Paul Kettlety
Paul is a highly seasoned energy executive with over 25 years’ experience in the gas and LNG industry across the upstream, midstream, trading & financing, gained in Europe, the US, Africa, Australia and Asia. Paul now focuses on advising the executives and Boards of energy and infrastructure companies with a particular focus on new business, trading and shipping focused on transitioning to low carbon solutions whilst maintaining and sustaining capital deployments and dividend cash flows from such. A fine balance.
In infrastructure Paul is the Senior Advisor to the Executive of ENAGAS SA, Spain and was responsible for the acquisition of Enagas’s investment in Tallgrass Energy USA having originated the deal.
In shipping, Paul served as MD of Fearnleys LNG Advisors and from 2015-2021 was advisor to the board of Tsakos Energy Navigation a NYSE listed oil tanker and LNG Carrier company.
Paul was a founding Partner at Parallax Energy (now Tellurian Inc) in Houston where he led LNG sales and marketing and held responsibility for all business development and group funding as well as strategy and planning from the start.
Paul led Barclays Capital LNG team at the start of the banks move in to LNG. Whilst at BG Group, Paul led LNG business development teams in Egypt, Nigeria, UK and Houston.
Despite appearances Paul is a chartered Management Accountant ACMA. He really enjoys cooking; skiing; shooting; sailing and above all - great company and good wine, life not being a rehearsal.
Gary Regan
Gary is a numbers man at heart. He enjoys having a business problem to solve and with some added time pressure to keep things interesting.
His expertise lies in gas and LNG, right across the value chain, having provided commercial advice to LNG import and export projects, shipping companies and small scale LNG companies around the world over the last 12 years.
Prior to joining Lansdowne Moritz, Gary worked with an international ship broking firm to advise shipping companies on fleet renewal strategies, develop floating import infrastructure and to create flexible shipping strategies which support the growth of LNG marketing and trading businesses.
Gary was previously a manager at Gas Strategies where he led the LNG consulting business. During this time he worked with more than 15 LNG export and import projects including projects in North America, Russia, Mozambique, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Mediterranean. His experience spans gas monetisation, LNG project development and financing, LNG marketing, trading and procurement and development of import infrastructure.
Gary started his career with Total Gas and Power working as Risk Analyst, providing daily gas demand and exposure reports to the gas trading team.
Chris Walters
Chris is an academic by background and, probably by inclination but loves to apply his skill and knowledge to real world business issues. He spent twenty years at Gas Strategies, a management consultancy focused on the gas and LNG industry, establishing and running its infrastructure practice. He has worked with some of the world’s largest investment funds and infrastructure companies on numerous multi-billion dollar deals including Brookfield on its acquisition of a stake in CQP, Ontario Teachers on ADNOC gas pipelines and Enagas on Tallgrass Energy.
For the last five years Chris has also had a focus on the energy transition seeking to understand and explain the potential future pathways for our energy system. Latterly that has led to him advising clients on both the huge opportunities that the energy transition represents and the risks to their existing fossil fuel businesses. Chris knows that while we cannot be certain about the future, we can build meaningful scenarios to guide our actions based on detailed research, good analysis and informed conversations with people within and outside our industry.
Chris is never happier than when he is in an airport, travelling somewhere new to meet new people - he spent some of his childhood in Saudi Arabia, studied languages, did a PhD in the History of the Ecuadorean Textile Industry in the 17th century (don’t ask!) and has worked on projects in countries across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.
Arjan Stavast
Arjan is a leading expert in LNG bunkering. Until late 2020, he was responsible for building up Shell’s LNG bunkering business in Europe and the Middle East. He led the negotiations for all major contracts with Shell’s customers and has a wealth of experience in all commercial aspects of LNG bunkering.
Arjan holds an MSc in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and is based in the Netherlands. He works for Landsdowne Moritz as an associate.
Paul Jenkins
Paul is a Senior Associate at Lansdowne Moritz and brings extensive LNG experience, gained over a 35+ years in the industry. Paul’s corporate career was with BP, working across the breadth of BP’s global LNG activities. Thereafter, Paul has provided advice and support to numerous LNG business, and participated directly in major commercial negotiations, across a wide range of LNG activities around the world.
He has extensive and detailed knowledge and understanding of LNG SPA’s, MSA’s and TUA’s.
