Dr Wolfgang Peters

Managing Director at The Gas Value Chain Company

Speaker

Wolfgang has been working in the corporate oil and gas industry for more than 30 years: for Mobil, Duke and RWE. He held senior management positions across the entire value chain in various countries.

After ~15 years in upstream, he was twice responsible for market entry into the Dutch retail market. Later, he served as RWE’s chief negotiator for Nabucco supplies in Azerbaijan, Iraq and Turkmenistan. Moreover, he served as CCO/CEO of RWE Transgasa.s. in the Czech Republic from 2008 to 2016. With Gazprom, he negotiated and litigated about the decoupling of oil and gas pricing. In 2016, Wolfgang started his own business with ‘The Gas Value Chain Company GmbH’ (‘GVC’).GVC offers its services as ‘partnering commercial operator’.

Wolfgang also acts as commercial expert in arbitrations and in due diligence procedures. His gas advocacy engagement has rendered multiple publications (https://gasvaluechain.com/publicationsinterviews/)and presentations (https://gasvaluechain.com/news-events/). From September 2019 to October 2020, Wolfgang served, according to requirements of the European Commission, as interim Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Česká republikaa.s. in Prague. On 1 February 2022, Wolfgang accepted the appointment as member of the supervisory board of ‘Gas 4 Europe GmbH’, the Nord Stream 2 German subsidiary for the ~50 km in German territorial waters. He resigned on account of the Russian invasion into Ukraine on 1 March 2022. Wolfgang continues to maintain cooperation with Brussels-based Eurogas (www.eurogas.org), where he served as board member for 8 years: GVC joined Eurogas as its first new ‘liaising member’ in 2016.