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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, 2024

Alexey Miller

Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation
Plenary session of SPIGF 2024

Sergei Tsivilev

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary
Plenary session of SPIGF 2024

Peter Szijjarto

Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of the Republic of Turkey
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023, 2024

Alparslan Bayraktar

Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus
Plenary session of SPIGF 2024

Viktor Karankevich

First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023, 2024

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

Jamshid Kuchkarov

Vice President China National Petroleum Corporation
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023, 2024

Huang Yongzhang

Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation (until 2024)
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023

Nikolay Shulginov

Vice President, China National Petroleum Corporation
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023

Xie Jun

Minister of Energy of the Kyrgyz Republic
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023

Taalaibek Ibraev

Minister of Energy of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Plenary session of SPIGF 2023

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

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