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Mario Matkovic Ceenergynews 2026 Photo
Media Coverage (EN)
Mario Matković ap­poin­ted head of MET Cen­t­ral Europe
MET Group has an­nounced a lead­er­ship re­shuffle within its re­gional op­er­a­tions: the com­pany ap­poin­ted Mario Matković as Head of Di­vi­sion at MET Cen­t­ral Europe and named Val­ter Uravic as the new Chief Ex­ec­ut­ive Of­ficer of MET Croa­tia En­ergy Trade.
5/4/2026
Media Coverage (EN)
LNG Does Not Re­duce the Need for St­or­age
MET Group is ac­quir­ing gas stor­age fa­cil­it­ies — des­pite dif­fi­cult mar­ket con­di­tions and against the trend in the in­dustry. ZFK spoke with Jan Mass­mann, who is re­spons­ible for MET Group’s gas stor­age busi­ness in Ger­many, about the strategy be­hind this.
4/23/2026
Media Coverage (EN)
Ben­jamin Lakatos: Cul­ture beats strategy
Ben­jamin Lakatos, Ex­ec­ut­ive Chair­man of MET Group, de­tailed the com­pany’s evol­u­tion from a 2007 star­tup into a 28-bil­lion-euro en­ergy gi­ant, identi­fy­ing hu­man cap­ital and cul­tural align­ment as the primary drivers of suc­cess in a guest lec­ture at the Corvinus University of Bud­apest.
4/16/2026
Media Coverage (EN)
“When global LNG tight­ens, CEE feels it quickly” – Q&A with Luis Sánchez, Head of LNG at MET Group
The geo­pol­it­ical crisis in the Middle East ap­pears to be es­cal­at­ing into an en­ergy crisis, with im­pacts be­ing felt around the world. How does an LNG ex­ec­ut­ive view this situ­ation? What con­sequences could a tight­en­ing of sup­ply have for Europe, and for our re­gion in par­tic­u­lar? We asked Luis Sánchez, Head of LNG at MET Group, about these top­ics.
4/8/2026
Benjamin Lakatos Energate Statement
Media Coverage (EN)
Ben­jamin Lakatos: Less reg­u­la­tion and more in­nov­a­tion
At the end of the year, en­er­gate once again asked lead­ing fig­ures in the en­ergy sec­tor to sum­mar­ise the past year. In his con­tri­bu­tion, Ben­jamin Lakatos, Chair­man and CEO of MET Group, fo­cuses on the per­sist­ently high European en­ergy prices and the reas­ons be­hind them. At the same time, he shows how the en­ergy trans­ition in Europe can also lead to eco­nomic suc­cess.
12/22/2025
Lakatos Benjamin Forbes Hungary
Media Coverage (EN)
MET Group Ad­voc­ates For Europe-Wide En­ergy Bank
When Ben­jamin Laka­tos speaks, en­ergy people listen in Europe and in­creas­ingly farther afield. Re­cently Lakatos, chair­man and Group CEO of MET Group, has been speak­ing out strongly in fa­vor of a European en­ergy bank to cor­rect some of the chaos which of­ten con­vulses European en­ergy mar­kets and leads to gen­eral in­stabil­ity.
11/27/2025
Portfolio Szépfy Márton Photo2
Media Coverage (EN)
Ex­ecut­ing an­nual con­tracts means tak­ing a risk every year?
The European gas mar­ket is no longer re­min­is­cent of the pre-Covid world: it is char­ac­ter­ised by per­man­ently high prices, con­tin­ental pur­chas­ing com­pet­i­tion and com­pletely trans­form­ing trad­ing. Már­ton Szép­fy, CEO of E2 Hun­gary, speaks about why Europe is at a com­pet­it­ive dis­ad­vant­age and what con­sequences the LNG-based pro­cure­ment model has for the play­ers of the European and Hun­garian eco­nom­ies.
11/26/2025