Essent Trading were at E-world 2008 in Essen, Germany, at the Messe Essen and CCE Congress Center.

Dr. Mahmoud Hamada, VP Quantitative Analysis at Essent Trading and David Yamoah, VP Market Analysis spoke at the Modelling and Measuring Energy Risk conference in London on the 24-25 November.

Energy trading in Europe was the focus of a special one-day conference in Paris on November 20. The conference, organised by the Energy Club of the ESSEC business school, focused on the present situation of European energy trading and the outlook for the future of the industry.

Essent Trading is proud to have been a Platinum sponsor of EMART Energy, the European energy trading conference and exhibition.

Essent Trading will be present at the next UNCTAD African Oil, Gas & Minerals Conference to be held in Malabo from the 3 to the 7 November, 2008. Essent Trading is bronze sponsor of the event.

Matty Pleumeekers, Senior Advisor Internal Control at Essent Trading will be one of the guest speakers at the Audit & Risk seminar taking place in Breda on October 30^th, 2008.

Jasper Houthuijsen will be speaking this month of October at the Univesity of Utrecht, during the masters in 'Energy and Resources' course. He will be giving a lecture related to the developments in the electricity and gas markets.

Natalia Gorina, Emissions Portfolio Manager at Essent Trading, was one of the guest speakers at the Voluntary Carbon Markets seminar that took place on the 14 & 15 October 2008 in London.

Menke Ubbens, Senior Vice President Risk Management will be one of the guest speakers at the forthcoming Financial and Risk Management for Oil and Gas companies and traders seminar, to be held in Moscow on the 25 & 26 September.

Jasper Houthuijsen, Vice President of Short Term Power Trading will be one of the guest speakers at an upcoming Dutch seminar, focusing on CO₂ reduction policy and techniques. The seminar will take place over 2 days, the 17 and 18 September 2008, in Ridderkerk, near Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Essent Trading was among the early movers in climate change mechanisms and it has been working on several leading market initiatives.

Essent Trading speaking at seminar in Tokyo on 11th June 2008 exploring the future policy and the next phases of Emission Trading systems.

The Caspian region's largest energy conference and exhibition takes place on 3-6 June 2008, in Baku, Azerbaijan, with Essent Trading participating.

Essent Trading attended the MBA careers events at INSEAD

Carbon Markets Insights was held in Copenhagen from Tuesday 11th to Thursday 13th March 2008.

David Yamoah was the moderator for 'Price forecasts to 2020' on 12 March at 17:00-18:00.

Jasper Houthuijsen, Vice President Short Term Power Trading at Essent Trading spoke on the subject of 'Fuel switching in Western Europe, focusing on the Netherlands / Benelux region'.

Remco Frenken, Essent Trading's Senior Vice President Structured Origination, Central Europe spoke at the 2nd International Bioenergy Investment & Finance Conference in Stuttgart on 7 March.

Nyame de Groot, Vice President, Emissions at Essent Trading spoke at Flame, the European Gas Conference in Amsterdam on Thursday 6 March at the Hotel Okura, Amsterdam.

Nyame de Groot, Vice President Emissions spoke at the Carbon Market Insights 2008 event, at the The Gold Standard Foundation side event on the subject of 'Carbon with a human face: Marketing and communicating the sustainable development'.

Jeffrey Butrico, Chief Risk Officer at Essent Trading, spoke at the EMART Energy event in Amsterdam. EMART Energy has become the season's premier conference and exhibition event for European wholesale suppliers of electricity, gas and associated products.

The 20th World Energy Congress & Exhibition is the most authoritative international energy meeting in the world.

Alfonso Puga, Vice President LNG, Essent Trading, spoke at the Energy 2007: Challenges Across Europe conference in Le Méridien, Brussels on 30 October. He spoke on the subject of Planning for a secure and sufficient gas supply.

Energy Risk Trading and Derivatives showcased the latest techniques in energy hedging and how to apply them within your trading strategies.

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Jeffrey Butrico, Chief Risk Officer at Essent Trading, spoke at the Commodities Week Europe 2007 Focus Day in London on the subject of managing risk and return in investment.

Helma Kip, Manager Regulatory Affairs Energy and Sustainability at Essent Trading, spoke at the CO2 Emissions Reduction Strategies for the Power Industry conference at the Hotel Palace, Berlin.

Peter-Paul Schouwenberg, of Essent Trading spoke at the Canadian Bioenergy Association conference in Toronto, Canada on the subject of BioOil Ocean Transport.

Alexander Boogert, Quantitative Analyst at Essent Trading, will speak at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) conference in Zürich on the subject of Gas Portfolio and Transport Optimization.

Jeffrey Buttrico, Essent Trading's Chief Risk Officer, spoke at SMi's second annual Energy Risk Management conference, which will examine the methodologies and strategies currently employed by the world's leading energy organisations to manage commercial and financial risk.

Jeffrey Buttrico, Essent Trading's Chief Risk Officer, spoke at SMi's second annual Energy Risk Management conference, which will examine the methodologies and strategies currently employed by the world's leading energy organisations to manage commercial and financial risk.

On 4-5th of June 2008, the third annual conference «Russia and the Kyoto Protocol» was held in the International Informational Exhibition Centre “InfoSpace” in Moscow.