ESCP Business School & EMC events

2020: The Year of the Bull or the Bear for the Oil & Gas Markets?

The ESCP Energy Society in collaboration with Smart Global, the Energy Management Centre (EMC) and ESCP Business School will host a round-table discussion on "2020: What does the future hold for oil & gas markets?" held in tandem with the ESCP Energy Trading Challenge 2020. This year's event will be sponsored by Glencore.

The discussion will take place at 6pm on Friday, 28th February at ESCP London Campus.

The truly outstanding panellists will discuss the future of oil and gas markets in terms of their shifting place in energy supply and thinking about long term energy requirements and options. In particular, they will discuss the latest on:

• Will oil break higher or lower price this year?
• Opportunities and challenges in the current oil price environment
• Is there a natural cap on oil prices? The role of fracking in the US
• Is the growth of refining capacity going to continue and if so for how long?
• Is gas the bridge to a renewable future?
• Renewables - how will a desire to use these new energy sources change the future of the market?
• What is the sustainable future of sales and origination in a commodity trading context?
• LNG: the next big thing in commodity trading?
• What's the impact of IMO2020 on the oil market?
• Routes to a career in the energy trading industry

Industry Round Table

2020: The Year of the Bull or the Bear for the Oil & Gas Markets?

When: 28 February
Start time: 6.00 pm
End time: 8.00 pm
Location: ESCP London Campus

Opening remarks:
Peter Stephenson-Wright, UK Director of Executive Education at ESCP Business School

Chair:
Kostas Andriosopoulos, Executive Director, EMC at ESCP Business School

Speakers:
Mamdouh G. Salameh, International Oil Economist
Taraneh Azad, Chief Operating Officer and Partner, SYSTEMIQ
​Thierry Girard, ​Oil Trader, Equinor (Ex Statoil) 
Martin Read, Managing Director, Smart Global
Mustapher Botchway, LNG Trader, Glencore
Parham Amerian, Gasoline Trader, Glencore

Sponsored by:

Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 90 commodities, with 90 offices in over 50 countries.

The Group’s oil business is predominantly based in the heart of the London’s West End, New York and Singapore. Key commodities include crude oil and oil products.

We have been involved in the marketing of oil since our business began in 1974. Today, in addition to trading oil products, our oil business, together with our partners, is investing in and developing oil production facilities.