June 2016

Our lead feature this month comes from Yokogawa Middle East & Africa. This innovative and exciting Japanese company has been servicing markets in the Middle East and Africa from its regional head office in Bahrain for more than 25 years.

Supplying sales, engineering and servicing of industrial process instrumentation, distributed control systems, plant safety systems, plant information and management systems, SCADA systems, and measuring and analytical instruments, Yokogawa is an industry leader that is taking advantage of a growing need for technology and digital services in traditional and emerging energy markets.

This global company is one which has planned a careful strategy and stuck to it, meaning that it has managed to remain successful despite the uncertainty arising from volatile oil prices.
This is also the case for two of our other feature companies – E.On and Nexans. Both are global players, both have stakes in businesses that are affected by the oil price but both have remained successful and are looking forward to a positive future.

We also look at the success of Dana Gas in the Middle East and its Zora Gas field and Shell in South Africa, where the growing retail network that we learnt about last month is being backed up by industry leading products from Africa’s largest refinery.