31-03-November-2022
The Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference 2022 was held from 31st October -3rd November 2022 at Abu Dhabi, UAE. FIPI had once again coordinated to set-up the India Pavilion for the participation of the Indian Oil & Gas industry in the above Exhibition. India’s major oil & gas companies viz. ONGC, IOCL, BPCL, HPCL, OIL, GAIL, EIL and PLL had participated and exhibited their technologies & facilities to the world wide organizations during the above Exhibition & Conference.
Hon’ble Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas & Housing and Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep Singh Puri was invited by H.E. Suhail Mohamed Faraj AL Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, UAE and H.E. Dr Sultan Bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology UAE and MD & Group CEO ADNOC to attend the Opening Ceremony on 31st October 2022. Hon’ble Minister participated in the Ministerial Panel discussions along with his counterparts from UAE, Arab Republic of Egypt and USA.
Chairman FIPI & Chairman IOCL along with MDs/CMDs from ONGC, HPCL, GAIL, EIL and PLL welcomed Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Hon’ble Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Housing & Urban Affairs at India Pavilion. Hon’ble Minister inaugurated the India Pavilion at ADIPEC 2022 in the presence of H.E. Shri Sanjay Sudhir Ambassador of India to UAE, Senior officials’ from Indian oil & Gas companies, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas Corporation and Indian Embassy.
During ADIPEC 2022, Hon’ble Minister had meetings with his counterparts from various countries, heads of international energy organizations and CEOs of global oil & gas companies. He also had a meeting with senior Officials of DMG Event to review the preparations made for the India Energy Week being organized from 6th-8th February 2023 at Bengaluru, India.
On 31st October 2022, GAIL had signed an agreement with ADNOC to Explore LNG Supply and Decarbonization Opportunities. The agreement was exchanged between Shri Sandeep Kumar Gupta, C&MD, GAIL (India) Ltd and Ms Fatema Al Nuaimi, CEO ADNOC LNG in the presence of H.E. Dr. Sultan Bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and H.E. Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Housing & Urban Affairs, India.
On 1st November 2022, Shri Pankaj Jain, Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas had visited ADIPEC-2022 and interacted with each company at India Pavilion.
The India Pavilion at ADIPEC 2022 was successfully set up by FIPI team. It had a great footfall and delivered various business opportunities to the partner organizations.