Could a strategic lithium reserve kickstart US supply chain development?
NEW YORK -- A strategic lithium reserve is being mooted as a solution to stabilize volatile prices that have hindered American mining projects, allowi
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NEW YORK -- A strategic lithium reserve is being mooted as a solution to stabilize volatile prices that have hindered American mining projects, allowi
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Mike Fulwood is a former Non-Resident Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy. Mike is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and currently Chairman of the International Gas Union’s Gas Pricing Group, which undertakes the Wholesale Gas Price Survey.
He has over 35 years of experience in the gas industry. Mike worked as a consultant, with Energy Markets between 1997 and 2008 and then with Nexant as Director, Global Gas & LNG until August 2017. Before working as consultant, Mike worked for British Gas from 1979, latterly as a Director at British Gas Transco, in charge of the price control review, and prior to that President of British Gas Americas during which time he oversaw many successful acquisitions and projects including the acquisitions of Metrogas (Argentina), NGC (now Dynegy), the Bolivia – Brazil pipeline and Trinidad LNG project. While working as a consultant Mike undertook a wide range of projects in all areas of the gas chain, covering regulatory matters, gas pricing and tariffs, gas sales and transportation contracts, market studies and price forecasting, as well as helping develop Nexant’s World Gas Model.
Mike speaks widely at conferences all over the world, particularly on gas markets, gas trading matters and gas pricing.
The growing importance of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Asia’s energy mix has spawned efforts in the region to create a trading hub like the established hubs in the United States and Europe.
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