In the period from 26 to 27 November 2018 in Beijing (People‘s Republic of China) held an event in the framework of the tenth meeting of the Governing Board of the International Association of Oil Transporters (IAOT). The meeting and other events were attended by all representatives of 8 member organizations and 1 observer of the Association: JSC "MERO CR", PJSC "Transneft", JSC “Transpetrol”, JSC "MOL", JSC "Gomeltransneft Druzhba", JSC “KazTransOil”, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), JSC "Ukrtransnafta" as members of the Association and the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC-R) as the observer. The meeting participants in the framework of additional activities visited the main office of the company CNPC, where was given the opportunity to get acquainted with the of work of the PetroChina Oil & Gas Pipeline Control Center and to consider the unique gallery of paintings of the development of the oil and gas industry and the establishment of the company CNPC.
Under the chairmanship of the company „PetroChina Company Limited", Mr Ling Xiao, among other issues, the participants discussed the results of the activities of the three Permanent expert working groups of the Association (for energy efficiency, legal issues and supply), as well as the plan of the Association for the 2019, including the participation of the IAOT at the 14th international exhibition-conference PTC Berlin and in the professional sklil contest „Best in profession – 2019“, between the member-organizations of the Association, which will be held in August, in Kazakhstan.