Howard Rogers
Director, Natural Gas Research Programme

Howard Rogers joined the Institute in January 2009 after taking early retirement from BP. He succeeded Jonathan Stern as Director of the Natural Gas Programme in October 2011. Most of his career was spent in business development, strategy, planning, mergers and acquisitions and negotiation roles in upstream oil and gas in European, North American, Middle East and FSU locations. In 1999 Howard joined BP’s Gas and Power division and was responsible for analysing the UK gas market as it transitioned from exporter to net importer. This brief expanded to cover the European region. In 2003 Howard became Head of Global Gas Fundamental Analysis, responsible for BP’s forecasting and insight into trends in natural gas supply, demand and pricing trends at the global level. In March 2010 Howard published his first OIES paper ‘LNG Tradeflows in the Atlantic Basin: Trends and Discontinuities’. The paper describes the development of a modelling framework which provides a rationale for interaction between the regional markets of Asia, Europe and North America facilitated by LNG arbitrage. Howard is currently working on future supply and flexibility requirements of the UK gas market to 2025.