Due to its dependence on energy, gas market issues have become of vital interest to the European community. Two processes are concurrently unfolding. Major Eastern European players are establishing subsidiaries and affiliates in Western Europe and throughout South-Eastern Europe thus prolonging the value chain towards the end-customer segment. On the other hand, Western European gas companies are increasingly going international and setting up upstream activities. Having access to the source is the key issue.

Due to insufficient production in consuming regions, there is still a growing demand for LNG. Despite a slowdown in LNG consumption in 2009 and slower project development, Europe is catching up with Asia Pacific and the American markets. The trend of expanding the value chain, with buyers investing in upstream and sellers expanding into trading, is also present in the commercial LNG business.

GJP International has supported all these processes, placing candidates from E&P (G&G, Reservoir Engineering, Drilling,..) to gas transport and storage up to trading. In the LNG business, many commercial functions (origination, business development) have been placed as well as shipping and plant operations functions.