29TH MAY SEMINAR: A New Dash for Gas? Infrastructure, Finance and Resources
7th June 2012: A very special thanks to all our speakers for what was a superbly informative and stimulating event. And an extra special thanks to David Odling and Nick Grealy, who have most generously offered to share their slides with xenical pills. The slides are downloadable from the links below;
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SPEAKERS: David Odling Oil and Gas UK, Adrian Haworth GE Capital, Ed Hough of the British Geological Survey and Nick Grealy of NoHotAir. Biographical details below.
This event will take place on Tuesday 29th May 2012, 4.30 pm registration for 5.00 pm start at the Headquarters of Allen & Overy, 1 Bishops Square, London E1 6AD. For tickets, please purchase below.
Background: In the 1990s the UK’s power sector underwent a Dash for Gas driven by privatisation, deregulation, an abundance of North Sea gas and the emergence of cheap, modular CCGTs that could generate competitive electricity from natural gas in the face of high financing costs.
In 2012, are we facing A New Dash for Gas but this time driven not by policy design but by default?
Could it be that the a perfect storm of the following means that a dash for gas is the only way ahead?
- a renewables programme that has failed to scale and sufficiently displace fossil fuels
- a nuclear replacement programme that has yet to materialize
- a cash-strapped utility sector
- consumer fatigue with rising bills
- pressing carbon reduction targets that augur for the quick replacement of coal with gas
- the prospect of vast new quantities of shale gas coming on-stream to the UK possibly from North America, Europe or even Britain itself.
Or is something else happening in the gas markets and related industry that could dramatically affect the UK for better or for worse?
To debate, discuss and inform about the new future of gas in the UK FES has brought together four leading experts to find out what is really happening.
Price per ticket: £25 – save by buying additional tickets for colleagues and friends
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David Odling – Energy Policy Manager, Oil & Gas UK
A chartered mechanical engineer by training, David spent his early industrial career in GEC, Manchester, in the production and installation of steam powered turbines for marine propulsion and power generation. In 1998, he joined UK Offshore Operators Association, as Asst. Director of Policy. In April 2007, UKOOA’s remit was expanded to cover the whole of the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry (i.e. including non-operating and purely exploration companies, and contractors and suppliers as members) and so its name was changed to Oil & Gas UK. David is now Oil & Gas UK’s Energy Policy Manager.
Adrian Haworth – Senior Market Developer, GE Energy
GE is a global conglomerate of which GE Energy plays a very important part as one of the big four gas turbine manufacturers that enabled the first dash for gas in the 1990s. As Senior Market Developer at GE Energy for Europe, Adrian Haworth has great practical insight and into what’s happening on the ground.
Edward Hough – Geologist and Team Leader, British Geological Survey
The Shale Gas Project of the British Geological Survey is in full swing and recent news that the UK may have a staggering 1000 tcf of offshore shale gas deposits should give us pause for thought. With 16 years of field-based experience in UK geology, Ed Hough has acquired expertise in Carboniferous and Jurassic shale gas horizons and geological factors influencing shale gas storage schemes. On behalf of the BGS, Ed is currently exploring the Preston area and other prospective UK shales. Ed’s talk with give a wide-ranging introduction to the subject, and outlining some of the main geological influences on prospective shales, and some of the techniques used to evaluate potential gas plays. Some of the main potential target horizons in the UK will be investigated, along with an outline of some of the main environmental considerations.
Nick Grealy – of www.NoHotAir.co.uk – the world’s leading advocate and information site on Shale Gas exploitation
Nick Grealy, principal and publisher of No Hot Air since 2008 has been highlighting the sudden emergence and predicting a future permanence of secure, scalable and affordable gas supply from the start, at a time when most of the world’s energy policy was built on a view of gas as being both finite and expensive. Shale has already changed the game across the energy industry in North America. Even today, electricity production using nuclear, large-scale renewables and Coal Carbon Capture and Storage are centrepieces of UK energy policy, but not for much longer.
Program (all times are close approximates):
4.30 – 5.00 p.m. – Registration, Coffee
5.00 – 5.10 p.m. – Opening Remarks
5.10 – 5.25 p.m. – Speaker 1: David Odling, Oil & Gas UK
5.25 – 5.40 p.m. – Speaker 2: Adrian Haworth, GE Energy
5.40 – 5.55 p.m. – Speaker 3: Ed Hough, British Geological Survey
5.55 – 6.10 p.m. – Speaker 4: Nick Grealy, NoHotAir
6.10 – 6.30 p.m. – Q&A
6.30 – 6.35 p.m. – Closing Remarks
6.35 – 8.00 p.m. – Reception
Price per ticket: £25 – save by buying additional tickets for colleagues and friends
N.B. a PayPal account is not required to make payment, just select on your required number of tickets, click on Buy Now and follow the link on the next page to “Don’t have a PayPal account?” to start. Or if you prefer, email dan@future-es.com for an invoice. We do not send out tickets in the post.
