The Greek Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Yannis Maniatis, will open the Balkans and Adriatic Oil & Gas Summit with the presentation of the new licensing round, known in the industry as the Greece Mega Project.

Balkans and the Adriatic Oil & Gas Summit will take place on 1st- 3rd October 2014 in Hotel Grande Bretagne, Athens. This conference will be a unique networking platform that will bring together existing and future operators in the oil and gas industry in Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Italy and Romania.

The Summit will provide international and national representatives with an overview of the fiscal regime and legislations relating to exploration and production, along with updates on current or future energy projects in the area. It will offer a unique networking platform where delegates from different Ministries will come to discuss changes in the legislation and where experts will come to showcase how their operations work in Balkans countries.

Mr. Maniatis will welcome foreign country officials, such as the Deputy Minister of Croatia, Alen Leveric; the Deputy Minister of Economy of Montenegro, Vladan Dubljevic; and the Deputy Minister of Energy and Industry of Albania, Dorian Ducka, who will also present the most significant hydrocarbon developments in their respective countries.

Amongst the international and national energy “giants” that will attend the Summit in Athens are Anadarko Petroleum, Bankers Petroleum, Dana Gas, Edison, Enel, Energean Oil and Gas, ExxonMobil, Gazprom, Gripen Oil & Gas, Hunt Oil, INA, Marathon Oil, OMV, Petroceltic, Petromanas, Plinacro, Ratio Petroleum, Russneft, RWE Dea, Shell, Sterling Energy, Sumitomo Corporation, Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), Transatlantic Petroleum, Vegas Oil & Gas, Zarubezhneft, and 70 other companies.