Sponsorship / Exhibiting

Baker Botts is one of the world's leading energy law firms with approximately 800 lawyers in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the USA. The Firm is recognised for its energy, project development, finance, intellectual property and dispute resolution practices
The firm's energy lawyers represent clients in a broad array of oil, gas, electricity and other energy-related matters, providing comprehensive advisory, transactional, regulatory and litigation services.  Baker Botts has advised advised clients in relation to oil, gas, LNG, pipeline, petrochemical, refinery, electric power and renewables projects, as well as in connection with the acquisition and divestiture of interests in such projects.  Energy clients include producers, processors, transporters, distributors, marketers and users of utilities - natural gas, electricity, oil, coal, wind and nuclear.  The representation of energy companies has traditionally been at the heart of the firm's practice.  The firm also advises governments, governmental agencies, NGOs and multi-lateral agencies on restructuring and privatisation matters on a regular basis.
The firm's energy lawyers have extensive experience in banking and finance, capital markets, corporate governance, foreign investment, privatisation, customs and government contracts, including Islamic finance and structuring Shari'a compliant security packages.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With approximately 177,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$21.58 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2009. To learn more about how Accenture can help your energy company on its journey to high performance, visit us at www.accenture.com.

APX-ENDEX is Europe’s premier provider of power and gas exchange services for the wholesale market, operating transparent platforms for short term and futures trading in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Belgium. Established in 1999, APX-ENDEX provides exchange trading, central clearing & settlement and data distribution services. APX-ENDEX has over 300 memberships from more than 15 countries. APX-ENDEX offers benchmark data and provides industry indices. APX-ENDEX’s offices are located in Amsterdam, London and Nottingham.
For more information please visit www.apxendex.com

BENTEK Energy® is an independent energy market analytics company and for years has been recognized as the industry leader in natural gas market fundamental analysis.  Today, the company’s expertise goes much further – into power, natural gas liquids and other energy products.

BENTEK® goes deep into the data to help our clients understand the fundamentals – how energy is moving, where bottlenecks may develop, and which supply/demand factors impact prices.  We see the big picture by rigorously reviewing the details. Our insights are supported by a "bottoms up" analysis that contains an extremely comprehensive view of energy market trends and developments. 

BENTEK is headquartered in Evergreen, Colorado, USA, and has sales and customer support services located in Houston, Texas, USA.

BG Group is an international natural gas company active in around 25 countries across the world. It's centre of gravity lies in exploration and production but it works right along the gas-chain, connecting competitively priced gas to markets. BG produces from the UKCS natural gas equivalent to around 7% of UK consumption and is now one of the largest licence holders in Norway. Exploration drilling began there in 2007. BG is also a leading Atlantic Basin LNG player and imports around 50% of all LNG imports into the US via its Lake Charles and Elba Island terminals.

Booz & Company is a leading global management consulting firm, helping the world’s top businesses, governments, and organizations.
Our founder, Edwin Booz, defined the profession when he established the first management consulting firm in 1914.
Today, with more than 3,300 people in 57 offices around the world, we bring foresight and knowledge, deep functional expertise, and a practical approach to building capabilities and delivering real impact. We work closely with our clients to create and deliver essential advantage.

For our management magazine strategy+business, visit www.strategy-business.com. Visit www.booz.com to learn more about Booz & Company.

Deloitte member firms’ Energy & Resources practices offers a depth, breadth and quality of expertise in European gas that few professional services firms or consultancies can match. Senior partners from throughout Europe provide comprehensive integrated solutions that address the range of challenges facing energy companies as they adapt to changing regulatory environments, to political, economic and market pressure, and to technological development. Deloitte member firms’ in-depth expertise in this dynamic sector serves as an indispensable resource for a significant proportion of the world’s largest energy companies. We have designed our practice to conform to this rapidly changing sector’s unique needs; to that end, Deloitte member firms offer a complete range of services designed to provide the energy industry with unparalleled service, innovation, and critical thinking.

ECG Erdgas-Consult GmbH (ECG), based in Leipzig (Germany), is a specialist supplier of software, consultancy and process services
for the energy industry. On the basis of technical expertise and practical experience, ECG provides solutions for companies in all
the various roles of the German and European energy market.

ECG key product is the MTS software family. It covers all commercial processes of the energy value chain, offering tailormade implementations for network operators, storage system operators, traders and distributors. The high flexibility and modularity of the MTS system enable customer-oriented
software solutions and provide optimum support for the different market roles. Based on deep skills in energy and IT knowledge, ECG also develops platforms for the effective and transparent publication of transport data, capacity booking and trading.

Since 2008, ECG has formed the solution and development partnership “Robotron|ECG solutions” together with Robotron
Datenbank-Software GmbH, in order to provide integrated IT systems from a single source.

As Europe's 2nd largest LNG terminal operator, Elengy serves all LNG importers seeking to supply French and European markets connected to the french natural gas transmission system. Elengy owns and operates the Atlantic coast Montoir de Bretagne terminal and the Fos tonkin terminal on the Mediterranean. Elengy also owns 70% of the future fos cavaou terminal through société du Terminal Méthanier de Fos Cavaou.

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE) operates leading regulated exchanges, trading platforms and clearing houses serving the global markets for agricultural, credit, currency, emissions, energy and equity index markets. ICE Futures Europe hosts trade in gas, power and coal alongside half of the world's crude and refined oil futures. In an innovative partnership with the European Climate Exchange (ECX), it also offers the leading European emissions futures market. In addition, ICE operates the world’s leading OTC energy marketplace with more than 300 OTC cleared energy products and is a leading operator of central clearing services for the futures and over-the-counter markets, with five regulated clearing houses across North America and Europe. A component of the Russell 1000 and S&P 500 indexes, ICE serves customers in more than 55 countries and is headquartered in Atlanta, with offices in New York, London, Chicago, Winnipeg, Calgary, Houston and Singapore. www.theice.com

Lovells LLP is one of the world's leading international law firms with more than 1,600 lawyers and 26 offices in 18 countries across Europe, Asia and the USA. The firm's Energy and Projects Group provides M&A, project finance, regulatory, tax and commercial advice to leading players in the global energy industry. The team has wide international experience of major LNG, gas, oil, petrochemical, refinery, power and renewables projects. Backed by deep knowledge of the LNG and gas sector, Lovells has been extensively involved in LNG liquefaction and regasification projects in Europe, Asia and North Africa as well as downstream gas liberalisation and trading in Europe.

Powernext SA, incorporated in 2001, manages several complementary, transparent and anonymous energy markets: Powernext Gas Spot and Powernext Gas Futures were launched on November 26, 2008 in order to hedge volume and price risks from Within-Day to the next three gas seasons; Powernext Balancing GRTgaz allows the Transmission System Operator GRTgaz to progressively cover its daily balancing needs through a market based mechanism. EPEX Spot, based in Paris and owned equally by Powernext and EEX, the German energy organized market, was launched on January 1st 2009 and facilitates, 365 days a year, the hourly balancing of physical power delivered the following day on the French, German/Austrian and Swiss hubs. In April 2009, Powernext contributed the French power derivatives to EEX Power Derivatives, a company dedicated to European power derivatives, based in Leipzig, against a 20 percent equity stake in this company.

Pöyry Energy Consulting is the leading advisor to Europe’s energy markets, formed from the merger of ILEX Energy Consulting, ECON, Convergence Utility Consultants and the management consulting arms of Electrowatt-Ekono and Verbundplan. 
Pöyry Energy Consulting provides strategic, commercial, regulatory and policy advice to Europe’s energy markets using our problem solving, modelling and economics expertise and a practical and down-to-earth approach to our clients' requirements.  Our team of over 170 energy specialists, located across eleven European offices in ten countries, offers unparalleled expertise in the rapidly changing energy sector. 
Within Europe and worldwide our clients include utilities, generating companies, energy distributors, suppliers, energy traders, financial institutions, governments, regulators, the European Commission, the World Bank, trade associations and industrial energy users.
Pöyry Energy Consulting produces the renowned ILEX Energy Reports which provide detailed projections for the price of wholesale electricity, gas, carbon and green certificates in Europe’s liberalised energy markets.

SolArc, Inc. is a global provider of enterprise commodity management solutions. SolArc’s integrated software solution offers customers greater insight and control over their complex commodity supply, marketing and trading environments, delivering increased operational effectiveness and profitability with lower risk.

Since 1991, SolArc has become a trusted solution provider for an international clientele of more than 60 leading corporations across a range of vertical industries, including energy, aviation and transportation, banking and finance, agriculture and consumer goods. SolArc is headquartered in Houston and has offices in Dallas, Tulsa, London and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.solarc.com.

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Statoil is an international energy company with operations in 40 countries. Building on more than 35 years of oil and gas production on the Norwegian continental shelf, Statoil is committed to accommodating the world’s energy needs in a responsible manner, applying technology and creating innovative business solutions. Statoil is headquartered in Norway with 30,000 employees worldwide, and is listed on the New York and Oslo Stock Exchange.

For more information, please visit www.statoil.com

Storengy, a company of GDF SUEZ, is a European leader in underground storage. It currently operates storage facilities across France, United Kingdom and Germany with 16 sites and around 11 billion m3 in working capacity.
With over 900 employees, Storengy is in charge of all new storage-related pursuits, planning, development, installation and operating activities, as well as the commercialisation of services directly or indirectly pertaining to natural gas storage. To support growth in demand, fulfil the market’s need for responsiveness and ensure gas suppliers high-quality storage services, Storengy is working to optimise the performance of its existing facilities, expand its capacity and find new storage sites.

Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is a leading global provider of energy and commodities information. With a century of business experience, Platts serves customers across more than 150 countries. An independent provider, Platts serves the oil, natural gas, electricity, emissions, nuclear power, coal, petrochemical, shipping, and metals markets from 17 offices worldwide. Platts' real-time news, pricing, analytical services and conferences help markets operate with transparency and efficiency. Traders, risk managers, analysts, and industry leaders depend upon Platts to help them make better trading and investment decisions. Additional information is available at http://www.platts.com

GMSL provides European gas and power dispatching services and software to more than 50 companies operating in 11 countries.

Our clients keep choosing our 24/7 dispatching services because they value our expertise and the flexible solutions that we continually tailor to their changing needs.

Unlike a traditional software house, GMSL uses the software solutions that we develop in our own dispatching operations. As a result you can be sure that our solutions are designed using direct experience to cope with the problems of real world dispatching. For more information please visit www.gmsl.co.uk

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. The Company's businesses supply real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for millions of securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software companies subscribe to the Company's services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities. Interactive Data, headquartered in Bedford, Mass., has approximately 2,400 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, is Interactive Data Corporation's majority stockholder.
For more information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses, please visit Interactive Data’s newly launched, web site at http://www.interactivedata.com

Argus Media is a privately held UK-registered company, providing business intelligence, data and trading information on natural gas, electricity, oil, coal, emissions, LPG, biofuels, biomass and transportation markets. Argus has 300 staff members worldwide and provides independent, accurate and relevant energy market information. It is headquartered in London and has offices in Houston, Washington, New York, Portland, Johannesburg, Dubai, Singapore, Tokyo, Beijing, Sydney, Moscow, Astana, Kiev, Santiago and other key centres of the energy industry.

Argus’ spot market price assessments and are widely used as benchmarks for physical and swap contracts. Argus also publishes a broad range of business intelligence reports, in which the company's experienced team of journalists report international industry developments and analyse emerging trends in the energy, emissions and transportation sectors.

For a free trial to any Argus publication please call
+44 (0) 20 7780 4200 or email: info@argusmedia.com
www.argusmedia.com

Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is a leading global provider of energy and commodities information. With a century of business experience, Platts serves customers across more than 150 countries. An independent provider, Platts serves the oil, natural gas, electricity, emissions, nuclear power, coal, petrochemical, shipping, and metals markets from 17 offices worldwide. Platts' real-time news, pricing, analytical services and conferences help markets operate with transparency and efficiency. Traders, risk managers, analysts, and industry leaders depend upon Platts to help them make better trading and investment decisions. Additional information is available at http://www.platts.com

Fitch Ratings is a global rating agency committed to providing the world’s markets with independent,
timely and prospective credit opinions. With 50 offices worldwide, Fitch Ratings’ global expertise spans across capital markets in over 150 countries.

Fitch Ratings is headquartered in New York and London and is part of the Fitch Group, which includes
Fitch Solutions, a distribution channel for Fitch Ratings products and a provider of data, analytics and related services; and Algorithmics, a leader in enterprise risk management solutions.

The Fitch Group is a majority-owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A., headquartered in Paris, France.
For additional information, please visit www.fitchratings.com; www.fitchsolutions.com; and www.algorithmics.com.

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Point Carbon is a world-leading provider of independent news, analysis and consulting services for European and global power, gas and carbon markets. Point Carbon’s comprehensive services provide professionals with market-moving information through monitoring fundamental information, key market players and business and policy developments.

Point Carbon’s in-depth knowledge of power, gas and CO2 emissions market dynamics positions us as the number one supplier of unrivalled market intelligence of these markets. Our staff includes experts in international and regional climate policy, mathematical and economic modeling, forecasting methodologies, risk management and market reporting.

Point Carbon now has more than 18,000 clients, including the world’s major energy companies, financial institutions, organisations and governments, in over 150 countries. Reports are translated from English into Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Polish, French, Spanish and Russian.

This year Point Carbon’s Carbon Market Insights (CMI08) gathered over 1,700 key players for the carbon community’s most important annual conference. Point Carbon also runs a number of high-level networking events, workshops and training courses.

Point Carbon has offices in Oslo (Head Office), Kiev, Malmö, London, Tokyo, Boston and Washington D.C.

Energeia provides outstanding information services (news, data, opinion) on a daily basis for the Dutch and Belgian electricity and gas industries, both in Dutch and English. Energeia enjoys the trust of over 5,000 energy professionals in the Netherlands, Belgium and beyond, who make use of our information services on a regular basis, appreciating our clear understanding of the Benelux energy market.

Eurogas is a non profit organisation governed by the Belgian law. The organisation is composed of 49 members from 27 countries amongst which 35 natural gas companies, 12 federations of natural gas companies, and 2 international organizations.The objectives of the organisation are:

• to promote the interests of its membership, companies, national federations and associations involved in the supply, trading and distribution of natural gas and related activities such as storage and liquefied natural gas.
• to promote the development of natural gas in Europe particularly in the legal economic technical and scientific areas to prepare studies and to promote cooperation within the gas industry.
• to promote the smooth functioning of the European internal gas market and to take stance on issues of interest to the European natural gas industry with respect to international and supra-national organisations including but not limited to the European Institutions and to public opinion.

Lacima Group is a specialist provider of energy and commodity pricing, valuation and risk management software and advisory services. Based on its internationally acclaimed research in energy risk modelling, Lacima’s solutions help energy trading organisations to effectively quantify and manage risks associated with structured contracts and physical assets across multiple commodities and regions. For further information, visit www.lacimagroup.com, call +44 (0)20 7036 0360 or email: info@lacimagroup.com

Wood Mackenzie advises the gas and power industry on how to optimize their existing businesses and develop new opportunities to grow. It does this through a range of offerings that extend from market and asset analysis to valuation and advisory.
Wood Mackenzie provides forward looking, integrated analysis across the energy value chain globally, by fuel type, supported by proprietary databases, models and industry expertise.

ICIS Heren is the leading specialist information provider for the gas, power and carbon markets. We publish price assessments, indices, news and analysis for the gas, liquefied natural gas, power, carbon and coal sectors. Our reports aim to bring liquidity and transparency to power and gas hubs, giving you the information you need to help you closely follow, analyse and evaluate changes in the marketplace.
www.icis.com/heren