Vivek Chandra is an LNG entrepreneur with over 35 years of international oil and gas experience across the entire value chain. He is currently developing and raising funds for a greenfield LNG export facility

Vivek Chandra is the founder of Texas LNG, an LNG export facility in south Texas, USA that has successfully raised over US$70 MM, received all its permits, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval and Department of Energy export authorizations. Texas LNG has recently announced its EPC partners (Technip and Samsung Engineering) and its plans to begin its US$3+ billion construction program in near future. Vivek Chandra was CEO of the Texas LNG operating company from inception in 2013 until 1Q 2022 and guided the company through multiple fund raising rounds and regulatory & commercial hurdles.

He is also the author of Fundamentals of Natural Gas: An International Perspective, a bestselling hardcover book published by Pennwell / Endeavor, publishers of Oil and Gas Journal. Vivek Chandra has taught the popular “Natural Gas Dynamics” executive course, a three-day course held over 25 times in 15 countries. Natural Gas Dynamics is currently offered as an online course and taken by over 400 professionals and students over the past few years. He has also developed mobile apps for the natural gas industry downloaded over 5000 times.

Dr Chandra’s extensive 30+ years international gas experience includes roles as independent LNG consultant, senior commercial executive with an Australian energy company, development of gas projects in the Middle East, and diverse experiences with ARCO in the United States, including Alaska, and offshore geophysical field engineering with Schlumberger in SE Asia, Middle East and US. He has worked on LNG import, LNG export, as well as natural gas pipeline export projects. He has degrees in Geophysical Engineering (Colorado School of Mines), Energy Management (U. of Pennsylvania), Petroleum Economics (IFP France), Commercial Law (Deakin University Australia) and a Ph.D. in International Law with dissertation on disputed international maritime boundaries (Deakin University Australia).

He is a frequent speaker at LNG and gas conferences worldwide and has been extensively quoted by the industry and wider media over the past decade.

Marco Saalfrank is Head of Continental Europe Merchant Trading and has been a member of the Management Board of Axpo Solutions AG since 1st October 2014. He started his career in Axpo Solutions AG (formerly EGL AG) in October 2001, working in several management positions. He is responsible for Merchant Trading, for Structured Energy Management supporting mainly origination activities in Continental Europe, and for the upstream gas activities and LNG on long-term contracts. Marco Saalfrank holds a PhD in Physics from ETHZ.

David is Founder and Editor of the Global LNG Hub, European Gas Hub, Global Hydrogen Hub, Global Maritime Hub, and The Coal Hub. These arose from a recognized need for a centralized information base for analysts in these industries. Having spent more than 15 years working at a strategic level across the coal, natural gas, LNG, & shipping industries, David saw what kind of value a unified hub of information would bring to subscribers.

Having previously worked with IHS Market (S&P Global), David Callanan has been involved in the energy business for over 20 years..

Bernadett Györfi is Head of LNG Business Development and Trade at MVM CEEnergy, a subsidiary of the fully Hungarian state-owned MVM. At MVM CEEnergy Bernadett is responsible for expanding the company's LNG trading activities in order to develop a diverse natural gas portfolio. Bernadett is a natural gas and LNG expert who started her career in the energy sector 18 years ago. During her junior years and later she held various positions in the field of natural gas sales. She joined MVM CEEnergy in 2019, from which she has been involved in the company's LNG-related businesses.

Landon Larson is Director of LNG Marketing and Commercial Development for Sempra Infrastructure. Sempra Infrastructure’s mission is to be North America’s leading energy infrastructure company by developing, building, operating and investing in the infrastructure critical to meet the world’s energy and climate needs, with a proven track record of successfully developing and delivering projects across the liquefied natural gas, energy networks, and low carbon solutions sectors. Prior to joining Sempra Infrastructure, Lars held more than fifteen years of experience in commercializing gas, marketing and LNG project development at ExxonMobil. He has also worked on global LNG and upstream projects including Golden Pass (imports and exports), Qatargas, Qatar NFE, Guyana and China regasification terminals, and also has pipeline gas experience in the U.S., Australia and Europe.