IBC Committees hold joint meeting

Paris hosted today a joint meeting of two Working Committees (the Modern Technologies and Prospective Oil and Gas Industry Projects Working Committee and the Information and Communications Working Committee) of the International Business Congress (IBC). The meeting was moderated by Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Clemens Blum, Executive Vice President of Industry Business of Schneider Electric.

The meeting, which was focused on developing efficient management systems for operational and technological processes in the oil and gas sector, brought together representatives of over 50 global industry leaders: Gazprom, Emerson, Honeywell, Kerui Group, Linde, Schneider Electric, Schlumberger, Siemens, Total, Uniper, Yokogawa, and others.

Particular attention was paid to technological developments in the field of LNG, as well as hydrocarbon production, transportation and processing in the context of process control systems automation. The meeting explored the possibilities of introducing smart technologies into oil and gas production and discussed the quality of management systems regulation and the use of aerospace technologies. In addition, the meeting addressed the issue of creating high-tech production management systems for large-scale LNG projects.

The next meeting of the Modern Technologies and Prospective Oil and Gas Industry Projects Working Committee will take place as part of the 22nd IBC General Meeting to be held on May 25–26, 2017, in Vienna. The central theme of the upcoming meeting is “Reliability as the main criterion of the development of new technologies for transporting gas from Yamal to Europe.”