Two new features this year marked the 11th Gas Summit held October 26-27 in Paris and organized by Pétrostrategies consultant and publisher, Institut Français du Pétrole, oil and gas consultants SPTEC and Poten & Partners Inc. For the first time, no ministers or officials attended, and discussions took place among industry leaders alone with few political overtones. Industry leaders noted that there were signs of demand destruction. On the supply side, companies were less worried than politicians about the short and medium term but were more interested in solving the technical hurdles to uninterrupted supply.