Dubai 2006 Brief Review

Getenergy Ltd’s second annual event brought together over 400 representatives of education, training, learning, development and HR from more than 25 countries across the three days; a fantastic achievement for any event, especially one in only its second year.

26 national, international and independent oil companies participated including:

Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Saudi Arabian Texaco, Statoil, Petronas, Kazmunaygaz, ADNOC, Repsol YPF, ADCO, ZADCO, ADGAS, PDO, Qatar Gas, NNPC, Atlantic LNG, Wintershall, Crescent Petroleum, Saudi Aramco, Kuwait Petroleum, Iraq Northern and Southern Oil Companies, Dubai Petroleum Company, Umm Al-Jawaby and Sigma Petroleum

as well as 17 world class universities from countries including:

UK, Malaysia, China, Canada, Australia, UAE, Russia, Qatar, USA and Norway


Not a trade show or exhibition, not a conference, not a talking shop - a unique event bringing people together without barriers to exchange value

Getenergy aims to break the mould of the PowerPoint driven conference and the anonymous trade show. Instead this dynamic and interactive event featured a series of receptions, summits, interactive exchanges, case study breakfasts and activities – as well as a ‘level playing field’ exhibition of 60 of the world’s leading universities, colleges, institutes and private training companies to the upstream oil and gas industry. Every aspect of the event, from the unique design of the Learning Arena to the banning of PowerPoints was designed to bring all participants together to exchange knowledge, experiences, views, value – and business.