• Addressing the rising oil prices and uncertainties
• Energy use and carbon emissions
• Supply shocks and the economic transmission of these
  shocks
  

The outlook for fuel choice: how is the fuel mix likely to
evolve over the next 3 years?

• A market outlook on different fuel sources: assessing
  future pricing trends
• Can market integration drive changes in the fuel mix?
• Managing risks and maximising the value of generation assets

• Future new fuel sources – domestic gas / LNG / coal
• Pursuing economic renewable investments
• Progressing options for more significant future investment
  – provided the market and regulatory climate are right

• Security of supply in New Zealand and globally
• The importance of diversity
• Renewables, reliability and prices
• The role of thermal generation and the carbon problem
  

• Business reporting and communication – a key capital
  managing tool
• Whistleblowing, energy, market and risk
• Governance arrangements – how are New Zealand utilities
  faring?

• Integrating planned transmission with competitive generation
• Proposed transmission upgrades – why NEW ZEALAND
  can’t afford controversies
• Addressing reliability of power supply through long term
  investment in the grid

• The key investment drivers in the infrastructu r e / u t i l i ty market
• The attractants for discretionary capital – predictability,
  transparency and accountability
• Investment in infrastructure and utilities – reducing barriers
  to entry, removing disincentives and providing incentives
• The competition for capital, what do investors look for?

• What has changed? Future trends
• Maintaining, upgrading, and expanding electricity networks –
  the issues faced in capital allocation and investment quantum
• The regulatory impact on quality and reliability for consumers
• Managing stakeholder expectations

• Is New Zealand facing a major energy crisis, or can we look
  at it as an opportunity?
• Critical importance of driving power infrastructure spending
• Importance of grid stability in ensuring renewable energy
  generation

• Responsibility of the coal industry in the clean coal arena
• New possibilities for carbon utilization
• Carbon constraints and carbon management strategies
• Reducing risk and attracting finance for clean coal projects

• Deregulation and liberalisation action plans – what’s the
  impact on power developers and investor
• What are the opportunities and threats for local and foreign
  power developers ahead?
• Regulatory challenges

• Meeting the government’s policy statement objectives
• Regulatory method and incentives for efficiency
• Appropriate returns for investors and ensuring security of
  supply
  

• Allowing consumers to become active participants in
  electricity markets
• Maximising the value of electricity for the consumer

• State of competition
• Intersecting energy markets
• Hedge market development
  

• Achieving operational efficiency at competitive prices
• Monitoring and controlling the power grid for real-time
  detection and reaction
• Capitalising on communications assets
  

• What are the avenues for the demand for renewable energy
• Analysing the two key market segments – environmental
  driven markets and energy driven markets
• How competitive is renewable energy?
• Adopting hybrid energy systems
• Investor interest in clean, efficient and reliable technology
• Investment opportunities in fossil and nuclear-based fuels

• Influencing investment and operational choices
• Addressing undue barriers to renewables
• Implications of future investment in wind energy
  

• Impact of climate change policy on New Zealand’s fuel
  choice
• Business models to address climate change
• The challenge for New Zealand’s energy supply sector
• Required investments in new generation technologies
• New policy directions in addressing climate change and
  driving business decisions
  

•     Delivering reductions at an affordable cost
• Designing a long, loud and legal framework to establish
  price signal
• Encouraging investment and innovation in emerging and
  breakthrough technologies
• Building resilience to the impact of climate change

• Ensuring developing countries have and adopt cost
  competitive low and no carbon technologies
• The struggle for business – being responsive and socially
  responsible to stakeholders
• Planning for a carbon constrained and uncertain future
• How much additional cost can business take on and remain
  competitive?
• Governments – taking responsibility to provide some policy
  stability/predictability
  

• The significant size of the global carbon markets
• How should the market be organized?
• What are New Zealand’s concerns?
• How much investment is flowing into low carbon
  technologies?
• Long term perspective
  

• Carbon on the balance sheet – The Carbon Disclosure
  Project
• Insurance solutions and challenges
• Market perspective on emissions development
• Hedge funds – what’s their role?
  

• Financing carbon markets – growth over the coming years
• Opportunity within the private equity and venture capital
  asset classes
• Investing in clean energy companies – reducing risks posed
  by climate change
  

• International goals and targets for greenhouse gases
• The role of energy efficiency
• Renewables contributions
• Carbon capture and storage
  

•         Review of the National Energy Efficiency and Conservation
  strategy
• How increase in energy demand, high prices and volatility
  is driving the need for energy efficiency
• How will changes in the global energy picture affect
  electricity and energy efficiency?

• The CO2 emission reduction potential of demand side
  energy efficiency programs
• Demand side energy efficiency programs and the CDM
• Financing energy efficiency projects and carbon credits
  

• Is there sufficient competition in the wholesale and
  contracts markets?
• Are ongoing price rises justified? Are they affordable?
• Dealing with rising energy costs – energy efficiency and
  cogeneration
• Carbon tax
  

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• Challenges and opportunities in E&P business
• Meeting long term and short term energy needs
• Shell’s role in supporting the oil and gas business in New
  Zealand
• Shell’s strategic business direction 2007 and beyond
  

• The Future Fuels Project – success and future directions
• Responding to the changing crude diet
• Strategic advantages
• Point Forward project
• Addressing the IEA stockpile
  

• Update on exploration, production and market trends
• Market for oil products – market characteristics and
  demand
• Regional oil outlook and impact on New Zealand
• Building emergency oil stockpile – are we doing enough?
  

Kupe Gas project - introducing a new and alternative supply of gas
Importance of the Kupe field for the New Zealand energy sector
The project’s joint venture planned approach to development
Origin’s future strategies and vision

• The current state of the CSM sector
• CSM as a primary or secondary energy source
• The role of price transparency in spurring CSM supply
• Competitive dynamics between domestic gas, imported
  gas and oil
  

• The exploration outlook – progress and what’s in store
• Project updates – greater focus on development
• Attracting investment – ensuring good economic return
  

• New access arrangements: benefits and challenge
• Need for consistency in access regimes across the Maui
  pipeline and Vector/NGC pipelines
• Challenges of creating two sets of costs and potential risks
  for participants
  

• The role of gas in New Zealand
• The gas import options
• The importance of establishing a viable back-up option to
  import gas into New Zealand.
  

• Current supply and demand situation in New Zealand
• Impact of new oil and gas developments in the region on
  LPG supply
• LPG imports – challenge of dealing with supply contracts
  on internationally competitive terms
  

• How much gas do we have for the future
• Are gas prices and oil prices interlinked
• Correlation between them in different economies
• Reconsolidation in upstream sector
• Increased exploration but uncertainty surrounding
  outcomes
  

• Attracting investment – ensuring good economic return
• The exploration outlook – opportunity for growth
• Strategies to commensurate rapid growth in cash flow and
  earnings to transform balance sheet
• Catalysts that can drive the stock higher
  

• Ingredients required to encourage investment in
  exploration
• New Zealand’s prospectivity for further discoveries
•  Ensuring gas supply security
• New sources of investment funding
  

• What is it delivering for the benefit of gas industry
  participants and consumers?
• A review of key regulatory risks to the gas industry
• Wholesale trading arrangements
• Ensuring pipeline capacity trading arrangements do not
  impede gas trading