The UAE Gender Balance Council honoured four organisations at the inaugural SDG 5 Pledge Awards in Dubai, recognising measurable workplace policies and female leadership initiatives. Award recipients included Standard Chartered UAE, ADNOC, Schneider Electric, and Deloitte Middle East. Eight additional private-sector organisations officially signed the SDG 5 Pledge during the ceremony.
The XI International Industrial and Energy Forum in Tyumen featured participation from Chinese energy companies and the UAE's Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. ADNOC advanced supplier qualification frameworks covering 60 approved technical standards, while Chinese and Gulf entities signed commercial pacts across upstream services, LNG shipping, and decarbonization technologies.
Abu Dhabi's state-owned XRG is exploring the acquisition of an equity stake in the Shell-led LNG Canada project in British Columbia. The company has held talks with existing partners, including PetroChina, to purchase a portion of their holdings. LNG Canada has an annual capacity of 14 million metric tons and primarily supplies Asian markets, including China.
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has sold at least 30 million barrels of spot crude to Asian refiners and trading houses, trade sources reported. Chinese purchasers Unipec and Rongsheng Petrochemical secured up to 10 million barrels of Upper Zakum crude. The transactions covered Das, Upper Zakum, and Umm Lulu grades for June to August loading.
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