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NEFTEGAZ: oil and gas industry met at biggest industry
exhibition in Russia
26 to 29 April 2021 saw NEFTEGAZ, the biggest exhibition for the Russian oiland gas industry, open its doors in Moscow thereby making sending out animportant message to the international exhibition industry as a whole: despite
the global impact of the COVID crisis 449 exhibitors from 23 countries once
again made the exhibition the key live platform for all top-notch decision
makers in the Russian oil and gas industries. This was enabled by an alreadyproven, successful hygiene concept that focused on the safety of allparticipants.

To the tune of 21.250 trade visitors used the event to personally exchange
ideas with their business partners and learn about exhibitors’ forward-looking
technologies. Summing up results, Erhard Wienkamp, Managing Director ofOperative Business at Messe Düsseldorf, said: “The joy of meeting in person
again at NEFTEGAZ and physical encounters between people could besensed on all days of the exhibition. Our exhibitors voiced their satisfactionwith visitor turnout and even succeeded in closing a great number of businessdeals. Compared to the last event before COVID, NEFTEGAZ 2021 managed
to follow on from previous years’ successes with almost 93% trade visitors.
This is a result to be proud of under the condition of the on-going pandemic,
and it underscores the outstanding relevance of this event for the sectors.”

The 20th edition of NEFTEGAZ offered the complete product portfolio in termsof equipment and machinery for the oil and gas industry on 42,000 m² ofexhibition space: ranging from machinery and equipment for extracting andprocessing oil and gas deposits via offshore technology, oil and gas transportand storage to measuring technology, safety systems as well as control
processes for environmental monitoring and occupational safety. Exhibitors
included not only small and medium-sized innovative firms but also
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international industry giants like Burintech, CPTDC, GAZPROM, Himprom,
Kanex-Krohne Anlagen Export, Samson Controls, Transneft, TMK and URALSPIPE WORKS.

In addition to an international participation for NEFTEGAZ Messe Düsseldorf
also organised an official German joint stand supported by VDMA, theGerman Engineering Federation. On 390 m² exhibition space 12 companies –
also including first-time exhibitors – showcased their innovations at attractive
special terms. Thanks to this support the “Made-in-Germany” brands wereenabled to position themselves – under one roof – on the growth market thatis Russia and to develop their international networks further.

This leading trade exhibition was organised by Messe Düsseldorf incooperation with its subsidiary Messe Düsseldorf Moscow and the leading
Russian trade fair company Expocentre.
Held in parallel with NEFTEGAZ, the National Oil and Gas Forum addressing
a series of top issues were a focus for the experts. Discussions revolved
around the development of promising technologies for producing hydrogenand the corresponding hydrogen strategy within the context of economic
growth and international cooperation. Likewise, new technologies for theproduction and maintenance of fittings for the oil and gas industry as well as
current Russian LNG projects plus questions related to the resource base andits financing featured as highlights on the agenda.
The organiser and at the same time patron of the exhibition was the Russian
Ministry of Energy. The trade visitors who predominantly hailed from Russia
and the neighbouring CIS nations therefore enjoyed the added benefit of acomprehensive conference agenda on current industry trends.

The next NEFTEGAZ will be held from April 18 to 21, 2022.

For more information go to: neftegaz-online.com

Contact for exhibitors at Messe Düsseldorf GmbH:Ute Wynhoff, Tel.: +49(0) 211 4560-7779 / Miriam Schellkes, Tel.: +49(0) 2114560-7733
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Press Contact for NEFTEGAZ 2021:
Larissa Browa
Tel.: +49(0) 211 45 60-549
BrowaL@messe-duesseldorf.deUpon publication we would appreciate a specimen copy.
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Exhibitor Statements NEFTEGAZ 2021
ARFLU S.A.
Rene Treto Gonzalez, Project Manager, Russia and CIS
We have not participated in exhibitions in Russia for a long time, for about
five years, and decided to take part this year. Due to the pandemic, few
foreign companies were represented this time, which attracted theattention of customers to our company. The first two days were very busy.
We were approached by both our traditional customers and partners andnew ones. Everyone is very interested, we have the most positive
impressions. Based on the results of the first two days, we can alreadysay that results have already met our expectations. We definitely want totake part in the next NEFTEGAZ exhibition, because we participate inexhibitions in different cities of Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan,Ufa. We believe the Russian market is important.

H. BUTTING GmbH
Christian Schenk, Head of Project sales
We are participating in many exhibitions in Brazil, in Norway, in China andall over the world. Where we exhibit depends on application of thematerial. We are a pipe manufacturer and we have to be present all overthe world. And this is what we did in past. Two years ago, we decided that
we want to have a presence in Russia and we found a partner with whom
we were looking for possibilities for new business. We also decided, after
having a partner, to participate in another exhibition but that was not very
exciting so we decided to participate in the NEFTEGAZ exhibition. And
what I can see here are companies from the oil, gas and chemicalindustry. I see the quality of the visitors. People are interested. People arecoming. For me this is the success of the exhibition.
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KANEX Krohne Anlagen Export GmbH
Ekaterina Kurbanova, Head of Marketing Department
To be honest, we weren't hoping for such a large number of visitors and,yes, the results met our expectations. It was the target customers whocame to us. Due to the pandemic there is a lack of information and people
are eager for this information. There are requests for information
specifically about the equipment that we exhibit here but visitors are notjust interested in what we have here. We are planning to take part in thenext NEFTEGAZ exhibitions. For us NEFTEGAZ is the central event ofevery year and we cannot miss it.

PIETRO FIORENTINI S. p.A.
Dmitry Astashin, General Director
It's great that this is an offline event, after a series of online exhibitions andconferences. It's great to see people and colleagues live. It's great to seecustomers with your own eyes, and not by video conference. From thispoint of view, expectations were met. Obviously, our Italian colleagues
were unable to come because of the pandemic and we hope that all thiswill end soon and the next exhibition will be held in a normal full-fledgedformat. We plan to participate again, because in previous years we havenot missed a single event of this kind.

SAMSON Controls OOOAlexey Loginov, Deputy General Director
This is the first exhibition in two years, after a difficult year due to thepandemic. Of course, we did not expect any influx of new customers
signing new contracts. In principle, the first two days were busy, all ourexisting customers were here, they were glad to see us, we were also glad
to see them. Everyone missed face-to-face personal communication and it
worked within the framework of this exhibition. We were also waiting forthis exhibition in order to focus once again the attention of our customers
and partners to the fact that we are now a Russian local manufacturer –and we succeeded. From this point of view, we are satisfied. Of course, I
would like more new people, faces, questions, tasks, and so on. But I thinkthat with time it will all come, everything will work out. In terms oforganization, everything went well. For us NEFTEGAZ is the main trade
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fair, we do not participate in another event but will be back for
NEFTEGAZ.

VDMA e.V.
Sven Flasshoff, General Director
I consider it a great success that the exhibition took place. Russia andChina are the only countries currently hosting industrial exhibitions. TheGermans are very happy that Russia has opened the border. Our Germancolleagues had the opportunity to attend this exhibition, to confirm that theexhibitions are live here. I like that today is the third day and there are a lotof visitors at the show. Last year I attended various exhibitions in Moscow,
but they had a little less visitors, a little less the participants. Now
everyone has become a little more active attending exhibitions, people
want to communicate in person, everyone is tired of online events. The
German Ministry of Economy supports this trend and constantly allocatesmoney for German pavilions all over the world, including Russia - this isalso very good. My impression is that the people who participate here in
the German Pavilion are very pleased.

VEGA Grieshaber KG
Alexander Trofimychev, Development Director
We are very pleased with our participation in NEFTEGAZ. The result fromthe exhibition exceeded all our expectations. I liked the organization of theexhibition. We plan to take part in the next staging of the exhibition.

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