WGC 2018
WGC 2018 – A Resounding Success! IGU’s triennial World Gas Conference (WGC) is the largest and most influential global gas event and the 27th edition set a high standard. By Jay Copan On June 29, 2018, the 27th World Gas
McCurdy, IGU Coordination Committee
conference attendees as well as IGU
Conference came to a close, following
Chair-nominee Mel Ydreos and myself
participants in the USA triennium,
a week of tremendous, but cautious,
as proposed WGC 2018 Executive
it is clear that the USA Presidency,
optimism for the future of the global
Director, made its presentation to the
and ultimately the WGC, was successful
gas industry. By all measures, and
IGU Council meeting in Dubrovnik,
in achieving the goals laid out seven
according to feedback provided by
Croatia. The focus of the USA IGU bid
years earlier.
over 2,100 responses to a post-WGC
was on three “V’s”: raising the Voice of
follow-up survey, the event was truly
gas around the world, increasing the
A transformative event
a resounding success.
Visibility of IGU and providing greater
The first vice chairman of the American
Value to IGU members. With the
Gas Association (AGA), Joe Hamrock,
2011, the USA IGU bid team, led by IGU
conclusion of the USA Presidency at
who is President and CEO of NiSource,
President-nominee David Carroll, WGC
WGC 2018, with the Dubrovnik team
Inc. (one of the largest fully-regulated
2018 NOC Chairman-nominee Dave
still intact, and based on feedback from
utility companies in the United States,
Seven years earlier, on October 6,
c The WGC 2018 Opening Reception was held at Washington DC’s landmark Union Station.
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