Agenda – 2024

Rising natural gas production has kept storage levels high and driven down prices. How will this production be consumed, and how will the market adjust? We will discuss the recent winter withdrawal season, how the summer season is shaping up, and touch on high level themes that will influence the market in the future.

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End users of natural gas include Gas Distribution Utilities (Commercial & Residential), Industrial (Petrochem, Process, Heat) and PowerGeneration. Gas Buyers representing these entities often have a different perspective than other stakeholders across the value chain when it comes to market conditions, developments, and issues. Whether regulated or unregulated, Gas Buyers exist at the end of the value chain, essentially faced with reacting to market developments that are generally out of their control. Creative negotiation of commercial purchasing terms are vital to these constituents ensuring flexibility, security of supply, and competitive prices. This panel will discuss gas buyer perspectives on the following issues categories:

•Market Fundamentals (Supply, Demand, Pricing)
•Gas Supply Arrangements
•Energy Transition: (Energy Trilemma: reliability, affordability, sustainability)
•Midstream Infrastructure
•Regulatory / Policy
•Technology
•Power Generation (specific issues)

This Panel examines natural gas market fundamentals in the southeast U.S. The Panel is comprised of leading industry analysts who present up-to-the minute data and contextual interpretation. Topics addressed include:
•Supply / Demand – current balances and forecasts
•Price forecasting; volatility
•LNG export implications
•Midstream infrastructure capabilities
•Powergen demand
•Renewables fuel share implications

This information provides an excellent foundation and factual reference for the overall Forum Agenda and ensuing discussions.

Policy, regulatory and NGO resistance to continued development of natural gas markets continues to build. This panel examines solution innovations being employed by leading stakeholders to overcome these headwinds. Innovative solution examples include traditional pipeline expansion projects, project development/engineering/construction projects, and retail gas sales arrangements.

Opposition to new gas pipeline infrastructure has become fierce. But market demand for gas continues to grow. This panel explores non-traditional methods to move gas to markets. Innovative solution examples include virtual pipeline, mobile energy solutions, and project development/engineering/construction.

Jill Davies, Shell's General Manager for the LNG Trading in North America will provide a look-back at the 2023 global LNG market and discuss key trends and considerations for 2024 and beyond.

As momentum builds for the energy transition, RNG has emerged as viable, cost-effective energy source that is expediting the transition to a lower-carbon energy future. The panel will also discuss a method to connect the disconnected parts of the RNG process to enable transparent environmental attributes data to be measured, recorded, validated and traded in a way that everyone can trust.

The apocalyptic view of climate change is hyperbole and misleading, the effects of climate change are not certain disaster, and the resulting energy policy is an attack on prosperity. We draw from a growing body of work of scientists, economists and stakeholders that have seen through the thin veil of climate crisis propaganda. We need to restore hope and order to our energy policy
• Yes – the climate is changing (it always has).
• No – we do not know for certain how much is attributed to anthropogenic emissions.
• No – climate change is not a crisis.
• Yes – we should be concerned with maintaining a sustainable living planet.

•Florida City Gas acquisition and the strategy behind it.
•Overall current state of being an Investor Owned Utility.
•RNG Interconnection current activity and strategy both from a pipeline and virtual pipeline perspective.
•Details of Full Circle Dairy project, commissioning in April and first pipeline injection scheduled for end of May. "Soup to nuts" development project done in FL. This update will highlight connection between Ag community and utilities. Will produce 100k dekatherms of RNG form a herd of about 4,000 cows.
•Legislative Priorities.