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LONDON, Sept. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

- Pratima Rangarajan, CEO of OGCI Climate Investments, will deliver a Keynote Address

- Ministers from Singapore and Canada to speak at prestigious Gastech Virtual Summit

- Industry leaders speaking include Maarten Wetselaar, Integrated Gas & New

Energies Director and Member of the Executive Committee at Shell and Lorenzo

Simonelli, Chairman, President & CEO of Baker Hughes

- Summit, opening in less than one week, set to deliver the latest commercial

strategies and trends dominating the natural gas industry

Joseph McMonigle, Secretary General of the International Energy Forum, will

deliver a Keynote Address at the Gastech Virtual Summit. The world's convening

event for the Gas, LNG and Energy industry will take place digitally from 7 –

11 September.  

Joseph McMonigle officially assumed his position on 1 July 2020 as the fifth

Secretary General of the International Energy Forum (IEF), the largest

international organisation of energy ministers and based in the Diplomatic

Quarter in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has over 20 years of experience working on

energy issues in the public and private sectors, and will deliver his address,

"The Imperative of Producer-Consumer Collaboration to Expedite Market Recovery

and Secure Long-Term Volumes of Natural Gas" on Tuesday, 8 September.

Mr. McMonigle is well known as an energy policy expert, geopolitical

strategist, and leading analyst of energy markets. Covering all six continents

and accounting for around 90% of global supply and demand for oil and gas, the

IEF is unique in that it comprises not only consuming and producing countries

of the IEA and OPEC, but also Transit States and major players outside of their

memberships, including Argentina, China, India, Mexico, Russia and South Africa.

Pratima Rangarajan, CEO of OGCI Climate Investments, will deliver a Keynote

Address, "Vision for energy 2020 and beyond…Addressing the climate challenge."

The address will highlight the need for a collective response to climate

change, to lead the transformation and meet the challenge head-on. She will

speak on the industry's history of innovation and resilience and how it will

form the basis for our future vision.

The Gastech Virtual Summit Strategic Conference

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ents-news.com ] comprising of the Ministerial & Global Business Leaders

Sessions, C-Suite Dialogues and Gastech Tech Talks will deliver advanced

insights into the latest commercial strategies and trends dominating the Gas,

LNG and Energy industry, providing delegates with fast track information on how

best to align business models for the post-pandemic landscape.  

Nick Ornstien, Vice President Energy for dmg events, said: "We are looking

forward to the Gastech Virtual Summit taking place next week, with those

leading the energy transition speaking on strategies and innovation that will

shape the future of our industry. With the rapid pace of change in our industry

it is important to remain connected, and ensure we address the challenges and

opportunities collectively for a post COVID-19 energy landscape."

Maarten Wetselaar, Integrated Gas & New Energies Director and Member of the

Executive Committee at Shell, will be interviewed by Steve Sedgwick, Anchor for

CNBC Squawkbox in an exclusive Interview. Lorenzo Simonelli, Chairman,

President & CEO, Baker Hughes is confirmed to deliver a Keynote Address.  

Other industry leaders confirmed to speak in the virtual conference are

Honourable Seamus O'Regan, Honourable Minister for Natural Resources, Canada;

Peter Clarke, Senior Vice President, ExxonMobil Upstream Oil & Gas Company;

Laurent Vivier, Senior Vice President Gas, Total; Assistant Secretary Francis

Fannon, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Energy Resources, United States

Department of State; Shawn Tupper, Associate Deputy Minister of Natural

Resources, Canada; Eugene Kaspersky, CEO, Kaspersky; Prabhat Singh, Chairman &

Managing Director, Petronet LNG; Thomas Siebel, Author & Chairman & Chief

Executive Officer, C3.ai [http://c3.ai/]; Keisuke Sadamori, Director, Energy

Markets and Security, International Energy Agency; Sanjiv Lamba, Executive Vice

President, APAC, Linde; Thorbjoern Fors, Executive Vice President, Industrial

Applications, Siemens Energy; Hiroki Sato, Managing Executive Officer & Chief

Global Partnership Officer, JERA Inc.; Jun Nishizawa, Executive Vice President,

Group CEO, Natural Gas Group, Mitsubishi Corporation and Jane Liao, CEO,

Natural Gas Business, CPC Corporation, Taiwan.  

The Summit will feature 200+ industry leaders who will outline and share

strategies and visions for confronting the new and changed energy markets.

Attendees will have access to exclusive critical insights from Ministers,

policy makers, business leaders, disrupters and innovators. Issues impacting

the future of the industry; energy security of supply; affordability and

sustainability; the prospects for demand and investment recovery; and changes

to supply in a post COVID-19 world, being top of the agenda. Sponsors include

ExxonMobil, Sempra LNG, Lloyd's Register and Shearman & Stirling.

The topics which the Gastech Virtual Summit will cover include the role of

natural gas in the energy transition; the criticality of IoT and data security

in the future of the energy industry; the impact of deregulation on markets and

investment; opportunities and challenges to the energy sector posed by Industry

4.0; hydrogen's ability to deliver on decarbonisation commitments and what

impact environmental activism will have on the emerging growth opportunities

for the industry.

Alongside the strategic conference, the Summit will also showcase the very

latest and peer-reviewed research on new technologies and business strategies

to help companies thrive in challenging times and exclusive keynote addresses

from globally renowned leaders in the technology space. The technical

conference sessions will feature certified content delivered by industry

leaders on recovery, the new post-pandemic energy landscape and how the

industry can capitalise and build on reduced emissions for a sustainable and

secure long-term energy future.

The Gastech Virtual Summit 2020 is being held in place of the Gastech

exhibition and conference, scheduled to take place in Singapore, in September.

dmg events and the Gastech Governing Body, in consultation with Enterprise

Singapore and the Singapore Tourism Board collectively took the decision to

postpone that event, to 13 – 16 September 2021, due to concerns around the

global pandemic, accessibility and the wellbeing of speakers, delegates,

exhibitors and visitors.

About Gastech

For almost 50 years, Gastech has been at the heart of the Gas, LNG and Energy

conversation. As the world starts to emerge from the shadow of COVID-19, the

Gastech Virtual Summit will engage with, and address, the key issues and most

promising opportunities for the Gas, LNG and Energy industries in the 4th

industrial age.

Taking place from 7-11 September 2020, Gastech Virtual Summit will provide

leadership and direction as the Gas, LNG and Energy industries seek to strike a

balance between business priorities and their licence to operate, in a post

COVID-19 world. With an emphasis on technology innovation; supply and demand

dynamics; evolving partnerships; people and talent and governance and

influence, the Summit will set the agenda for the global Gas, LNG and Energy

industries for decades to come.

For more information please visit www.gastechevent.com. 

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