Case study · Energy · UK and the Gulf · 2026
Making the voice of reason the one the market hears.
Gas Strategies has advised governments, majors and utilities on gas and LNG for four decades. When the Strait of Hormuz crisis threw the LNG market into turmoil, we made its Chairman and CEO, Pat Breen, the steady voice that business editors and broadcasters turned to.
op eds in The National, one leading the print Business section
broadcast and news outlets, including BBC News and Bloomberg
Gastech session chaired, offered on the strength of the coverage
weeks from the first op ed to the Gastech chair
The reach, in one view
Three markets, one voice.
4 August, Business and Energy
5 August, front of Business
The challenge
Deep expertise, too few people hearing it.
Inside the industry, Gas Strategies is known and trusted. Outside it, the firm's thinking rarely reached the business pages or the airwaves. Then the Hormuz crisis hit, and the market was flooded with commentary. The risk was that the firm with the most considered view would be the one nobody quoted.
What we did
One clear argument, made again and again.
We positioned Pat as the voice of reason on LNG and built everything around a single idea: the market's biggest risk was shifting from supply to demand. We refreshed his op eds with live market data as the crisis moved, opened doors to the Gulf's business desks and international broadcasters, and turned published pieces into conference platforms.
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The results
One argument, heard everywhere.
Summer
Pat joins BBC Business Today, with Monocle Radio, Bloomberg, AnewZ and Newstalk following.
August
His op ed on the Strait of Hormuz crisis shifting LNG's biggest risk from supply to demand runs online in The National, then leads the front of its print Business section the next day.
August
On the back of the published piece, Gastech invites Pat to chair a session on energy security after the crisis.
September
BBC News turns to Pat as Brent crude reaches 100 dollars. He chairs his Gastech session in Bangkok.
September
A second op ed, on trust as the Gulf's most valuable export, runs in The National.
OCTOBER
His op ed on trust as the Gulf's most valuable export runs in print in The National's Business section.
In pictures
Where Pat was heard
