Events and Acknowledgements

IGU events and other major gas-r elated events 2020-2021

2020 June (dates to be confirmed) IGU Executive Committee and Coordination Committee meetings Prague, Czech Republic

July 6-7 Flame Conference & Exhibition Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 14-18 IPLOCA 54th Annual Convention Prague, Czech Republic September 17-18 GIE Annual Conference Lucerne, Switzerland October 6-9 St Petersburg International Gas Forum St Petersburg, Russia

October 27-29 IGU Council, Executive Committee and Coordination Committee meetings Vancouver, Canada

November 2-4 33rd World LPG Forum Dubai, UAE

November (dates and venue to be confirmed) IGU-EnergyNet Latin America & Caribbean Gas Conference & Exhibition (LGC 2020)

November 9-19 26th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 26) Glasgow, UK November 22-24 GIIGNL 50th General Assembly Paris, France November 24-26 GASEX 2020 Conference & Exhibition Taipei, Chinese Taipei December 6-10 23rd World Petroleum Congress Houston, USA

2021 April 6-8 IGU Executive Committee and Coordination Committee meetings Oran, Algeria June 20-21 IGU Council and Coordination Committee meetings Daegu, Korea June 21-25 28th World Gas Conference Daegu, Korea Readers are reminded to reconfirm all dates with the respective event organisers

Ack nowledgements

For IGU

Secretary General: Luis Bertrán Rafecas Director Advisor: Luis Calvo Events Director: Rodney Cox Director Public Affairs: Menelaos (Mel) Ydreos Manager Public Affairs: Tatiana Khanberg Senior Advisors: Flavia Malet de Hvidbo, Hyunchang Kim, Håkon Olav Huglen Advisor: Marcela Martínez Serret Executive Assistant: Luisa Peris Meléndez Administration Consultant: Emma Siobhan Paños Knowles

For ISC

Consulting Editor: Mark Blacklock Copy & Picture Editor: Adrian Giddings Publisher: Robert Miskin Finance Director: Yvonne O’Donnell Finance Assistant: Maria Picardo Senior Consultants: Michael Gaskell, Karin Hawksley and Jonathan Unsworth

Art and Design Director: Michael Morey Printed by Buxton Press Ltd which is certified to Chain of Custody Standards for the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), all paper used being sustainably sourced. IGU and ISC would like to express their thanks to all those who helped in the preparation of this publication. Thanks are also due to the following companies, people and organisations for providing pictures. The credits are listed by article. Where the pictures for an article came from a variety of sources, the appropriate page numbers are given in brackets after each source. Cover (Harib Al Kitani, CEO of Oman LNG – left – and Khalid bin Abdullah Al Massan, CEO of Oman LNG Development Foundation – right – presented IGU President Joo-Myung [Joe] Kang with a model of a traditional Omani dhow during the opening ceremony of IGRC2020. The gift represented Oman sailing history; one of the country’s famous shipyards was located in Sur town, site of the Oman LNG plant): Ubar Conferences & Events.

Introduction: IGU. WGC 2021: Leading the sustainable future discussion in the global gas industry: Korea Gas Union (20), EXCO Exhibition & Convention Center (21). Real climate problems need real energy solutions: Koos Boertjens/Vattenfall (25 upper), Siemens AG (25 lower). Robotic solutions enhance safety and reduce costs: Gassco AS. Transforming waste heat into renewable heat: COM-therm spol. s.r.o. LGC highlights potential and challenges for gas in the region: EnergyNet. The evolution of natural gas in Colombia and Latin America: Naturgas (42 & 43 lower), Höegh LNG (43 upper), Felipe Scilipoti/YPF (44), Peru LNG (46). LNG outlook for 2020: Petronas (48), Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (50 upper), Kinder Morgan (50 lower), Freeport LNG (52/3 upper), Meyer Turku (52 lower), GE Power (53). A clean future for mobility with gas as vehicle fuel: EU, EC – Audiovisual Service/Etienne Ansotte (56), Gasrec (57), Chart Industries (58). IGRC2020: Overcoming the challenges: Ubar Conferences & Events. Reports from the Regional Coordinators: Eni (76), Noble Energy (77), TAQA Arabia (78). Members’ corner: Holdigaz SA (80 upper, 81, 82 & 83), Transitgas AG (80 lower). Presenting IGU’s new members: Chart Industries (86 & 87 upper left), EVE (87 upper right), Enagás (87 lower), Romet (89). Activities of IGU: IGU.

IGU Organisation: Korea Gas Union (Joo-Myung Kang & Jeongwook Khang, 96), Beijing Gas Group (Li Yalan & Chen Xavier, 96), IGU (Luis Bertrán Rafecas & Secretariat team, 96), GTI (David Carroll, 96) .