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Gastech 2009
Views Echoed by Fellow Conference Co-Chair • Meeting facilities – Gastech provides many opportunities for
Paul Young’s views are echoed by fellow Conference Co-Chair Chris attendees to meet, with formal and informal areas planned
Clucas, Group Fleet Director (Gas), Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, within the show and an online meeting service set up to ensure
who explains: “The new economic climate poses many fundamental attendees can arrange on-site meetings in an effective way.
questions for the gas business. While gas prices are inevitably linked to • The Gastech LNG timeline – an intriguing history of the LNG
the prices of crude oil, the gas industry has a fundamentally different industry to which all are encouraged to add; it can be found on
structure in terms of development and returns. the Gastech website and will be displayed at the show.
“The 2009 Conference offers people from both technical and Events can only reflect the industries they serve, and Gastech’s
commercial backgrounds the opportunity to hear about the latest growth – in both size and stature – mirrors what is going on in the
developments – for example advances in shipping, gas processing, LNG, LPG and natural gas industries around the world. It is these
environmentally friendly technologies and key enabling technologies. developments that will be being discussed both in formal sessions
and at the myriad Gastech networking events at this year’s show.
“Much of the industry’s recent focus has been on developing We are proud to be part of this expanding and vibrant industry. We
stranded gas reserves, where ‘mega LNG plants’ are simply not look forward to welcoming you to Abu Dhabi in late May.
feasible. This has resulted in the development of floating LNG
production and regasification projects, and several are now on Comments on Their Sessions from a Few of the
order. Undoubtedly, many Gastech delegates will be in Abu Dhabi to Session Chairmen
hear about the latest developments in this fast-developing area of
the gas industry. James Ball, President Director of Gas Strategies Consulting,
Chair of the ‘World recession, world gas – where in the world
“In addition to the paper programme, the Gastech exhibition will are we going?’ session:
enable delegates to see an exceptionally large range of gas “It was always going to be a momentous year, 2009: with the first
equipment on display. The programme is completed by poster of the Qatari super trains coming on-stream and the expansion of
sessions and ‘Fuelling the future’, a special programme for students. the LNG fleet finding a record number of terminals to switch
between, the prospect of global gas interconnections never looked
“Like Gastech, Abu Dhabi is at the very centre of the world’s greater. But the world expected by the gas business has been turned
energy business – and it is very fitting that the 2009 Gastech on its head as events from the global recession pile on top of
Conference will be held in this key location. We look forward to unexpected shifts in the market, in prices, in demand, in finance, in
seeing you there.” investment appetite and in buyer/seller relationships.
Much More than an Exhibition and Conference “It looks like goodbye to the sellers’ market in LNG for a while. The
Gastech’s two main component parts – the conference and magnet of Asian demand appears in a temporary lull and the Atlantic
exhibition – together with the vital social and business networking looks less likely to export its spare LNG eastwards. Domestic US gas
elements are the principal reasons why thousands attend every supply is up and demand down and Europe again looks attractive. In
event in the series. However, Gastech has many other attractions Europe, security of supply raced back up the agenda with the crisis in
that are extraordinarily popular within the industry, as outline below. Russian supply in the first weeks of January. Brave new technological
There is further information about all of these elements on the frontiers are finding funding tight and progress challenging.
Gastech website.
“So how will the gas business respond? Where will the gas flow and
• The Gastech LNG World Shipping Hosted Buyers Programme – in what form? And who will invest and who will have to wait for
the third in the series will be held on 24 May, the day before sunnier days? This session will probe these questions from a wide
Gastech 2009 opens its doors. array of perspectives.”
• GasTV Live – the official broadcast channel for Gastech 2009. A
special news programme will be streamed directly into delegates’ Saskia Kunst, Head of New Energy Systems, Single Buoy
hotel rooms each evening, providing a round-up of the day’s Moorings, Co-Chair of the ‘New commercial frontiers and
activities and a chance for attendees to catch up on what they challenges’ session:
have missed. “During the second day, ‘New commercial frontiers and challenges’
• Student programme: ‘Fuelling the future’ – Gastech is investing will cover how innovative technologies and shifts in supply–demand
in the future of the gas industry with an initiative aimed at patterns change the worldwide LNG landscape. We will talk about
students due to graduate in 2009. how the near-future US gas market dynamics have implications for
• Technical tours to Das Island and the Ruwais Fractionation Plant the international LNG market, we will analyse the economic and
provide an opportunity for delegates to meet those actively geopolitical issues surrounding coalbed methane commercialisation,
involved with major projects. we will focus on liquefaction solutions that are set to open up to
• Sponsored by ADGAS, the Digital Energy Arena offers specialist new markets and how both sellers and buyers can capitalise on their
exhibitors a dedicated area where they can demonstrate their use of LNG terminals. Come and listen to what this session has to
technology, applications, solutions and services throughout the offer you and your companies and make your own contribution at
duration of the show. the end of each paper.”
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