Adipec 2012 to host dedicated UAE oil, gas museum

29/05/2012 07:42 AST

The organiser of the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference, or Adipec, the largest oil and gas exhibition in the Middle East, will unveil a dedicated oil and gas museum at this year’s event.

In addition, the museum will feature a tribute to the vision of the UAE’s founder, the late Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

Held under the patronage of the President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the 15th edition of Adipec will take place from November 11-14 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.

Comprising exhibits loaned by local and multinational energy companies, the museum will be a chronological study of the UAE’s oil and gas industry, from its origins in Abu Dhabi in 1939 to the present.

“Abu Dhabi is estimated to have the world’s sixth-largest oil reserves and daily oil production of around 2.6 million barrels. But despite the global importance of the emirate as an energy producer, no museum dedicated to the oil and gas industry in the UAE currently exists. Given ADIPEC’s standing as the region’s largest oil and gas event, the 15th exhibition is the ideal venue for such a fascinating and necessary historical record,” dmg::energy exhibitions director Kimon Alexandrou said.

“A great deal of documentation on the UAE’s oil and gas heritage already exists. Working with Abu Dhabi’s oil and gas subsidiaries and our partners in Adipec, our role will be to bring together as much of this priceless detail as we can — to educate both exhibition visitors and the local community about the industry’s transformative impact on UAE society and the significant role the UAE plays in meeting the world’s energy needs,” he added.

The Adipec oil and gas museum will comprise a wide variety of exhibits, many of them on public display for the first time, including archive photography, film, plans, engineering components and machinery, as well as the testimonies of former and present-day oil executives.

Khaleej Times