Events and Acknowledgements

IGU event s and ot her major gas-relat ed event s 2019-2020

2019 LNG2019 April 1-5 Shanghai, China April 23-25 IGU Executive Committee and Coordination Committee meetings Santiago, Chile

May 13-15 Flame Conference & Exhibition Amsterdam, The Netherlands June 13-14 GIE Annual Conference Paris, France September 7-14 24th World Energy Congress Abu Dhabi, UAE September 24-26 32nd World LPG Forum Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 30-October 4 IPLOCA 53rd Annual Convention Bangkok, Thailand

October 8-10 IGU Council, Executive Committee and Coordination Committee meetings Yogyakarta, Indonesia

November 10-12 GIIGNL General Assembly Singapore November 11-22 25th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 25) Santiago, Chile

November 20-22 IGU-EnergyNet Latin America & Caribbean Gas Conference & Exhibition (LGC 2019) Mexico City

2020 February 24-26 IGU Research Conference (IGRC 2020) Muscat, Oman April 21-23 IGU Executive Committee and Coordination Committee meetings Prague, Czech Republic October 6-8 IGU Council, Executive Committee and Coordination Committee meetings Vancouver, Canada

December 6-10 23rd World Petroleum Congress Houston, USA

Ac knowledgement s

For the IGU Secretariat

Secretary General: Luis Bertrán Rafecas Director Advisor: Rafael Huarte Lázaro Director Advisor: Luis Calvo Events Director: Rodney Cox Director Public Affairs: Menelaos (Mel) Ydreos Manager Public Affairs: Tatiana Khanberg Senior Advisor: Flavia Malet de Hvidbo Advisor: Hyunchang Kim 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: Shanghai skyline – Shutterstock/ArtisticPhoto. Introduction: IGU.

New host for IGRC 2020: Shutterstock/ Vilius Steponenas (18), Oman LNG Development Foundation (19 upper), Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre (19 lower). High-level attendance at 6th IEF-IGU Ministerial Gas Forum: Naturgy. China’s energy strategy and natural gas development: Guangdong Dapeng LNG Company Ltd (28), Royal Dutch Shell (29), Huangdan2060/Wikimedia Commons (32), Siemens AG (34).

LGC highlights potential for gas in the region: EnergyNet. Natural gas: Creating wealth for Brazil: Petrobras (48), Repsol (49 upper), Comgás (49 lower & 50). Unleashing the power of digital: Eni (53 upper), Jørgen Bratland/Equinor ASA (53 lower), Bo B. Randulff/Woldcam/ Aker BP (55).

Hydrogen: Another fuel of the future? Koos Boertjens/ Vattenfall (58), ITM Power (59 & 60), Alstom (61), Colin Keldie (62), SINTEF (64). LNG2019 takes place in a landmark year for the LNG industry: Shutterstock/ArtisticPhoto (70), Gazprom (71 & 74 lower), Excelerate Energy/PRNewswire (72), ElectroGas (74 upper), CELSE (76), AES (78 upper), Petronas (78 lower), Golar (79), BP (80 upper), Eni (80 lower), Total (82), Exmar (84 upper), Cheniere Energy (84 lower), Golden Pass Products LLC (85).

LNG for all transportation: Ready, willing and able: Volvo Trucks (88), Gazprom (89), Levien Willemse/Royal Dutch Shell (90), Babcock Schulte Energy (92), AIDA Cruises (94), Sovcomflot (95), Actren Mantenimiento Ferroviario S.A. (96).

Positive outlook for LNG shipping: INPEX (100), Canal de Panamá (101).

Reports from the Regional Coordinators: Snam (106 upper), Royal Dutch Shell (106 lower), Naturgy (107), Scania (108 upper), Naturgas (109 lower), Peru LNG (109). Members’ corner: Korea Gas Union (114, 115 upper & 116), WGC 2018/DChFOTO (115 lower), EXCO (117).

Presenting IGU’s new members: BHGE (118), Sewerin (119), INGL (120), Oman Gas Company (122), ONC Energy (123), Ulsan Internet Television (125), Wojciech Wrzesien/ Shutterstock (126).

IGU’s COP 24 activities: IGU (128 upper), IISD/Kiara Worth enb.iisd.org/climate/cop24/enb/15dec.html (128 lower). IGU Organisation: Korea Gas Union (Joo-Myung Kang & Jeongwook Khang, 130), Beijing Gas Group (Li Yalan & Chen Xavier, 130), IGU (Luis Bertrán Rafecas & Secretariat team, 130), GTI (David Carroll, 130).