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The American Bureau of Shipping, the US maritime classification society, has granted an approval in principle to Finnish company Deltamarin and French LNG storage tank firm GTT for a new design for an LNG-powered Aframax tanker.

US industrial gases equipment-maker and technology provider Chart Industries, whose products last year alone helped produce over 45 million tonnes of LNG to replace coal-fired power outside the US, was named “Emissions Reductions Champion Organization of the Year” at the three-day Gastech 2021 in-person trade show and exhibition that opened in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Global natural gas and LNG company chief executives and managers are gathering in the United Arab Emirates for the opening on September 21 of the in-person Gastech conference and exhibition at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

The United Arab Emirates said it was looking forward to hosting the Gastech natural gas and LNG conference and exhibition at the Dubai World Trade Centre in September and is lining up an impressive list of government ministers from around the world for the first major energy event to take place in-person this year.

The UAE said that Gastech had built a world-class speaker list for the first in-person commercial conference event since the Covid-19 pandemic.

The event was switched to Dubai in June 2021 from Singapore over continued concerns about persistent Covid-19 infections in Asia.

The Gastech conference is taking place in Dubai from September 21 to September 23 and is also the world’s largest gas and LNG exhibition supporting the industry.

The Official Ministerial Welcome Address will be delivered by Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, and Managing Director and Group Chief Executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.

A Ministerial Panel will then address the conference. It includes Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy of the UAE; Arifin Tasrif, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia; and Mohammed Barkindo Sanusi, Secretary General at OPEC.

“The ministers will be part of an impressive line-up of speakers at Gastech this year and they will be speaking on ‘Achieving Net Zero: Driving the Global Energy Transition’ as a topic,” said a UAE statement.

The opening session will be moderated by John Defterios, former Emerging Markets Editor at CNN and Adjunct Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Insights

“In this esteemed panel, ministers from the world’s leading energy economies will share insights on the role of natural gas in the energy transition, future directions on how to create a hydrogen economy and what roadmaps are needed to meet the growing demand for energy and cleaner fuels,” said the UAE statement.

“Finally, the panel will look ahead to COP26, what to expect from this year’s climate meeting and how it will impact energy market dynamics,” it added.

The Gastech 2021 organisers have said they expected more than 25,000 attendees at the Dubai event, including at the conference where hundreds of senior executives and politicians are expected as well as over 400 exhibiting companies.

Other Energy Ministers speaking this year in Dubai include Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State and Petroleum Resources of Nigeria; João Galamba, State Secretary for Energy, Portugal; German Galushchenko, Minister of Energy, Ukraine; Hala Adel Zawati, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of Jordan; and Udaya Gammanpila, the Minister of Energy of Sri Lanka.

The Gastech conference, the largest for the natural gas and LNG industry and set to take place on an in-person basis in 2021, has been switched to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates from Singapore over continued concerns about persistent Covid-19 infections in Asia.