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2016 Grammy predictions: Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, 'Uptown Funk' and...?10/01/15 Blog
This year's Grammy Awards race is over.
Well, not exactly — there's still the whole matter of picking nominations, voting for winners and handing out actual trophies, all of which will take place over the next 4 1/2 months. But Wednesday marked the end of this year's eligibility period, which means we've already seen and heard all of this year's eventual nominees. Anything that comes out between now and the end of the year? Sorry. See you in 2017, Adele....
This week in Tampa: Brad Paisley, Steve Aoki, Ani DiFranco, Death Grips and more10/01/15 Blog
It's a busy and eclectic week in Tampa Bay music, kicking off with Brad Paisley on Friday and ending with Death Grips next Thursday. Do those guys belong in the same sentence together? Probably not, but we'll take it.
Other acts with Tampa Bay concerts this week: Ani DiFranco, Steve Aoki, Dr. John and the Nite Trippers, Kylesa, MisterWives, Corey Smith, Adventure Club, Clutch, Corrosion of Conformity, In the Valley Below, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Electric Six and Here Come the Mummies. Here to walk you through it all are Jay Cridlin and Ray Roa......
Ani DiFranco talks activism, mellowing with age, becoming a target and more09/30/15 Blog
A quarter-century after founding Righteous Babe Records in her hometown of Buffalo, N.Y., Ani DiFranco is still as fiercely independent as ever, pondering big topics like race, incarceration, gender politics, LGBT rights and the relentless stream of invective she sees every day in the media.
"Human dynamics are so fascinating to me," she said in a recent phone interview.
Is she the same teenage maverick who shaved her head, founded her own record label and busked for years on the road to ensure her poetry, her music, her progressive politics and activism would never be diluted by the corporate music machine?...
Underoath's Tim McTague talks reunion shows, King State Coffee, touring in 2016 and more09/30/15 Blog
In today's Tampa Bay Times, you'll find our story about Tampa's burgeoning small-batch coffee scene, led in part by musicians like Joel Davis (formerly of Ascend the Hill, currently of Fistful) of Commune + Co., and Nate Young (Anberlin) and Tim McTague (Underoath) of King State Coffee....
Music Planner: Party with Paisley and Aoki, protest with DiFranco, dance with MisterWives09/30/15 Music & Concerts
BRAD ATTITUDE: Brad Paisley
They don't make 'em like Brad Paisley anymore — mischievous sips of moonshine who can write a killer hook about as well as he can pick a Fender.
Sure, there are a few young gunslingers out there following the Paisley path to success — Jon Pardi and Frankie Ballard come to mind — but it's rare to find a country singer as passionate about the guitar as Mr. Online, who returns to Tampa's MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on Friday. (Just check out the extensively, nerdily catalogued "gear" section of his website.)...
Ani DiFranco, unstoppable as ever despite life's speed bumps09/30/15 Music & Concerts
Sometimes Ani DiFranco thinks back to the time she shaved her head.
"I'm 18," she says. "It's 1989 or something. And there just isn't the kind of cultural context for a young white girl with a shaved head. Nobody knows what to make of it. Everybody is uncomfortable. People used to stop and ask me the time on the street. Now they cross the street to avoid walking past me. I get followed around every store I go in by the security guard. No matter how open and smiling I try to make my energy, people are nervous."...
Review: Jose Gonzalez enchants St. Petersburg's State Theatre with heartfelt indie folk09/30/15 Blog
It's the little things. That's what made Jose Gonzalez's concert on Tuesday at the State Theatre in St. Petersburg such a joy to behold.
Tiny handclaps and fingersnaps. Soft bells and percussion rattles. Clicks of a clave or wood block.
Gonzalez could get away without any of this – his songs are so intensely intimate, delivered in such a hush, that he could tour America with only a guitar and most fans might not mind, or even notice....
Lil Wayne, August Alsina, iLoveMakonnen added to Tampa's HIT Music Festival09/28/15 Blog
Tampa's new HIT Music Festival just got a whole lot more real.
A slew of big-name hip hop stars have been added to the inaugural bash on Nov. 9 at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, including Lil Wayne, August Alsina, DJ Khaled, iLoveMakonnen, Yo Gotti, Troy Ave, Jo Rodeo and more. They join previously announced headliner Nas and acts including Fabolous, Tink, Trae the Truth and Cyhi the Prince....
Craft coffee scene brewing around Tampa Bay aims to broaden local tastes09/28/15Cooking
Roasting coffee beans is a solitary pursuit. Some mornings Nate Young will walk into Tim McTague's garage, fire up the Proaster 1.5 and some Spotify, and spend hours roasting beans and filling orders all alone.
"I toured with so many dudes for so long, stuck in a bus with 12 people," Young said. "I welcome the solitude. I can pick whatever music I want to listen to. I truly love it."...
Ferg's books first big concert: Warrant, Ratt, L.A. Guns09/27/15 Blog
Last week, word arrived that venerable St. Petersburg baseball hangout Ferg's Sports Bar was getting into the live concert game, with former Jannus Landing owner John C. "Jack" Bodziak at the helm.
Now Ferg's has its first major concert on the books: A show by veteran hair-metal trio Warrant, Ratt and L.A. Guns on Nov. 6....
Bret Michaels added to Ribfest 2015 lineup09/25/15 Blog
After weeks of switch-ups and announcements, this year's Ribfest lineup is complete, thanks to a major new addition Thursday night.
Poison frontman Bret Michaels will headline the opening night of Ribfest 2015 on Nov. 13 at Vinoy Park in St. Petersburg.
The Celebrity Apprentice star and Every Rose Has Its Thorn power-balladeer might be the biggest name yet in a Ribfest lineup that, once again, is heavy on classic rock. Joining him on Friday are Ratt singer Stephen Pearcy and the band Blended Brew....
Tampa Bay's Wild 94.1 adapts to music's shifts, but keeps a steady beat09/24/15Business
Twelve nights before drawing a standing ovation at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, pop singer Tori Kelly stood before an intimate crowd at Tampa's Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, strumming an acoustic guitar and opening up about her songwriting process.
A fast-rising star, Kelly easily could have filled a much larger venue. But this gig was private, open only to guests of Wild 94.1 as part of its Tampa Bay Talent Search, a contest for aspiring singer-songwriters....
This week in Tampa: Dr. Dog, Jose Gonzalez, Collective Soul, Plan B Block Party and more09/24/15 Blog
It's kind of a laid-back week in Tampa Bay, with more club and local shows than usual this week. After tonight's Janet Jackson concert at Amalie Arena (click here for details), you can downsize for a few days and check out concerts by Jose Gonzalez, Dr. Dog (above), Collective Soul, Three Days Grace, the Wailers, Andrew Rayel, Joyce Manor, Delbert McClinton, Stokeswood, Pop Will Eat Itself, Stephen Kellogg, Skipper's Smokehouse's 35th anniversary and the Plan B Block Party, featuring RJD2 and a slew of amazing local acts. Here to walk you through it all are Jay Cridlin and Ray Roa...
Jose Gonzalez
TUESDAY 8 p.m. State Theatre, 687 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. $22-$25. statetheatreconcerts.com.
Back in the blog-rock heyday of the mid-2000s, there was no surer way for an indie artist to attract attention than with a cool cover of a cool song. Swedish singer-songwriter Jose Gonzalez did just that with a hushed, heartfelt take on The Knife's electro-fuzzy Heartbeats on his 2003 debut Veneer, and it resonated around the world. Heartbeats, along with his similarly sparse cover of Massive Attack's Teardrop, are among the many Gonzalez songs that have popped up in films, commercials and TV shows over the past decade-plus. For longtime fans, this show is long overdue — Gonzalez came through Tampa with his band Junip in 2011, but this will be fans' first chance to hear him in all his stark, solo glory.
Dr. Dog
With Swimm
MONDAY 8 p.m. State Theatre, 687 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. $22-$25. statetheatreconcerts.com.
Philadelphia's Dr. Dog, who play at 8 p.m. Monday, were already somewhat successful by the time they covered Architecture in Helsinki's Heart It Races in 2007, having toured with My Morning Jacket. But their light, funky rendition — along with that year's acclaimed LP We All Belong — became a calling card for the band, and a staple of their set as their fame went national. In 2013 they played Heart It Races from the main stage at the Gasparilla Music Festival, and last year it was the lead single and video from this year's Live at a Flamingo Hotel. So they've definitely made it their own.
Plan B Block Party
With RJD2, Hank & Cupcakes, Set and Setting, Have Gun Will Travel, Saskatchewan, Florida Night Heat, Ketchy Shuby, the Sh-Booms, Samurai Shotgun, the Woolly Bushmen, the Plastic Pinks, Pleasures, Empire Cinema, Brother Cephus, DieAlps!, more
SATURDAY 4 p.m. Venues around Ybor City: Crowbar, New World Brewery, Market on 7th, Cigar City Cider and Mead, Tequilas. $20-$25. facebook.com/brokenmold.
This year's Plan B Block Party brings the Ybor City festival's biggest headliner yet: DJ/producer RJD2, best known for composing the theme song to Mad Men. But don't mistake the booking as some sort of Hail Mary to save the fest, now in its third year. "It's been successful since the beginning," said Phil Benito of organizers Brokenmold Entertainment. "I feel like the staff has worked together more, we've worked with the venues more, the relationships are more entrenched, and things tend to move smoother." When Plan B split, contentiously, from St. Petersburg's late, lamented Antiwarpt Festival in 2013, it wasn't clear if it would last. (Fans familiar with that divorce may get a kick out of this: St. Pete is tweaking back at Plan B with "Plan C," a free concert at 9:30 p.m. Saturday at the Amsterdam, 1049 Central Ave., featuring Luxury Mane, Funny Bunny and more.) But Plan B has evolved into one of the Bay's best showcases of local music. This year's lineup features nearly 50 artists and comedians on six stages around Ybor City. On the main stage at Crowbar (1812 N 17th St.) are RJD2, Brooklyn dance-rock duo Hank & Cupcakes and St. Pete's own nationally signed prog-metal outfit Set and Setting, among others. There are two stages at a new venue, Cigar City Cider and Mead (1812 N 15th St.), with artists including Bradenton Americana outfit Have Gun, Will Travel outside and local comics like Matt Fernandez and Rodney Smith inside. At other venues you'll find punk, folk, indie rock and more.
Joyce Manor
With Cheap Girls, Tracks
SUNDAY 7 p.m. Orpheum, 1915 E Seventh Ave., Ybor City. $15-$17. (813) 248-9500.
Last year, Rolling Stone dubbed Joyce Manor a "New Artist You Need to Know," citing the SoCal punks' affinity for high-energy pop designed to please the Jets to Brazil set. The boys' offerings on a newish LP (2014's Never Hungover Again) will also turn ears if you're a fan of the Smiths and while frontman Barry Johnson & co. are still waiting for that big break, they aren't wasting any time. This show finds them joined by tongue-way-out-of-cheek duo Cheap Girls (sample lyric: "I love her and cigarettes so much.") as well as punk folkie Jason Anderson, who is bringing a brand new project, Tracks, to open the show with songs like Moonlight, a three-and-a-half minute bouncy number that is something of a departure from Anderson's mostly laid-back offerings.
Skipper's Smokehouse 35th Anniversary
With Dropin' Pickup, Dukes of Juke with Freight Train Annie and the Late Night Brass Horns, TC Carr and the Bolts of Blue featuring Josh Nelms, the Cheaters, Quivering Rhythm Hounds, Sara Rose Band, Impulse, Shaun Hopper, more.
SATURDAY Noon. Skipper's Smokehouse, 910 Skipper Road, Tampa. Free. (813) 971-0666.
Partying at Skipper's is a rite of passage for the many University of South Florida students who spend at least one night of undergrad dancing barefoot under the oaks of the Skipperdome. It was also a coming-of-age event for the equally free-spirited hippies who came before them, and on Saturday, they'll all come together for a full-day celebration of the North Tampa venue's three-and-a-half decades of operation. Some Skipper's regulars (reggae outfit Impulse, Grateful Dead tribute Uncle John's Band) will be on hand, but so will a nice selection of talented Tampa Bay fingerpickers (Shaun Hooper), boogie specialists (Dukes of Juke, who played their first show ever at Skipper's 30 years ago), and guitar slingers like Josh Nelms. Best part? It's all free.
Delbert McClinton
SATURDAY 8 p.m. The Capitol Theatre, 405 Cleveland St., Clearwater. $50-$60. (727) 791-7400.
If ever there were a place for a teen to come of age in a bar, it has to be Fort Worth, Texas. It's where Delbert McClinton cut his teeth as a young man, and his time with the house band at Jack's Place is clearly the reason he went on to become a revered, harmonica-slingin' Lone Star State roots music legend. He's shared stages with a who's who of rock and blues names, and an urban legend says McClinton was the guy who taught John Lennon how to play harmonica. McClinton, 74, never did reach mainstream stardom (although Tell Me About It, his 1992 duet with Tanya Tucker, got him close), but he did sell out Clearwater's Capitol Theatre last March, so expect a packed house when he returns this weekend.
Hyperbolic Chamber Music 5: Music for Tuba and Electronics
With Brett Copeland
SATURDAY 8 p.m. The Venture Compound, 2621 Fairfield Ave. S, St. Petersburg. $5-$10 Donation. (901) 619-1519.
If you've ever been at a recital or classical music concert and thought "boy this could use some electro," then you might want to head out to St. Petersburg's warehouse district on Saturday when USF grad student Brett Copeland plays in the fifth installment of the Venture Compound's long-running assault on the traditions of classical composition and performance. Copeland, who is pursuing degrees in both Tuba performance and electro-acoustic composition, will perform works by Francis Schwartz, William Kraft, Nathan Corder and himself. The stage setup includes a foot-controlled pedal board to handle MIDIs and effects, as well as the expected tuba, which will be sending out low-pitched frequencies to compliment whatever electro-modified lines of music Copeland has translated into digitized bits of sound.
Andrew Rayel
With Basomatik, Shanta!, Nasty Nat3
SATURDAY 10 p.m. Amphitheatre Event Facility, 1609 E Seventh Ave., Ybor City. $15-$20. (813) 873-8368.
These days, big name DJ's come from all over the world. Amsterdam, France, Scotland, and even 'Merica have given birth to some of EDM's brightest stars, so why not Moldova, too? The small European country (population 2.9 million) is where Andrei Ra hails from, and while stateside audiences know him by a much easier to pronounce name — Andrew Rayel — they know his big hits even better. Mimesis (with Alexander Popov) or his brand new single Chased are current trance set staples and find the rising young producer weaving infectious melodies in with bright textures, simple yet epic chord arrangements, and big drops to create gems that probably make his current label figurehead Armin Van Buuren very happy.
Anupam Shobhakar
With Shankhachur Lahiri
SUNDAY 4:30 p.m. Saint Petersburg College Music Center, 6605 Fifth Ave. N, St. Petersburg. $5-$15 Donation. (727) 341-4772.
The Venture Compound's tuba meets electronic production and composition exhibition on Saturday might not be worldly or string-based enough for you, but worry not because another one of the Burg's thinking institutions is also offering something nice and dense for the intellectual music lover. The sarod is perhaps the most popular instrument in Hindustani classical music (second only, perhaps, to the sitar) and it's weirdly meditative tone lends itself to weighty melodic passages that can make you weep (listen to Deep River from Anupam Shobhakar's 2014 LP with guitarist Joel Harrison) and also get you lost in a sea of string plinks and strums when the Grammy-nominated composer is paired up with masterful tablas players like Shankhachur Lahiri.
Oktobeerfest Kick Off
With Serotonic, Row Jomah
THURSDAY 7:30 p.m. Dunedin Brewery, 937 Douglas Ave., Dunedin. Free. (727) 736-0606.
There is no shortage of local beer festivals looking toward Munich's gigantic shindig for inspiration, and while the new Hofbräuhaus in St. Pete surely will soak up a lot of the Oktoberfest shine this year, there are many more places to get your fix around Tampa Bay. A Pinellas county stronghold of craft creations, the Dunedin Brewery, continues its long tradition and kicks off their Oktobeerfest celebrations with a pair of jam-leaning locals (Row Jomah and Serotonic) warming things up for Florida favorites the Heavy Pets who arrive in the not-so-sleepy coastal downtown the next day to play a stop on their highly-anticipated 10th Anniversary tour. Music is free, but the booze isn't, so bring some drinking money.
With People's Blues of Richmond, Oxford Noland
THURSDAY 8 p.m. Crowbar, 1812 N 17th St., Ybor City. $10-$13. (813) 241-8600.
On New Year's Day 2012, Stokeswood was just some unknown band from Atlanta who happened to be in town playing Ybor City's New World Brewery the day before the Georgia Bulldogs narrowly lost to Michigan State at the Outback Bowl. Three years later, the group is no stranger to the area, having played what feels like at least a dozen shows at various clubs. They've even taken promo shots at downtown Tampa's Kiley Garden. On Thursday, Stokeswood returns with a new LP, 2075, that finds their already dance-floor ready pop upgraded to Top 40-aiming electro that can still please fans who only know them by their amazing cover of Hall & Oates' Maneater. A rising local outfit, Oxford Noland, opens and one of the country's hardest working, delightfully psychedelic young rock 'n' roll bands, People's Blues of Richmond, are along for the ride, too.
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Kevin Smith bringing 'Frasier' podcast to the Tampa Improv09/23/15 Blog
When writer-director Kevin Smith came to the Tampa Improv in August, fans swarmed to snatch up tickets. He's the director of such cult flicks as Clerks, Chasing Amy and Dogma, but he's arguably an even better raconteur, so any time to see him live is worth the price of admission.
Now he's coming back to the Improv with only one topic on his mind: Frasier.
Smith will bring his Frasier-themed podcast Talk Salad and Scrambled Eggs to the Improv on Nov. 25, the club has announced. His co-host on Talk Salad and Scrambled Eggs is comedian Matt Mira, best known as the co-host of Chris Hardwick's Nerdist podcast, making this kind of an all-star night of podcastery....
Music Planner: Billy Idol pops off; Dr. Dog, Jose Gonzalez rock the State Theatre; Ybor City adopts Plan B09/23/15 Music & Concerts
REBEL WITH A YELL: Billy Idol
The fact that Billy Idol has popped up in recent commercials for Bank of America should come as no surprise. He's always been punk's greatest and most shameless showman (apologies to his idol, Johnny Rotten), and sometimes that means playing to a wider pop audience. And boy, does Idol, who returns to Ruth Eckerd Hall on Thursday, know how to play. ...


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Two broken humans don't make a whole. They make something much bigger, something infinitely stronger.
Who knew that time could be a whirlpool, not something that you take advantage of but something that sucks you in.
Today, he opened up to me. After days of trying he finally spoke. His words were however that of absolute pain. I told him I was coming for him, coming to him but he refused.
"Pankaj Alpana" is how my tattoo reads. I got it today. It's my parents' names in my writing.
I also think I grew closer to two friends today. Hopefully one day I will be free. It's my first time abroad; away from my home, my friends, trees and grass, trying to make it in New York City.
It's also the first time I realize that us humans are not an aggregate of flesh and brain. We are all spirits, consolidated yet simultaneously expansive, of emotions, creativity, and complications.
We all are broken; but we all are stronger this way.
*Wrote this for The Strangers Project today. Thank you Brandon Doman.*

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Stocks on Wall Street began the session sharply lower and remained that way throughout the session. There was little in the way of buying as each of the major equity indexes slid over 1% and the market internals were decidedly negative. The auto industry and biotech sector were both notably weak, after the French government called for an investigation into the entire auto industry in the wake of the Volkswagen (VLKAY) emissions scandal and Democratic Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton presented a plan to limit the cost of drugs for consumers. ECONOMIC EVENTS: In the U.S., the FHFA home price index rose 0.6% to 224.5 in July, which was better than the 0.4% rise that was expected. The Richmond Fed factory index fell to -5 in September, versus the reading of 2 that was expected. In Asia, the Asian Development Bank cut its growth forecast for the region, citing a weaker outlook for China and India and a delayed recovery in the world's advanced economies. The bank now sees the Chinese economy growing 6.8% this year and 6.7% next year, down from its previous forecasts of 7.2% and 7%, respectively. COMPANY NEWS: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs (GS) Chairman and CEO, disclosed that he was diagnosed with lymphoma. "Fortunately, my form of lymphoma is highly curable and my doctors' and my own expectation is that I will be cured," Blankfein stated in an open letter that was shared by the bank... Bank of America (BAC) shareholders approved a proposal to ratify the 2014 amendments to the company's bylaws that permitted the board of directors to determine its leadership structure, meaning Brian Moynihan can retain his dual role as both Chairman and CEO... Shares of several fertilizer companies slid after Mosaic (MOS) announced it will reduce its potash production in response to current crop nutrient market conditions, primarily related to delayed fertilizer purchases in Brazil and North America. Shares of Mosaic finished the day down 7% at $33.87 following last night's announcement, while Potash (POT) fell 6.5% and Agrium (AGU) dropped 3.5%. MAJOR MOVERS: Among the notable gainers was Ashland (ASH), which advanced $2.78, or 2.6%, to $108.50 after announcing it will proceed with a plan to separate into two independent, publicly traded companies. Also higher was Weatherford (WFT), which gained 90c, or 10.7%, to $9.31 after cancelling plans for a public share offering, after which research firms Jefferies and Iberia both reiterated Buy-equivalent ratings on the stock. Among the noteworthy losers were Office Depot (ODP) and Staples (SPLS), which declined a respective 4% and 5.8% after the New York Post quoted a source as saying the FTC may move to block their merger plan. Also lower was Groupon (GRPN), which slipped 2.2% to $4.08 after announcing plans to cut 1,100 jobs related primarily to its international operations. ConAgra (CAG), Carnival (CCL), and CarMax (KMX) fell 7%, 5.5%, and 4.65%, respectively, following their quarterly earnings reports. INDEXES: The Dow fell 179.72, or 1.09%, to 16,330.47, the Nasdaq lost 72.23, or 1.5%, to 4,756.72, and the S&P 500 dropped 24.23, or 1.23%, to 1,942.74.
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View the LNG Global Congress 2015 agenda.
LNGgc 2015 will give delegates the opportunity to Meet, share Knowledge and Network
60+ inspiring industry speakers look at the issues that really matter: LNG Global Congress 2015 will once again host top international LNG experts and guest speakers from across the industry and from around the world...
Some of the speakers confirmed from the 2015 faculty include oil and gas energy majors, industry analysts and academics, leading European import terminals, LNG buyers and key suppliers
10+ fresh networking opportunities to meet key decision makers in the LNG industry: LNGgc prides itself in offering the best networking opportunity for the industry to meet key decision makers.
Some new refreshing formats this year will include
- One-To-One Meeting with the LNGgc App
- Networking drinks reception
- Network development lunch
- Champagne roundtables
80+ presentations, panel debates and round tables covering every aspect of LNG: key issues impacting the industry on the agenda will include
LNG trading, supply and demand
• outlook for new LNG supplies for Europe from the Atlantic, Australia, Middle East and Africa
• focus on new growth markets of the Baltics and the Mediterranean
• impact of low oil prices on LNG supply and demand
• demand centres of Asia- prospects on future demand forecasts and volumes to Asia
• LNG Spot market: Scope of the LNG spot market growth vs long term contracts in today's LNG economics
• regulatory view on the LNG strategy for Europe
Small to mid-scale LNG, terminal infrastructure developments and LNG shipping
• outlook on the changing face of Europe's import terminals and innovation in infrastructure for break bulk, storage and capacity
• LNG as a fuel: implementation of the Alternative Fuels Directive in the EU
• LNG bunkering and vessel design: innovation in tank location, shape and size for LNG vessels, bunkering technologies and opportunities for LNG as a fuel
• FLNG and FSRUs: the increasing importance of the floating technologies to enter new markets
• FEED and EPC services for LNG projects: showcasing engineering, procurement and construction expertise
• Key developments in LNG shipping
2 parallel streams: flexible stream options will give attendees the chance to participate in the most important topics close to their business
A focused streamed agenda will allow you to take advantage of the session most relevant to your business, meaning that you can meet and network with the most relevant people in a personalised conference experience.
150+ of the most influential names: meet over 200 industry members from across the LNG community at the LNGgc 2015 conference...
Set up business deals by saving time and money ensuring you meet the world's leading LNG professionals. Delegates will have the chance to meet with industry leaders from across the LNG industry all gathered together under one roof to meet, share & network with members from upstream, midstream and downstream.
4 packed days of new thinking & research: the 2015 Congress will inspire and inform you to share insights into...
the new developments, operational and commercial strategies for LNG in the current oil economics impacting the industry
Big regional focus on LNG supply and demand in Africa, USA and the Baltic: focus on country and regional case studies to examine what the key issues and challenges are for LNG and their global impact
These focused studies looked in detail at the challenges and opportunities in each area to allow delegates to maximise their understandings about particular regions.


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