Turning points: John Hattenberger

Over the course of his 33-year career, John Hattenberger, president and managing director of Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T) USA, has seen the natural gas market evolve almost beyond recognition, from liberalisation in the 1980s, to huge shifts in global supply and demand, to the shale discoveries that have set the US market alight of late. But it was the development of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market that has probably shaped his career – and the market – the most.
Starting out as a
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