Innovation Agora Partners

Agora Partners

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  ABB

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  ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss EX) is a pioneering technology leader in power grids, electrification products, industrial automation and robotics and motion, serving customers in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure globally. Continuing a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years, ABB today is writing the future of industrial digitalization with two clear value propositions: bringing electricity from any power plant to any plug and automating industries from natural resources to finished products. Our technology is enabling a safer, smarter and more sustainable future. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 147,000 employees. www.abb.com

  www.abb.com
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  Amazon Web Services

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  For 13 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 165 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 69 Availability Zones (AZs) within 22 geographic regions, spanning the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Sweden, and the UK. Millions of customers including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com

  https://aws.amazon.com/
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  Aramco

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  Saudi Aramco is a global integrated energy and chemicals company. We are driven by the core belief that energy is opportunity. From producing approximately one in every eight barrels of the world’s oil supply to developing new energy technologies, our global team is dedicated to creating impact in all that we do. We focus on making our resources more dependable, more sustainable and more useful. This helps promote stability and long-term growth around the world. www.saudiaramco.com

  https://www.saudiaramco.com/
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  Aspen Technology, Inc.

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  Aspen Technology (AspenTech) is a global leader in asset optimization software. Its solutions address complex, industrial environments where it is critical to optimize the asset design, operation and maintenance lifecycle. AspenTech uniquely combines decades of process modeling expertise with artificial intelligence. Its purpose-built software platform automates knowledge work and builds sustainable competitive advantage by delivering high returns over the entire asset lifecycle. As a result, companies in capital-intensive industries can maximize uptime and push the limits of performance, running their assets safer, greener, longer and faster. Visit AspenTech.com to find out more.

  https://www.aspentech.com/
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  Chevron

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  Chevron Corporation is one of the world's leading integrated energy companies. Through its subsidiaries that conduct business worldwide, the company is involved in virtually every facet of the energy industry. Chevron explores for, produces and transports crude oil and natural gas; refines, markets and distributes transportation fuels and lubricants; manufactures and sells petrochemicals and additives; generates power; and develops and deploys technologies that enhance business value in every aspect of the company's operations. Chevron is based in San Ramon, Calif. More information about Chevron is available at www.chevron.com.

  https://www.chevron.com/
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  Cognite

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  Cognite is a global industrial software provider enabling the full-scale digital transformation of heavy-asset industries around the world. With Cognite Data Fusion (CDF), we supply contextualized data to drive industrial applications that increase safety and efficiency and drive revenue.
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  Equinor

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  We’re Equinor, an international energy company with a proud history. Formerly Statoil, we are 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.

  www.equinor.com
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  Hunt Energy

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  With more than 85 years of operating experience, Hunt Energy is a private, family-owned energy company with a diverse portfolio of energy businesses. Hunt employs a community-centric, purpose-driven approach to energy investment and operations that creates long-term value for all stakeholders. Hunt Energy is a leader in today’s energy transition as it provides countries and communities with cost-effective and innovative solutions that best serve their energy needs, be they supply or demand-related. Positioned across the energy spectrum, Hunt Energy is comprised of Hunt Oil Company, Hunt Refining Company, Hunt Energy Solutions, Hunt Energy Enterprises, and Hunt Utility Services, which operates Sharyland Utilities, a Hunt-founded regulated electric utility that owns transmission assets in South Texas. Hunt Oil is one of the world’s leading oil and gas companies with operations in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Hunt Oil is engaged in conventional and unconventional exploration and production and has significant experience in building and operating complex infrastructure projects, including two LNG projects and the world’s highest natural gas pipeline. Created in 1946, Hunt Refining has refining activities in Alabama and Mississippi and is one of the largest asphalt suppliers and marketers in the Southeast United States. Hunt founded publicly-held InfraREIT, the asset owner and capital provider for Sharyland Utilities that was created in 1999, and grew it to $1.4 billion in assets before being sold to Oncor in 2019. Hunt Energy Solutions is involved in unregulated power development projects. Hunt Energy Enterprises is focused on creating disruptive energy technologies across the energy spectrum. It sold its directional drilling technology company to Helmrich and Payne in 2016, and is currently advancing efforts for a low capex perovskite solar technology and several early stage battery technology initiatives. 

  http://www.huntconsolidated.com/index.aspx
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  Microsoft

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  Microsoft is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

  We empower people to be independent, removing barriers, enhancing their skills, and creating communities. We’re for every individual and organization—we’re inclusive and united. And we help people achieve goals— from everyday to exceptional.

  Microsoft enables the energy sector to drive business transformation and achieve growth and greater social responsibility through digital technology—enhancing exploration, production and distribution operations, and accelerating the innovation needed for the transition to clean energy.

  www.microsoft.com

  www.microsoft.com
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  Occidental

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  Occidental is an international oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in the United States, Middle East and Latin America. We are the leading producer and largest acreage holder in the Permian Basin. Occidental is advancing a lower-carbon future with our subsidiary Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, which promotes innovative technologies that drive cost efficiencies and economically grow our business while reducing emissions. We also have a marketing and midstream business and WES Midstream, which includes Western Midstream Partners, LP. OxyChem, our chemical subsidiary, is among the top three U.S. producers for the principal products it manufactures and markets.

  https://www.oxy.com/Pages/default.aspx
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  OGCI Climate Investments

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  The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) is a consortium that takes practical action on Climate Change.

  OGCI Climate Investments is a $1B+ fund that invests in solutions to decarbonise “hard to abate” sectors like oil and gas, industrials and commercial transport. We look for outcomes that reduce methane and carbon dioxide emissions, and that can recycle or store carbon dioxide. Achieving significant impact requires global implementation and commercial frameworks; at OGCI Climate Investments, we collaborate with individuals, co-investors and governments to innovate, invest and implement impactful solutions.

  https://oilandgasclimateinitiative.com/climate-investments/
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  PETRONAS

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  Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) is a global energy and solutions company, ranked amongst the largest corporations on Fortune Global 500®. We seek opportunities in energy investments both in hydrocarbon and renewables across the globe and maximise value through our integrated business model. Our portfolio includes conventional and unconventional resources as well as a diverse range of fuel lubricants, and petrochemical products. This is further strengthened with a successful product delivery track record. Our customers are at the heart of everything that we do and our businesses are anchored on meeting their needs.

  Our technology is our differentiator and the key to ensuring excellence in all that we offer – energy, products and solutions, as well as unlocking new business frontiers. Sustainability is at the core of everything that we do, as we believe in harnessing the good in energy to add quality to everyday lives. People are our strength and partners for growth. We believe in progressing with our partners in addressing the evolving needs in today’s changing energy landscape.

  https://www.petronas.com/
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  Rice University

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  Boasting a 300-acre tree-lined campus in Houston, Rice University is ranked among the nation’s top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has a 6-to-1 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio, and a residential college system, which supports students intellectually, emotionally and culturally through social events, intramural sports, student plays, lectures series, courses and student government. Developing close-knit, diverse college communities is a strong campus tradition, which is why Rice is highly ranked for best quality of life and best value among private universities. As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to pathbreaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contribution to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this mission by cultivating a diverse community of learning and discovery that produces leaders across the spectrum of human endeavor.

  https://www.rice.edu/
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  Salesforce

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  Salesforce is the #1 CRM, bringing companies and customers together in the digital age. Founded in 1999, Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies—cloud, mobile, social, blockchain, voice, and artificial intelligence—to connect to their customers in a whole new way. They are coming to us as their trusted advisor, and together we are transforming their businesses around the customer.

  Salesforce Customer 360 is our vision for how we help customers with their digital transformations. It’s an integrated CRM platform that unites marketing, sales, commerce, service and more to give companies a single source of truth about their customers. It gives these teams a single, shared view of their customers so they can deliver the intelligent, personalized experiences their customers have come to expect from every brand and build lasting, trusted relationships.

  Salesforce will power more than 2 trillion B2B and B2C transactions this year for more than 150,000 companies and millions of Trailblazers--the individuals and their organizations who are using Salesforce to drive innovation, grow their careers, transform their businesses and give back to the community.

  https://www.salesforce.com/
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  Schlumberger

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  Schlumberger is the world's leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to the oil and gas industry. With product sales and services in more than 120 countries and employing approximately 105,000 people who represent over 140 nationalities, Schlumberger supplies the industry's most comprehensive range of products and services, from exploration through production, and integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions that optimize hydrocarbon recovery to deliver reservoir performance.

  Schlumberger Limited has executive offices in Paris, Houston, London and The Hague, and reported revenues of $32.82 billion in 2018. For more information, visit www.slb.com.

  www.slb.com
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  Siemens

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  Siemens is a global pacesetter in the energy sector, helping customers to meet the evolving demands of today’s industries and societies. With broad competencies across the entire energy value chain, the company offers a uniquely comprehensive portfolio for utilities, independent power producers, transmission system operators, the oil and gas industry and other energy intensive industries. Products, solutions, systems and services address the extraction, processing and the transport of oil and gas as well as power and heat generation in central and distributed thermal power plants, power transmission and grid stability, as well as energy transition technologies including storage. With a truly global footprint, Siemens is a leading innovator for the energy systems of today and tomorrow, as it has been for more than 170 years.

  www.new.siemens.com
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  The Carlyle Group

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  The Carlyle Group is a global alternative asset manager with $212 billion of assets under management across 339 investment vehicles. Founded in 1987 in Washington, DC, Carlyle has grown into one of the world’s largest and most successful investment firms, with more than 1,625 professionals operating in 31 offices in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.

  https://www.carlyle.com/
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  VMware

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  VMware is a leading innovator of enterprise software. Our cloud, networking, security, and digital workspace offerings provide an essential, ubiquitous digital foundation that powers the applications, services and experiences transforming the world.

  VMware’s vision and IT architecture deliver the freedom, flexibility, and choice to customers globally, aided by an extensive partner ecosystem. To accelerate the cloud journey, we give customers the ability to run, manage, connect, and protect any app—including cloud-native apps—on any cloud, so they can reduce costs, gain efficiencies, and innovate faster. We’re transforming networking and security by providing pervasive, intrinsic security with end-to-end connectivity for apps and data, wherever they reside. Our digital workspace solutions support end-to-end management and security for all applications, delivered to any device, empowering employees to work where and how they choose.

  Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to being a force for good, from our breakthrough innovations to our global impact.

  Visit http://www.vmware.com.

  https://www.vmware.com/
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  Xcoal and XLNG Energy & Resources

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  Xcoal Energy Resources is a privately-owned global coal marketing and logistics company headquartered in Latrobe, Pennsylvania (USA). Ernie Thrasher and Jack Porco lead a +100 person team with a “customer first” mentality spread throughout 20 global offices.

  Xcoal specializes in marketing metallurgical, thermal, and anthracite coals from around the world, with a focus on supply from the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Innovative and creative logistical processes supported 2019 export volumes of over 25.0 million metric tonnes.

  Xcoal is involved in coal mine development, financing, and related infrastructure projects and are actively pursuing investment opportunities in the global coal supply chain.

  We take pride in our record of providing customers with reliable service, stable quality, and consistent supply.

  XLNG Energy & Resources was developed to market and deliver alternative forms of energy to the global marketplace. XLNG has access to abundant U.S. shale gas supply in close proximity to LNG liquefaction plants and has experience sourcing LNG from other global supply basins as well.

  XLNG will build on Xcoal’s marketing infrastructure and commercial relationships, while utilizing a well-established and successful business model to deliver gas to our customers.

  Through strong supply and logistics relationships, XLNG exported 14.5 TBTU of LNG in 2019 and will continue to grow its presence in global LNG markets on our track record of reliable service & consistent supply.

  https://www.xcoal.com/

Agora Members

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  Bechtel

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  Bechtel is a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and government. Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact. Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

  Bechtel serves the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Oil, Gas & Chemicals; and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. www.bechtel.com

  www.bechtel.com
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  Beyond Limits

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  Beyond Limits is a pioneering Artificial Intelligence engineering company creating advanced software systems that go beyond conventional AI. Founded in 2014, Beyond Limits is helping companies solve tough, complex, mission-critical problems and transform their business. The company applies a unique hybrid approach to AI, combining numeric AI techniques like machine learning with higher order symbolic AI and expert human knowledge to produce actionable information. The result is faster, better decisions that reduce risk, decrease waste, and increase efficiency. For more information, please visit www.beyond.ai. 
  

  https://www.beyond.ai/
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  Flutura

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  Flutura has been recognized by Gartner, Forbes, Reuters, Bloomberg, Frost & Sullivan, and Nasscom as the leading Industrial AI & IIoT platform company in the world. In addition, Flutura has received the highest overall rating of 4.8/5 in Gartner Peer Insights - Voice of the Customer report for IIOT platforms.

  Flutura is pioneering the use of machine learning and AI in industries. With two new products Vision and Engineer’s Workbench, Flutura is leading the Industry4.0 revolution.

  Flutura focuses on achieving operational excellence through asset uptime reliability, operational efficiency and more.

  Physics, heuristics, and data science are Cerebra's thee pillars, that support self-learning & enhancing its predictive analytics capabilities. Flutura leverages both its technical expertise and domain knowledge-making Cerebra a industry preferred platform that provides real-time actionable insights.

  Tailor made solutions for the complete value chain in Oil & Gas sector, differentiates Flutura from the rest. Customers trust Flutura because of its accuracy and scalability.

  Our vision is to unlock value worth $1 billion by 2024.

  https://www.flutura.com/
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  GE

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  GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. For more than 125 years, GE has invented the future of industry, and today it leads new paradigms in additive manufacturing, materials science, and data analytics. GE people are global, diverse, and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfil GE’s mission and deliver for our customers.

  In the Power Generation industry, GE Gas Power division’s world-class portfolio of gas power systems and services utilizes a century-long expertise and spans the entire plant. It includes industry-leading gas and steam turbines, generators, heat recovery steam generators, condensers and other balance-of-plant equipment. In the Power, Oil & Gas, Petrochem and Chemical Manufacturing industries, GE Digital has twenty years of experience delivering AI-powered Asset Performance Management solutions that are transforming how the industry solves its toughest challenges – from reducing unplanned downtime and unnecessary costs to eliminating operational risk and asset-related incidents, all with the goals of keeping teams safe and increasing plant profitability. www.ge.com/digital 

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  Indian Oil Corporation Limited

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  Being The Energy of India is about IndianOil’s business interests encompassing the entire hydrocarbon value chain – from refining, pipeline transportation & marketing, to exploration & production of crude oil & gas, petrochemicals, gas marketing, alternative energy sources and globalisation of downstream operations.

  Being The Energy of India is about IndianOil, with its over 33,500-strong team, taking the lead in meeting India’s energy demands efficiently and effectively today, just as it has done over the last six decades, and an enterprise that fuels India’s core sector for economic development.

  Being The Energy of India is much more than just notching up high turnover (US$ 87 billion in 2018-19). It’s far more than being ranked 117 among the world’s largest corporates in Fortune’s ‘Global 500’ listing, and the vision to become 'a globally admired company.'

  As The Energy of India, IndianOil accounts for nearly half of India's petroleum products market share, with sales of about 90 million tonnes in 2018-19. Over 32% national refining capacity and 71% downstream sector pipelines throughput capacity are with IndianOil. What’s more, the IndianOil Group owns and operates 11 of India's 23 refineries, with a combined refining capacity of 80.7 million metric tonnes per annum. IndianOil refineries are on the last leg of upgradations to produce world class BS-VI compliant automotive fuels for supplies across the country from 1 April, 2020.

  Being The Energy of India is also about IndianOil’s global aspirations, fulfilled to an extent by the formation of subsidiaries in Sri Lanka, Mauritius, the UAE, Singapore, Sweden, USA and The Netherlands.

  IndianOil is on the path of its vision of being The Energy of India and A Globally Admired Company.

  More information about IndianOil can be found at www.iocl.com

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  Sunnova

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  Houston-based Sunnova Energy International Inc. (NYSE: NOVA) is a leading residential solar and battery storage service provider with customers across the U.S. and its territories. Sunnova is the source for clean, affordable, and reliable energy, with a simple mission: to power energy independence so that homeowners have the freedom to live life uninterrupted™.

  https://www.sunnova.com/
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  Woods Hole

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  The ocean is a defining feature of our planet and crucial to life on Earth, yet it remains one of the planet’s last unexplored frontiers. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), established in 1930, is the world’s foremost independent research organization focusing on marine science, engineering, and higher education. WHOI’s unique complement of assets include world-class scientists and engineers who push the limits of knowledge, state-of-the-art research vessels and underwater vehicles, and graduate students who become leaders in oceanography.

  WHOI scientists and engineers are committed to understanding all facets of the ocean as well as its complex connections with Earth’s atmosphere, land, ice, seafloor, and life—including humanity. This is essential not only to advance knowledge about our planet, but also to ensure society’s long-term welfare and help guide human stewardship of the environment.

  Our ocean. Our planet. Our future.

  https://www.whoi.edu/
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  World Energy Cities Partnership

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  Established in 1995, the World Energy Cities Partnership (WECP) aims to foster the world’s energy transition by facilitating international economic partnerships for its member cities. Recognized as energy capitals, our member cities are uniquely positioned to address the issue of a sustainable, long-term energy future for all, and the WECP provides a forum in which to share experiences, lessons learned and innovations.

  Our activities center around two annual meetings. A yearly meeting is held in Houston during the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) and the Annual General Meeting is hosted by a different city on a rotating basis. Our 2020 AGM will be held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia (November 8-11). Alongside these meetings, the WECP also facilitates trade missions so that local businesses can learn about development opportunities in other member cities.

  Learn more at www.energycities.org

  https://energycities.org/
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  World Petroleum Congress

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  The 23rd World Petroleum Congress is the oil and gas industry’s largest and most prestigious international event. This triennial event will take place in Houston, Texas,December 6-10, 2020. Known as “the Olympics of the oil and gas sector,”the Congress attracts the highest-level industry and government leaders from around the world, including heads of state, ministers of energy and C-suite executives. More than 100 countries, 50 ministers, 700 expert speakers, 1,000 media and 10,000 delegates are expected to participate in the Congress, which will also feature the World Petroleum Exhibition in the 50,000 square meter George R. Brown Convention Centerin Houston’s Downtown Campus.The World Petroleum Council was established in 1933 and provides a neutral platform for discussion of the issues facing the oil and gas industry and its stakeholders around the globe. It is a non-advocacy, non-political organization, dedicated to the application of scientific advances in the oil and gas industries, technology transfer and the sustainable use of the world’s petroleum resources for the benefit of all. The WPC is registered as a charity in the UK. Its nearly 70 member countries represent 96% of the world’s oil and gas production and consumption.Further program and event details for the 23rd World Petroleum Congress can be found at www.wpc2020.com

  https://www.world-petroleum.org/