Acknowledgements

For IGU

Secretary General: Luis Bertrán Rafecas Deputy Secretary General: Andy Calitz Director Advisor: Luis Calvo Lema Events Director: Rodney Cox Public Affairs Director: Matthew Doman Public Affairs Manager: Tatiana Khanberg Senior Advisors: Håkon Olav Huglen, Hyun-Chang Kim, Marcela Martínez Serret Administrative Advisor: Emma Siobhan Paños Knowles Executive Assistant: Luisa Peris Meléndez

For ISC

Consulting Editor: Mark Blacklock Copy & Picture Editor: Adrian Giddings Publications Director: Robert Miskin Finance Director: Yvonne O’Donnell Finance Assistant: Maria Picardo 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 and in particular to the following people. l In Belgium, Henri Van Speybroeck of the Association

Royale des Gaziers Belges (ARGB). l In Canada, Timothy Egan and Nathalie Bousquet of the

Canadian Gas Association (CGA). l In China, Tang Xuan of Beijing Gas Group. l In the Czech Republic, Miloš Kebrdle and Jana Kymplová of the Czech Gas Association. l In Denmark, Peter Storm, Honorary Secretary General;

Hanne Thomsen of the Danish Gas Museum; Lotta Hållén-

Kragh of DONG Energy; Jean Schweitzer of the Danish Gas

Technology Centre. l In France, Daniel Paccoud, Amélie Herrault, Sébastien

Courleux and Jean-Luc Gadeau of the Association

Française du Gaz (AFG); Michel Roux of AFEGAZ (Association la flamme Européenne du gaz); Claude

Mahuzier of COPAGAZ (Conservation du patrimoine gazier); Michael Batard and Nathalie Le Marec of Engie. l In Germany, Uwe Klaas and Elisabeth Hörning of the

Deutscher Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches (DVGW); Rolf

Beyer, Honorary Member. l In Indonesia, Yenni Andayani, formerly of Pertamina;

Rakhmad Dewanto of the Indonesian Gas Society (IGS). l In Italy, Andrea Stegher of Snam and the team at Eni Archives. l In Japan, Satoshi Yoshida of the Japan Gas Association. l In Korea, Seyoung Ha and Seong Soo Kang of the Korea

Gas Union (KGU). l In Malaysia, Rosman Hamzah and Nabilah Zulkefli of the

Malaysian Gas Association (MGA). l In Morocco, Farid Berrahou of Sonatrach. l In The Netherlands, Robert Doets, Honorary Member; John

Meeder, Honorary Member; George Verberg, Honorary

President. l In Peru, Jesús Santeliz of Transportadora de Gas del Perú (TGP). l In Russia, Alexander Bespalov, Andrey Sapozhnikov and

Oleg Voynov of Gazprom. l In Sweden, Anders Mathiasson, Maria Pohjonen and Sara

Nilsson of Energigas Sverige. l In Switzerland, Jean-Pierre Lauper, Honorary Member;

Philippe Petitpierre of Holdigaz; Ursula Wittwer of SSIGE/

SVGW. l In the UK, Kristina Parkin, Barry Wilkinson and Sukhi Johal of the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM). l In the USA, Tracy Burleson and Jennifer O’Shea of the

American Gas Association (AGA); Colleen Taylor Sen formerly of the Gas Technology Institute (GTI). Thanks are also due to the following companies, people and organisations for opening up their archives and providing pictures. Cover: The globe with a collage of historical and contemporary pictures on the front cover was designed by the graphics team of Equinor for IGU. On the back cover are pictures from the 1st International Gas Conference in 1931 (courtesy of IGEM) and of Daegu, venue of the 28th World Gas Conference in 2022 (courtesy of EXCO Exhibition & Conference Center). Introduction: IGU. Let There Be Light: National Grid Archives (19). The Foundation and Early Years of IGU: IGEM (21 upper, 22 upper & lower), AFEGAZ (21 lower & 25 upper), Eduard Spelterini (23), Roger Viollet/Rex Features (24 upper), AFG (24 lower & 25 lower). Post-War Recovery: ARGB (27, 28 lower & inset, 35 lower), IGEM (28/9 upper, 32 upper, 35 upper), IGU (29 lower, 34, 36 upper left & lower, 37 upper), Italgas Archive Museum (30, 31), National Gas Archive, National Grid (32 lower, 38), Energigas Sverige (33), DVGW (36 upper left), Gazprom (37 lower), Sonatrach (39 upper), Engie (39 lower). Development and Expansion: Engie (40, 41 lower, 42 upper left & right), ADNOC (41 upper), IGU (42 middle left, 50 lower left & right, 51, 55 lower, 58 lower), AFG (42 lower, 60 upper left & right, 61), Eni Archives (43 upper, 53 upper left & right, 55 upper left),OMV (43 lower), DVGW (44 lower, 45 upper & lower right, 46 upper left & upper right, 47, 52), CGA (44 upper & inset), Philippe Petitpierre/Holdigaz (45 lower left), ARGB (46 inset, 46 lower, 60 lower), ConocoPhillips Corporate Archives (48 upper), Kawasaki (48 lower), Pertamina (49), Ronald Reagan Library (50 upper left & right), collection of John Meeder (53 lower, 54, 55 upper centre & right, 58 upper), collection of Peter Storm (56, 57), GTI (59 upper left), Colter Henderson/Devon Energy (59 upper right), Halliburton (59 lower). Speaking for the Gas Industry Worldwide: Tokyo Big Sight Inc. (63 upper), JGA (63 lower, 64 all except Peter Storm, 65, 68 upper left), Søren Svendsen (64 Peter Storm, 70 Lisbeth Koefoed), TGP (66, 67), KGU (68 upper right, 92 Jeongwook Khang & Dong-Hoon Kim, 94 Bong-Kyu Park), IGU (68 lower, 69 lower three, 70 lower left, 72 lower right, 72 all except Eduardo Ojea Quintana, 75 lower seven, 78, 79 upper right, 80 Carolin Oebel, Ksenia Gladkova, Silje Storsul & Sjur Bøyum, 81 Mats Fredriksson, 82 upper centre & lower right, 83 upper right, Anette Sørum Nordal, Khadija Omar Al-Siyabi, Taeksang Kwon & Kristin Sande, 86 lower right, 87 all except Rod Rinholm & Terence Thorn, 88, 89 except Union Station, 90 Luis Calvo Lema & Flavia Malet de Hvidbo, 92 Marcela Martínez Serret, 93 upper, 94 all except upper main, 96, 97 Andy Calitz, 99 all except lower), Guus Pauka/23rd WGC NOC (69 upper left & right, 70 upper & lower right, 71), WGC2018/DChFoto (74, 90 except Luis Calvo Lema & Flavia Malet de Hvidbo, 91 lower left), WGC2015 (69 Coby van der Linde, 83 lower left, 84, 85, 86 upper), OECD/IEA (69 Nobuo Tanaka), Jon Chomitz/IHS Markit (69 Daniel Yergin), Lotta Hållén-Kragh (70 Lotta HållénKragh), Global Gas Historical Network (72 upper), IAPG (72 Ernesto López Anadón & Roberto Brandt, 73 Eduardo Ojea Quintana), Roberto Eduardo Decurnex/24th WGC NOC (75 upper, 76, 77 except upper right), Jean Schweitzer (77 upper right), WGC2012 (79 upper left & lower three, 80 three main pictures, 81 except Mats Fredriksson), GasNaturally (82 upper left), UNESCO/P. Chiang-Joo (82 upper right), Marc-André Boisvert (82 lower left), UNESCO/Emilien Urbano (83 upper left), Vienna Energy Forum (86 lower left), GTI (87 Rod Rinholm), AGA (87 Terence Thorn, 91 Dave McCurdy & Jay Copan), WGC2018/Bokeh Lane Photography (89 Union Station, 91 lower right), WGC2018/Julia Zhogina (91 upper), EnergyNet (92 lower & 94 upper main), IGS (93 lower), EXCO Exhibition & Conference Center (95 upper). CMA CGM Group (98 upper main), Chevron Australia Pty Ltd (98 lower), Mingyang Zhou (99 lower). The History of the International Conference and Exhibition on LNG: Grain LNG (101 upper), GTI (101 lower, 102), Qatar Petroleum (103 upper, 104 upper), KGU (103 lower), Sedigas (104 lower), LNG 16 (105), LNG 17/Gary Fountain (106), LNG 18/Oneill Photographics (107), LNG2019 (108, 109 except Philip Hagyard), Technip Energies (109 Philip Hagyard). The History of the IGRCs: Cédric Faimali via Engie (111, 113 upper), Jean Schweitzer (102, 115 except IGRC2017), KGU (113 lower, 114), IBP/Marcos Queiroz (115 IGRC2017, 116 upper left), Uwe Klaas/DVGW (116lower left), Ubar Conference & Events (116 upper right, 117). IGU Engages with International Policymakers: Joop van Reeken, The Netherlands (121), International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Reporting Services (122, 123 lower), IGU (123 upper left & right, 124 upper left & right, 125 centre, 126 all except upper left, 127, 128, 129, 130, 132/3, 134, 136, 137), Hild Bjelland Vik/Statoil (123 lower), Lisa Stayt/Stayt Photography (125 upper), PGNiG (125 lower), Arnaud Bouissou/ MEDDE/SG COP21 (126 upper left), IEF (131), MGA (135). IGU – Advocating for Gas: IGU. Challenges and Opportunities for Gas: Guangdong Dapeng LNG Company Ltd (142), Gazprom (143), ESL Shipping (145 main), Holdigaz SA (145 inset), Torresol Energy Investments S.A. (146), Eni (147 upper), maasmondmaritime.com (147 lower), Koos Boertjens/Vattenfall (148), Brian Buchsdruecker/ Photographic Services, Shell International Ltd (149 upper), Gasrec (149 lower).

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