Month: July 2018

Ethylene Middle East Technology Conference (EMET) Middle East Fine and Specialty Chemicals, (ME-SPEC), Chem- World Exhibition Middle East (ME-CWE)

Shaping the Future of Middle East Chemical Industry
Three Events. One Venue. Over 3,500 Participant

Dubai UAE, 20th July 2018: The three most acclaimed events in the chemical industry are set to take place in Bahrain this year. These events will play an integral role in shaping the future of the Chemical Industry in the Middle East.
Under the patronage of His Excellency Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Minister of Oil, Kingdom of Bahrain and supported by National Oil and Gas Authority (NOGA), the Ethylene Middle East Technology Conference & Exhibition (EMET) alongside the Middle East Fine and Specialty Chemicals Exhibition and Conference (ME-SPEC) and the Chem-World Exhibition Middle East (ME-CWE) will be held on 11th and 12th December 2018 at the Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Centre in Manama. Together, the events anticipate reaching over 3,500 participants and over 200 exhibiting companies over the span of two days.
Under the chairmanship of Metab Al Shammari, General Manager-Petrochemicals, SABIC, these events will bring together technical experts from all over the world to share practical experiences, innovative ideas and strategies for reducing costs, maximizing return and creating value on issues related to planning, design, operation and maintenance. Attendees include C-level executives, project engineering managers, unit managers, chemical engineers and other prominent executives from the energy, chemical, retail and construction industry.
Current industry supporters of the event include: TechnipFMC, BD Energy Systems, CRI Catalyst, Ingenero, Intecha, Kubota, Pall Corporation and Schmidt + Clemens Group, Keit Spectometers, Kinetic Process Improvements, Chevron Philips, Nalco, MCO Saudi Arabia, Doncasters Paralloy.
Currently in its 3rd edition, EMET is the event for professionals looking to develop their technical knowledge and optimize their position in the fast-evolving ethylene industry by increased operational efficiency, sustainability and excellence.
The 2nd edition of ME-SPEC provides a regional forum for petrochemical suppliers, converters, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and potential investors to showcase their products and services, network, and share knowledge & experience across the entire value chain.
With the assistance of the international network of China National Chemical Information Centre (CNCIC), Chem-World Exhibition (CWE) has become the most influential event in the chemicals and chemical processing industry, having extensive visibility and influence in Middle East. ME-CWE aims to support
and encourage enterprises to gain an in-depth understanding of chemical trends and requirements to expand business opportunities between China and the Middle East. This platform will provide face to face networking opportunities for chemical CEOs, managers, engineers, technocrats and scientists, policy makers, planners, and the world’s largest chemical companies.
Combined, these three events make for an unmissable, world class networking event for delegates, visitors and investors.
For further information, please contact Karan Kukreja via phone at +971 4427 0739 or email at [email protected]. For more information visit www.ethylene-me.com (EMET), and www.me-spec.org (ME-SPEC). The three most acclaimed events in the chemical industry are set to take place in Bahrain this year. These events will play an integral role in shaping the future of the Chemical Industry in the Middle East.
Under the patronage of His Excellency Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Minister of Oil, Kingdom of Bahrain and supported by National Oil and Gas Authority (NOGA), the Ethylene Middle East Technology Conference & Exhibition (EMET) alongside the Middle East Fine and Specialty Chemicals Exhibition and Conference (ME-SPEC) and the Chem-World Exhibition Middle East (ME-CWE) will be held on 11th and 12th December 2018 at the Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Centre in Manama. Together, the events anticipate reaching over 3,500 participants and over 200 exhibiting companies over the span of two days.
Under the chairmanship of Metab Al Shammari, General Manager-Petrochemicals, SABIC, these events will bring together technical experts from all over the world to share practical experiences, innovative ideas and strategies for reducing costs, maximizing return and creating value on issues related to planning, design, operation and maintenance. Attendees include C-level executives, project engineering managers, unit managers, chemical engineers and other prominent executives from the energy, chemical, retail and construction industry.
Current industry supporters of the event include: TechnipFMC, BD Energy Systems, CRI Catalyst, Ingenero, Intecha, Kubota, Pall Corporation and Schmidt + Clemens Group, Keit Spectometers, Kinetic Process Improvements, Chevron Philips, Nalco, MCO Saudi Arabia, Doncasters Paralloy.
Currently in its 3rd edition, EMET is the event for professionals looking to develop their technical knowledge and optimize their position in the fast-evolving ethylene industry by increased operational efficiency, sustainability and excellence.
The 2nd edition of ME-SPEC provides a regional forum for petrochemical suppliers, converters, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and potential investors to showcase their products and services, network, and share knowledge & experience across the entire value chain.
With the assistance of the international network of China National Chemical Information Centre (CNCIC), Chem-World Exhibition (CWE) has become the most influential event in the chemicals and chemical processing industry, having extensive visibility and influence in Middle East. ME-CWE aims to support
and encourage enterprises to gain an in-depth understanding of chemical trends and requirements to expand business opportunities between China and the Middle East. This platform will provide face to face networking opportunities for chemical CEOs, managers, engineers, technocrats and scientists, policy makers, planners, and the world’s largest chemical companies.
Combined, these three events make for an unmissable, world class networking event for delegates, visitors and investors.

For further information, please contact Karan Kukreja via phone at +971 4427 0739 or email at [email protected]. For more information visit www.ethylene-me.com (EMET), and www.me-spec.org (ME-SPEC).

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Leadership Excellence for Women Awards and Symposium (LEWAS)

Influential leaders to speak at the Leadership Excellence for Women Awards and Symposium (LEWAS)
Advocates for Gender Diversity come together as panelists for LEWAS on 23rd and 25th October 2018 in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain

Dubai, U.A.E., 26 June 2018:

Under the patronage of His Excellency Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Minister of Oil, Kingdom of Bahrain and supported by National Oil and Gas Authority (NOGA), pioneers in the energy industry have launched the fourth edition of Leadership Excellence for Women Awards and Symposium (LEWAS).

Under the Chairpersonship of Reem Al Ghanim, HR Leader, Saudi Aramco, LEWAS began in 2013 with the objective to Empower, Engage and Elevate women. Since its inception, it has recognized and honored men and women who are not only making a mark in the energy industry but are also being an advocate for gender diversity in the GCC.

About the Symposium: The highly anticipated LEWAS Symposium will be held on 25th October 2018 at the Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Centre as a co-located event of GDA International Downstream Conference and Exhibition. The objective of the symposium is to celebrate professional achievements, learn from well-respected experts, have an opportunity to network and improve upon knowledge.

In addition to the opening remarks delivered by His Excellency Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Minister of Oil, Kingdom of Bahrain and Suleman A. Al-Bargan, Vice President Domestic Refining & NGL Fractionation, Saudi Aramco, the symposium, themed at Gender Diversity Advancement, covers key topics that aim at different aspects of gender diversity. LEWAS presents a high caliber of panelists who are experts and can offer deep insights into gender diversity in the energy industry.

Presentation- Best practices in advancing women in downstream: This presentation, themed at Gender Diversity Advancement, aims at sharing successful stories about advancing women in downstream. This presentation is led by Abdulaziz M. Al- Judaimi, Senior Vice President Downstream, Saudi Aramco.

Winning women panel: The winning women panel, themed at Gender Diversity Accomplishments, aims at highlighting the opportunities found by women in the downstream industry. This panel, moderated by Najla Baeshen, Saudi Aramco, is led by Fatema Moosa, Supervisor, GPIC.

Talk show- Examples of innovative solutions in the GDA founding companies and partners: This session, themed at Gender Diversity Accountability is moderated by Eithne Treanor, Managing Director, E Treanor Media and is led by Mae S. Al Mozaini, Manager, Research & Advisory Corporate Affairs, Saudi Aramco, Dawood Nassif, General Manager, nogaholding and Muna Al Suwaidi, Vice President Human Capital Division, ADNOC Refining.

Debate- To quota or not to quota: This debate, themed at Gender Diversity Approaches is aimed at quotas, targets, sticky floor, leaky pipeline, and glass ceiling. It focuses on the best approaches to use in these scenarios. This debate is moderated by Eithne Treanor, Managing Director, E Treanor Media and Shamael Al-Sharikh, Team Leader Corporate Communications, Q8 – Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd. and is led by Ebrahim Talib, Deputy Chief Executive (Refining and Marketing), BAPCO and Naila Haider E. Baqer, Team Leader Market Research, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC).

Presentation- The state of gender diversity globally in oil and gas, and in downstream specifically. Numbers tell the story: This presentation, themed at Gender Diversity Analytics is led by Dr. Iván Martén, Senior Partner and Managing Director, Vice Chairman Energy Practice, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

About the Awards: The Leadership Excellence for Women Awards will be held on 23rd October 2018 at Four Seasons Hotel, Bahrain Bay. The awards is dedicated to recognizing excellence and celebrating professionals who demonstrate talent and innovation in the energy industry.

LEWAS is a co-located event of the GDA International DownstreamConference and Exhibition. It is the leading Middle East strategic platform for downstream professionals to address business challenges, share best practices and unlock potential opportunities through collaboration and partnerships. Striving towards excellence, this forum aims at engaging regional and international stakeholders across the business, academia and technology providers to capitalize on investment, innovation and growth.
Registration for the symposium is currently open. To get involved, log on to www.lewa-symposium.org.

For any enquiries or suggestions, kindly contact Gitanjali Venugopal at [email protected] or +971 442 70 739.

Chevron, BP, Shell, Arkema, Veolia and Thames Water set to share their operational excellence journeys at IQPC’s conference on Operational Excellence in Energy, Chemicals & Resources

London; July 2, 2018 – Over 150 Operations leaders will gather in London this 2-4 October at the Operational Excellence in Energy, Chemicals & Resources Summit to learn from world-class industry leaders how to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce operational risk and build a sustainable culture of operational excellence.

The inspirational 40+ global speaker line-up features senior executives from Veolia, Shell, Chevron, BP, Thames Water, Arkema, Innogy SE, Aquaterra Energy and many more – all presenting at the event and there to guide delegates on their business transformation journey.

Download a copy of the agenda to find out more >>

Key themes for 2018 include how to:

  • Make Operational Excellence part of your organizational DNA
  • Manage change – without compromising business performance
  • Lay the foundation for OE by establishing principles that begin with safety – and then applying them to other areas of the business
  • Proactively identify and mitigate low probability yet high consequence events
  • Better leverage Technology to Drive out Operations Costs
  • Implement changes in leadership thinking and behaviors to drive transformation
  • Increase operational visibility by optimizing data and information management – and minimize unplanned events
  • Establish a unified OE strategy – to ultimately improve business performance
  • Strengthen your core operating processes to drive enterprise transformation
  • Detect whether your work environments, culture and processes are increasing the likelihood of a risk occurring
  • Benchmark your company against the characteristics of High Reliability Organizations (HROs)

For further information and for the full event line-up, download the 2018 agenda or visit the official event website.

Masdar and Equinor inaugurate world’s first battery storage facility connected to an offshore wind farm

Peterhead, Scotland; June 27, 2018 – Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company) and the Norwegian multinational energy company Equinor (formerly Statoil) have installed, and will soon begin testing, a new battery system designed to store electricity generated by Hywind Scotland, the world’s first commercial-scale floating wind farm.

The battery storage solution is the first in the world to be connected to an offshore wind farm. The project is designed to evaluate the capabilities of advanced storage technologies to optimise the release of electricity from renewable energy plants to transmission grids – from both a technical and commercial perspective.

Deployed at an onshore substation, the battery system known as “Batwind” has a storage capacity of 1.2 megawatts, equivalent to the battery capacity of more than 1.3 million iPhones. By helping to mitigate peaks and troughs in production, the project aims to maximise the commercial value of Hywind Scotland’s electricity output.

Following the successful installation of Batwind, Masdar and Equinor will now explore how the new storage solution can be utilised to improve the operational and cost efficiency of other wind farms – to open up new commercial opportunities in an expanding global wind power market.

Bader Al Lamki, Masdar’s Executive Director for Clean Energy, said: “Energy storage is vital to unlocking the full potential of renewables by mitigating the variable nature of wind and solar power. Batwind will help us to understand how we can deploy this new technology in future projects, both in solar power and wind power plants.”

“Batwind exemplifies how we at Masdar are moving forward with our partners, through innovation and collaboration, to bring commercially viable solutions to the renewable energy sector,” Al Lamki added.

According to a recent International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) report from last October the cost of installing battery storage systems could fall by two-thirds (66%) by 2030. Masdar has played a key role in developing energy storage solutions as part of its commitment over the last decade to advance commercially viable clean technologies. An example is the Gemasolar concentrated solar power (CSP) project in Spain, the first in the world to use molten salt thermal storage and able to generate electricity 24 hours a day.

Operational data from Batwind will be assessed based on the weather, market prices and consumption patterns to create an intelligent and optimised storage system.

“The variability of renewable energy can to a certain extent be managed by the grid, but to integrate even more renewables, we will need to find new smart solutions for energy storage to reduce system integration costs and provide firm power,” said Hywind Development Manager, Sebastian Bringsvaerd. “How to do this in a smart and value creating way is what we are aiming to learn from Batwind.”

The Hywind Scotland wind farm was inaugurated in October 2017. Masdar holds a 25 per cent stake in the project while Equinor owns the remaining 75 per cent. The wind farm is made up of five 6-megawatt (MW) turbines floating 25 kilometres off the coast of Peterhead in northeast Scotland.

With an installed capacity of 30MW, Hywind Scotland supplies approximately 6,600 homes and displaces 63,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually.

The project is Masdar’s second offshore wind partnership with Equinor, after the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm in the English North Sea. Combined with London Array, currently the world’s largest offshore wind farm in operation, the projects bring the total capacity of the UK renewable energy projects in which Masdar is an investor to over 1 gigawatt (GW).

Since 2006, Masdar has invested in renewable energy projects with a combined value of US$8.5 billion; the company’s share of this investment is US$2.7 billion. Besides the UK, Masdar’s renewable energy projects are located in the UAE, Jordan, Mauritania, Egypt, Morocco, Montenegro, Serbia and Spain. The electricity generating capacity of these projects, which are either fully operational or under development, is around 3 gigawatts (GW) gross.

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About Masdar

Masdar is Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company which works to advance the development, commercialisation and deployment of clean energy technologies and solutions. The company serves as a link between today’s fossil fuel economy and the energy economy of the future. Wholly owned by the Mubadala Investment Company, the strategic investment company of the Government of Abu Dhabi, Masdar is dedicated to the United Arab Emirates’ long-term vision for the future of energy and water.

About Equinor

Equinor, formerly Statoil, is an international energy company with 20,000 committed colleagues developing oil, gas, wind and solar energy in more than 30 countries worldwide. We’re the largest operator in Norway, among the world’s largest offshore operators, and a growing force in renewables. Driven by our Nordic urge to explore beyond the horizon, and our dedication to safety, equality and sustainability, we’re building a global business on our values and the energy needs of the future.

Contacts:

E-mail: [email protected]

Tel enquiries in Arabic: +971 2 653 3333

Tel enquiries in English: +971 2 653 6014

For more information please visit: http://www.masdar.ae and connect: facebook.com/masdar.ae and twitter.com/masdar

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