23rd International Gas & Power Summit

Paris, France, 22 Novembre 2018

Draft Agenda

  09:00 - 09:05

Welcome Address

  • Saïd Nachet, International Gas and Power Summit Director
  09:05 - 09:30

Introductory Remarks

  • Nordine Aït-Laoussine, International Gas and Power Summit Chairman
  09:30 - 10:30

Session I: Natural Gas in The Global Energy Landscape

Panel

  • Jean-Marie Dauger, President, GIIGNL
  • François-Régis Mouton, Director, EU Affairs, IOGP
  • Geoffroy Hureau, Secretary General, Cedigaz

Moderator

  • Nordine Aït-Laoussine, International Gas and Power Summit Chairman

Questions to be addressed include:

  • - How did the gas market evolve in 2018 and what are the drivers of such development?
  • - What are the prospects of natural gas demand for regional markets?
  • - What are the structural shifts that are set
    to determine the evolution of the gas market?
  10:30 - 11:00

Networking Refreshment Break

  11:00 - 12:30

Session II: Natural Gas Market: New Opportunities and Challenges

Keynote Speaker

  • Mr. Lev Feodosyev, First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, JSC NOVATEK

Panel

  • Philippe Sauquet, President, Gas, Renewables & Power, Total
  • Ahmed El Hachemi Mazighi, Vice President Marketing, Sonatrach
  • Tarek Souki, Senior Vice President, LNG trading and Marketing, Tellurian Inc.

Moderator

  • Didier Houssin, CEO, IFPEN

Questions to be addressed include:

  • - What is the status of discoveries, fields’ development and global supply?
  • - How will U.S. Global LNG Exports impact the European and Asian markets?
  • - How do NOCs and IOCs adapt to gas markets evolving development?
  • - Are there rooms for more value creating throughout the natural gas chain?
  12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

  14:00 - 15:30

Session III: The LNG market in the coming decade: Dealing with change and uncertainty

Panel

  • Caroline Quintart, co-Head, Advisory & Project Finance/Energy, EMEA, Société Générale
  • Carlos Humphrey, LNG/Gas Contracts Director, Naturgy
  • Juan Vazquez, Director General, Dunkerque LNG
  • Thierry Bros, Vice President Research, Tellurian Inc.

Moderator

Questions to be addressed include:

  • - Is China deeply changing the global LNG demand?
  • - Are emerging countries creating a sizable additional demand?
  • - Will the next wave of projects FID fill the supply/demand gap in time?
  • - Qatar big player again?
  • - US export projects: a long term source of supply?
  15:30 - 16:00

Networking refreshment break

  16:00 - 17:00

Session IV: Gas Marketing: The Changing Nature of the Gas Market

Panel

  • Eric Bensaude, Managing Director, Commercial Operations and Asset Optimization, Cheniere
  • Andree Stracke, Chief Commercial Officer, RWE Supply & Trading
  • Pablo Galante Escobar, Head of LNG, Vitol
  • David Knipe, Head of International Gas, BP

Moderator

  • Pierre Terzian, Director, Petrostrategies
  • - What is the impact of LNG imports on European gas pricing dynamics?
  • - How the LNG financing structures could adapt to the new commercial realities?
  • - How expansion of LNG-based hubs and spot prices will transform the natural gas delivery market?
  • - Long term contracts versus sport market
  17:00 - 18:00

Session V: Gas and Power: Decarbonizing Future Energy Mix 

Panel

  • Jean-Marc Leroy, Senior Executive Vice President, External Relations, ENGIE
  • François Dassa, Director, Prospective and International Relations, EDF
  • Keisuke Sadamori, Director, Energy Markets and Security, IEA
  • Michael Welch, Industry Marketing Manager, Siemens AG

Moderator

  • Jean-Eudes Moncomble, Secretary General, CFE

Questions to be addressed include:

  • - What could be the electricity mix evolution overs the 2 coming decades?
  • - What role for natural gas in decarbonizing European energy market?
  • - Should natural gas substitution of coal in power generation be taken for granted?
  • - What are the conditions of (optimal) convergence of renewable and gas markets?
  • - Renewable Integration: what are the lessons learned for policy makers and utilities?
  18:00

Closing remarks

  • Nordine Aït-Laoussine, International Gas and Power Summit Chairman