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15 companies to speak about Digital Innovations & Smart Infrastructures
United Arab Emirates - Under the patronage of His Excellency Michel Miraillet, Ambassador of France to the UAE, EVOLEN, the French association of companies related to the Oil and Gas industry & Energy Futures and BUSINESS FRANCE organized meetings between French companies and ADNOC group within a series of themed workshops.
French companies showcased innovative and technical solutions, designed to meet and anticipate the demands of a fast-changing sector. With the UAE’s Vision 2021 agenda, the symposium aimed at highlighting skills of French firms and enabling local companies finding innovative solutions through French technology within the new contemporary energy context.
The meetings consisted of several presentations of French experts, topics included energy efficiency, operating facilities, digital innovations and smart infrastructures, energy storage, refining and petrochemical, water management and waste treatment, control systems, revamping.
The French Industry has a long tradition of innovation in the Oil & Gas, it covers the whole spectrum of Oil & Gas activities all over the world in research, development, innovation, technology, geosciences, equipment, projects and services.
HE Michel Miraillet, Ambassador of France to the UAE stated: “I would like to express my most sincere thanks to all the representatives of ADNOC group’s operating companies for attending this second UAE-France Oil & Gas Symposium. The Strategic Dialogue Committee initiated in 2013 between our 2 countries was determined to move forward towards this objective. Traditionally, large contracts represent the core of our exports with an industry driven by international leaders such as Total, Veolia. However
French SME’s are more and more active in the UAE, either on their own or acting as subcontractors to large companies.”
The Federation remains France’s main export market in the Gulf region with $3.8 billion in 2016. Bilateral trade just reached $5 billion, wich ranks the UAE as the second trade partner of France in the Gulf region, after KSA.
“I am very impressed by the huge amount of investments forecasted in the Oil & Gas business field over the period 2012-2020. Given the importance of this sector in the region, my understanding is that the UAE will remain a strategic partner for the French companies”, Miraillet Added.
Attending companies are available through this link: http://bit.ly/2q01Fbd
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About
EVOLEN gathers Entrepreneurs and Professionals from Oil & Gas to Energy Futures. EVOLEN network brings together some 1,350 members (250 corporate members and 1,100 ndividual oil and gas professionals). Their areas of expertise cover the entire oil and gas sector (exploration, production, storage, refining, and distribution) and renewables.
EVOLEN aims to promote the technological and industrial excellence of the French hydrocarbons industry and energy futures across the world and to foster the international deployment of French energy industry companies, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises.
With the advent of globalised economic competition, the EVOLEN association is doing everything it can to promote its corporate members and to foster their industrial and commercial development all over the world. It acts as an enhanced back-up force that supports the international development of its corporate members.
BUSINESS FRANCE is the national agency supporting the international development of the French economy, responsible for fostering export growth by French businesses, as well as promoting and facilitating international investment in France. It promotes France’s companies, business image and nationwide attractiveness as an investment location, and also runs the VIE international internship program.
© Press Release 2017
