Repsol's LNG Strategy: Addressing the Increasing Role of LNG in the World Gas Market

Guest Speaker:
Pablo Giner - Deputy Director LNG Strategy & Business Development – Repsol USA

Location:
Renaissance Houston Hotel
6 Greenway Plaza East Houston, Texas 77046 USA

Online registration deadline: March 24, 2010 at 4:00 P.M.
(No refunds or cancellations will be accepted after this date.)

Presentation Details:

Presentation Abstract

Repsol has a strategic decision to support LNG/NG as one of the leading energies for a sustainable future.
The recent start-up of the first regas terminal in Canada, supported by a robust commercial structure to maximize the downstream added value of the LNG chain, has consolidated Repsol as one of the main players in region and in the global LNG business.
As an integrated part of Repsol’s core business, the growth of the LNG activities is driven by the following key factors:

• Focus on integrated projects: from the Upstream to the end-user optimizing the total margin.
• Strength in marketing; efficient management of contracts and resources
• Continuous optimization of the assets; transformation cost’s efficiency
• Identification and development of new business opportunities.
• Customer focus: the reference to increase the value

The increasing role of LNG within the world-wide primary energy mix faces some exciting challenges that must be managed to achieve sustainability:

• Post-crisis period: is it finished? a lost decade or just a new one? Protectionism vs. commercial flows? When the liquidity will be recovered? Are the investment and supply-demand cycles balance?
• Prices: shall they finally converge? New contract’s typology?
• Unconventional gas: new supply outlook? shall be globally expand? How this fact can affect the global business? Shall OCDE countries be more self-dependent?
• Green policies; reality or good intentions?
• New needs, new players: flexibility, security, geopolitics, Latin America, Asia…

Bio Sketch

Mr. Pablo Giner is the Deputy Director LNG Strategy & Business Development for Repsol and responsible for leading the LNG Business Development activities at the company’s Houston Office since 2008. He reports to the Executive Managing Division in Madrid, Spain.
Mr. Giner joined Repsol’s engineering sector in the late 90’s. He has developed a 10 yrs. career in the Petrochemical Division assuming different responsibilities as Account Manager, Export Manager and & Product Manager in the Polyolefin’s Business Unit.
Mr. Giner has a BSc in Chemistry & MSc. in Geochemistry from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain and a MBA from the IE Business School.