Membership Benefits
Benefits of Corporate Membership
You join the other major companies who are on our list. The annual fees for Corporate Members is an excellent investment and does help the GPA Europe meet its objective of promoting technical and operational excellence throughout the European Gas Industry as we are a non profit making organisation.
- Corporate Members are allowed to display promotional material at GPA Functions, as defined by the Organisers and / or Management Committee
- You get unrestricted access (password protected) to the GPA Global Database of Technical Papers from conference presentations in USA, Europe, Canada, GCC and Venezuela since 1995 and ongoing for the future. This is a searchable database by Title, Author and / or Keyword.
- You receive regular issues of the GPA Europe journal “IN BRIEF”,
- We have made many improvements to our Programme and now include regular Knowledge Sessions aimed at attracting young engineers to participate in the GPA Europe meetings and conferences. We now hold at least two a year, they have proved very successful and we have some Member Companies send up to six of their young engineers for these awareness sessions. They are FREE to both Corporate and Individual Members and we welcome Trainees and Young Engineers from Corporate Members.
- Corporate Members can encourage any employees to attend our Technical Meetings and Conferences which best suited their disciplines. Any employee of a Corporate Member can take advantage of the generous Member discounted rates for participation.
- As a benefit to our Corporate Members we arrange to have table top areas for Display of Technical Brochures and Promotional / Publicity Materials at our meetings (subject to the constraints imposed by the venue) and just in case you have not been to one of our meetings before we would point out that there are excellent “networking” opportunities at the mid session coffee breaks, the lunch and at the open bar at the conclusion of the meeting. We also have quite active question and answer sessions after the papers.
- Corporate Members get exposure to a wider audience of Industry Professionals through the “Member Only Pages” listings on our web site (all hyper linked to your web site), the listings in our regular magazine / journal “in Brief…” and via a “rolling roll of honour” on the projector screens at all of our conferences.
- You can purchase copies of the GPSA Engineering Data Book for your technical library. A new 12th Edition has just been issued which contains many updates to numerous sections. Members can buy this book at extremely advantageous rates (£100.00 instead of £150.00)
- You can nominate two (level 3 – One only) corporate representatives who can act on your behalf at GPA functions, i.e., meetings, forums, panel discussions or any proceedings of the Association as well as any affiliated association.
- Additionally any employee of a Corporate Member Company can also attend all GPA public functions at privileged member rates.
- Corporate Membership facilitate Development of Employee Skills and Knowledge, Enhances the Company’s Visibility in the Natural Gas Industry and enables staff to learn from the Successes and Experiences of Peer Companies and help to reduce Capital Investment and Operating Costs
Benefits of Individual Membership
- Achieve personal and professional development
- Meet people / develop contacts
- Opportunities for leadership development
- Interact with individuals from different backgrounds and work experience
- Increase knowledge of natural gas industry
- Exposure to other views and opportunity to share experiences with industry peers
- Create new interpersonal relationships that can serve as a career long resource
- Provides an opportunity to promote ideas outside own company
- Receive Membership discounts on registration for GPA Meetings
- Gain access to the past papers
- Purchase GPA Publications at Member discounts
