Main Conference - Day TwoThursday, 15 May 2025

Join us on Thursday 25th April at 8:30am-9:30am for breakfast with 2 senior executives. Find out what it takes to get to the top, what does a senior executive's daily diary look like? What tips do you need to advance your career in the energy industry?

Chinese gas demand is very strong, and it's all happening through electrification. If they really believe in peak carbon policy by 2030, they would have to start closing down their coal plants, and that will be very bullish for gas demand going forward. While they are finding it hard to manage the grid stability with renewables, government’s energy transition policies and relations with Russia favoring gas as transition fuel as part of the country’s broader decarbonisation strategy will remain a key driver behind gas demand growth.

• With around 50% of projects being hydrogen and ammonia, if blue hydrogen fails, does CCS stall?
• What specific technologies are being developed to enhance sustainability?
• How are project developers managing risks and rewards associated with low-carbon hydrogen?

• Demand and supply forecast? How will existing trade relations change as LNG phases out?
• Which new gas will flow into country and is the target achievable?
• What role will the new government play?
• Will there be consideration for long term contracts to reduce volatility?

Explore energy scenarios, role of gas in climate scenarios by 2050 and beyond, medium forecast on European gas market, international gas market in next 10 years, policies, targets and new fuels entering the market.

• The failure of COP29

• The net zero backlash across Europe 

• The costs of the current top down targets, the Draghi Report and European competitiveness  

• Affordability, costs of energy and limits on funding 

• Security of supply, Ukraine and defence 

• Gas + CCS and the energy futures for Europe  

• Understanding competetiveness of end users, investments and EU industry policies
• How the future of hydrogen production, demand, and trade may evolve – pricing and contracts?
• How will H2 be transported (as a gas through pipelines or in derivative or liquid form) and stored?
• How can public and private sectors collaborate more effectively to finance hydrogen valleys?
• H2 and ammonia ready import terminals – Capacity, PCIs and how they are progressing in Europe?

• What are the most significant barriers to securing long-term offtake agreements, and how can we overcome them?
• What policy measures are most effective in promoting investments in hydrogen infrastructure?
• How can tech innovations in hydrogen production and storage be accelerated?
• What are the best practices from existing H2 valleys that can be applied to new projects?

• Insight into why and how green hydrogen will provide the low-carbon economy promised by the hydrogen transition.
• Understand where it will come from: Domestic vs imports?
• Is there enough demand and who are the offtakers?
• Development of pipeline and transport – who will take the cost?

• Balancing long term energy storage and the need to expand electricity system massively
• Use of electrolysers for long term energy storage and H2 production
• Molecules are better than electrons – Long term look at H2 and other renewable carriers
• What’s the future role of gas fired power plants?

A study of offshore blue hydrogen storage in salt caverns or to dispose CO2 from blue hydrogen.