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London Guide Contents Welcome to London LONDON GUIDE CONTENTS WELCOME TO LONDON 01 Welcome to London Welcome to London, one of the world’s most exciting cities 02 GM&T in London and a key location for Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T). 04 Our businesses 06 GM&T offices worldwide 08 Getting into London The GM&T building at Regent’s Place is part of the Triton 10 Local history Square development, a vibrant new business hub near 12 Eating St Pancras International station and just north of the West 14 Sleeping End. The London office is based a few minutes’ walk from 16 Things to do 20 Getting around London Regent’s Park, a favourite green space for Londoners and 22 London tube map part of the Prince Regent’s transformation of 18th century 23 Essentials London into a world leader in fashion and culture. IBC Maps This guide contains everything that visitors to GM&T’s London office need to find their way around London and make the most of their free time. It contains inside knowledge from Londoners that is often missing from regular guidebooks. Even those who have visited London many times before will find something that they didn’t know before in the GM&T London Guide. Read on to find out more about GM&T in London. GM&T London Guide 01 GM&T IN LONDON The office at Regent’s Place, GM&T today GM&T OFFICE London is GM&T’s head office. GM&T employs more than 900 people The key business activities that globally with around 600 of them based take place here include Global in London. Trading, Gas, Power & Derivatives, LNG, Shipping & Logistics and We provide customers worldwide with Clean Energy. integrated energy solutions. GM&T’s offices in the United States, Europe and Asia offer The beginning a unique suite of products – from energy GM&T was created on 6 May 1999. It is and derivatives trading, to gas and power owned by Gazprom Germania GmbH, marketing and supply, to smart metering, a 100% subsidiary of Gazprom Export energy management solutions and which in turn is a 100% wholly owned carbon deals. subsidiary of OAO Gazprom (“Gazprom”), the world’s largest gas producer and one We aim to help our customers succeed in of the world’s largest energy companies. their businesses and organisations by offering them innovative, relevant, Five years previously, Gazprom became a environmentally sensitive and competitive shareholder in the Interconnector (UK), solutions to their energy needs. which operates the Interconnector gas pipeline between Britain and the European Our values continent. We are a fast-growing company with ambitious targets. This requires a strong GM&T was originally set up to develop entrepreneurial spirit from our employees the business potential of both the and a strong belief in our vision and values. Interconnector pipeline and new opportunities in European markets. These are: Communication: Outstanding communication across the offices and with clients. Innovation: Unsurpassed innovation and a desire to think outside the box. Teamwork: Outstanding team spirit and teamwork. Excellence: Unstoppable passion for excellence, growth and learning. 02 GM&T London Guide GM&T London Guide 03 OUR BUSINESSES Gas, Power & Derivatives Oil & LPG Energy Solutions Shipping & Logistics The teams in London, Zug, Singapore The teams in London, Zug and The team in Manchester offers a The teams in London and Singapore and Houston provide market expertise Singapore generate additional value completely managed, end-to-end provide safe, competitive and reliable for natural gas, electricity and from the Gazprom group’s core assets. solution for all smart metering and services for GM&T’s multi-commodity commodities and related financial These activities have expanded to build demand side management applications. trading activities. This business also instruments in Europe, North America a robust and sustainable business. They have developed a range of includes Gas for Transport which focuses and Asia. We enable our customers to products for monitoring, targeting and on projects including small-scale LNG access market prices, secure cash flows Business Development control purposes in primary and and LNG bunkering. for their assets and manage their & Downstream sub-metering applications for gas, water commodity price risks. The teams in London, Manchester and and electricity. Clean Energy Zug secure demand for Gazprom The teams in London and Singapore LNG products and ensure that business Retail create innovative solutions for a low The combined team in London, Zug, development fully supports Gazprom’s The teams in Manchester, Paris and carbon economy and deliver bespoke Singapore and Houston is the sole downstream strategy. In partnership Walluf supply gas and power solutions financing products through a range of aggregator of Russian and non-Russian with other departments, the team to end users in the UK and across equity, technology and structured LNG flows and is responsible for all ensures strategic and operational Europe, by offering a suite of fixed and arrangements. aspects of marketing, trading and alignment within GM&T and with flexible products as well as embedded shipping LNG for the Gazprom group. Gazprom group companies, especially generation contracts, automated meter Working with GM&Ts shareholders in in light of market changes and reading, site services and carbon trading. Moscow and its subsidiaries in Singapore, regulatory pressure. In particular, the Switzerland and Houston, the team in team is taking a lead role in the London trades single and multi-cargo development and delivery of power and deals, arranges transportation, structures gas assets alongside the growth of complex transactions, develops new GM&T’s retail business. markets and optimises Gazprom’s LNG portfolio worldwide. 04 GM&T London Guide GM&T London Guide 05 GM&T OFFICES WORLDWIDE The London office near St Pancras Paris, France s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands Houston, USA International station is the main Gazprom Marketing & Trading France SAS Gazprom Energy Gazprom Marketing & Trading USA Inc GM&T office in the UK. We have six 68, avenue des Champs-Elysées Victorialaan 15 Bank of America Center offices across Europe and a total of Paris 75008 5213 JG‘s Hertogenbosch 700 Louisiana Street, Suite 2500 nine worldwide. [email protected] T: +31 (0) 73 750 6650 Houston TX 77002 T: +33 (0) 1 42 99 73 50 [email protected] F: +33 (0) 1 42 99 73 99 Zug, Switzerland T: +1 (281) 404 4500 Gazprom Marketing & Trading Switzerland AG F: +1 (713) 238 5181 London, United Kingdom Walluf, Germany Focus Business Centre Gazprom Marketing & Trading Limited Gazprom Marketing & Trading Retail Germania Dammstrasse 19 Singapore 20 Triton Street GmbH (trading as Gazprom Energy) Zug CH-6301 Gazprom Marketing & Trading London NW1 3BF Am Klingenweg 6a [email protected] Singapore Pte Ltd [email protected] 65396, Walluf T: +41 (0) 41 723 2680 Ocean Financial Centre, 10 Collyer Quay #41-00 T: +44 (0) 20 7756 0000 [email protected] F: +41 (0) 41 723 2690 Singapore 049315 F: +44 (0) 20 7756 9740 T: +49 (0) 6123 7043 0 [email protected] F: +49 (0) 6123 7043 299 T: +65 (0) 6671 9100 Manchester, United Kingdom F: +65 (0) 6435 6200 Gazprom Marketing & Trading Retail (trading as Gazprom Energy) Bauhaus 27 Quay Street Manchester M3 3GY [email protected] T: +44 (0) 845 230 0011 F: +44 (0) 845 230 0022 Gazprom Global Energy Solutions Limited Castlefield House 48 Liverpool Road Manchester M3 4SB [email protected] www.gazprom-mt.com/gges T: +44 (0) 845 260 1122 F: +44 (0) 845 260 1133 06 GM&T London Guide GM&T London Guide 07 GETTING INTO LONDON There are many ways to get to From Heathrow Airport London Underground (tube) trains reach From London City Airport London, the most common being Heathrow Express trains depart every 15 central London in around 30 minutes. Docklands Light Railway to Bank tube by air or by train from Continental minutes to and from London Paddington To reach the GM&T office, jump on any station takes about 22 minutes, then Europe. Taxis can be the easiest train station and London Heathrow airport London-bound Piccadilly line tube train at change to the Northern line tube which form of transport at certain times, taking about 15 minutes (21 minutes from Heathrow, change at Green Park and take goes directly to Euston station, or take the but often the tube (London Terminal 5). To get to Regent’s Place from the Victoria line tube to Warren Street. Circle or District line tube to Great Portland Underground) is faster due to Paddington take a taxi from the rank on Approx journey time: 1 hour Street station, which is opposite the congestion at peak times and the Platform 1 side of the station, or take Service: 05:30-23:45 daily London office. intermittently throughout the day. the Circle or Hammersmith & City line tube www.tfl.gov.uk/tube Approx journey time: 50 minutes train to Great Portland Street. Service: 05:30-00:30 Mon-Sat, Approx journey time: 30 minutes From Gatwick Airport 07:00-23:30 Sun (36 minutes to/from Terminal 5) Gatwick Express trains leave every 15 www.dlrlondon.co.uk Service: approx 05:00-23.45 daily minutes at peak times to London Victoria www.londoncityairport.com www.heathrowexpress.com train station, taking about 30 minutes. www.heathrowairport.com To reach the GM&T office, take the Victoria From Stansted Airport line tube directly to Warren Street station, Stansted Express trains run every 15 Eurostar trains from Continental Europe or take the Circle or District line tube to minutes to London Liverpool Street station arrive at St Pancras International station, Great Portland Street station, which is and take about 46 minutes.
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