Association Partners

Allies in Energy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that unites business leaders, investors, and philanthropists to advance energy and climate literacy for an equitable transition. We believe education is key to empowering communities to innovate and drive social change. Our focus is on energy education and climate literacy through collaborative efforts. We are hosting the inaugural Houston Energy & Climate Week, a dynamic event fostering inclusive dialogue and deepening understanding of energy systems and climate issues. This week-long series of engaging events will unite educators, experts, and the community, paving the way for sustainable practices and innovations.

The Ammonia Energy Association (AEA) was founded in 2004 to promote the responsible use of ammonia in a sustainable economy. Our mission encompasses both the decarbonization of ammonia production and the use of low-emission ammonia as a fuel and energy carrier to decarbonize other sectors. AEA is committed to enabling the global ammonia value chain to achieve net-zero by 2050. Twenty years since its founding, AEA is now a global trade association whose 260+ corporate members represent the full value chain of ammonia across multiple sectors. We work with our member companies and partner organizations to share knowledge, foster collaboration, develop key programs, and engage in advocacy with industry, policy-makers, and the public to promote the safe and sustainable adoption of low-emission ammonia.

Center for Houston’s Future is a nonprofit that works to understand future global trends and their impact on the Houston region. We focus on issues that are critical to the long-term success of Greater Houston. In short, we aim to ensure Houston remains a great place to live and work for all its residents.

We bring business, government, community and academic stakeholders to engage in planning, research, consensus building and action. Our framework includes three key pillars: strategic initiatives, community outreach/thought leadership and our Business/Civic Leadership Forum. We conduct economic research and strategic planning, hold community events and develop leaders.

Climate Investment is an independently managed specialist investor focused on accelerating capital-efficient decarbonization of heavy emitting sectors. Operational since 2017, its team of investment and technology professionals has built a portfolio of 38 technology and business model innovations across energy, transportation, buildings and industry. Collectively, its Catalyst portfolio delivered 95 MT CO2e of cumulative greenhouse gas reduction in the period 2019-2023. 

Climate Investment was founded by member companies of the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative (“OGCI”). They have invested in Climate Investment funds and deployed many of its portfolio innovations, supporting their early commercial development. Visit 

The Center for Liquefied Natural Gas (CLNG) advocates for public policies that advance the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the United States, and its export internationally. A committee of the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA), CLNG represents the full LNG value chain, including large-scale LNG producers in the United States, shippers, and multinational developers, providing it with unique insight into the ways in which the vast potential of this abundant and versatile fuel can be fully realized.

We are a private, non-profit organization, which is formed by the 29 main natural gas producing, transporting, distributing and marketing companies in Colombia. 

Our objective is to encourage the development and dynamization of the natural gas market in Colombia, and the supply in the short and long term to continue benefiting the almost 12 million current users.

The Energy Institute (EI) is the chartered professional membership body for people who work across the world of energy. Our purpose is creating a better energy future by accelerating a just global energy transition to net zero. 

We do this by:

• Attracting, developing and equipping the diverse future energy workforce
• Informing energy decision-making through convening expertise and advice
• Enabling industry and consumers to make energy lower carbon, safer and more efficient

Energy professionals - our members - look to us for the knowledge, skills and good practice needed to pursue impactful careers in this vital, fast-evolving field.

Join us: https://bit.ly/4fprGsT

Energy Workforce & Technology Council is the national trade association for the global energy technology and services sector, representing more than 650,000 U.S. jobs in the technology-driven energy value chain. Energy Workforce works to advance member policy priorities and empower the energy workforce of the future.

Natural Gas Importers Association of Türkiye "GAZID" was founded by private-sector natural gas importers in July 2017. Since its inception, GAZID has been unwavering in its commitment to support the liberalization of the natural gas sector in Türkiye.

GAZID is committed to creating and developing all-natural gas market value chains collaborating with gas industry stakeholders. By adopting a systematic work program, GAZID strives to elevate the Turkish natural gas market to the level of successful examples in the developed and contemporary markets, significantly increasing the real liquidity in the market.

GIIGNL is the international association of LNG importers. This unique group for sharing experiences and best practices enables members to improve safety, reliability, efficiency, and sustainability of LNG import activities. GIIGNL membership covers nearly all LNG importers, regasification terminals owners and operators around the world.

GIIGNL provides its members with overviews of the general economic condition of the LNG industry and current, state-of-the art LNG technology, operations, and best practices. This information enhances facility operations, diversifies contractual techniques, and supports industry positions with international agencies.

The Greater Houston Partnership is dedicated to strengthening Houston’s position as the energy capital of the world. Through the launch of the Houston Energy Transition Initiative (HETI), the mission is to drive sustainable and equitable economic growth in the Greater Houston region through a portfolio of technology, policy, and market initiatives that scale and export solutions for realizing a low-carbon energy world.

The Hydrogen Council is a global, CEO-led initiative that brings together leading companies with a united vision and long-term ambition for hydrogen to foster the clean energy transition.

The Council believes that hydrogen has a key role to play in reaching our global decarbonization goals by helping to diversify energy sources worldwide, foster business and technological innovation as drivers for long-term economic growth, and decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors.

Using its global reach to promote collaboration between governments, industry and investors, the Council provides guidance on accelerating the deployment of hydrogen solutions around the world. It also acts as a business marketplace, bringing together a diverse group of 140+ companies based in 20+ countries and across the entire hydrogen value chain, including large multinationals, innovative SMEs, and investors.

The Hydrogen Council also serves as a resource for safety standards and an interlocutor for the investment community, while identifying opportunities for regulatory advocacy in key geographies.

To find out more, visit www.hydrogencouncil.com.

Hydrogen Standard provides on the one hand data analytics about developments in the hydrogen sector through their interactive platform, and on the other hand functions as an extension of companies' marketing teams by helping companies increase their exposure in the hydrogen industry through written content & video services, online and at various hydrogen events around the world.   

About IOGP

With over 90 Members, IOGP fosters dialogue and knowledge exchange, incorporating industry expertise to solve common industry challenges, as the global voice of our industry, pioneering excellence in safe, efficient and sustainable energy. For 50 years IOGP has served the upstream industry as a unique forum to share know-how and good practices. It aims to enhance understanding of the critical role the oil and gas industry plays in the energy transitions to a low carbon energy future. – www.iogp.org

The International Energy Forum (IEF) is the world's largest international organization of energy ministers from 72 countries and includes both producing and consuming nations. It is the global home of energy dialogue, with a mandate to promote energy security, market stability and transparency.

The IEF is the custodian of the Joint Organizations Data Initiative, the world’s largest free database of official monthly oil and gas supply and demand data.

Member countries are signatories to the IEF Charter, which outlines the framework of the forum’s work.

The IEF maintains a permanent Secretariat in the Diplomatic Quarter of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Ipieca is the global oil and gas association dedicated to advancing environmental and social performance across the energy transition. It brings together members and stakeholders to lead in integrating sustainability by advancing climate action, environmental responsibility and social performance across oil, gas and renewables activities.

Ipieca was founded at the request of the United Nations Environment Programme in 1974. Through its non-lobby and collaborative approach Ipieca remains the industry’s principal channel of engagement with the UN.

The USLNG Association—operating under the global brand name of LNG Allies—is the only independent organization focused solely on advancing the interests of the USLNG industry. We are a 501(c)(6) nonprofit trade association.

Our members include USLNG exporters and project developers, U.S. natural gas producers, and allied service companies, including engineering firms, equipment makers, and global gas infrastructure providers.

As the leading industry voice, we promote effective public policy and communicate the domestic and global benefits of USLNG exports.

MARCOGAZ is a non-profit international association founded in 1968 and represents the European gas industry on all technical aspects of the gas system’s value chain, focusing mostly on the midstream and downstream’s sectors. MARCOGAZ represents the interests of national and European gas associations as well as the individual gas companies’ members spread across Europe. Our association has evolved its reputation over more than five decades, working closely with the gas industry, official bodies within the European Union and other influential partners.

McNeese State University is a public university in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Founded in 1939 as Lake Charles Junior College, it was renamed McNeese Junior College after John McNeese, an early local educator. The present name was adopted in 1970.

The Baker Institute for Public Policy is a nonpartisan, data-driven think tank located on the campus of Rice University. Our highly respected research, analysis and recommendations have informed the decisions of policymakers, business leaders, academics and the public for almost 30 years.

Southern University at Shreveport is a junior college in Shreveport, Louisiana

TEX-E is a first-of-a-kind collaboration among The University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, University of Houston, Rice University, and Prairie View A&M University—powered by Greentown Labs and MIT’s Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship—to create a powerful student-driven entrepreneurship ecosystem in Texas

In recognition of the significant economic and environmental opportunities for hydrogen in Texas, a set of key industry stakeholders has formed an industry Alliance to educate and advocate for effective policies, legislation, and rulemaking that will enable and incentivize the effective pursuit of these opportunities.  The Alliance will also be an entity with industry and technical expertise that can facilitate dialog and convene key stakeholders to enable the growth of a hydrogen economy and markets.

The Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA) represents integrated and independent companies that supply natural gas. Founded in 1965, NGSA is the only national trade association that solely focuses on producer-marketer issues related to the downstream natural gas industry. NGSA advocates for well-functioning markets that foster a growing, competitive market for natural gas.  NGSA is dedicated to achieving a cleaner future through strong partnerships with renewables and supporting innovative technologies and market solutions that reduce emissions.

Founded in 2013,  SGMF is a membership based non-governmental organisation (NGO) established to promote safety and industry best practice in the use of gaseous marine fuels including methane (all variants),  ammonia, hydrogen as well as methanol.

SGMF is governed by a representative Board and driven by two principal Committees.

The Society has consultative status at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), observer status at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP)  and has formal relationships with many other national and international organisations.

SGMF has several working groups at any one-time solving issues and producing outputs such as guidelines and checklists for the industry.

The Society is the definitive information resource for the industry.