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Barranquilla, Colombia 
9 – 11 April 2025

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TECHNICAL CONFERENCE

 

 

 

Naturgas Congress invites you and your organisation to apply to speak at the 2025 technical conference and share your expertise with our audience of 2000 local, regional and international energy professionals and decision makers.

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The Naturgas Congress Technical Conference welcomes a two-day programme of technical excellence delivered through a “Call for Abstracts” campaign and an expert steering committee. 

Naturgas Congress invites you and your organisation to apply to speak at the 2025 technical conference and share your expertise with our audience of 2000 local, regional and international energy professionals. It provides unparalleled exposure to the Tier 1 operators and project developers shaping the energy landscape across Colombia, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as national and regional government & policymaking heads.

The Naturgas Congress Call for Abstracts is open to the entire natural gas value chain, welcoming applications from candidates with a diverse background and broad experience. Technical conference speakers will be specialists in the fields of technology, innovation, data, process engineering, project and programme management, product management, and research.

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Speak at Colombia’s leading international gas event

Call for Abstracts Closes 17 Jan 2025

 

TECHNICAL TOPICS & THEMES

Methane Emissions:

  • Policies and strategies to address methane emissions
  • Measurement and management, systems and implementation
  • Advanced leak detection and repair (LDAR) systems
  • Innovative technical and commercial solutions to mitigate methane emissions in the whole gas value chain: production, transport and distribution
  • Finance and investment for projects aimed at reducing methane emissions

Renewable Gases

  • Biomass, biogas and biomethane projects and technologies
  • Hydrogen and its derivatives as a new, lower carbon energy vector
  • Repurpose of existing natural gas infrastructure for green hydrogen projects
  • Testing hydrogen admixtures for gas appliances

Energy Poverty

  • Policies and projects to connect rural and underserved urban areas to the natural gas grid
  • Infrastructure development to expand natural gas grids
  • How to use natural gas to ensure a just and equitable energy transition

Sustainable Mobility

  • Advancements and developments in the Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs) sector
  • Positioning natural gas as the only solution for a clean heavy load transport industry
  • Diversification of the transport mix
  • Natural gas as a complementary solution for the EVs used in public transport (buses and taxis)
  • SAF - Sustainable aviation fuel
  • Blue hydrogen-based shipping fuels
  • Demonstration projects and advances in synthetic fuel production

Network Evolution (AI, Digital Transformation)

  • Workforce and infrastructure readiness
  • Integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the natural gas value chain: exploration, production, and distribution, to optimize operations and reduce costs.
  • Risks faced when implementing AI
  • Implementing digital evolution into the natural gas sector, ensuring they both evolve at the same pace

Food Security

  • Projects and strategies for Latin American countries to become fertilizer producers
  • Implementation of blue hydrogen in the production of fertilizers
  • Policies and strategies for Latin American countries to achieve independence in food production

LAC LNG Market

  • Creating a free market for LNG in the region
  • Low carbon natural gas exports in the form of liquefied natural gas (LNG)
  • Southern Cone Gas Networks and Regional Interconnection
  • Infrastructure, Terminals, Technologies & FSRUs
  • Transportation and Storage
  • New Markets and Exporters
  • “Hydrogen-ready” - Technical capabilities, uncertainties and risks associated with reconversion projects

Future of Natural Gas

  • Projects and developments on biomass and biomethane production
  • Innovation and new technologies
  • Blue hydrogen potential uses for diverse industries
  • Short term decarbonisation goals
  • Repurposing stranded assets
  • Consistent regulations for natural gas and hydrogen transmission, distribution, supply, and storage
  • Competitiveness and positioning LAC countries as significant global suppliers of low-carbon energy sources

MEMBERS OF THE NATURGAS CONGRESS 2025 STEERING COMMITTEE 

To be announce soon

Who should submit an abstract?


The Naturgas Congress Call for Abstracts is open to the entire gas value chain, welcoming applications from candidates with a diverse background and broad experience. Technical conference speakers will be specialists in the fields of technology, innovation, data, process engineering, project and programme management, product management, and research.

The technical conference programme is created through the ‘Call for Abstracts’ that is open for paper applications to all companies operating within the gas industry.

After all submissions have been received in line with the curated categories and topics, the steering committee will meticulously review and select the most outstanding contributions to be presented at the conference.

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