From November 7 to 9, the 9th World Oil & Gas Equipment Expo (WOGE2024), hosted by the Xi'an Chamber of Commerce of the China International Chamber of Commerce (CICC) and the All-Union Petroleum Chamber of Commerce (AUPC), was held at the Xi'an International Convention and Exhibition Center. Omer Mohamed Ahmed Siddig, Ambassador of the Republic of the Sudan to China, Mohirdine Naim Mohamed Said, Minister of Energy and Petroleum of the Republic of the Sudan, Koh Koh Lwin, Minister of Energy of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, José Ramón Silva Arisabalo, Minister of Energy Development of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, Asu, Chairman of the Committee on National Development of the National Senate of Nigeria, Asu Cuo, Xu Ketao, Standing Committee of CPC Xi'an Municipal Committee and Vice Mayor of Xi'an, Zhang Wenzheng, Deputy Director General of the Department of Commerce of Shaanxi Province, Feng Ruo, Second Grade Inspector of the Department of Industry and Informatization of Shaanxi Province, Ran Hongbin, Secretary of the Party Group of Xi'an Municipal Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and President of CCPIT, and Huang Fuchen, Executive President of All-China Petroleum Industry Association (ACPIA) attended the opening ceremony.

Many global buyers

The exhibition gathered 141 excellent exhibitors from home and abroad, including Yanchang Petroleum Equipment, West Oil Great Technology, Baoji Titanium, Xite Cable, Sichuan Jinxing, Iran DANA Energy, Saudi Arabia KJO Company, Mexico PQ Group and other industry benchmark enterprises, Iran Pavilion, Mexico Pavilion, Nigeria Pavilion, and other international pavilions also made a wonderful appearance at the exhibition. More than 430 international buyers from 26 oil countries, including Iran, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Russia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Sudan, Kuwait, Myanmar, etc., visited the exhibition to make purchases. Among them, important guests from the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum of Sudan, the Representative Office of the League of Arab States in China, the Sudan National Pipeline Company, the Ministry of Energy of Myanmar, the Myanmar National Oil and Gas Company (MOGC), the Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation (KNPC), the Malaysian Petroleum Resources Corporation (MPRC), the Saudi KJO Company, the Ministry of Energy of the State of Tamaulipas in Mexico, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), etc. visited the exhibition site. The exhibition site, and domestic and foreign exhibitors to carry out exchanges and in-depth cooperation.

In addition, domestic professional buyers were also very enthusiastic about the exhibition, with 11,612 professional buyers and visitors from 22 provinces and autonomous regions, including Shaanxi, Gansu, Hebei, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Guangdong, Liaoning, Guizhou, Zhejiang and Xinjiang.

Good exhibition effect

The three-day exhibition focused on the latest technologies, products and solutions in the oil and gas equipment manufacturing industry, including more than 1,000 kinds of products in 12 categories, such as petroleum equipment, refining equipment, security equipment, pumps, valves and pipelines, instruments and meters, new materials and so on. The exhibition site also released a number of industry-first technologies and products, such as Xi'an Petroleum Great Oil & Gas Technology Co., Ltd. can effectively improve the recovery rate of oil reservoirs of the three decongestion class, oil repellent products, attracted the site of a number of domestic and foreign oil companies are very interested in.

As a professional manufacturer of petroleum equipment, Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. showed up at the exhibition with more than 20 products. By means of “on-site explanation + video demonstration” and other methods, the exhibition presented to domestic and foreign petroleum companies the characteristics and advantages of the products, such as oil casing, couplings and special buckles, three-phase real-time flow meters, three-layer composite belts, etc., as well as the professional qualifications and applicable industries, and explained to domestic and foreign petroleum companies the relevant information. The company promoted the products to domestic and foreign merchants in the form of “special buckle”, “oil casing and special buckle”, “three-phase flow real-time measuring instrument”, “three-layer composite belt”, etc. The products won high attention and favor.

Anhui Hongshen Energy Equipment Co., Ltd. focused on a compressor integrating pressure boosting and gas lifting, which has been supplied to Changqing Oilfield for a long time with good feedback. The person in charge of the company said that the next step would be to vigorously develop overseas markets, and to promote the company's advantageous products and technologies more widely to Russia, Malaysia, Nigeria and other places.

RANS Larma nano-tech is a company from the Iranian pavilion that develops and produces anti-corrosion nano-coatings. “Previously, the company's key market was in Iran, but now it wants to explore the international market through the platform of the World Oil and Gas Equipment Expo.” Mahdi Rahmani, general manager of the company, said that he came into contact with a lot of excellent enterprises at the exhibition site, made a lot of friends, and also reached a preliminary cooperation intention with several of them. We hope to come to Xi'an next year to participate in the 10th World Oil & Gas Equipment Expo and make progress and common development with more partners.

More activities in the same period

In addition to the exhibition unit, two concurrent conferences - the Third World Oil and Gas Congress and the Ninth World Petrochemical Equipment Procurement Conference - are also the special highlights of the Expo.

The 3rd World Oil and Gas Conference is a high-end forum and conference that brings together industry leaders in the field of oil and gas energy from the world's major oil countries (cities), covering the latest information and development of the global oil and gas industry, industrial development planning, upstream and downstream technological innovations, transformation of research results, and cooperation between the Chinese and foreign energy sectors, etc. The organizers have also organized the 9th World Petroleum and Chemical Equipment Sourcing Conference.

In order to guarantee the promotion effect of exhibitors, the organizer actively invited dozens of international professional buyers to participate in the Ninth World Petrochemical Equipment Purchasing Conference, and the domestic and international strength buyers, such as Iranian DANA Energy Company, South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction Company, Serbia's NIS Group, Mexico's Oil & Gas Union, Mexico's PQ Group, and the United Arab Emirates' PETRO GLOBE, etc., met with many exhibitors at their own exclusive purchasing and docking positions. The domestic and foreign powerful buyers such as PQ Group of Mexico, PETRO GLOBE of UAE, etc. had one-to-one communication and negotiation with many exhibitors on their own exclusive purchasing positions to meet specific purchasing needs, realizing more accurate and efficient docking.

The Nigerian Pavilion, one of the international pavilions, co-organized the Africa Business Investment Forum with the Organizing Committee during the exhibition, sharing on-site the status of Nigeria's oil and gas resources, development prospects and investment opportunities, which attracted a large number of exhibitors and buyers to participate in the interaction and negotiation.

Fruitful results of the exhibition

It is understood that during this exhibition, the international purchasing group's significant intention to purchase orders totaled about 1.57 billion yuan. Among them, the Kazakhstan national purchasing group intended to purchase products such as oilfield chemicals, well repair machines, drilling equipment, compressor sets, generator sets, etc.; the Sudan National Pipeline Company has a large demand for products such as pipelines and pipeline couplings; the Iranian MAPSA Group demanded logging devices, coring tools, H2S safety equipment, inspection tools, etc.; and the Serbian NIS Group also contacted a number of logging devices at the exhibition, NIS Group of Serbia also contacted many suppliers of well recording equipment, gas detectors and gas chromatographs at the exhibition, and will carry out several communication and negotiation next to promote cooperation on the ground.

It is reported that the 10th World Oil & Gas Equipment Expo will continue to be held in Xi'an International Conference and Exhibition Center in 2025. By then, the scale of the exhibition will be further expanded, with a planned exhibition area of 40,000 square meters, 600 exhibitors, and the number of professional buyers and visitors will exceed 35,000.

Link to the world, dock to the world. World Oil & Gas Equipment Expo will continue to uphold the exhibition concept of making global oil and gas business simpler, rooted in Xi'an, with an open attitude towards the world, and strive to build a professional platform for displaying achievements, exchanging technology and promoting cooperation, so as to create a new situation of international cooperation in the field of oil, gas and chemical industry together with global industry partners.