On October 8–11, 2024, the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum-2024, one of the major events of the gas industry in Russia and in the world, will be held at the EXPOFORUM Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The Forum exposition is expected to be especially large-scale: all three EXPOFORUM pavilions, the Passage, as well as the street inter-pavilion space and the parking lot of the complex will be used for the Exhibition stands and presentation offices. Over 600 companies will take part in the SPIGF as exhibitors.

The Forum business program will include more than 100 events to be participated by 800 speakers, with round tables, conferences and seminars-meetings covering 19 thematic areas. The engineering areas of the program include design and construction in the gas industry, gas production and transportation, gas distribution and gas consumption, underground gas storage, natural gas processing products and technologies, and gas chemistry. The industry-wide tracks will be dedicated to cooperation between the BRICS and the SCO countries within the gas industry, sustainable development and technological sovereignty, import substitution and digital transformation, investment and financial instruments in the energy sector and other relevant issues.

Key events of the business program:

• The SPIGF-2024 Plenary Session «Gas Market 2024: Outlines of the New World Order»
• The 3^rd I.P. Afanasiev Research and Practice Conference «Development of Oil and Gas Processing Industries and Promising Technologies for Processing Hydrocarbon Raw Materials»
• The Round Table «Artificial Intelligence: Together or Instead»
• The Session «Prospects for Development of the Russian LNG Industry in Modern Economic Realities»
• The Panel Discussion «Minimizing Public-Legal Risks of Holding Companies’ Top Officials and Department Managers Accountable: from Knowledge to Prevention»
• The Panel Discussion «R&D in the Fuel and Energy Complex. Gas-Piston Power Generation: Challenges and Solutions»
• The Russian-Latin American Dialogue «Lithium Market: Engineering and Technology Capacities for Expanding and Intensifying Cooperation»

Among participants to form the business program, there are Gazprom PJSC, the Russian Gas Company, Gazprombank (Joint Stock Company), the Russian National Committee of the World Petroleum Council, ANO «Institute of Oil and Gas Technological Initiatives», Gazstroyprom JSC, B1, the Russian-Asian Business Council, ANO «Agency for Technological Development», 1C LLC, the Geophysical Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GC RAS), RBC Petersburg, etc.

The SPIGF-2024 will be held with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, and the Government of St. Petersburg.

See more on the official website of the Forum.

Media accreditation will last until October 7, 2024, (12:00 MSC) inclusive.

The application for accreditation is submitted through the official website of the project, in the section «Press Centre».

Additional information on accreditation issues:

Elena Buklinova

Mobile phone: +7 (931) 249 05 36

E-mail: press@expoforum.ru