The Future Of Gaseous Solutions In The EU Energy Market

October 11, 2022, Kaiserstein Palace, Prague

Organizers

The Czech Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic.

Under the auspices of the Office of the Government.

About the roundtable

One of the roundtables organized by the Czech Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with Gas Naturally as a side event of the Czech EU Presidency was devoted to the topic of energy, respectively to the future of gaseous solutions in the EU energy market. The topic is very up-to-date as key priority of the Czech Presidency in energy will be the negotiation of the Hydrogen and Decarbonised Gas Package and all the initiatives under the umbrella of REPowerEU.

The majority of initiatives discussed are aiming at decreasing or even completely eliminating European dependency on imports of natural gas from Russian Federation in the shortest reasonable period and especially for the upcoming heating season securing sufficient gas supplies for European customers.

The release of the REPowerEU and all the consequential legislative proposals will inevitably have major consequences for the European (and global) gas market with potentially reshiftling global gas flows, but also rethinking the well-established modus operandi within the EU gas (and potentially even electricity markets). There is definitely no single bullet solution to address all the challenges we will be facing on our way. Yet, the broader and more intensive exchange of information between politicians, Members States administration, civil servants, EC experts and relevant representatives of the business sector, the bigger the chance that we will succeed finding credible solutions to provide stable energy supplies to our customers without giving up on our long-term decarbonisation objectives despite the challenges ahead of us.

The objective of the roundtable was to:

discuss options for increasing domestic gaseous supplies within Europe (both natural and renewable & low-carbon gases)
how to make European gas market attractive for external supplies
how can gaseous solutions still help decarbonise Europe
how to eliminate potential infrastructure bottlenecks and make infrastructure ready for low-carbon future

Press Release: Ministers for energy discussed future of European gas market in Prague. Download here

Joint Statement: The Future of Gaseous Fuels in the EU Energy Market. Download here

Draft program

Time	Block	Speaker
14:00 – 14:30	Arrival of participants, refreshments
14:30 – 14:50	Opening of the conference	Tomáš Prouza, Special Envoy for CZ PRES, Vice-Chairman of the Czech Chamber of Commerce
		Ditte Juul Jorgensen, Director-General European Commission
		Petr Třešňák, Deputy Minister Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade
14:50 – 15:20	How to enhace EU gas supply resilience via increased domestic production	François-Régis Mouton, Regional Director Europe IOGP, Co-chairman GasNaturally
14:50 – 15:20		Ewa Abramiuk-L’ete, General Manager Liquid Gas Europe
15:20 – 15:50	Feedback from the key industrial players	Justin Jackson, Upstream Global Operations and Trading ExxonMobil
		Grete Tveit, Senior Vice-President Equinor
		Andreas Rau, CEO Net4gas
		David Viduna, Head of Origination ČEZ
15:50 – 16:20	Moderated discussion	opened by Jozef Síkela, Minister of Industry and Trade
16:20 – 16:25	Final summary
16:30 – 16:40	Signing of Joint Statement	Jozef Síkela, Minister of Industry and Trade and industry representatives
16:40 – 17:00	Press conference
17:00-17:40	Networking, light dinner
18:00	Official CZ PRES program	18:00 Exhibition Energy and Civilization 19:00 Concert of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Dvořák: New World Symphony)