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On October 1, the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre in St. Petersburg hosted the opening of the 9th St. Petersburg International Gas Forum (SPIGF 2019).

The Forum is attended by a Tatarstan delegation comprising Head of the Office of the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers Shamil Gafarov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Ildar Mingaleyev, representatives of concerned ministries and agencies, as well as republic’s companies such as RariTEK-Holding, KAMAZ, Gazprom Gas Engine Fuel, and PATP No.2.

Members of the delegation visited an international conference on world expertise in gas engine fuel market development, where issues of implementing programmes and outcomes, incentives and barriers to using natural gas in transport were discussed, with participation by Chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors Viktor Zubkov.

The SPIGF’2019 saw the finish of the Blue Corridor - Gas into Engines 2019 gas motor rally. The rally started on September 20, 2019 in the Krasnodarsky Krai, with the crews from RariTEK, KAMAZ, Gazprom Gas Engine Fuel, and others. The length of the rally section in Russia is 2,760 kilometres. Its route passed through the Rostovskaya, Voronezhskaya, Belgorodskaya, Moskovskaya, Novgorodskaya, and Leningradskaya oblasts.

Based on information by Gazprom Gas Engine Fuel press service and gas-forum.ru

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