The leading gas transport and storage professionals from across the Europe and further afield will be gathering to examine the latest technological developments and strategic advancements affecting the European gas industry.

This year’s multi-streamed Gas transport and storage sessions include:

Liberalisation & Unbundling

• Determining the Impact of the 3rd Directive - creating a new framework for competition in the European gas market
• Unbundling Strategies - making the Transition from a Vertically Integrated to a Competitive Market

Investment

• Overcoming hurdles in infrastructure development
• Attracting sufficient investment to satisfy infrastructure development demands
• Unconventional Investment - what will be the price of extraction & processing technologies?

Storage Development & Technologies

• Implementing adaptive technologies to maximise flexible storage capacity
• Implementing geo-technologies in overcoming unfavourable geological environments in cyclic reservoir exploitation
• Technical Developments in Enhancing Gas Storage - The Crystal Gas Storage Facility
• Competencies and Skills necessary in UGS Facility Operations

Diversification of Supply

• Infrastructure Investment: Do we need more storage infrastructure vis-a-vis renewables, unconventionals and LNG?
• The Hunt for Unconventionals - Do They Have a Place in the European Gas Market?
• Southern Europe and Baltic Interconnections
• Has LNG become a viable alternative to supply and storage?
• Nabucco, South Stream & Nord Stream – updates & developments

Pricing & Trade

• Gas Pricing Dynamics - understanding the future
• The future of gas trading - determining the impact of the economic climate and new European regulations
• Changes in the underlying pricing structure for storage capacity

For more information, view the latest programme