With Welsh exports to the Middle East region increasing by over 600 per cent in two years and a long-standing expertise in the oil and gas sector, a delegation of specialist Welsh companies will be exhibiting at ADIPEC for the first time this year.
The Welsh companies attending ADIPEC, with the support of the Welsh Assembly Government’s international trade and investment arm, International Business Wales, reflect Wales’s innovation, quality and breadth of expertise in the sector.
The decision to exhibit at ADIPEC follows the success of Welsh companies at MEOS 2005, again lead by International Business Wales.
To date, the show has generated £370,000 worth of deals and £480,000 worth of opportunities for the participating Welsh companies.
Companies attending ADIPEC include M & A Engineering, which provides on-site machinery & hydraulic bolt tensioning services including high-precision line boring.
Jonathan Mortimer from M & A, said, “Although M & A has not exported before, we have considerable international experience within the team especially in the Middle East. Therefore, it is an appropriate time for us to investigate the market and look to establish contacts in the region.”
Lee Jennings, vice president (Middle East), International Business Wales, said, “By global standards Wales is a small country, but in the oil & gas sector it has the might to take on the world. In the last year Welsh oil and gas exports have increased by 48.7 per cent compared with the previous year - from £29 million ($54.2 million) to £44 million.”
“In 2004, International Business Wales set up an office in Dubai to help increase the trade links between Wales and the Middle East. Since this office was established, Welsh exports to the region have soared: In 2003 Welsh exports to the UAE were £34 million, yet by 2005 this had increased to £210 million.”
The Welsh companies attending ADIPEC include:
• Pembrokeshire Business Init-iative: The Milford Haven group represents a portfolio of companies that have considerable experience of successfully operating within the downstream oil and gas industry. Specialisms exist in the fields of engineering construction, refinery, maintenance, LNG import terminal construction and environmental services.
• M & A Engineering: M & A Engineering has been successfully providing portable machining solutions to UK-based oil & gas refineries, steel works and marine industries for many years.
• Powersafe Communications Ltd: Powersafe is committed to providing clients with quality service, after sales support.
• STEM-CO International Ltd: STEM-CO International Ltd provides equipment and a service package which significantly reduces the build up of sludge in crude oil storage tanks and maximises tank capacity utilization.
• Toplis Project Management: Provides project management and chartered quantity surveying services to construction professionals.
• Teddington Engineered Solutions Ltd: TES manufactures metallic expansion joints which are used extensively in the oil & gas sector. It also offers an array of specialist services.
