• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Philippe Sauquet

TotalEnergies

President, Gas, Renewables & Power & President, Strategy-Innovation

Philippe Sauquet has served as Total’s President of Gas, Renewables & Power and President of Strategy-Innovation since 2016, and he is a member of the company’s Executive Committee. He began his career in 1981 as a civil engineer at the French Ministry of Infrastructure and subsequently worked at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. Mr. Sauquet joined the chemical company, Orkem, in 1988 as Vice President, Strategy before being appointed Senior Vice President, Acrylics Sales & Marketing. He moved to Total in 1990 as Vice President of the Anti-Corrosion Paints division and was subsequently named Vice President, Chemicals Strategy. In 1997, Mr Sauquet transferred to the Gas & Power Division, where he was successively Vice President, Americas; Vice President, International; Senior Vice President, Strategy & Renewables; Senior Vice President, Trading & Marketing, Gas & Power, based in London. He was appointed President of Gas & Power in 2012, in which capacity he also sat on the Group Management Committee. In 2014, Mr. Sauquet was named President, Refining & Chemicals, and joined Total’s Executive Committee. Mr. Sauquet holds degrees from L’Ecole Polytechnique and L’Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées engineering schools and from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sessions With Philippe Sauquet

Wednesday, 11 March

  • 10:25am - 11:15am (CST) / -

    Plenary - Energy Transition and the Future of LNG

    The share of LNG in world energy supply has grown and will continue to grow in the coming years. Recently, this growth has been dramatic. Across the world, LNG developments are being led by international majors, national oil and gas companies, and independents. While the current consumer appetite for gas is being satisfied by surging international trade, the transition by many countries to a new ultra-low carbon energy paradigm raises questions about how sustainable the surge in LNG will be. How long will the boom last? How will customers and policy makers assess the balance of environmental benefits and costs? How will intense competition among LNG suppliers change business perceptions?