WPC Energy

The World Petroleum Council (WPC) is an oil and gas industry forum and international organization representing the petroleum sector worldwide ^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

WPC has been called "the world’s premier oil & gas forum since 1933."^[6] It is widely recognised to "include the most prestigious national oil and gas companies and agencies of the world"^[7]

World Petroleum Congress

The premier conference that is organized by the World Petroleum Council is called the World Petroleum Congress. Starting in 1933, the congress was held every four years until 1991, with a 14-year hiatus in between 1937 and 1951 because of World War II. After 1991, it was held every three years until the year 2000. There was a move to have it hosted every two years after the 2000 edition, with Rio de Janeiro hosting one in 2002, but the cycle returned to every three years after that. In order to host a congress, there is a bidding process by interested cities for one in a particular year.^[8]

WPC	Year	Host city	Host country
1st	1933	London	United Kingdom
2nd	1937	Paris	France
3rd	1951	The Hague	Netherlands
4th	1955	Rome	Italy
5th	1959	New York City	United States
6th	1963	Frankfurt	West Germany
7th	1967	Mexico City	Mexico
8th	1971	Moscow	Soviet Union
9th	1975	Tokyo	Japan
10th	1979	Bucharest	Romania
11th	1983	London	United Kingdom
12th	1987	Houston	United States
13th	1991	Buenos Aires	Argentina
14th	1994	Stavanger	Norway
15th	1997	Beijing	China
16th [1]	2000	Calgary	Canada
17th [2]	2002	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
18th [3]	2005	Johannesburg	South Africa
19th [4]	2008	Madrid	Spain
20th [5]	2011	Doha	Qatar
21st [6]	2014	Moscow	Russia
22nd	2017	Istanbul	Turkey