AIX: Gas – Conceptualising the industry’s future shape

With fossil fuel markets under ever greater pressure from shifting strategies and projects searching for increasingly elusive funding as stakeholders follow a climate change agenda more rigorously, AIX: Gas will examine the relevance of gas to African economies, their domestic markets and export potential. 

An overview of Africa’s gas market by African Energy
John Hamilton, Managing Director, CbI 

• What are the potentials for driving investment and loans into gas sector projects? 
• Official financiers’ views on the prospects for securing funds. Is it off the agenda totally, or can the right deal open up financing? 
• How can upstream players avoid being left with stranded assets? 
• Gas-to-power (GTP) options. 
• The potential and limits of transportation and other use. 
• Small is beautiful:  is it the future? Trucking gas, LPG for cooking and other smaller-scale gas supply solutions. 
• CCS and other ‘clean’ fossil solutions - can they work? 
• Using gas to produce hydrogen’s blue or brown version, is this really a future option for African economies? 
• Does Egypt supply a model for export-led developments? 
• Has gas really got a long-term role as the transition fuel? And if so, for how long?