Mike Madden

As the Managing Director and senior consultant of MJMEnergy Limited, Mike works for a variety of corporate clients, which include oil and gas producers, regulators, large power generators, gas marketing companies, and large industrial consumers. Recent projects have included a review of the contracts associated with delivering and selling LNG into a local gas market, a review of transportation and processing opportunities offshore for net infrastructure owners, an analysis of information issues and the offshore/onshore interface, and the impact of proposed Network Code changes on the upstream industry. 

Prior to working as an independent consultant, Mike was a senior member of the management team in BG Transco, acting in a variety of commercial, technical and management areas within the UK gas industry. The last five were spent in BG Transco’s commercial unit, Gas Transportation, where he was involved in the development of Third Party Access from its early beginnings to the present day Network Code. 

In 1994, after a career spanning 13 years in the energy industry, Mike Madden launched his energy consultancy service, M.J. Madden Consultancy Services Ltd (MJMCSL) now known as MJMEnergy Ltd.

Mike’s experience includes the following:

•        The development of completely new contracts and concepts from a 'blank page', the explanation and selling of those concepts to counter-parties.
•        Interaction with regulatory and government bodies in the development of gas to gas competition in Great Britain.
•        The development of gas transportation charging strategies which involved the calculation and publication of distance transportation charges which were subsequently modified to include, distance capping' and 'back-haul' provisions, formulae for complex distribution networks to simplify the calculation process.
•        The development and explanation of the UK Network Code
•        The management and monitoring of the contracts once negotiated and implemented.
•        Preparation of a Scope of Work for an audit of BG Transco following a meeting to discuss the problem of BGT's non-payment of gas purchase invoices relating to field support during 1995.
•        Review of the overall energy situation, actual and potential, of the Balkans. Identification of genuine value-adding opportunities in the gas supply sector in the countries concerned.
•        Development of computer system specifications for commercial gas operations in connection with the UK Network Code.
•        Review and development of a number of gas storage projects throughout the EU.
Expert Witness work
•        Provision of assistance to a dispute on Gas Allocation Agreements in Singapore.
•        Review and comparison of bilateral gas transportation contracts compared with the UK Network Code.
•        Assistance in a contractual dispute between a major player in Asia and a state regulator
•        Review of commercial issues relating to a gas explosion. 

As a complement to the consultancy work, The Energy Publishing Network was initiated to provide well-researched, detailed reports and papers. As the company’s originating author, Mike wrote or co-authored, ‘Network 2000: a review of the New Gas Trading Arrangements’ (FT Energy, winter 1999), ‘The UK Gas Market’ (FT Energy, 1998), ‘Gas Storage in Europe: the commercial and trading opportunities of liberalisation’ (EJC, autumn 1998), ‘The Network Code: commercial and operational implications for the UK gas industry’ (FT Energy, January 1997).