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The South African company that monitored the energy consumption at the recent COP17 Climate Change Response Expo in Durban, Util Labs from Midrand, has developed unique technology which will enable South Africa to achieve its energy savings targets

Shell’s Stuart Bradford, BP’s Al Cook and the Nordstream pipeline project are amongst the leading industry nominations for the inaugural European Gas Conference Awards which will be announced during the event on 25 January in Vienna.

Shell Energy Europe’s Stuart Bradford says he believes natural gas is not only the fuel of choice today compared to oil and coal – it is economically attractive and emits substantially less Co2 in applications such as power generation.

Brazil’s top infrastructure experts in government and private sectors are gathering in São Paulo next month for the InfraBrasil Expo & Summit to take urgent stock of the country’s preparedness for the upcoming Football World Cup and Olympics.

African Utility Week director Claire Volkwyn says the recent launch of the Green Climate Fund at COP17 in Durban will impact quite significantly on the generation sector in particular.

Guy Broggi, now Senior Advisor to the Director of LNG at TOTAL SA, recently spoke about the tremendous impact American LNG exports will have worldwide, the future of the Asia and Australian markets and Total’s long term investment strategy.

Energy conferences, exhibitions and publications are increasingly playing a pivotal role in connecting stakeholders in the industry to facilitate discussion, change and progress.

Cross-commodity trading, the development of dark and spark spreads in Europe and the impact of carbon will be discussed during the closing session of EMART Energy 2011 that is taking place from 23 November in Lyon, France.

Expertise and excellence in the European gas industry is to be acknowledged with the inaugural European Gas Conference Awards which will be announced during the event in Vienna in January next year.

Macmillan South Africa has announced its diamond sponsorship for the 6th annual African Education Week conference and exhibition taking place in Johannesburg in July next year.