Neville Hargreaves, Business Development Manager, Velocys, will be speaking on Smaller Scale GTL: Projects, partnerships & opportunities, at GTL-2014 in London

LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, October 29, 2014 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Gas-to-liquids technology is approaching a new wave of development as sponsors of both large-scale and small-scale projects work towards final investment decisions. The SMi Group, drawing on 16 years of working within the Gas to Liquids industry, is delighted to announce their Gas to Liquids conference is back to London in October 2014. Now on its 17th year, this is the leading industry event in London visited by over a hundred experts from around the world. The 2-day event programme will feature over 16 exclusive presentations, panel discussion and an interactive workshop (Successfully exploiting Gas-to-Liquids opportunities, presented by Alex Forbes, Director, Forbes Communications)

UK's Velocys, who recently bought U.S.-based gas-to-liquids developer Pinto Energy, has joined the speaker panel for GTL-2014. Neville Hargreaves, Business Development Manager, Velocys, will be speaking on Smaller Scale GTL: Projects, partnerships and opportunities, on Day 2 of the SMi’s Gas to Liquids Conference in London

Other confirmed speakers include: Gareth Coetzee (GTL Evaluations Manager), PetroSA; Arata Nakamura (Senior Coordinator, Technical Planning & Coordination Unit, Technical Division), INPEX CORPORATION; Mark Schnell (General Manager, Marketing, Strategy and New Business Development), Sasol North America; Roger Williams (Chief Executive Officer), Energy Security Partners; Paul Langston (Business Development Manager, Conversion Technology Centre), BP; Jeffrey Newton (President), Aleph Sciences Group; Malcolm Wells (Director), Malwell Corporate Projects; Ramon Gonzalez (Program Director, DOE), ARPA-E; Robert Clews (Head of Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals, Project Finance) SMBC Europe Division; Jorge Castaneda (Principal Consultant, EMEA) Independent Project Analysis; Zoe Reeve (Principal Consultant, Midstream and Downstream), Gaffney Cline and Associates; Ed Osterwald (Partner), CEG Europe; Robert T. Do (CEO and President), Solena Fuels; Don Pierson (Business Development Director), Louisiana Economic Development).

Event attendees will hear about the leading large and small scale GTL projects across Europe, Africa, Japan, the Middle East and North America and will discuss methods and strategies on how to finance a GTL project and discover how to develop a large scale independent GTL project.

Event’s sponsors: British Petroleum and Aleph Sciences Group.

Gas to Liquids – 2014 is supported by: Interfax Energy, OilVoice, Petrospot, MJM Energy, Worldoils, Oil and Gas Journal, Alexander's oil and gas connections, Power Info Today, Oil and Gas International, Upstream online, European Gas Hub, NRG Expert, Rigzone, Engineerlive, E&P Daily, Gasworld, Petrofinder

For more information or to register, go to the event's website
http://www.smi-online.co.uk/2014gtl5.asp or contact Andrew Gibbons via
+44 (0) 207 827 5156 or e-mail agibbons@smi-online.co.uk

Sponsorship: contact Alia Malick on +44 (0) 207 827 6168 or amalick@smi-online.co.uk

Contact for media-partners: Julia Rotar, jrotar@smi-online.co.uk

About SMi:

Established since 1993, the SMi Group is a global event-production company that specializes in Business-to-Business Conferences, Workshops, Masterclasses and online Communities. We create and deliver events in the Defence, Security, Energy, Utilities, Finance and Pharmaceutical industries.
We pride ourselves on having access to the worlds most forward thinking opinion leaders and visionaries, allowing us to bring our communities together to Learn, Engage, Share and Network. We hold events in over 30 major cities throughout the world including London, Paris and Singapore and to date have welcomed over 200,000 participants from 80 countries.
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