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Welcome address CYPGasTech Director ZOMIDEA design & services ltd Mr Vasilis Zomenos Dear Executives, Conventioneers Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of our company ZOMIDEA design & services ltd, I would like to welcome you for your presence and participation in the 3rd biennial Conference & Exhibition, CYPGasTech 2018, creating an institution now. CYPGasTech 2018 is following the great discoveries of recent years on Natural Gas in the Eastern Mediterranean, the ongoing researches, the EastMed pipeline, the Cyprus-Egypt Pipeline as well as the EuroAsia & EuroAfrica's interconnection projects. Our aim is to create in Cyprus, a new point of Upstream-Midstream-Downstream Concentration of the Natural Gas Industry, demonstrating materials, products, techniques, services, innovations, thus enhancing the commerciality here in the heart of the Eastern Mediterranean - in the outermost part of Europe. Supporters in our effort, the HYDROCARBONS Service, of the Ministry of Energy, Commerce, Industry & Tourism, of the Republic of Cyprus which has set it under its auspices, as well officially by the International Gas Union - IGU, of which Cyprus is a Charter Member. Again, I would like to welcome all of you and hope for a productive and beneficial Conference and Exhibition. I call the Director of the HYDROCARBONS Service, Dr. Stelios Nicolaides, for the official opening of the CYPGasTech 2018.