Hermes exhibits at the Kioge Oil & Gas Conference,Kazakhstan

Anastasia Nismelainina explains, "Hermes focus at this years Kioge Exhibition and Conference is on our new iDirect service which offers the flexibility of the platform bundled with Hermes' recognised service delivery to give clients a reliant network that they can trust".

iDirect provides reduced costs and lead-times, scalable bandwidth, support for voice, video and data across multiple sites, automatic power adjustment to reduce rain fade to ensure your link is always up and secure connectivity.

KIOGE is Central Asia’s largest trade event for the oil and gas industry. KIOGE comprises an exhibition and conference and has helped to introduce more than 5,000 companies into the market, a great many of which now have well-established businesses in Kazakhstan

Central Asia’s largest oil and gas trade event will host thousands of industry professionals in Almaty, Kazakhstan over four days, for the 19^th edition of KIOGE. Taking place on 5-8 October 2011, KIOGE will feature around 450 exhibitors, 70% of which are international oil and gas companies, a rise of 18% since the previous edition in 2010.

Taking place alongside the exhibition is the KIOGE conference, which will launch a new commercially-focused programme on 6-7 October at the InterContinental in Almaty. More than 50 speakers will present on a number of new issues and topics, which have been designed to reflect the industry in Kazakhstan and meet the needs of the 750 delegates expected to attend from around the world. 

Supporting the new conference programme are a number of important speakers, including Sauat Mynbayev, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Oil and Gas; Lyazzat Kiinov, Deputy Minister of Oil and Gas of Kazakhstan; Kairgeldy Kabyldin, Chairman of the Board of KazMunayGas National Company; Zhandarbek Kakishev, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Agency for the Development of Local Content NADLoC; Uzakbay Karabalin, General Director of the Kazakh Institute of Oil and Gas; and David Moran, UK Ambassador to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

For more information, contact Vladimir Mastikhin, Commercial Manager West Kazakhstan on vladimir.m@hermes.uk.com or Anastasia Nismelainina, Country Manager Kazakhstan, anastacia.n@hermes.uk.com