Dubai to host first oil technology summit

The Arab Gulf emirate of Dubai will host on November 19th 2007 a summit on Oil Technology (OT), which examines the role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in advancing the oil and gas sector in the Middle East.

The OT Summit is the first summit in the Middle East developed exclusively for senior decision-makers from the Middle East oil and gas sector. The event, entitled ‘OT Summit – Middle East’, is a strategic platform to meet with the industry peers and leading technology providers to discuss IT strategies and to bring the latest technologies for an in depth explanation, examination and to facilitate the transformation.

Dependence of oil and gas industries on communication and information technology has become an essential tool for production in our recent time, commented Khalid Eid, Managing Director of the Dubai – based World Development Forum (WDF), the organizer of the three-day event. It is worth noting that the OT summit will be co-located with the Government Technology Summit (GT Summit), which brings together the elite of ICT in Arab Governments to discuss how Technology can help Arab Governments to improve services offered to Citizens, Business and Government.

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