In an exclusive interview with Oil Review Middle East, Friedrich Portner - Chief Commercial Officer, Maritime & Shipping Cluster, AD Ports Group explained how Noatum Maritime is strengthening its global portfolio by enhancing its existing capabilities across tankers, offshore and subsea, and container shipping to engage customers more deeply on multiple fronts, noting the company’s comprehensive offshore and subsea supply chain. He noted the increasing complexity of offshore projects and how the company is offering an integrated service to customers. Noatum Maritime has developed a very comprehensive and broad offshore support fleet, from multi-purpose vessels to dive support vessels and logistics vessels, while on the service side offering a comprehensive service portfolio.
Portner highlighted the company’s increasing focus on offshore wind, where it is building on oil and gas capabilities and expanding fabrication capacity through a recently purchased shipyard.
He also discussed how Noatum Maritime is leveraging technology and innovation to improve efficiency, safety and sustainability across its operations, highlighting in particular Milahi, a comprehensive integrated management platform enhanced with AI agents to support faster operational decisions. Technology and safety investments include autonomous remote vehicles, unmanned vessels, and electric tugs, and the company is continually looking to invest not only in software and technology but also into more advanced assets to advance operational capability.

In an exclusive interview with Oil Review Middle East at ADIPEC, Norinao Sato, President and CEO, Yokogawa Middle East and Africa, highlighted that the company is prioritising discussions with customers at the show, focusing on how it can help them overcome operational challenges, while showcasing AI, cybersecurity systems and other solutions. He explained how Yokogawa is driving forward industrial autonomy in the region, with projects underway applying AI to selected assets and control loops, and how the company is looking to expand AI deployments horizontally and vertically where they can most add value. Sato described the company’s direction as moving from industrial automation towards industrial autonomy (IA2IA) using AI and robotics, and highlighted the priority the company attaches to localisation throughout the region. The company has set up a digital centre of excellence in Saudi Arabia focusing on AI, cybersecurity and robotics, alongside training local talent, from which it will extend support to other countries. Yokogawa is also supporting local manufacture and engineering.

At Middle East Energy this year, Technical Review Middle East caught up with UTEC’s CEO, Engr. Wael Gad. He explained how the company is supporting evolving and increasingly sophisticated energy demands of infrastructure and data centres. UTEC is focusing on the sector's shift toward digital, sustainable power by maintaining flexible, agile and resilient manufacturing to meet the surging energy demands of AI. The company is also driving long-term success through deep customer partnerships, ecosystem collaboration, and continuous innovation.

Denis Strazding, Managing Director of Petrofibre Middle East, discusses the company's advanced distributed fibre optic sensing technologies which enable pipeline leak detection, perimeter intrusion detection and asset integrity monitoring in real-time, contributing to operational safety, environment protection and asset reliability in Saudi Arabia. He shares the company's plans for developing its business, outlines how the company is contributing to Vision 2030 objectives by combining its capabilities with local engineering expertise, highlights the company's commitment to innovation and shares his insights on how intelligent monitoring solutions will evolve in the future.

In an exclusive interview with Oil Review Middle East, Friedrich Portner, chief commercial officer, Maritime Cluster, AD Ports Group discusses how the integration of Noatum Maritime into AD Ports Group has expanded its global reach. The company is adding value to offshore operations by integrating the various services into one platform, enabling it to scale up and become more competitive. Portner outlines how AD Ports is leveraging innovation and technology and highlights its commitment to sustainability. He concludes by discussing plans for further offshore integration and the addition of new capabilities.