Nick White. Joining Mike Madden in 1997, initially to help write publications for the company, consultant, research director and training manager Nick White, added a valuable resource and the start of the in-house team.

Nick is the Commissioning Editor and author of a number of energy market reports including, ‘Liberalising Gas in Europe: the implementation and implications of the EU Gas Directive’ (Petroleum Economist, Autumn 2001), ‘Energy Trading in the UK’, and ‘The Long-term Capacity Auctions’. As a consultant, Nick has advised companies on diverse areas of energy market development and regularly writes, develops and presents training courses.

Key areas of expertise include energy market liberalisation, regulation and transportation charging, third party access to transportation networks, market design and corporate restructuring, energy trading, and gas and power convergence.

Recent projects have included a study on third party access and transportation charging regimes in Italy and the UK, a review of gas quality specifications in the USA, UK, Netherlands, Germany and France, studies on the UK transportation capacity regime and energy market liberalisation in Italy, a review of transportation and processing opportunities offshore, an analysis of the impact of oil price indexation and European liberalisation on UK gas prices, an analysis of gas storage projects across Europe, and an analysis of UK gas burn for power generation.

Recent consultancy projects include the following:

• Feasibility study for a potential gas storage facility in the UK
• Detailed analysis of UK and Italian gas transportation terms, conditions, tariffs, regulation and market structure for a gas transporter and supplier
• Analysis of gas storage facilities across Europe, covering capex and opex and utilisation
• Review of the approach to gas quality issues in the USA, UK, Germany, the Netherlands and France for a gas transporter
• Research on UK offshore transportation regime for an oil and gas producer
• Calculation of UK gas-to-power demand for an international energy broker
• Analysis of transportation terms and tariffs across the EU for a national gas transportation company
• Review of the development of the UK gas entry capacity regime for an energy trade association
• Study of the structure of gas prices in the UK and Europe for a group of producers
• Review of the impact of competition on existing gas players
• Extensive lecturing on various aspects of energy markets for MJMEnergy Training, Petroleum Economist Training, and the International Petroleum Exchange (now ICE) Training
• Establishing MJMEnergy Publishing, writing, editing and publishing a number of energy market reports
• Research on a wide range of areas including, European gas market liberalisation, gas trading, transportation access, the UK Network Code, changing market structures in liberalising markets, risk management, transportation contracts.