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MONDAY 29 November: Pre-summit executive briefings

Pre-Summit Executive Briefings
Executive Briefing A: What Are The Long-Term Prospects for LNG?

Executive Briefing B: Contracts, Trading & Pricing

Executive Briefing C: Multiple User LNG Terminal Insights

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09:00

Registration & Pre-Summit Welcome Drinks hosted by

18:00

tUESDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2010: SUMMIT DAY ONE

Welcome Coffee & Networking

07:45

Opening Remarks from the Summit Chairman
Alirio Parra, Senior Associate, CWC Group Limited

07:45

SESSION 1: KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Opening Keynote Address: The Outlook for LNG – How are the Dynamics Changing?
Betsy Spomer, Vice President Regional Business Development, Americas & Global LNG, BG Group

Questions & Answers

Keynote Address: The Completion of the RasGas Story
Hamad Rashid Al-Mohannadi, Managing Director - CEO, RasGas Company Limited

Questions & Answers

08:45

Networking Coffee Break

10:15

SESSION 2: HOW DO REGIONAL MARKETS INTERFACE WITH THE GLOBAL LNG MARKET? MARKET DRIVERS & STRATEGIES
Session Chair: To be confirmed

• Regional and global players speak
• Where does LNG fit into the economic stack of gas supply?

Hiroshi Kondo, Vice President, LNG Europe, Tokyo Gas Paris Office
Simon Bonini, Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer, Centrica Energy
Octávio Simões, Vice President, Commercial & Development, Sempra LNG
Alberto Alvarez, Commercial Director, Repsol Gas Natural LNG SL (STREAM)

Questions & Answers

11:00

Networking Luncheon hosted by

12:30

SESSION 3. PANEL DISCUSSION: MAJOR CHALLENGES IN THE LNG MARKETS - HAS THE ROLE & IMPORTANCE OF LNG CHANGED?
Session Chair: To be confirmed

•Are you going to adjust the share of LNG in your portfolio?
• What are the challenges to LNG in the different regions?
• Has LNG increased flexibility for your business in the current climate?
• With new piped gas sources coming on stream, how do you see the interaction between piped gas and LNG?
• What are the current attractions of LNG?
• Following the US shale revolution do you think that unconventional and new sources of gas have the potential to reshape the gas markets elsewhere?

Tom Cordano, President, ExxonMobil LNG Market Development Company
Jay Copan, Senior Advisor, American Gas Association
David Fuller, Global Head of LNG, RWE Supply & Trading GmbH
Ulco Vermeulen, Director, Business Development, Gasunie
Networking Coffee Break

15:15

SESSION 4. PANEL DISCUSSION: THE IMPORTANCE OF COOPERATION & COLLABORATION - UNLOCKING POTENTIAL THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS
Session Chair: To be confirmed

• Promoting collaboration along the value chain
• The importance of NOCs throughout the value chain - strategies, impact on the market and on IOCs
• Partnerships to promote LNG
• Collaboration, changing relationships

Hiroki Sato, General Manager, Contracts & Purchasing, Chubu Electric Co Ltd
Marco Arcelli, Executive Vice President, Upstream Gas Division, ENEL
Jason Bennett, Partner, Baker Botts LLP
Ric Frasse, Executive Vice President, GS Caltex

16:00

Close of Summit Day One

17:45

Buses will depart from the foyer of the Hotel Arts to take delegates to Casa Llotja de Mar for the LNG Award Gala Evening

18:30

Pre-Gala Dinner Drinks Reception hosted by





6th Annual LNG Award Gala Dinner hosted by

19:00

wednesDAY 1 DECEMBER: summit DAY two

Session Chair: Steven Miles, Partner, Baker Botts LLP

08:30

Keynote Address: Same Gas, Same Markets?
Frédéric Barnaud, President & Managing Director, Gazprom Global LNG

08:35

SESSION 5. THE LNG LEADERS' PANEL: OUTLOOK FOR LNG IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS - HOW ARE BUSINESS MODELS CHANGING
Birger Balteskard, Head of Global LNG Trading & Origination, ConocoPhillips
Laurent Maurel, Senior Vice President, LNG, Total Gas & Power
Anthony Gelotti, Vice President of Global LNG Marketing & Trading, Chevron Global Gas
Philip Olivier, Senior Vice President, GDF Suez in charge of Global LNG
Jonty Shepard, Head of LNG Supply & Trading, BP

09:05

SESSION 6. WHAT ARE THE GAME-CHANGING TECHNOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE?
Session Chair: To be confirmed

Keynote Address: How Are Technologies Influencing the Chinese Energy Mix?
Speaker to be confirmed

Panel Discussion:
• Floating LNG: Is it a reality or a blip?
• What can we learn from Snohvit?
• Does CBM work?
       - Is it a good idea?
       - Why are the Chinese interested?
       - Do the business models stand up to scrutiny?

Rob Klein Nagelvoort, General Manager Gas Technology,
Shell Global Solutions International BV
Frédéric Deybach, Vice President, Commercial, GTT

11:00

Networking Luncheon hosted by

12:45

SESSION 7. UNCONVENTIONAL GAS: OPPORTUNITY OR THREAT TO LNG?
Session Chair: To be confirmed

Keynote Address: Shale vs LNG: How Do They Compete?
Ivan Sandrea, Vice President Strategy, Exploration & Production, Statoil

CBM: A New Era for LNG
Speaker to be confirmed

The Challenge of Building South America's First Liquefaction Facility
Martin Meyer, Director, LNG Technology, CB&I

Questions & Answers

14:15

Networking Coffee break

15:45

SESSION 8. PANEL DISCUSSION: NEW WAVE? THE EMERGENCE OF FINANCIAL PLAYERS IN LNG MARKETS
Session Chair: John Fahy, Managing Director, ERAS Consulting Limited

• How are financial players reshaping gas and LNG markets?
• Why are the financial players betting on LNG now?
• What has changed to encourage this trend in the last couple of years?
• How are their business models different from traditional LNG players?

Paul Kettlety, Director, Barclays Capital

16:30

SESSION 9. KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Keynote Address: Qatargas Marketing Optimisation Process
Abdulla Al Hassaini, LNG Portfolio Optimisation Division Manager, Qatargas

Questions & Answers

17:15

Close of Summit Day Two

17:45

Informal Spanish Drinks Evening hosted by
 

19:30

thursday 2 DECEMBER: summit DAY three

Session Chair: To be confirmed

09:00

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Keynote Address:
Speaker to be confirmed

Questions & Answers

09:05

SESSION 10. LNG PRODUCERS' PANEL: HOW DO SUPPLIERS MAINTAIN A COMPETITIVE EDGE IN THE CURRENT MARKET?
Voka Mukoro, Coodinator, Gas & Power Directorate, NNPC
Serapio Sima Ntutumu, Deputy Director General, Sonagas G.E.
Jean-Pierre Cavé, Commercial & Shipping Manager, Yemen LNG
Marleen Lord-Lewis, Vice President, Business Development,
National Energy Corporation of Trinidad & Tobago

09:40

Networking Coffee Break

11:00

SESSION 11. PRICING INNOVATION & TRADING: NEW STRATEGIES IN A CHANGING GLOBAL MARKET
Session Chair: Steven Sparling, Partner, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

Panel Discussion: The Future of Pricing
John Fahy, Managing Director, ERAS Consulting Limited
Pat Roberts, Managing Director, LNG Worldwide Ltd

Panel Discussion: How Do We Optimise Our Trading Portfolios?
• What innovative tools are there in terms of buying and supplying options?
• Is the market more flexible today? What enables this flexibility?
• Storage for seasonal arbitrage
• Destination swaps
• Will investment banks change the face of trading?

Ken Kuroda, Senior Vice President, Energy Business, Mitsubishi Corporation International (Europe) Plc
Davis Thames, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Cheniere

11:45

CONFERENCE CHAIR'S CLOSING REMARKS: WHAT ARE THE KET TRENDS, THEMES & OUTCOMES, & WHAT DO THEY MEAN FOR THE MARKETS?

Alirio Parra, Senior Associate, CWC Group Limited

10:00

Networking Luncheon

13:30

Close of Eleventh Annual World LNG Summit

15:00