St. Petersburg International Gas Forum
 

Home

ST. PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL
GAS FORUM
St. Petersburg | EXPOFORUM

October 7-10, 2025
34 000
participants
from 54 countries
over 110
events
of the Convention
Program
over 800
speakers
50 thousand sq. m
of exhibition space
600 exhibitors
over 400
journalists
from 200 media
over 1800
meetings
in Business matchmaking centre
ST. PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL
GAS FORUM
St. Petersburg | EXPOFORUM

October 7-10, 2025
34 000
participants
from 54 countries
over 110
events
of the Convention
Program
over 800
speakers
50 thousand sq. m
of exhibition space
600 exhibitors
over 400
journalists
from 200 media
over 1800
meetings
in Business matchmaking centre
Official support

.

Forum Speakers
Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023
Alexey Miller
Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation
Plenary session of SPIGF 2024
Mr. Sergei Tsivilev
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary
Plenary session of SPIGF 2024
Mr. Peter Szijjarto
Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of the Republic of Turkey
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023
Mr. Alparslan Bayraktar
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus
Plenary session of SPIGF 2024
Mr. Viktor Karankevich
First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023, 2024
Mr. Roman Sklyar
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan - Minister of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Plenary session of SPIGF 2024
Mr. Jamshid Kuchkarov
Vice President China National Petroleum Corporation
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023, 2024
Mr. Huang Yongzhang
Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023
Mr. Nikolay Shulginov
Vice President, China National Petroleum Corporation
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023
Mr. Xie Jun
Minister of Energy of the Kyrgyz Republic
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023
Mr. Taalaibek Ibraev
Minister of Energy of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023
Mr. Jurabek Mirzamahmudov
Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, Head of Department 623, Gazprom
Plenary session of SPIGF 2022
Oleg Aksyutin
Managing Director, National Iranian Oil Company
Plenary session of SPIGF 2022
Mohsen Khojastehmehr
General Director, National Energy Security Fund; First Provost for External Communications; Head of the Politology Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Plenary session of SPIGF 2022
Konstantin Simonov
Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom, Director General of Gazprom Export (until 2023)
Plenary session of SPIGF 2021
Elena Burmistrova
Integrated Gas & New Energies Director, Member of the Executive Committee, Royal Dutch Shell plc (until 2022)
Plenary sessions of SPIGF 2022, 2019, 2018
Maarten Wetselaar
President, International Gas Union (until 2021)
Plenary sessions of SPIGF 2022, 2019, 2018
Joe M. Kang
President, The International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers (until 2022)
Plenary session of SPIGF 2021
Jean-Marie Dauger
Chief Executive Officer, Uniper SE (until 2023)
Plenary session of SPIGF 2021
Klaus-Dieter Maubach
Chairman of the Executive Board, CEO, OMV AG
Plenary session of SPIGF 2021
Alfred Stern
President, The Global Energy Association
Plenary session of SPIGF 2021
Sergey Brilev
Chairman of the Executive Board, VNG AG
Plenary session of SPIGF 2018
Ulf Heitmueller
First Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation
Pavel Sorokin
State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation
Anastasia Bondarenko
Deputy Minister of industry and trade of the Russian Federation
Vasily Shpak
First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Energy, The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, President, Russian Gas Society
Pavel Zavalny
Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, Member of the Board of Directors, Gazprom
Vitaly Markelov
Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, Director General of the Corporate Security Service Gazprom
Sergey Khomyakov
Member of the Management Committee, Head of Department 308, Gazprom
Vyacheslav Mikhalenko
Head of Department 645, Gazprom
Sergey Skrynnikov
Head of Department 715, Gazprom
Elena Kasyan
Deputy Chairman of the Board, Gazprom (until 2019); CEO, Zenit Football Club
Alexander Medvedev
CEO, Gazprom mezhregiongaz
Sergey Gustov
Director General, Gazprom VNIIGAZ, LLC
Maxim Nedzvetskiy
CEO, Gazprom Promgaz
Nikolay Storonsky
First Vice President, Gazprombank (until 2023)
Natalia Tretiak
CEO, Gazprom inform, Deputy Head of Department, Gazprom
Alexey Burushkin
CEO, Gazprom CPS
Anton Kurilenko
CEO, Gazprom ID Operator
Andrey Vetoshkin
CEO, Gazprom Pererabotka
Airat Ishmurzin
CEO, Gazprom Linde Engineering
Vitaly Khodakovsky
Executive Director, NGVA
Vasiliy Zinin
Deputy General Director for Sales, Gazprom GNP Holding
Dmitry Mironov
CEO, Gazprom Transgaz Belarus
Vladimir Mayorov
CEO, Association of European Businesses
Tadzio Schilling
Economical official of Gas Expert Group, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Branko Milicevic
Head, G.O.R.K.I. Centre of St Petersburg University, Expert Analyst in energy, teacher, Foreign Minister of Austria (2017-2019)
Karin Kneissl
Executive Vice President, ENGIE (until 2021); President, Eurogas
Didier Holleaux
Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative Union
Nataliya Zaiser
Head of Department for Regulation in the Sphere of Housing and Communal Services and Chemical Industry, Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia
Elena Tsyshevskaya
Head of the Comita Group of Companies for Russia and the CIS, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Comita Group of Companies
Nebojsa Jankovic
Chairman of the Board, Moravia Gas Storage a.s.
Sergey Tregub
CEO and chairman of the Executive Board N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie
Han Fennema
Country Chair Shell Russia (until 2021)
Cederic Cremers
Managing Director, VNG Handel & Vertrieb GmbH
Konstantin Herzog von Oldenburg
Senior Vice President, OMV Russia Upstream GmbH
Thomas Morris
CEO, Gaznat SA, Chairman, Global Gas Centre
Rene Bautz
Chairman of the Management Board, NC QazaqGaz
Sanzhar Zharkeshov
UGS group director, China National Pipeline Corporation
Li Jianjun
Vice President, Transneft
Pavel Revel-Muroz
Director, Sales and Business Development, Energy Sector, Severstal
Dmitry Goroshkov
Director for Corporate Market, 1C Company
Dmitry Voskoboynikov
Vice President for Import Substitution, Rosgeo
Evgeny Muratov
Сhief Compliance Officer, KazMunayGas, Vice President of the Compliance and Business Ethics Association of Kazakhstan
Lazzat Nurmagambetova
Compliance and Business Ethics Manager, Sibur; Co-Chairwoman of Compliance and Business Ethics Development Board, Chairwoman of the Committee associated with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Tomsk Region Union for Compliance and Business Ethics Development
Veronika Kiseleva
Director of Gas Industry Development Department
Artem Verkhov
Acting Director, Department of Mechanical Engineering for the Fuel and Energy Sector, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Aleksey Dubinin
Deputy Director of Department, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Matvey Airapetov
CEO, Russian Energy Agency, Ministry of Energy of Russia
Alexey Kulapin
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria to the Russian Federation
Smail Benamara
Consul General of India in St Petersburg
Kumar Gaurav
President, Oil and Gas Equipment Manufacturers Association
Konstantin Radinsky
First Deputy Chairman of State Duma Committee on Ecology and Environment Protection (until 2021)
Nikolay Valuev
Minister Counsellor (Economic, Trade & Investment), Federal Republic of Nigeria
Mercy Haruna
Adviser of Minister of Finance of Slovakia
Vladimir Vano
President, Union of Oil and Gas Producers of Russia
Genady Shmal
CEO, Agency of Technological Development Autonomous Non-Profit Organization
Vladimir Pastukhov
CEO, Institute of Oil and Gas Technology Initiatives (INTI)
Nikolay Kuznetsov
Сhairman, Russian-Asian Business Council
Maxim Kuznetsov
Director, Energy Center, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Tatiana Mitrova
Deputy General Director on Gas Matters, National Energy Security Fund
Alexey Grivach
CEO, B1 Business Academy
Tatyana Suslova
партнер, руководитель практики «Нефтегазовый сектор» компании Strategy Partners
Denis Burak
Ph. D. in Economics, Founder, Russian Business Ethics Network (RBEN); Associate Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (St. Petersburg)
Maxim Storchevoy
Director of Energy Department, Institute for Energy and Finance
Alexey Gromov
D. Sc. of Political Sciences, President, EnergoInnovatsiya Association of Innovative Energy Enterprises
Mikhail Smirnov
Executive Secretary, ARD – Australia Russia Dialogue
Alexey Goncharov
Russian race driver, Project Director of Silk Way Rally, Head of the racing team «KAMAZ-master», Seven-time winner of the Dakar Rally, Honored Master of Sports of Russia
Vladimir Chagin
President of the International Shukhov Foundation
Leonid Shtern
Managing Director, Gas & Power Markets, St. Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange
Sergey Trofimenko
president, chairman of the Board, National LNG Association
Pavel Sarafannikov
Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Compressor Plants Association
Mikhail Kryukov
Chairman, Union of Gas Motor Industry Enterprises
Pavel Prokhorov
Chairman of the Editorial Board, Oil and Gas Vertical National Industrial Magazine
Kirill Molodtsov
Deputy Executive Director, Strategic Partnership Director, Innopraktika
Anastasia Pavlenko
Editor-in-Chief, RBC Petersburg
Elena Krom
Director, HH, St. Petersburg
Yulia Sakharova
Chairman of Hydrogen Energy Committee, CIS Business Centre, Director for Government Relations, H2 Invest
Yuri Volkov
Managing Director, Centre of Industrial Technologies, Skolkovo Foundation
Alexander Fertman
All speakers
SPIGF
history
View
Forum News
23 December 2024
SPIGF dates for 2025 finalised
St. Petersburg International Gas Forum will be hosted by ExpoForum on October 7 through 10 (St. Petersburg). For many years, SPIGF has maintained its status as a leading platform for effective interaction be...
1 November 2024
Anniversary “Youth Day” took place as a part of St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024
The central topic of this year is “Present and future of energy world”. The project has been implemented since 2015 by St. Petersburg State University of Economics (UNECON) with the support of Gazprom, EF-Int...
24 October 2024
SPIGF 2024: progress in the Russian gas sector
In 2024, St. Petersburg International Gas Forum (SPIGF) brought together more than 34,000 participants from 54 countries. Its convention program included 110 events that covered 19 topics, in particular, gas ...
15 October 2024
LNG as an engine of Russian energy industry
New challenges and opportunities for the Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry were analyzed by the market participants at the DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS FOR THE RUSSIAN LNG SECTOR IN TODAY’S ECONOMIC REALI...
14 October 2024
Lithium market – partnerships are profitable
Innovations based on scientific projects, up-to-date issues of marine transportation development, including lithium compounds delivery, assimilation of global by-product lithium mining technologies and method...
14 October 2024
Eco-friendly transport, clear air, and healthy lifestyles at the heart of SPIGF 2024 outdoor display
Portable gas tank trucks, Moskvich cars that run on biofuel, traditional dump trucks and tractors switched to gas – these are just some of the exhibits displayed in the outdoor exhibition arranged at ExpoForu...
10 October 2024
Promising hydrogen energy
The participants of the round table discussion HYDROGEN ENERGY: TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS FOR A JUST ENERGY TRANSITION, which took place on October 8 during the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024, talk...
10 October 2024
Vectors of underground gas storage development in Russia and abroad discussed at SPIGF 2024
On October 9, the international science and practice conference UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE: RELIABILITY AND EFFICIENCY took place during the Forum. The plenary meeting of the conference covered new East-focused...
3 October 2024
SPIGF 2024 is turning to the East. Teaming up with Asia while under sanctions will be discussed at the Gas Forum
The event will take place on October 9, from 14.00 through 16.00 (Moscow time) in the Conference Hall of the Press Centre (Level 2). Top experts will study the prospects of the Russian-Asian business collabo...
All news

Venue
address:
St. Petersburg, Peterburgskoye highway, 64/1
TELEphone:
+7 812 240-40-40
About EXPOFORUM
subscribe to forum news