Events and Acknowledgements

IGU Events and Other Major Gas-related Events 2017-18

2017 March 28-30 IGU Executive Committee and Coordination Committee meetings Muscat, Oman

April 4-7 Gastech 2017 Conference & Exhibition Chiba, Japan

May 24-26 IGU Research Conference, IGRC 2017 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

June 22-23 GIE Annual Conference Prague, Czech Republic July 9-13 22nd World Petroleum Congress Istanbul, Turkey September 25-29 IPLOCA Annual Convention Mexico City, Mexico October 3-5 30th World LPG Forum Marrakech, Morocco October 8-11 GIIGNL General Assembly Brussels, Belgium

October 24-26 IGU Council, Executive Committee and Coordination Committee meetings Tokyo, Japan

November 6-17 23rd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 23) Bonn, Germany

Acknowledgements

2018 April 17-19 IGU Executive Committee and Coordination Committee meetings Cairo, Egypt June 25 IGU Council meeting Washington DC, USA June 25-29 27th World Gas Conference Washington DC, USA

For the IGU Secretariat

Secretary General: Luis Bertrán Rafecas Director: Rafael Huarte Lazaro Chief Advisor: Antonia Fernández Corrales Senior Advisor: Taeksang Kwon Information Consultant and Secretary of the Coordination Committee: Anette Sørum Nordal Executive Assistant: Luisa Peris Meléndez

For ISC

Editor-in-Chief: Lee Gale Consulting Editor: Mark Blacklock Editorial and Production Coordinator: Adrian Giddings Publisher: Robert Miskin Special Projects Director for IGU: Karin Hawksley Finance Director: Yvonne O’Donnell Finance Assistants: Maria Picardo, Anita d’Souza Senior Consultants: Jeffrey Fearnside, Michael Gaskell, Jonathan Unsworth Art and Design Director: Michael Morey Printed by: Buxton Press Ltd 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: Gazprom (left: GTL facility), BASF (upper right: Nanocubes for hydrogen storage), BASF (centre right: Researcher), Gazprom (lower left: Metallised protective pipe coatings). Message from the President and Secretary General: IGU (11). IGU Organisation: GTI (David Carroll, 21), IGU (Mel Ydreos, Luis Bertrán Rafecas, Secretariat Staff 21), Korea Gas Union (Jae Ho Song & Munseok Baek, 21), AFG (Jérôme Ferrier, 21). COP 22: as climate change policy gains momentum, the future gets brighter for gas: IISD/ Kiara Worth [enb.iisd.org/climate/cop22/ enb/15nov.html] (24), IISD/Kiara Worth [enb.iisd. org/climate/cop22/enb/7nov.html] (25 upper), IISD/ Kiara Worth [enb.iisd.org/climate/cop22/ enb/16nov.html] (25 lower), IISD/Kiara Worth [enb. iisd.org/climate/cop22/enb/18nov.html] (27). Torque of the town: the gas-powered era of road haulage is under way: Lee Gale. An interview with Rodney Cox, IGU’s new Events Director: LNG 17/Dave Rossman (38), Arinex Pty Ltd (39), WGC 2015 (40). Oman’s unique habitat: Roderick Eime [CC-BY-2.0] (42 left), Arian Zwegers [CC-BY-2.0] (42 right), Petroleum Development Oman (43), Oman LNG (48, 49). Mobile system for dimethyl ether production from natural gas: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (57). The role of gas in a carbon-neutral energy mix: EAGC, produced by DMG Events (88). News from the Presidency and Secretariat: IGU (93, 96 upper, 96 lower, 98 left, 100 upper left, 100 upper right, 100 lower), Gas Natural Fenosa (94), IEF [www.ief.org] (97 upper), Mel Ydreos (97 lower), IRENA (98 right), Vale Global Energy Forum/Zach Mahone (99). IGU Global Gas Award 2015-2018: WGC 2015 (106), SGN (107). Reports from the Regional Coordinators: Guangdong Dapeng LNG Company Ltd (111), Gas Natural Fenosa (112), Nexen (113). The Netherlands hosts the 2016 Council meeting: IGU. Engaging with the diplomatic corps: IGU. 5th IEF-IGU Ministerial Gas Forum, New Delhi: IEF [www.ief.org]. Update on the 27th World Gas Conference: Events DC (126), Architect of the Capitol (127). Registration open for IGRC 2017, one of the greatest technical events of the gas sector: Riocentro Exhibition and Conference Centre.

News from organisations affiliated to IGU: GTI (130, 131, 132 upper), GIIGNL (132 lower, 134, 136), WLPGA (138, 139). Presenting IGU’s new Members: RWE AG (140), Petronet LNG (142).

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