Tim Wyatt

Tim Wyatt is President, Head of LNG and Gas Marketing at Caturus. Mr. Wyatt most recently worked at Hanwha from November 2023 until June 2025, where he held multiple roles including Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for Shipping, LNG and Other Fuels; Hanwha FutureProof, President; Hanwha Ocean Americas and CEO and President; Hanwha Shipping. In addition, Mr. Wyatt served as a Board Member for Next Decade Corporation from January 2024 until June 2025. Prior to that, Mr. Wyatt spent more than 12 years with Cheniere Energy Inc., where his final role was Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy. Mr. Wyatt also served as a director and Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy of Cheniere Energy Partners GP, LLC. Mr. Wyatt joined Cheniere in April 2011 as Senior Manager, Shipping and Trading (UK) and subsequently served as Vice President, LNG Origination and Trading, before serving as Vice President, Commercial Operations of Cheniere from March 2017 to June 2019 and Cheniere Partners GP from May 2017 to August 2019, and Vice President, Business Development and Strategy of Cheniere from June 2019 to March 2021 and Cheniere Partners GP from August 2019 to May 2021. Mr. Wyatt has over 15 years of experience in commodity operations, marketing, shipping and trading. Prior to joining Cheniere, Mr. Wyatt was with Simpson, Spence and Young, where he was responsible for the gas business. Prior to Simpson, Spence and Young, Mr. Wyatt held positions with Shell and Deutsche Bank. Mr. Wyatt holds a B.A. Honors from the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Session Overview

Wednesday, 4 November

13:10

Natural Gas & LNG Plenary Hall B 13:10 - 13:40

Financing gas and LNG: sovereign capital, NOCs and the new architecture of project finance

Capital markets for gas and power have fractured along geopolitical and institutional lines. Traditional Western project finance and commercial bank lending have tightened under climate mandates, regulatory pressure and reputational risk, even as demand growth remains strongest in regions with limited access to low-cost capital. Into this gap step NOCs, export credit agencies, development banks and, increasingly, sovereign wealth funds, combining capital with long-term offtake, equity participation and diplomatic alignment. Investors are reassessing core assumptions around utilisation rates, contract duration, geopolitical exposure, methane performance and long-term demand, reshaping how infrastructure risk is priced and what qualifies as bankable. Bilateral deals, state-backed consortia and vertically integrated investment models are replacing syndicated finance in many projects. The future build-out of gas and power infrastructure will depend less on global capital markets than on who can assemble aligned capital, policy support and long-term demand assurance.

Attendee Insights:
Understand how sovereign funds, NOCs and state-backed capital reshaping gas and power financing in a fragmented system are.