Reviews

On behalf of the Leningrad Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry, let me thank our partner, the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum, for our effective cooperation in 2024. The Forum is a meaningful event in the gas industry which demonstrates that such events can bring together representatives of dedicated Russian ministries and agencies, global gas leaders, representatives of local and global industry-specific associations, academic institutions, and analytical centres for effective answering to the current issues. Let me voice my hopes that in 2025 the Forum will continue its functional collaboration with its usual exhibitors, attract some new ones, and include even more convention sessions where the industry’s experts will be able to share their experience.

Russian Gas Society has been taking part in the SPIGF since the Forum was established. You can even say that we have been watching the Forum grow and prosper. It is safe to say that today it is one of the largest events in the industrial sector. Every year, we take part in it, but provide a whole range of events that are part of the convention program. As the Forum expands and gains momentum, we bring up more and more topics for public discussion there. We register that companies, who are members of Russian Gas Society, have got interested in the Forum on a large scale. In 2024, Russian Gas Society had a display of Iranian oil and gas equipment producers arranged at SPIGF. Representatives of five Iran-based companies came to St. Petersburg to join in, and they were really pleased with this experience. They managed to have some business meetings, which resulted in signed contracts. I am willing to thank the organisers for this splendid event and wish them further success. See you all in October 2025!

The Forum has become not just a platform where people come to exchange their ideas and share experience but a venue where we can join our efforts to ensure energy safety for our country. Thanks to our participation in the Forum, we learned about new technologies and products but also had a chance to talk to the key market players about the urgent issues, discover critical areas of focus for the fuel and energy sectors conditioned by the current market situation, as well as develop proposals on further proceedings towards the tasks assigned. The event was really top-class. Everything from insightful reports by outstanding experts to keen discussions was planned and arranged with so much care about all the participants! Let me express my hope that events like this will take place again and again but with a wider coverage as they are indeed a powerful driver for innovative changes in the most different industrial sectors.

I am genuinely grateful for arrangement of the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum that took place in St. Petersburg. The Forum brought together the real industry professionals. Particularly, I would like to celebrate the high organization level of the conference about public relations and marketing that was arranged by the North-West Representative Office of Russian Communication Agencies Association, Grand Media Service Communication Agency, and ExpoForum International. The conference was attended by representatives of the professional community and the target audience, which made our talk about business promotion tools even more efficient. I am positive the Forum has become an essential platform for all its participants, and I am looking forward for further meetings in the future.

In 2024, the SPIGF team once again proved to be masters of their trade professional beyond measure. Our company had several events arranged as part of the Forum. All of them were made from the concept to implementation in close collaboration with SPIGF, and at every stage our dialogue with the SPIGF organisers was highly efficient in terms of business, but also open and comfortable.

The St. Petersburg International Gas Forum is a superior business venue where all the essential issues can be discussed and the list of professional contacts extended. The Forum program includes various events that are of interest both for representatives of the business community and the government. I would like to express my genuine appreciation for the organisers giving the Association a chance to hold its event during the Forum. I wish SPIGF prosperity and new reaches of success!

I want to express my sincere gratitude for the perfectly arranged Meeting of the Expert Group associated with the Oil and Gas Equipment Import Substitution Coordination Board intended to contribute to the area of “Equipment for offshore drilling and mining works.” In particular, I would like to mention how considerate the staff of ExpoForum was when it came to the tiniest detail and how much they helped us with preparations for this Meeting. The extensive convention agenda and properly built-up professional engagement of the industrial experts created a great environment for collaboration and made participation in this event useful beyond the boldest expectations. I am really looking forward to SPIGF 2025 and expect further effective cooperation.

The Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences had a theme session arranged as part of the convention program of the Forum on October 8, 2024. It was GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL STUDIES FOR OIL, GAS AND MINING INDUSTRY. The session was moderated by Director of GC RAS and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Anatoly Solovyev. Representatives of academic institutions and several sector players made their speeches. A special guest of the vent was the Minister of Industry and Geology in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The reports presented during this session included the use cases as regarded to up-to-date methods and technologies in the area of geology, geophysics, and geoinformatics taken advantage of during practical development of mineral fields. After the reports were made, the participants talked about some of the industry’s development prospects, as well as considered the questions about collaborations between the RAN institutions and the real economy enterprises. Both the technical provisions for the session and all the organization arrangements were top-class.

As it has always been, we’ve benefited from the marvelously managed arrangements and enjoyed dealing with well-trained and proactive employees of the ExpoForum Centre. During the Gas Forum, our company once again realized that the organizers are highly professional. All this isn’t just about some successful meetings with business partners and new promising ties — there are all these brand-new concepts and sometimes even new areas of focus.

SPIGF 2024 was high-level with its Сonvention program as rich as ever and a perfectly arranged Gala dinner, the impressive exhibition pavilion and venues of all sorts. We got much positive feedback from the guests of the event. In the first place, they insisted that the best practices presented by moderators and speakers are worthy of further distribution and upscaling both among workers of different companies and at other experience sharing platforms. We are looking forward for further successful and effective collaborations during the Forum.