GE Gas Power Partnership Summit fosters regional supply chain and collaborations

GE Gas Power Partnership Summit has fostered regional supply chain and collaborations. GE Gas Power hosted the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (MEASA) Partnership Summit 2021 as part of its commitment to further expand partnerships with regional suppliers. Up to 220 organizations from over 30 countries sent representatives to the event, which was themed “Grow Global Reach, Drive Regional Impact.”

Joseph Anis, President and CEO of GE Gas Power Europe, Middle East, and Africa said, “At GE, we are driven by the vision of a world that works better, and our suppliers are critical partners in helping us realize this goal. We remain committed to growing local entrepreneurship and strengthening the regional supplier ecosystem across the power sector because by cooperating closely, we can find better, faster, and more economical solutions to address our customers’ needs. In doing so, we can all grow faster together, while contributing towards economic diversification, job creation, and national development objectives.”

In 2020, GE Gas Power worked with over 650 suppliers within the region and globally to support various services and projects across MEASA. Additionally, GE Gas Power actively developed over 125 regional companies for worldwide requirements to meet global standards of safety, quality, delivery, and competitiveness.

The Partnership Summit is conducted once a year and allows participants to identify possibilities and difficulties in delivering cleaner, more accessible energy to the people who rely on it around the region. The focus of this year’s event was on responding to the COVID-19 epidemic as well as the quickly changing energy landscape, which included the need for more sustainable, economical, and reliable power. It was held as a week-long virtual forum, with broadcasts, online trainings, an interactive question and answer session, and one-on-one meetings between GE’s executive teams and other suppliers. Safety and compliance, the future of energy across MEASA, regional market dynamics, detailed dives on major goods, services, and projects, supply chain and sourcing overviews, the benefits of inclusion and diversity at work, and cyber-security were all on the agenda.

The Summit also featured an awards ceremony honouring firms that excelled in the areas of Quality, Safety, Delivery, Competitiveness, and Culture. In the ‘Quality’ category, Osborne Engineering LLC and Kamlesh Trading from the United Arab Emirates were honoured for partnering to provide a great client experience.

For more than 80 years, GE has aided in the building of the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) energy infrastructure. GE-built power generation technologies are now placed in up to 350 locations throughout the area, generating up to half of the GCC’s electricity.

GE’s investments in the GCC include a service center in Jebel Ali, Dubai, which provides maintenance, testing, and repair solutions for generators and gas turbines; the GE Manufacturing and Technology Center (GEMTEC) campus in Dammam, which includes a Service and Repairs Center for gas turbines, a Hot & Harsh Research & Development (R&D) Center, a Monitoring & Diagnostics Center for the remote monitoring of power generation assets, as well as GE Saudi Advanced Turbines (GESAT), a joint investment by Dussur and GE to manufacture gas turbines and components in the Kingdom; and the GE Kuwait Technology Center (GEKTC), a first-of-its-kind facility in the country that includes training, tooling, and R&D cells.