Petra Events receives recognition from Omnitec

The shield was presented during a gala dinner for the delegates who took part in the conference and exhibitions. The conference stressed the importance of operations and maintenance in Arab countries especially now as they are undergo rapid rates of modernization and development.

The conference was under the auspices of the Prime Minister of Jordan Nader Al Dahabi, and brought together regional and global expertise and engineers from the private and public sectors including Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Switzerland, Britain, Denmark to provide top views on world asset management strategies, waste water collection systems, planned maintenance, electrical production stations and the issue of building concrete structures to withstand earthquakes, bridges, value engineering and risk assessments.

Organizers of the conference and exhibition are ExiCon Exhibitions and Conferences of Beirut, the Specialist Group of Riyadh and Petra Events Management, a division of the Petra Travel and Tourism Co in Amman.

The Arab Institute for Operations and Maintenance is the driving force behind the conference whose officials put a premium on the event saying it helps in standardizing the quality and measurement for operations and maintenance and leads to Arab development through stressing the "engineering is the science of life" concept.

Guido Walt of the European Federation of the National Maintenance Societies who gave a paper and chaired one of the sessions stressed "we have to talk about the 'spirit of maintenance' as shaping our future" and that what must be done is to create a "culture of maintenance" in our economies to upgrade quality and solidify our heritage, leadership, environment, integrity and conservation of resources.

One discussion session was devoted to what organizers say the Malaysian Experience which was important to introduce a comparative approach to operations and maintenance. Expert speakers from Malaysia came especially and discussed innovative approaches to optimizations of water treatment plant operation, military transport planes and structural integrity monitoring, workforce management distribution and capital intensive and strategic assets between OECD countries and Malaysia.

Officials say the Malaysian experience is being stressed because there could be similarities in approaches with different Arab countries who maybe following similar paths in their economic sectors.

Working papers from Saudi Arabia has been plenty on such issues as power generation, efficiency and optimization, performance-based assessment related to airfield development and methods of management as well as quality maintenance, development niches which the Kingdom is going through.

Mazen Kawar, Managing Partner of Petra Tours and runs Petra Events Management says such a conference is global setting a very important development agenda for the Arab world, and as three executing partners with ExiCon and the Specialist Group, we serve that goal of progress in bringing different countries, partners and delegates together under one roof.