Events and Acknowledgements

IGU events and other major gas-related events 2017-2018

2017 October 24-26 IGU Council, Executive Committee and Coordination Committee meetings Tokyo, Japan

October 27 Eurogas Annual Conference Brussels, Belgium November 6-17 23rd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 23) Bonn, Germany

2018

January 29-31 11th Annual European Gas Conference Vienna, Austria May 14-17 Flame Conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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

September 17-20 Gastech 2018 Conference & Exhibition Barcelona, Spain October 29-31 GASEX 2018 Conference & Exhibition Hangzhou, China

Acknowledgements

For the IGU Secretariat

Secretary General: Luis Bertrán Rafecas Director: Rafael Huarte Lázaro Chief Advisor: Antonia Fernández Corrales Senior Advisor: Taeksang Kwon Information Consultant and Secretary of the Coordination Committee: Anette Sørum Nordal Advisor to the Secretary General: Hyunchang Kim Executive Assistant: Luisa Peris Meléndez Executive Administrative Assistant: Emma Siobhan Paños Knowles

For ISC

Editor-in-Chief: 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: Oman LNG (Oman LNG plant, Qalhat, Oman), TransCanada (Pipeline welder, Northern Alberta, Canada), Egyptian LNG (LNG tanker, Puteri Zamrud Satu, Idku LNG plant, Egypt), Petromin Resources Ltd (CBM well, Xinjiang Province, China), Sonatrach (right: LNG tanker, Cheikh El Mokrani, approaching Mt Fuji, Japan). Message from the President and the Secretary General: IGU (9). Landmark first export cargo for floating LNG: Petronas (12), Roo mate [CC BY-SA 4.0] (13 upper), Royal Dutch Shell (13 lower), Keppel Shipyard (16), Eni SpA (17), Wison Offshore & Marine (18). LNG – the key to unlocking cleaner marine transport?: Ports of Stockholm/Niklas Björling (21). The future of natural gas at a time of unpredictability: DMG Events Global Energy (24), Freeport LNG (25). A timeline of major events for the gas industry in Japan: www.gasmuseum.jp (28 upper), Osaka Gas (28 left & right, 29 left, 30 left), ConocoPhillips Corporate Archives (29 upper), Brunei LNG (29 right), GTI (30 right), Woodside Energy Ltd (31 left), JGA (31 right), Air Photo Service (34 left), Tokyo Gas (34 right), INPEX Corporation (35 left), Gleam [CC BY-SA 3.0] (35 right). Update on the 27th World Gas Conference: Events DC (36), Marriott International, Inc. (38). An update on the IGU Vice Presidency and preparations for the 28th World Gas Conference: KOGAS.

A picture gallery of IGRC 2017: IBP/Marcos Queiroz. Activities of IGU: IGU, except UN Photo (88). The IGU Executive Committee workshops, Muscat, Oman: (IGU). Reports from the Regional Coordinators: Bjørn J. Stuedal (100), BP (101), Georgios Lakkotrypis (102 upper), ADNOC Distribution (102 centre), Oman Oil Company Exploration & Production LLC (102 lower), IGU (104 upper), Höegh LNG (104 lower), Amateos/Public Domain (106 upper left), Grégory Maillot/Point of Views (106 upper right), Wintershall Holding GmbH (106 lower). News from organisations affiliated to IGU: PRCI (109, 110, 112, 113 & 114), GTI (116), GERG (117), NGVA Europe/Thinkstep (122 upper), Gas Natural Fenosa (122 lower), IPLOCA (124). An introduction to ARPEL: ARPEL (126). IGU Organisation: AFG (Jérôme Ferrier), GTI (David Carroll), IGU (Mel Ydreos, Luis Bertrán Rafecas, Secretariat Staff), Korea Gas Union (Jae Ho Song & Munseok Baek).