There has been an overwhelming response for participation in the Photo Contest & Exhibition. To give a chance to all those creative people out there, the last date for submission of entries has been extended to 15th December 2008. Rush in your entries and be a part of the community of creative people who are going to capture in their shutterbug the reality and impact of the "Oil Energy" on People and Environment.

On popular demand, the Date for Early Bird Discount has been extended till 30th November 2008. Delegates can register prior to 30th November 2008 and avail of a 10% Early Bird Discount.
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Thank you, participants for partronizing PETROTECH-2009.

With your support, history has been created for saleable indoor space as the bookings has crossed 7000 sq mtrs out of the total 7500 sq mtrs.

This edition will see lot of new initiatives, which in-turn will make the show a truly memorable experience for you and the visitors alike.

More encouraging is the fact that a liberal spread of operators, marketers, service providers, equipments suppliers, consultants, R & D companies amongst the confirmed exhibitors will make it an attractive and a meaningful platform for the entire Oil & Gas industry.

In a nut shell,
	•   162 Exhibitors.
	•   Nearly 40% of space booked by 72 International participants.
	•   Rest 60% of space booked by 90 Domestic participants.
	•   5 Country Pavilions.

FICCI - A national organisation that represents and aggregates multiple Chambers of Commerce has agreed to to lend its expertise to organise the Parallel Track event. The Parallel Track event titled 'Indian Retail Revolution-Challenges and Solutions in Fuel Retailing' will be held on January 13th-14th, 2009.

Mr. Carlos Cabrera, CEO, UOP has consented to be a Speaker at the Plenary Session titled "WINNING STRATEGY FOR CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT AND PRODUCT MIX SHIFT" on 13TH January 2009 BETWEEN 1000 Hrs. TO 1115 Hrs. at PETROTECH-2009.

Mr. Greg Lewin, President, Shell Global Solutions has consented to be a Speaker at the Plenary Session titled "CUTTING EDGE & EMERGING NEED OF FRONTIER TECHNOLOGIES" on 13TH January 2009 BETWEEN 1145 Hrs. TO 1300 Hrs. at PETROTECH-2009.

Dr. Dr Ashok Lahiri, ED, Asian Development Bank has consented to be a Speaker at the Plenary Session titled "SYNERGY BETWEEN OIL & GAS – EMERGING SCENARIO" on 14TH January 2009 BETWEEN 1000 Hrs. TO 1115 Hrs. at PETROTECH-2009.

ICICI payment gateway ensures safety and security of online transactions. The payment gateway interfaces between the Delegates, PETROTECH Website and Banking systems in a secured environment to facilitate online payments.

Delegates will be able to give their card details and payment instructions directly to payment gateway in a secure session. It removes any human interface both at the point of Delegates transaction with the PETROTECH Website and subsequently during the settlement of the transaction with banking systems. This has been achieved by using the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) technology, which helps encrypt transaction data using 280 bit RSA and 128 bit encryption.

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Mr. Jean Sentenac, Chairman & CEO, Axens, France, has consented to be a Speaker at the Plenary Session titled "WINNING STRATEGY FOR CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT AND PRODUCT MIX SHIFT" on 13TH January 2009 BETWEEN 1000 Hrs. TO 1115 Hrs. at PETROTECH-2009.

 
Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Panel of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has consented to deliver an address to the delegates & participants of PETROTECH-2009 on 12th January 2009 at 1230 Hrs.

The IPCC headed by Dr Pachauri received the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2007 jointly alongwith former U.S. Vice President, Mr. Al Gore, for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. IPCC has been established by World Meteorological Organization and United Nations Environment Programme.

To acknowledge his immense contribution to the field of environment, science & engineering Dr Pachauri has been earlier awarded the Padma Bhushan & Padma Vibhushan—India's highest civilian awards.

The response to booking of exhibition space for PETROTECH-2009 has been phenomenal with confirmed bookings now touching 6000 square meters. Only 20 percent of exhibition space is now on offer for you to make impact amidst oil & gas companies of national and international stature.

So now we have on board;
	•    118 exhibitors
	•   48 international exhibitors with 36% of total area and 42% as per the number of companies
	•   66 domestic exhibitors with 64% of total area and 58% as per the number of companies
	•   5 country pavilions

There has been an overwhelming response to call for paper presentation at the Conference:

Abstracts for technical papers received till 30th June, 2008 - 813 India - 705
Overseas - 108
Countries represented - 29
Companies/Organisations represented - 144