12th St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2023 | EXPOFORUM | 30 October 2023 | Hampton by Hilton Saint Petersburg ExpoForum, Peterburgskoye Shosse, 64, корп 2, St Petersburg, Russia, 196626

The uniqueness of the forum is expressed not only in the wide exhibition program, SPIGF from year to year demonstrates a meaningful and relevant congress part. The Forum organizes more than 90 events in various formats: plenary sessions, conferences, round tables. The Forum is attended by members of specialized ministries and departments of Russia, world leaders in the gas industry, Russian and international specialized associations, research institutes and analytics centers. During the years of SPIGF, representatives of the Russian and world political elite took part as speakers - heads of specialized ministries, departments and committees of the Government of the Russian Federation, representatives of regional authorities, representatives of the ministries of Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Bolivia, the Republic of Nigeria.

2022 Past Speakers

Oleg Aksyutin
Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, Head of Department 623, Gazprom

Huang Yongzhang
Vice President China National Petroleum Corporation

Mohsen Khojastehmehr
Managing Director, National Iranian Oil Company

Konstantin Simonov
Director, National Energy Security Fund; First Provost for External Communications; Head of the Politology Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Elena Burmistrova
Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom, Director General of Gazprom Export

Maarten Wetselaar
Integrated Gas & New Energies Director, Member of the Executive Committee, Royal Dutch Shell plc

Joe M. Kang
President, International Gas Union

Jean-Marie Dauger
President, The International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers

Klaus-Dieter Maubach
Chief Executive Officer, Uniper SE

Alfred Stern
Chairman of the Executive Board, CEO, OMV AG

Sergey Brilev
President, The Global Energy Association

Ulf Heitmueller
Chairman of the Executive Board, VNG AG

Alexey Miller
Chairman of the Management Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors

Pavel Sorokin
Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation

Anastasia Bondarenko
State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation

Pavel Zavalny
Chairman of the Committee on Energy, The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, President, Russian Gas Society

Vitaly Markelov
Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, Member of the Board of Directors, Gazprom

Sergey Khomyakov
Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, Director General of the Corporate Security Service Gazprom

Vyacheslav Mikhalenko
Member of the Management Committee, Head of Department 308, Gazprom

Sergey Skrynnikov
Head of Department 645, Gazprom

Elena Kasyan
Head of Department 715, Gazprom

Alexander Medvedev
Заместитель председателя правления, ПАО «Газпром»; генеральный директор, Футбольный клуб Зенит

Sergey Gustov
Director General of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz

Maxim Nedzvetskiy
Director General, Gazprom VNIIGAZ, LLC

Nikolay Storonsky
CEO, Gazprom Promgaz

Natalia Tretiak
First Vice President, Gazprombank

Vasiliy Zinin
Executive Director, NGVA

Alexey Kultyshev
Deputy CEO, CTO, Gazprom Energoholding Industrial Assets

Mariarosa Baroni
President, World Gas Mobility Council

Tadzio Schilling
CEO, Association of European Businesses

Branko Milicevic
Secretary of the Group of Experts on Gas, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Tor Fjaeran
President, World Petroleum Council

Didier Holleaux
Executive Vice President, Board Member, ENGIE; President, Eurogas

Felicia Mester
Policy Advisor Wholesale, Eurogas

Sean Mac Curtain
Director of Conformity Assessment and Consumer Matters at the International Standards Organization ISO

Nataliya Zaiser
Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative Union

Vladimir Nikitenko
Director Branch North-West, Russian German Chamber of Commerce Abroad

Elena Tsyshevskaya
Head of Department for Regulation in the Sphere of Housing and Communal Services and Chemical Industry, Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia

Sergey Tregub
Chairman of the Board, Moravia Gas Storage a.s.

Dmitry Konov
Chairman of the Management Board of SIBUR Holding PJSC

Han Fennema
CEO and chairman of the Executive Board N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie

Cederic Cremers
Country Chair Shell Russia

Konstantin Herzog von Oldenburg
Managing Director, VNG Handel & Vertrieb GmbH

Thomas Morris
Senior Vice President, OMV Russia Upstream GmbH

Rene Bautz
CEO, Gaznat SA, Chairman, Global Gas Centre

Kimmo Rahkamo
Vice President Natural Gas and LNG Sales, GASUM

Dmitry Goroshkov
Director, Sales and Business Development, Energy Sector, Severstal

Zhu Jingwei
Chief Sales Officer for China Telecom Rus

Lazzat Nurmagambetova
Сhief Compliance Officer, KazMunayGas, Vice President of the Compliance and Business Ethics Association of Kazakhstan

Veronika Kiseleva
Compliance Manager, SIBUR; Director for Ethics and Compliance in the Gas Processing and Petrochemical Business, Russian Business Ethics Network

Aleksey Dubinin
Acting Director, Department of Mechanical Engineering for the Fuel and Energy Sector, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Smail Benamara
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria to the Russian Federation

Rashid Ismailov
Chairman of Russian Ecological Society

Konstantin Radinsky
President, Oil and Gas Equipment Manufacturers Association

Thierry Bros
Vice President for Research, Tellurian Inc.

Rene Schutte
Hydrogen Program Manager, N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie

Nikolay Valuev
First Deputy Chairman of State Duma Committee on Ecology and Environment Protection

Mercy Haruna
Minister Counsellor (Economic, Trade & Investment), Federal Republic of Nigeria

Vladimir Vano
Adviser of Minister of Finance of Slovakia

David Kainrath
Austrian politician

Genady Shmal
President, Union of Oil and Gas Producers of Russia

Yuri Vazhenin
Vice President, Russian Gas Society

Tatiana Mitrova
Director, Energy Center, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Alexey Grivach
Deputy General Director on Gas Matters, National Energy Security Fund

Maxim Storchevoy
Ph. D. in Economics, Associate Professor at St. Petersburg National Research University, Higher School of Economics; Director, Russian Business Ethics Network; Member of the European Business Ethics Network; Member of the Society for Business Ethics

Alexey Gromov
Director of Energy Department, Institute for Energy and Finance

Mikhail Smirnov
D. Sc. of Political Sciences, President, EnergoInnovatsiya Association of Innovative Energy Enterprises

Alex Ezrakhovich
Director for International Communications of Certification Association “Russian Register”

Alexey Goncharov
Executive Secretary, ARD – Australia Russia Dialogue

Alexey Fedotov
Director for Business Development, Yandex.Taxi LLC

Gulmira Rzayeva
Senior research fellow, Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Vladimir Chagin
Russian race driver, Project Director of Silk Way Rally, Head of the racing team «KAMAZ-master», Seven-time winner of the Dakar Rally, Honored Master of Sports of Russia

Leonid Shtern
President of the International Shukhov Foundation

Igor Mescherin
President, National Chamber of Engineers

Sergey Trofimenko
Managing Director, Gas & Power Markets, St. Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange

Pavel Sarafannikov
President, Board Chairman, National Association LNG

Kirill Molodtsov
Member, Presidential Commission for Strategic Development of Fuel & Energy Sector and Environmental Security

Anastasia Pavlenko
Deputy Executive Director, Strategic Partnership Director, Innopraktika

Elena Krom
Chief Editor, RBC Petersburg

Sergey Korotkov
Director, UNIDO Center in the Russian Federation

2023 Partners

• Comita
• Bank Rossiya
• Almaz Antey corp.
• HMS Group
• Gazprom
• TMK
• Zagorsk Pipe Plant
• Gazprombank
• OMK
• Salavat Catalyst Plant
• Gazprom
• United Engine Corporation
• Rumo
• Rostelecom Business