 8th October: The Executive Leadership Opening Day
Gastech continues to respond to demands from delegates for refreshing, dynamic and open content by evolving the first day of the conference further. Building on the success of the well-received “Executive Leadership Panel Debate” on the first morning in Amsterdam in 2011, the conference in London will continue this theme by dedicating all of Monday 8th October to a host of global and regionally-specific leadership panel discussions that encompass the international gas community.
Gastech London will welcome, as it did in Amsterdam in 2011, opening keynotes from senior industry and political representatives, before breaking into a global gas leadership panel debate examining:
Have We Entered the Golden Age for Gas?
Welcoming Keynote Address: Sir Frank Chapman, Chief Executive, BG Group
The Executive Leadership Panel
- (Moderator) Martin Houston, Chief Operating Officer & Executive Director, BG Group
- Shigeru Muraki, Representative Director, Executive Vice President & Chief Executive of Energy Solution Division, Tokyo Gas Co Ltd.
- Hamad Rashid Al-Mohannadi, Managing Director – RasGas Company Limited & Vice-Chairman – Qatar Petroleum
- Bill Dudley, President & Chief Operating Officer, Bechtel Corporation
- Abdelhamid Zerguine, Chief Executive Officer, Sonatrach
Confirmed Inspirational Speaker: Prof. Brian Cox MBE, Research Fellow, Author, Broadcaster, CERN Project & BBC Television
The VIP Opening Tour of the Exhibition
Delegate Lunch
Afternoon Regional Executive Leadership Panels:
1. “Europe: Security of Supply versus Liberalisation”
How ‘liberalised’ is the European gas market and what impacts have regulation and political involvement had? What impacts could major new pipeline & LNG projects have on the security of supply and on diversity?
- (Moderator) Prof. Jonathan Stern, Chairman of the Natural Gas Research Programme, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
- Sergei Shmatko, Minister for Energy, Government of the Russian Federation
- Chris Finlayson, Executive Director & Managing Director BG Advance, BG Group
- Jean-Claude Depail, President, Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE)
2. “The Americas: From Demand Sink to Supplier?”
The United States is suddenly the world’s largest producer of gas – is this a globally game-changing fact? Where will the USA (and Canada) now export this surplus supply of gas to and what impacts are similar unconventional resource extraction having on South America gas dynamics?
Confirmed Moderator and Speakers to date:
- (Moderator) James Ball, Director, Gas Strategies
- Speakers to be confirmed shortly
3. “Asia-Pacific: Meeting Demand Growth”
Demand from Asia for LNG and natural gas is growing – whether from China or Japan (post-Fukushima), and the market has responded with massive new energy projects to supply this apparent demand. Where will supply ultimately come from and could there be a ‘glut’ of gas from over-supply?
- Moderator and speakers to be confirmed shortly
Day One Closes
