SMi Group's 8th annual Gas Storage & Transmissions conference returns to London this June

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Gas Storage
JUNE
and Transmissions
SMi proudly presents its 8th annual conference
18th & 19th
2014
Holiday Inn Regents Park, London, UK
Evaluating market trends and future developments to
ensure sustainable infrastructure
KEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING:
• Discuss the state and recent developments of the
UK & European gas market
• Hear about the latest project developments from
leading operators
• Evaluate the business case for gas storage
• Understand the investment challenges
• Discover how gas storage will contribute to future
transmission networks
• Daniel Urban, Manager Regulatory Affairs, RWE Gas
Storage
• Thorsten Dinkela, Head of Business Development N&E,
Shell Energy Europe
• Jim Craig, Managing Director, Centrica Storage
Limited
• Gundolf Schweppe, Head of Marketing and Sales,
E.ON Gas Storage
• David Smith, Gas Network Development Manager,
National Grid
• Rene van der Vegt, Commercial Manager,
Gas Storage Bergermeer
• Michael King, Managing Partner, Hydrodynamics
• William Cutler, Energy Security Analyst, DECC*
• Jan Ingwersen, Business Area Manager, European
Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas
• Geoffroy Hureau, General Secretary, CEDIGAZ
• Katya Zapletnyuk, Editor, European Gas Market, ICIS
• Mike Madden, Managing Director, MJM Energy
• Richard Goodfellow, Partner, Addleshaw Goddard LLP
*Subject to confirmation
PLUS AN INTERACTIVE HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE
WORKSHOP • TUESDAY 17TH JUNE • 12.30-17.00
Delta Hedging of Flexible Gas Assets
and Contracts
Hosted by:
Cyriel de Jong, Founder and Director, KYOS Energy
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2. Gas Storage and Transmissions
Day One Wednesday 18th June 2014
8.30
Registration & Coffee
9.00
Chairman's Opening Remarks
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Mike Madden, Managing Director, MJM Energy
GAS STORAGE CASE STUDIES
1.30
change and risk
• Long Duration vs. Short duration storage
• The use of storage to increase security of supply
OPENING ADDRESS
• Challenges and solutions to new storage build
European storage- Market forces vs additional regulations
Gundolf Schweppe, Head of Marketing and Sales,
• Market developments of storage over the last 5 years
• Regulations/ tools under discussion
• Alternative market forces & further integration of the
storage market
E.ON Gas Storage
2.10
Thorsten Dinkela, Head of Business Development N&E,
• With current gas storage tariffs, how can the Netherlands
regain its competitive advantage over neighbouring
countries and stimulate development of gas storage?
of gas storage
• Shall we expect legalisation of lowered prices for gas
• Recap on UK energy security policy and what this means
transportation from transmission to storage?
for gas storage facilities
Rene van der Vegt, Commercial Manager, Gas Storage
• Review of the commercial challenges both here and
• Risks and opportunities going forward
Jim Craig, Managing Director, Centrica Storage
• Bergermeer - doubling the Netherlands' storage capacity.
creating a strong base for gas hub
Centrica Storage – Opportunity or Crisis? Securing the future
abroad – current and future
The future of the flexibility market in the Netherlands
Contributing to Northwest Europe's reliability of supply and
Shell Energy Europe
9.50
• Current state of the German gas market – uncertainty,
• Challenges faced by new storage built in Germany
UK AND EUROPEAN MARKETS
9.10
Germany gas storage, problem or solution?
Bergermeer
2. 50
3.20
Afternoon Tea
Natural gas storage as a buffer to disruptions in gas supply
10.30
Morning Coffee
11.00
Panorama of UGS in the world
• Economics of gas storage has value to the Republic of
• China: the birth of a giant storage market
• Technical feasibility of gas storage in depleted gas fields
storage
• Europe: challenging times for storage operators
Trinidad & Tobago
versus oil field evaluated
• USA: Shale gas spurs a new wave of salt cavern
Michael King, Managing Partner, Hydrodynamics
developments
Geoffroy Hureau, General Secretary, CEDIGAZ
11.40
Realistic valuation of gas storage assets
4.00
• Finding the optimal trading decisions with gas storage
• 2014 storage market- Challenges and solutions
• Demand and flexibility
• Security of Supply
• Combining spot trading with delta hedging
• Outlook to 2030
• How much money could have been made in the past: UK
Rene van der Vegt, Commercial Manager, Gas Storage
and German case study results
Bergermeer
• Storage valuation and hedging in a larger portfolio of
Gundolf Schweppe, Head of Marketing and Sales, E.ON Gas
assets
Storage
Cyriel de Jong, Director, KYOS
Networking Lunch
Panel Discussion- Which way for Europe’s Gas Storage market
• Becoming a signal market
assets when prices are uncertain
12.20
• Gas supply and market analysis support need for gas
William Cutler, Energy Security Analysts, DECC*
5.40
Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
*Subject to confirmation
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Gas Storage and Transmissions
Day Two Thursday 19th June 2014
8.30
Registration & Coffee
12.20
Networking Lunch
9.00
Chairman's Opening Remarks
Mike Madden, Managing Director, MJM Energy
1.30
Storage value in a dynamic market: Interactive exercise
TRANSMISSIONS
9.10
9.50
OPENING ADDRESS
Role of Ukraine's transit system and storage in Russian gas
supplies to Europe
• Historic role of Ukraine and its infrastructure in Russian gas
supplies to Europe
• Investment need for renovation and trilateral talks
between Ukraine, Russia and the EU
• New bypass pipeline (Yamal Europe, Nord Stream,
potentially South Stream) challenge Ukraine's position as
transit country
• Importance of Ukraine's storage and reverse flows from
Europe
Katya Zapletnyuk, Editor, European Gas Market, ICIS
Will there be any storage left after 2020?
• Can storage facilities continue to provide for security of
supply into the future in spite of market developments?
• Will all storage operators make it through the lean years?
• Are there tools available to policymakers to incentivize
shippers to use storage and should they be used?
Daniel Urban, Manager Regulatory Affairs, RWE Gas Storage
10.30
Morning Coffee
11.00
Defining the future gas transmission network flexibility
capability requirements
• The changing customer requirements from the National
Transmission System
• Understanding the future network capability requirements
against the changing requirements
• Potential solutions to meet these future requirements (e.g.
non-asset solutions).
David Smith, Gas Network Development Manager,
National Grid
11.40
Implementing EU’s internal gas market: recent
developments of ENTSOG’s work on network codes
• Status on the ongoing work on codes for tariffs and
incremental capacity
• Insights in the key issues being discussed with stakeholders
• Future developments on the network codes
Jan Ingwersen, Business Area Manager, European Network of
Transmission System Operators for Gas
• Key strategic drivers
• Stock levels and price dynamics
• Weather impact and demand volatility
• Stock or sell strategies
• Liquidity or capacity - trading versus storage?
Nick White, Principal Consultant, MJM Energy
2.10
Financing gas storage
• Structuring the transaction
• Challenges and solutions
• Case studies
• Current trends in the market
Richard Goodfellow, Partner, Head of Energy Markets,
Addleshaw Goddard
2.50
Afternoon Tea
3.20
Gas storage in the renewable energy future
• Will Gas storage be the energy storage for the power
system
• Power to gas: from vision to reality
• Optional value in an uncertain future
Hans-Age Nielsen, Team Leader Gas Storage, Energinet.dk
4.00
Natural gas storage: strategic and regulatory issues
• The changing environment of natural gas storage
• SoS and investment
• Balancing obligations on storage facilities and TPA
• New regulatory issues
Edmond Baranes, Professor of Economics, University of
Montpellier
4.40
Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
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4. HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Tuesday 17th June 2014
Holiday Inn Regents Park, London
12.30 - 17.00
Delta Hedging of Flexible Gas
Assets and Contracts
In association with:
Overview of workshop:
The workshop explains how gas market trading strategies
can be improved. The focus is on delta hedging, which is
a trading strategy to secure the value and reduce the
exposure of flexible assets and contracts. Such flexibility
offers value to the owner, but this value can only be fully
realized with an active trading strategy. This is explained
with numerous examples, applied to gas storage, gas
transport and gas swing contracts.
Who should attend:
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Traders
Portfolio managers
Risk managers
Transport, storage and logistics managers
Programme:
12.30
Registration and Coffee
13.00
Opening Remarks
13.10
Flexibility in energy assets and contracts.
Understanding the value drivers, such as market
spreads and volatility.
14.10
Delta hedging approach: securing the value of
flexibility by regular rebalancing of the portfolio
15.10
Afternoon Tea
15.40
Delta hedging applied to gas storage assets,
gas transportation, and contracts with volume
flexibility
16.20
Evaluation of hedging strategies in practice:
computer exercise
16.50
Closing Remarks
17.00
End of Workshop
About the workshop leader
Cyriel de Jong is founder and director at KYOS
Energy. He has been working as an advisor for
the energy industry since 2001. For many
energy trading companies in Europe, Cyriel has
led a great number of projects related to
energy market valuation, risk management,
trading strategies and investment analysis. He is particularly
active in price modelling, financial approaches to value
energy assets and contracts, and in portfolio optimization.
Cyriel completed his MSc. in Econometrics at Maastricht
University, and finished his Ph.D. in financial derivatives at
Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2003.
About KYOS
KYOS offers specialized software and advise for trading and
risk management in energy markets. Our expert team has
years of experience in quantitative development and
advisory services in commodity markets. Our sophisticated
solutions are developed to support decision making,
portfolio management, investment proposals and risk
calculations. Based on a solid analytical framework, KYOS
offers:
• Software to optimize, value and manage energy
portfolios
• Advisory services to support decisions in energy markets

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SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
SMi offer sponsorship, exhibition,
advertising and branding packages,
uniquely tailored to complement your
company's marketing strategy. Should you
wish to join the increasing number of
companies benefiting from promoting
their business at our conferences please
call: Alia Malick, Director, on
+44 (0) 207 827 6168 or email
amalick@ smi-online.co.uk

6. GAS STORAGE AND TRANSMISSIONS
Conference: 18th & 19th June 2014 | Holiday Inn Regents Park | London, UK Workshop: 17th June 2014, London
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