Consultant Profiles
The Energy Contract Company is headed by Niall Trimble, Anthony Way, David McGough and Nick Stranks who have all spent extensive careers in the energy industry. Please select a profile from the list below to read more about our team:
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Niall Trimble is the Managing Director of The Energy Contract Company and has spent almost 30 years in the gas business. He has extensive experience of the negotiation of major contracts for the sale and purchase of gas, sale of LNG, capacity reservation in LNG Import Terminals and transportation of gas. He has led the successful negotiation of major contracts in many of these key areas. Highlights of his recent work for clients are:
- Assisting a new North Sea gas producer to sell its gas on a traded basis
- Expert witness roles in both a series of gas contract price disputes and several UK gas storage planning inquiries
- Assisting a major European utility to negotiate agreements to book capacity at LNG Import Terminals in Northwest Europe
- Working on the re-negotiation of a major European LNG contract
- He has also worked extensively on gas storage in North West Europe including both studies of the storage market and the marketing of storage facilities.
Niall has also been heavily involved in gas transactions for a variety of clients (DEPA, Statkraft, Naturkraft, AES, Akzo Nobel, etc.) in Europe. As well as transactional work, he has also carried out a number of strategy and price studies for gas industry clients. These include the preparation of a detailed analysis of future trends in European Gas Markets for a major German gas importer and a series of studies on individual European markets for both a Japanese LNG trader and a major European gas producer.
Niall is a regular conference speaker on UK and European market developments and is author of ECC's yearly publication The UK Gas Market Review - a detailed forecast of gas supply/demand and price trends, which has been featured extensively in the media.
His lengthy involvement in the gas business started at British Gas, where he spent five years working on gas purchase contracts.
