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| Kazakhstan's KIOGE celebrates its 15th Anniversary  Kazakhstan's leading oil and gas industry exhibition and conference, KIOGE, celebrates its 15th Anniversary in October 2007. The event continues to reflect the industry's growing interest in the Kazakh market with a record 600 companies exhibiting at Almaty's Atakent Exhibition Centre. The Conference, held at the Intercontinental Almaty Hotel is likely to again attract over 1,000 delegates. The 600 exhibiting companies come from 32 countries and will include 10 'National Stands'. 120 companies are exhibiting for the first time and 40% of all exhibitors come from outside the CIS.KIOGE is attended by the biggest names in the global oil and gas industry and the Platinum Sponsor of KIOGE 2007 is Chevron. Throughout its history, the event has been supported by Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Kazakhstan and JSC National Company 'КаzМunaiGas'. The exhibition will benefit from additional space in 2007 with the new Pavilion being erected in time for the start of the event. This takes the size of the KIOGE exhibition to a total of 22,000m², a massive 15,000m² more than at the same event in 2000. The KIOGE Exhibition and Conference is the focal point of a week long programme of events that attract the biggest gathering of oil and gas industry professionals in the country. This includes pre-conference work-shop, technical seminars, corporate presentations, hosted lunch meetings, drinks receptions, Gala Dinner Evenings, even a Golf Day. A popular addition to KIOGE has been the Job Fair that was first featured in 2006. There is a huge amount of pressure on the job market for skilled and experienced workers in Kazakhstan's oil and gas industry and the Job Fair brings together prospective candidates with participating companies who are looking to recruit additional staff. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |