Today, the joint session of the Organizing Committee and the Program Committee summarized the MIEF-2011; the session was also participated by the co-chairmen of the conferences, the speakers, and other involved experts. The session developed and approved the Forum Outcomes reflecting the MIEF-2011 participants’ expert opinions and proposals. Now, these documents, formed on the public-expert level as a result of intense and fruitful work, will be forwarded to representatives of the executive and legislative powers for familiarization.
Traditionally, the Moscow International Energy Forum has been conducted on a very high expert and representation level. 13 events – international conferences, round tables and seminars – have been performed within the MIEF-2011. On 7 April, the Forum and the Exhibition «Russian Fuel and Energy Complex in the XXI Century» were ceremonially opened. When opening the first session of the Forum Plenary Discussion, Yuriy Lipatov, Chairman of the Energy Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federal Assembly, said: «The power industry has always been a key development factor both for the national economy and for the world one. Under the conditions of globalization, this factor acquires crucial significance even for the prospects of sustainable development of the whole of the human civilization. The Forum is devoted to the strategic aspects of the world power industry's development and Russia's role in the domain of the global economy and energy. This matter is even more urgent when regarded within the context of the events in a number of the North African and Middle Eastern countries, and the tragic consequences of the natural disaster in Japan as well. The issues of the global energy safety have become even more important».
The theme of the Plenary Discussion “Russian Fuel and Energy Complex in the XXI Century: International Dimension” was perfectly developed by the speakers, among which there were:
Valeriy Golubev – Deputy Chairman of Board of OJSC «Gazprom»
Dominique Fache – Country Manager in Russia and CIS, Enel S.p.A
Jean Pierre Thomas - Special Representative of the President of the French Republic for French-Russian Business Relations Development
Reiner Hartmann – Head of the Representative Office, E.ON Ruhrgas AG
Vitaliy Bushuyev – Director General of CJSC «State Institution «Institute for Energy Strategy»
Leonid Grigoryev – Professor of the Higher School of Economics
Alexander Epishov – Principal Analyst of MIEF
Aleksey Kontorovich – Research Supervisor of A.A. Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS
Alexander Bychkov - Deputy Director General of IAEA
Andrey Konoplyanik - Consultant of the Gazprombank Board
Urban Rusnak – Ambassador, Leader of the Slovakian External Energy Security Project (the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic)
Other MIEF-2011 events were not less interesting; they covered practically all the range of the urgent issues of the world power industry development. During the Forum, the experts actively commented on the recent world events and gave their opinions on development of different sectors of the power industry. RBK-TV Company, one of the General Media-Partners, covered the Forum on-line; it also prepared a number of interesting interviews and reports (available only in Russian language):
Rejecting Nuclear Energy will Increase Demand for Gas
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980012123.shtml
Nuclear Energy will Get More Expensive
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980018047.shtml
Decision on Investment in Stockman Project may be Adopted in 2011
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980020214.shtml
Russian Share in Eastern Energy Sector will Grow
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980020514.shtml
East Siberian Gas Needs Benefits
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980021468.shtml
Nord Stream Project is almost Ready
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980020389.shtml
Petroleum Complex of Today’s East is almost Absolutely Undeveloped
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980020578.shtml
Russia will Sell Electric Energy instead of Gas
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980020804.shtml
Barrel of Oil will Fly beyond USD 150
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980028251.shtml
Germany Refuses of Nuclear Power, for Russia’s Benefit
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980017770.shtml
Geography of Energy Resource Trade will Change Soon
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980027936.shtml
Japan and Europe Increase Gas Consumption
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980013002.shtml
Nuclear Objects Demand Serious Modernization
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980018863.shtml
Russia and China Enter Energy Agreement
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980020989.shtml
Customers will Pay for Power Industry Modernzation
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980024788.shtml
Russian Energy Companies Fortify Positions in Europe
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980011656.shtml
EU Countries Seek for Alternative Energy Sources
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980020210.shtml
Japanese Nuclear Plant Problems will Reduce Nuclear Sector, Temporarily
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980020306.shtml
Russia Needs Urgent Modernization of Power Industry Objects
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980025453.shtml
Russian Power Industry Objects may Fail to Endure Load
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980025779.shtml
Russian Power Industry in Bad Shape
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980026173.shtml
Banks Unwilling to Credit Energy Production Moderniztion
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980027630.shtml
Gas, Coal and Oil to Replace Atoms of Peace
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980023095.shtml
Russian Power Industry Needs Modernization
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/562949980020764.shtml
Photo: Alexander Epishov, Principal Analyst of the MIEF, and Anatoliy Dmitriyevskiy, Director of the Institute of Oil and Gas Problems of RAS
Translated from Russian into English by Literra translation bureau
