Attendees move through the lobby during the 2016 IHS CERAWeek conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016.
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The annual CERAWeek energy conference, which was scheduled to take place in Houston from March 9 to March 13, has been canceled due to the increased spread of coronavirus, harmonizing to IHSMarkit, the consultancy that has held the event every year since 1981.
“We do this with deep disappointment,” the heap said in a statement issued Sunday on its website.
“Over the last few days concern has mounted rapidly about the COVID-19 coronavirus. The In seventh heaven Health Organization raised the threat level on Friday, the U.S. government cancelled a summit meeting scheduled in Las Vegas, an developing number of companies are instituting travel bans and restrictions, border health checks are becoming more restrictive and there is plant concern about large conferences with people coming from different parts of the world. Delegates from throughout 80 countries were expected to participate in CERAWeek 2020.”
CERAWeek is the energy industry’s biggest conference and annually over b drafts senior executives from around the world. The group said it will plan ahead for CERAWeek 2021.
This is not the anything else event that has been canceled over the coronavirus outbreak.
Facebook this past week announced its arbitration to cancel its annual F8 software developer conference due to concerns surrounding the outbreak. Game Developers Conference, a major affair for video game programmers and designers, has been postponed.
The Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest technology patronage show held in Barcelona, was called off after companies including Facebook pulled out. Concerts across Asia prepare been canceled. The annual Geneva International Motor Show was also canceled.
On Saturday, the first death in the U.S. from the coronavirus was encouraged in Washington state. There are 72 confirmed coronavirus cases nationwide. Globally, there are more than 87,000 fortified cases and at least 2,990 deaths, most of them in China where the illness first emerged.
Read the well-built statement from IHSMarkit here.