Events and Acknowledgements

IGU events and other major gas-related events 2018-2019

2018

October 2-4 31st World LPG Forum Houston, USA

October 9-11 IGU-EnergyNet Latin America and Caribbean Gas Conference & Exhibition Mexico City, Mexico October 23-25 IGU Council, Executive Committee and Coordination Committee meetings Venice, Italy

October 29-31 GASEX 2018 Conference & Exhibition Hangzhou, China November 11-14 GIIGNL General Assembly Fukuoka, Japan

November 21-22 6th IEF -IGU Ministerial Gas Forum Barcelona, Spain

December 3-14 24th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 24) Katowice, Poland

2019

January 14-17 World Future Energy Summit Abu Dhabi, UAE January 28-30 European Gas Conference Vienna, Austria

LN G2019 April 1-5 Shanghai, China April 23-25 IGU Executive Committee and Coordination Committee meetings Santiago, Chile

September 7-14 24th World Energy Congress Abu Dhabi, UAE

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

Acknowledgements

For the IGU Secretariat

Secretary General: Luis Bertrán Rafecas Director: 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 Administrative Advisor: Emma Siobhan Paños Knowles

For ISC

Consulting Editor: Mark Blacklock Copy & Picture Editor: Adrian Giddings Publisher: Robert Miskin Finance Director: Yvonne O’Donnell Finance Assistants: Maria Picardo, Anita d’Souza 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: KOGAS headquarters, Daegu, Korea – KOGAS; Gangnam Station Street, Seoul, Korea – IR Studio/Korea Tourism Organisation; LNG tanker at Incheon LNG terminal, Korea – KOGAS.

Introduction: IGU (8, 9, 14 & 15), Korea Gas Union (12), KOGAS (13 upper), Minseong Kim (13 lower).

Gearing up for LNG2019: WGC 2018/Julia Zhogina (22), Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Centre (23 upper), Shenergy Group (23 lower). Vital role for gas infrastructure in reducing GHG emissions: Snam Rete Gas S.p.A. (26), Uniper SE (27 upper), Fluxys Belgium/P. Henderyckx (27 lower), Barbara Jinks (28). CNG-fuelled truck negotiates tough challenges: Gazprom (34 upper, 35 upper & 36), Anton Yelikov/KAMAZ-master (34-35 lower).

Latin America gas outlook: Engie (39 upper), Atlantic LNG (39 lower).

WGC 2018 – A Resounding Success!: AGA (48 upper), WGC 2018/DChFOTO (48 lower & 49 upper), WGC 2018/Julia Zhogina (49 lower, 50 & 51).

The gas world meets in Washington DC: All pictures WGC 2018/DChFOTO except 66 lower (WGC 2018/ Julia Zhogina). WGC youth event inspires participants: WGC 2018/Julia Zhogina (70 & 71 right), WGC 2018/DChFOTO (71 left & 72).

Methane for mobility highlighted at WGC 2018: IGU (74), WGC 2018/DChFOTO (75), Scott Sporleder/Clean Energy Fuels (76).

Two decades of natural gas development in Beijing: WGC 2018/DChFOTO (80), Arup (81), Kyla Duhamel (82), Beijing Gas Group (83). Reports from the Regional Coordinators: Bjørn J. Stuedal (94 upper), Eni (94 lower), EG LNG (95), IGU (96 upper), Dunkerque LNG (96 lower), Nord Stream 2 (98).

Members’ corner: WGC 2018/DChFOTO (100), WGC 2018/ Julia Zhogina (101 upper), AGA (101 lower), Ronald Reagan Library (102). Presenting IGU’s new members: Ministry of Petroleum and Gas, Sudan (104), HIMOINSA S.L. (105), NextDecade Corporation (106), Tatweer Petroleum (107).

Activities of IGU: IEF (110 upper), IBP/Marcos Queiroz (110 lower left), Mohammadresa Rezania (110 right-111 lower), Argentine Presidency of the G20 (111 upper), World Bank Group/Ed Kashi (112), WGC 2018/DChFOTO (114 upper), IGU (114 lower).

IGU Organisation: Korea Gas Union (Joo-Myung Kang & Munseok Baek, 116), Beijing Gas Group (Li Yalan & Chen Xavier, 116), IGU (Luis Bertrán Rafecas & Secretariat team, 116), GTI (David Carroll, 116).