Its numerous achievements and triumphs bring light to its golden year—a reassuring success to the next years to come. Offshore Technology Conference found a black gold.
While different technological advancements and discoveries continue to shake the human life, the need for solutions to different challenges and insufficiencies has seemed to be available with the presence of innovations and the fruits of science and study. The incessant search for knowledge and ideas has come to be a helpful tool and a significant step in creating a world of sustainable solutions to the needs of societies.
And this is what Offshore Technology (OTC) has started since 1969.
With the goal of creating effective solutions while spearheading discussions to the expanding energy needs around the world, OTC believed that sharing ideas could meet this growing need.
OTC’s coming to its 50th year of success, has developed a community of diverse ideas for a united goal of making strategies and opportunities for oil and gas industry, business, and organizations. It has created a platform where shifting business, political and economic paradigms have altered the complexion of the conference, but not its status as it offers technical conferences for engineers and scientists working in offshore energy.
Gradually, as a lot of adversities challenged the conference through the years—from the disruptive technologies making a hole to the offshore industry to the devastating drop of attendees and to the drop oil prices, Offshore Technology Conference has managed to stick with its goal while stepping up in creating a vast force of energy and science enthusiasts.
In this magazine, Chairman of the Board of OTC Wafik Beydoun speaks about the peeks and lows of OTC’s pursuit toward offshore energy. He shares the different contributions, celebrations, and continuing plans of the conference.
Truly, different technological advancements and discoveries shake the human life, giving it the innovations and the fruits of science and study as solutions to its counting needs.
And this is what Offshore Technology Conference found 50 years ago, while bringing light to the lives of people and to the next generations.
