SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Registration for sponsors is now open!

The ERRA Energy Investment and Regulation Conference provides access to an international group of regulators, utilities, network companies and other stakeholders in the field of energy.

Sponsorship is an easy and affordable way to promote your company and its achievements to a targeted professional audience while supporting the continued development in the field of energy regulation and ERRA. If ERRA’s vision, mission and values are in alignment with yours, we encourage you to contact us to explore the possibilities of becoming a conference sponsor or supporter.

Deadline for applying as a sponsor:

September 15, 2017

Sponsorship categories are grouped in the following way:

• Platinum level sponsors in value of 30,000 EUR;
• Golden level sponsors in value of 15,000 EUR;
• Silver level sponsors in value of 7,500 EUR;
• Conference supply sponsors in value of 5,000 EUR
  • Photographs during the Conference
  • Conference brochure
  • Conference badge holder  SOLD
• Conference supply sponsors in value of 3,000 EUR
  • Notepad and pen
  • Speaker gift
  • Flower decoration
• Conference general sponsors in value of 3,000 EUR

NEW THIS YEAR:

• Academia Patronage: Raise your company’s social responsibility by sponsoring students’ or young researchers’ participation: up from 3 delegates in value of 3,000 EUR (or more)

Academia Patronage

Sponsorship of participation of minimum 3 postgraduate students or young researchers in the Conference in the value of 3000 EUR (1000 EUR/person). Sponsorship covers registration fee only, excluding travel and accommodation costs. Students and researchers could be selected by the Patron (in this case they should certify officially their studies) or suggested by ERRA. Selecting this opportunity, your company will be displayed as a Patron on the Conference website, printed brochure, and other printed conference materials, separated from Conference sponsors.  ERRA will have the option to ask selected student(s) to write a short blog post (approximately 500 words about the conference upon completion or during the event). Details of the patronage can be subject to individual discussion. Please contact ERRA Secretariat for further information.

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PLATIMUN SPONSOR

State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) is one of the largest oil companies in the world. SOCAR was established by the Presidential Decree on 13 September 1992 (by merging two state oil companies – Azerneft and Azneftkimiya) in accordance with Azerbaijani legislation and is domiciled in the Republic of Azerbaijan. In order to improve its operational efficiency based on the wise and successful state policy and oil strategy started by national leader of Azeri people – Heydar Aliyev, SOCAR has been restructured several times and is now comprised of 26 business units (“Azneft” Production Union, „Azerigas” PU, „Azerikimya” PU, Geophysics and Geology department, Investments department, Oil Pipelines Department, H. Aliyev Baku Oil Refinery, H. Aliyev Baku Deep Water Jacket Factory, Marketing and Operations Department, Security Department, Social Development Department, Environmental department, IT and Communications Department, Gas export department, Oil and Gas Construction Trust, Complex Drilling Works Trust,  Oil and Gas Scientific-researches and projects Institute Institute,Oil and Gas Petrochemical Complex,  etc) dealing with their particular areas of business. SOCAR and the business units are involved in upstream, midstream and downstream operations. SOCAR’s main functions pertain to managing the extraction, refining, transportation of oil, gas and gas condensates, and sale of gas and oil and gas products.

 SOCAR is 100 per cent owned by the government of the Republic of Azerbaijan. SOCAR satisfies the Republic’s internal demand for the oil and oil products. For implementation of all above mentioned works SOCAR employs high level specialists and has special education programme, according to which young talented students are educated abroad with subsequent employment at SOCAR. Risk management has been successfully introduced in the company and is being implemented in almost all business units. There are 18 oil deposits in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, the rest are onshore. Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, Baku-Novorossiysk oil pipeline, South Caucasus gas pipeline (also known as Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) are major pipelines providing stable flow of Azeri oil and gas and delivering it to European markets. In general it must be mentioned that first oil wells in the world were drilled using technology in the Republic of Azerbaijan in Bibiheybat oil field in 1847. In 1901 Azerbaijan was on the first place in the world while producing 11.5 mln tons of oil. Azerbaijan’s oil extraction has reached a historic record volume of 23.5 mln tons of oil in 1941, comprising 71.4% of former Soviet Union’s oil. SOCAR has signed up to 34 production sharing agreements up to now with various foreign oil and gas companiesthe largest of such agreements being production sharing agreement on joint development of Azeri, Chirag and Gunashli (deep water section) fields signed on 20 September 1994 (so called “Contract of the Century”). Currently SOCAR employs more than 50,000 people.

www.socar.az

GOLDEN SPONSOR

General information about Kazakhstan Utility Systems LLP

Kazakhstan Utility Systems LLP is a successful company in the energy sector on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The KUS group is represented in Karaganda, South Kazakhstan and East Kazakhstan regions.

The group of companies Kazakhstan Utility Systems implements its own Development Strategy, which corresponds to the state policy in the field of energy. The main factors for the development of KUS are: modernization of existing assets, construction of new electric grids, expansion of generating and power transmission capacities, and customer orientation of marketing companies.

KUS LLP includes two CHPs of the city of Karaganda – CHPP-1 and CHPP-3, as well as Ust-Kamenogorsk CHP and Sogra CHP in the regional center of East Kazakhstan region.  Last year, at the Karaganda CHPP-3, as part of the investment program, a new power unit was commissioned. It enabled generating a quarter more electricity and heat. This event gave a new impetus to the development of the economy of the whole region. The increase in the capacity of the station allowed placing new energy-intensive production facilities in the Karaganda region. Small and medium businesses received additional energy support. Taking into account the additional input, Karaganda CHPP-3 reached a capacity of 670 megawatts. For today it is the largest thermal power plant of the republic.

As its priority, the KUS Group sees the use of innovative solutions at its production facilities, a scientific, innovative approach and optimization of energy costs. This applies to all, without exception, subsidiaries that are members of the holding Kazakhstan Utility Systems.

Thus, Karagandy Zharyk LLP, specializing in the operation of electrical networks, commissioned new large substations and introduced an automated monitoring and accounting system to the end user (ASKUE). The modernization of transformers, external electrical networks was carried out to create and provide a reliable power supply system.

Ontustyk Zharyk Transit LLP, focused on transmission and distribution of energy in the South Kazakhstan region, introduced an automated database system and consumers (ASBIP) to provide technical conditions for the fastest possible identification of connection points. New substations, power lines for power supply of new microdistricts of the city of Shymkent and its suburbs are put into operation. In the affiliated marketing organizations of the South Kazakhstan region and Shymkent, new contact centers were opened.

The group of companies Kazakhstan Utility Systems employs about 11 thousand employees. The international rating agency Fitch Ratings in 2016 confirmed KUS LLP long-term issuer default ratings in foreign and national currency at the level of “BB-“. The agency also assigned the domestic energy company a national long-term rating of “BBB + (kaz)”. The forecast on the ratings is Stable.

In 2016, during the International Festival-Contest “Choice of the Year No. 1 in Kazakhstan”, Kazakhstan Utility Systems LLP was recognized as “Energy Company of Kazakhstan No. 1 – 2016”.

Today, Kazakhstan Utility Systems LLP is one of the TOP-4 largest energy companies in Kazakhstan.