(EnergyAsia, April 2 2012, Monday) — Abdul Rahim Hashim, President of the International Gas Union, will hold a media briefing on the state of the natural gas industry at the Regent Hotel in Singapore on April 4 at 3 pm.
In focusing on the upcoming 25th World Gas Conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur on June 4-8 2012,
Dr Rahim will touch on the following themes:
– The Golden Age of Gas (2008-2035) with natural gas demand expected to rise by 60% globally, and growing by nearly eight times in China, five times in India and nearly doubling in the Middle East during this period.
– Global energy consumption expected to increase by about 40% by 2030 as the world’s human population rise from seven billion in 2011 to eight billion in 2030. The rising need for energy, and increasing dependence on fossil fuels and their negative environmental impact.
– Economic expansion with the world GDP rising to US$90 trillion in 2030, growing prosperity, urbanisation and sustainable development.
Specifically, he will address the role of gas in the wake of last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Arab Spring, geo-politics and increasing competition for resources, overview of the Asian gas landscape, supply-demand issues, and the race for talent and human resources.
The National Organising Committee of the 25th WGC will be led by Anuar Ahmad of Petronas, the Malaysian state oil and gas company.
The conference will feature 14 keynote speakers including Alexey Miller, Gazprom deputy chairman, B. C. Tripathi, GAIL India chairman and managing director, Christophe de Margerie, TOTAL chairman and CEO, George Kirkland, Glab Upstream & Gas vice chairman and executive vice president, Gérard Mestrallet, GDF SUEZ chairman and CEO, Hamad Rashid Al Mohannadi, RasGas managing director, Helge Lund, Statoil President and CEO, Karen Agustiawan, Pertamina President and CEO, Lawrence Borgard, American Gas Association chairman, Mitsunori Torihara, Japan Gas Association chairman, and Paul van Gelder, Gasunie chairman and CEO, Peter Voser, Royal Dutch Shell CEO, Rex W Tillerson, Exxon Mobil Corporation chairman and CEO, and Zhou Jiping, CNPC President and PetroChina vice chairman and President.