THE World Petroleum Council (WPC) has announced its official endorsement of the Middle East Process Engineering Conference & Exhibition, MEPEC 2013, just as its President, Dr Renato Bertani, has accepted to join the MEPEC Advisory Committee.

This was contained in a statement issued by the organizers and made available to Vanguard in Lagos via electronic mail.

It was gathered that cross promotional activities and transfer of technical knowledge, especially designed to support and promote MEPEC 2013, have been agreed.

The statement reads in part “The MEPEC 2013 team is delighted to announce that the highly respected World Petroleum Council, the only international organization representing all aspects of the petroleum sector globally, has agreed to support the MEPEC initiative. Mohsen Al Majnouni, Chairman of SAS-AIChE had this to say: “We are honored that such a prestigious and global organization has accepted to support our flagship conference and exhibition.

Given the incredible success of the last World Petroleum Congress that took place in Doha in December 2011 and the thousands of senior executives, many of whom engineers by formation, that enjoyed attending this unique event, many of our clients and industry colleagues in the Middle East will understand the value for MEPEC being able to reach out to this audience and to communicate its objectives”

MEPEC 2013 is the only event in the Middle East to receive such accolade by the WPC and the MEPEC 2013 Organizing Committee will also take a number of steps and initiatives to actively promote the next World Petroleum Congress to be held in Moscow, Russia from 15 to 19 June 2014.

Following the signature of the agreement, Dr Pierce Riemer, Director General for the WPC added: “Process Engineers are amongst the most important stakeholders in our industry to help tackle key technical, social, environmental and management issues in order to contribute towards seeking solutions to those issues. MEPEC offers a unique focus into process engineering and our organization is proud to support the Middle East based community of chemical, petrochemical and petroleum engineers. We also have total faith that the organizers behind MEPEC 2013 will apply best standards when it comes to managing their event and delivering a first class experience to its participants”

MEPEC is the major international forum for discussion and exchange of practical experience in all aspects of process engineering issues related to the process industry (including but not limited to upstream / downstream activities in the Oil and Gas and Petrochemical Industries).