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On the first day of October, the 9th St. Petersburg International Gas Forum (SPIGF 2019) opened at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre in St. Petersburg.

The event annually becomes the leading platform for discussing current issues in the gas industry. The participants to the Forum are top managers of major oil and gas companies, representatives of country’s innovation centres and design institutions, experts, academics, heads of dedicated universities and R&D establishments.

In the Forum’s exhibition programme, Tatarstan is represented by leading republic’s enterprises of the sector, such as the Kazan Motor-Building Production Association (KMPO), the Aviagaz-Soyuz+, the RariTEK Holding, Kazancompressormash, and KAMAZ.

The central place in the KMPO display is the natural sample of the NK-38ST gas turbine engine, one of the advanced products developed by the company. The display also hosts a virtual reality table demonstrating a 3D compressor station project with a modular gas pumping unit. Visitors can also see the virtual cinema IC.IDO. Using IC.IDO technology, one can plunge into the virtual world of a gas turbine power plant, install and dismantle various units of a power plant drive.

Based on information by gas-forum.ru website and KMPO press service

Many good parting words were said today on the RariTEK Group site to the participants of the Blue Corridor - Gas into Engines 2019 gas motor rally. Representatives of the Gazprom Gas Motor Fuel and KAMAZ, top executives of the RariTEK Group, colleagues, relatives, and friends came to support the participants.

The participating vehicles include the KAMAZ 651156 truck tractor with a grain-carrying semitrailer, the LOTOS 105 bus of RariTEK production, and the Hyundai HD 78 van that run on liquefied natural gas (methane). The rally also involved the crews of the Gazprom Gas Motor Fuel and KAMAZ.

The rally will start on September 20. The event is organised by Gazprom and Germany’s Uniper SE. The race features cars, trucks and passenger vehicles powered by compressed and liquefied natural gas. The rally demonstrates the reliability of methane-driven vehicles and focuses on stress on long-distance and ultra-long-distance transportation opportunities for passengers and goods.

The length of the rally section in Russia is 2,760 kilometres. Its route will pass through the Rostovskaya, Voronezhskaya, Belgorodskaya, Moskovskaya, Novgorodskaya, and Leningradskaya oblasts. The race will finish on October 3 at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre in St. Petersburg.

Based on information by RariTEK Group