Opatija, Croatia, 9-11 May 2018
The 33rd International Scientific and Expert Meeting of Gas Professionals with an extensive international exhibition of gas equipment and technologies was successfully held in the Congress Centre of the Grand Hotel Adriatic from 9 – 11 May of this year and organised by the Croatian Gas Centre Ltd and the Croatian Gas Association (CGA).
Over a period of three days, the largest international gas conference and exhibition in South-Eastern Europe gathered around 600 participants from 22 countries in Europe and across the world. The meeting was attended by gas and energy professionals, managers from leading European energy companies, scientists from reputable Croatian and European universities, transportation representatives, equipment suppliers, gas suppliers, gas producers and distributors, as well as representatives of large industrial gas consumers and producers as well as representatives of gas equipment from countries and abroad. A total of 230 individual gas and energy companies and organisations were represented (of which 90 were foreign) and 48 equipment exhibitors (of which 13 were foreign). The meeting is covered by 15 journalists from 10 media companies.
The sponsors of this meeting were the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy in the Republic of Croatia and the Ministry of Construction and Physical Planning also in the Republic of Croatia, where organisation of the meeting was supported by the main partners Prvo plinarsko društvo d.o.o., and numerous sponsors: INA – Industrija nafte d.d., Plinacro d.o.o., Siemens d.d., Universal Vortex, Inc., Me?imurje-plin d.o.o., HEP d.d., SC Eurogas Systems Ltd., Powernext SA, KON?AR-KET d.d., Gradska plinara Zagreb-Opskrba d.o.o., Benussi d.o.o., IOT NET ADRIA d.o.o., and the co-organisers were Podzemno skladište plina d.o.o., EVN Croatia plin d.o.o. and LNG Croatia.
During the three days of the expert meeting, more than 40 scientific and expert papers were presented (of which 4 were invited talks and 7 papers presented at the poster session) along with 6 round table discussions addressing 9 topical units, and also 3 interesting panel discussions were held.
