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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 |
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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 |
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Petr Třešňák, Deputy Minister Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade |
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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 |
Ewa Abramiuk-L’ete, General Manager Liquid Gas Europe |
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15:20 – 15:50 |
Feedback from the key industrial players |
Justin Jackson, Upstream Global Operations and Trading ExxonMobil |
Grete Tveit, Senior Vice-President Equinor |
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Andreas Rau, CEO Net4gas |
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David Viduna, Head of Origination ČEZ |
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15:50 – 16:20 |
Moderated discussion |
opened by Jozef Síkela, Minister of Industry and Trade |
16:20 – 16:25 |
Final summary |
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16:30 – 16:40 |
Signing of Joint Statement |
Jozef Síkela, Minister of Industry and Trade and industry representatives |
16:40 – 17:00 |
Press conference |
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17:00-17:40 |
Networking, light dinner |
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18:00 |
Official CZ PRES program |
18:00 Exhibition Energy and Civilization 19:00 Concert of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Dvořák: New World Symphony) |
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