Highly successful call for papers for Gastech 2009

The 24th Gastech, the largest international event serving the LNG, LPG and natural gas industries, is being held 25-28 May 2009 in Abu Dhabi where it will be hosted by ADNOC & Group of Companies and staged at the new Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.

"We are delighted to have received so many submissions for the conference, and would like to thank everyone who took the time to submit an abstract. Our Programme Advisory Committee certainly has a challenging job ahead as they review each abstract and pull the programme together,"

says Event Director, Tony Stephenson of dmg world media (uk) ltd.

"We are particularly pleased by the geographic spread, the rich diversity of topics, and the mix of speakers from producing and importing nations, and from operators, contractors and suppliers. With its theme 'GAS: A TIME OF CHANGE - A time of change: challenges, solutions and alternatives' we're looking forward to a compelling and highly topical conference."

The Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) is comprised of leading experts from 19 companies across the globe. The PAC will spend the next four to six weeks reading and assessing each entry via a complex voting system. Individuals who have submitted an abstract should expect to hear whether their paper has made the final programme by the beginning of December.

Online conference registration will open mid-October at www.gastech.co.uk with an Early Bird rate of £1,559 for bookings made before 31 January 2009 after which the normal rate of £1,769 will come into operation.

The Gastech exhibition is filling up fast with pavilions from Canada, China, France, Norway, The Netherlands and UK in addition to individual exhibiting companies from all over the world. Exhibitors now occupy more than 10,000 sq.m of exhibition space, only a few spaces now remain on the floorplan

Gastech 2008, hosted by the PTT Group and held 10-13 March in Bangkok, Thailand, proved to be a truly record breaking event with 11,526 from well over 50 countries and 300 exhibiting companies from 36 countries.