• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Laurent Ruseckas

S&P Global

Executive Director, Investing in Energy

Laurent Ruseckas is Executive Director for the Finance & Capital Markets team at S&P Global Commodity Insights, overseeing research on gas, power, and renewables for the firm's financial clients. Ruseckas has worked for 30 years advising energy companies and financial institutions in support of their energy investments, with a main focus on the natural gas sector in the EMEA region and the role of gas in the energy transition. Ruseckas has led several dozen strategic consulting projects over the past 15 years, including multiple mandates in which he advised on transactions or project financing of energy investments in Azerbaijan, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. He previously worked in the oil transportation sector in Baku, Azerbiajan; and ran the Europe and Eurasia practice at Eurasia Group, the political risk consultancy. A Russian speaker, Mr. Ruseckas holds a BA from Harvard University (Cambridge, USA), and he passed comprehensive examinations in the PhD program in political science at Columbia University (New York, United States). He is based in London.

Sessions With Laurent Ruseckas

Tuesday, 12 March

Wednesday, 13 March

  • 07:30am - 08:35am (CST) / -

    European Gas: Competition for markets

    Panel Gas

    There are significant areas of uncertainty for the European gas market in both the short and long-term. The long-awaited LNG push into Europe may be underway, and this would pose challenges for the commercial strategies of Gazprom and other pipeline suppliers. Trends for indigenous production are negative, with Dutch production being curtailed and offshore gas development in Romania delayed. Is there any prospect for unconventional gas to change the picture? In the longer term, existential questions remain regarding the future of gas in a low-carbon Europe. Can gas still have a major role despite EU mandates, or does the industry’s future rest on a gradual shift from methane to hydrogen?