Patrick Heather
Senior Research Fellow

Patrick Heather, joined the Institute in June 2006; his paper “The Evolution and Functioning of the Traded Gas Market in Britain” was published in August 2010. He is currently conducting research on the Continental European gas hubs and their ability to provide market pricing in the long term contracts. Since 2004, Patrick has been an independent consultant advising and giving presentations to many different organisations, including the ICE futures exchange and various producer and end user companies, financial institutions and governments in Austria, Britain, France, Greece, Holland, Italy, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Russia and Sweden. In 2006, he was appointed Commercial Advisor to South Hook Gas to assist them through the long commissioning phase of their world leading LNG import facility in South Wales; this was successfully achieved in Q4-2009. Prior to that he was Trading Manager at BG Group from 2002 to 2004 and before that he worked at PowerGen plc, where he set up their trading capability and managed the gas and power trading desks. Patrick has over 30 years experience of broking, trading and risk management in the natural gas, power and oil markets.