Gulf Coast Conference 2011
The 2011 edition of the Gulf Coast Conference, which provides attendees with information about the latest in petro-chemical, refining, environmental, and industrial hygiene, was held on October 11th and 12th at Moody Gardens in Galveston, Texas.
The Gulf Coast Conference is a non-profit organization oriented toward the education and advancement of knowledge of chemical analysis in these fields. In addition, the Gulf Oil Spill Symposium, which started last year, offered several discussions.
The show once again had increased participation over the previous year in all areas, as shown in the table, right. Of special interest is that this show had a substantially higher percentage of attendees vs. the number of exhibit personnel - usually exhibit personnel equal or exceed attendees. Also, the number of paid attendees almost equals those that just came for the exhibits. This speaks well for the quality of the presentations.
Included in the 75 papers, 18 seminars, six workshops, three training courses and 40 poster sessions were presentations by Restek, Cosa and Xentaur, and one of special interest by Airgas Specialty Gases on the “Dynamics of Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium in Pressurized Liquid Calibration Standards.”
Companies such as DCG Partnership, Thermo Fisher, Agilent, Conci Ltd, and Restek had put forward posters for the event (you can now view the poster abstracts online here: http://www.gulfcoastconference.com/posters.cfm?year=2011). Major specialty gas companies were represented by both Matheson and Airgas. Two specialty gas distributors, Coastal Specialty Gas and TWSCO, had booths at the show.
If you were not able to attend this year’s conference, we suggest that you do so next year. The show will be held at the same location on October 9th and 10th. We plan to be there.
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