Gas Trading Manual: A Comprehensive Guide to the Gas Markets, Edition 2

David Long, BEng (Hons), MSc, CEng, MIPEM, is a Clinical Engineer registered in the UK as a Clinical Scientist with the Healthand Care Professions Council. He has over 20 years multi-disciplinary NHS experience in the field of rehabilitation engineering,specialising in the provision of postural management and custom contoured seating. Being a Chartered Engineer as well asa qualified clinician, Dave is particularly able to apply biomechanical principles to the assessment process, and to advise andassist with the more technical aspects of the required equipment. He is employed by AJM Healthcare who deliver a numberof wheelchair services on behalf of the NHS. He also retains a contract with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust wherehe teaches on the Oxford Brookes University accredited Postgraduate Certificate in Posture Management for People withComplex Disabilities.

Geoff Moore Before his untimely death in July 2001, Geoff Moore was a Senior Associate Consultant at Gas Strategies, working on gas trading operations and the progress of liberalisation in Europe. He worked in the UK gas industry for most of his employed life, always at the 'sharp end', dealing with UK gas supply contracts, foreign trade and major political issues. He spent many years in a senior role at British Gas analysing and negotiating gas purchase agreements. In recent years he was closely involved with the UK-Continent Interconnector pipeline and developments in the competitive gas market in both the UK and North America. He spent a year with Natural Gas Clearinghouse (NGCH) in Houston before joining Accord Energy Ltd (a major market maker in spot gas) in the UK.

Gay Wenban-Smith Gay Wenban-Smith is an independent economic consultant and Senior Associate at Gas Strategies (where she was Managing Consultant for five years). She advises on gas purchasing and commercial issues, and strategic assessments of changing market conditions. She is also a trainer on Alphatania gas business training courses. Before joining Gas Strategies, Gay spend twlve years at British Gas Headquarters, first as economist and corporate planner and then in gas marketing (sales of natural gas to the first combined cycle gas turbine power generator in Britain) and gas purchasing, and was active in the policy decisions on the Interconnector. Before joining the gas industry, she was a member of the London Business School econometric forecasting team, moving on to the Government Economic Service in H.M. Treasury and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.