STREAM ONE – PIPELINES
Moderated by:
Chris Walters, Managing Consultant, Gas Strategies
10:40 - 11:10
Pipeline interconnectivity: Close reality or still a pipe dream?
- Brief overview of the history and current state of major pipelines in Europe
- Role of Caspian, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Gas in addressing ‘security of supply’ concerns
- Examples of regional initiatives to interconnect TSOs and national markets/networks
- Role of joint venture pipeline projects for diversification of gas supplies
Chris Walters, Managing Consultant, Gas Strategies
11:10 – 11:50
Assessing essential requirements for making transit pipelines less troublesome
- Business and operational discrepancies arising out of transit pipelines
- Legal and regulatory issues
- Transformation of transit into ‘entry exit’ systems
- Trade and environmental protection provisions
- Model agreements for cross border pipeline gas
- Role of the Energy Charter Treaty in improving interconnectivity and interoperability
Ana Stanic, Principal, E&A Law
11:50 – 12:30
Overcoming key impediments to facilitate third party access: infrastructure, CAMs and CMPs, the Spanish case
- General overview of Spain’s market: characteristics and access
- International connections: actual and future developments
- Development of the Iberian Gas Market.
- Role of the Iberian peninsula in the development of European energy market and Security of Supply (SoS) model
- HUB / Wholesale market in Spain: actual situation and future developments
- Conclusions
Fernando Impuesto Nogueras, Director of Commercial Operations and Third Party Access, Enagás SA
12:30 – 12:50
Pipeline Project Assurance – A Verification Solution
This session will discuss DNV’s approach to the design verification and performance forecasting of complex pipeline infrastructure projects that has been a benefit to a number of large transmission pipeline projects, with both subsea/ deepwater and onshore challenges.
Edwardus Ng, Vice President, Det Norske Veritas
12:50 – 13:40
Networking lunch
13:40 – 14:20
Turkey’s transit role for Europe: A supply & demand analysis
- Details of pipeline contracts: Russian, Caspian and Arab gas
- Pipelines in operation
- Ongoing projects: Nabucco, ITGI, Iraqi gas
- Information about the projects and updates on recent developments
- Focus on Nabucco: Progress & challenges
- Role of pipelines in securing the gas supply of Turkey and Europe
Fatih Kolmek, Energy Expert, Energy Market Regulatory Authority of Turkey
14:20 – 15:00
Project update: Trans Adriatic Pipeline
- TAP’s concept of building the missing link in the Southern Gas Corridor
- Update on ESIA process in Greece, Albania and Italy
- TAP’s approach to stakeholder involvement in the permitting process
- What are the benefits for Italy?
Paolo Pasteris, Country Manager for Italy, Trans Adriatic Pipeline
15:00 – 15:40
Project update: GALSI
- GALSI’s experiences of monetising on the opportunity and developing a pipeline from Algeria to Italy
- Obtaining permissions and dealing with transit issues
- Project stages and plans of coming on stream
Mohamed Yousfi, Chief Executive Officer, Galsi
15:40 – 16:10
Afternoon tea and refreshments
16:10 – 16:50
Project Update: White Stream
- White Stream, an integral component of the EU’s southern corridor plan
- Providing a second entry point for Caspian gas into the EU via the Black Sea and thus:
- Reducing perceived transportation risk
- Facilitating investments in the upstream and trans-Caspian pipeline
- Role in enhancing security of supply for Europe and diversifying supply route from reliable and affordable Caspian sources
- Enabling the EU to seek the most optimal energy mix
Giorgi Vashakmadze, Director, Corporate Development, White Stream
16:50 – 17:30
Linking Markets: The Interconnector Pipeline
- Interoperability – linking diverse regimes
- Coupling markets
- Commercial & regulatory challenges
- Where next for the Interconnector?
Darren Reeve, Commercial Manager, Interconnector UK
