ADIPEC 2026 opens in Abu Dhabi with record exhibitor turnout

The Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference opened Monday with expected attendance surpassing 239,000 visitors from more than 170 countries.

• Hosted by ADNOC, ADIPEC 2026 opened in Abu Dhabi on November 2 and runs through November 5.
• The event features more than 2,250 exhibiting companies, more than 1,800 speakers, and 30 national pavilions.
• Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Hussein Issa traveled to Abu Dhabi to participate.
• The program includes over 380 sessions covering energy security, natural gas, artificial intelligence, and clean energy.
• In the opening keynote, ADNOC CEO Sultan Al Jaber stressed the need for secure energy supply routes, noting logistics can exceed 30% of barrel costs.
• Al Jaber announced a partnership between ADNOC, OpenAI, and G42 to deploy advanced artificial intelligence across ADNOC's operations.
• Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and witnessed the signing of four agreements between Abu Dhabi institutions and the company.
• The ADNOC-OpenAI-G42 partnership will focus on integrated field development planning and valuing each barrel while in the ground, on G42's sovereign infrastructure.
• It also includes cybersecurity support via OpenAI's 'Daybreak Blue' initiative and builds on ADNOC's earlier ChatGPT Enterprise rollout to 40,000 employees.
• ADIPEC 2026 recorded its largest-ever Asian participation, with 353 exhibiting companies and six national pavilions.