The View from ADIPEC 2025: Supporting the Industry’s Shift Toward Energy Addition
ADIPEC 2025 took place in in Abu Dhabi this year, with the theme “Energy. Intelligence. Impact.” This year’s event highlighted the industry’s collective commitment to enhancing energy capacity: delivering more energy from more sources, with lower-carbon intensity, to responsibly meet accelerating global demand. As always, the event brought together a global cross-section of industry leaders, technology providers, and policymakers – a valuable forum for understanding both market sentiment and emerging investment priorities.
For OGCS, the event revealed how operators and EPC partners are preparing for this next phase of growth, and how our project controls, specialist manpower, quantity surveying, and contracts management expertise can support them.
ADIPEC 2025 was huge in scale and intensity, with the largest numbers of visitors and exhibitors. For OGCS this resulted in strategic conversations, reinforcing our preference for deliberate, relationship-driven collaboration.
The Opening Ceremony speakers focused on the sector’s shift toward an “energy addition” mindset. With power demand expected to rise sharply to 2040 – driven by AI, soaring data and computing requirements, expanding global fleets, and rapid urbanisation – industry leaders emphasised that all energy sources will be required.
This is creating rising demand for partners who can provide disciplined commercial oversight and proven project delivery capability. What stood out most was the clear interest in practical, experience-led support. Clients are looking for partners who can bridge the gap between high-level planning and field-level execution – providing not only technical expertise but also the manpower and systems thinking required to keep major developments on schedule and within budget. This is precisely where OGCS continues to excel.
AI’s Dual Role
AI’s dual role – both as a major consumer of power and a driver of efficiency – was captured succinctly by U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum who declared “We used to say that knowledge is power. Now, for the first time in history, power is knowledge.”
This perspective holds true through the conversations OGCS held with clients seeking stronger cost control, enhanced data-driven decision-making, and more resilient commercial planning across their assets. Through the application of our practitioner-led expertise, the delivery of enhanced computing and growth through new data centres makes the potential of knowledge growth a tangible reality. Insights drawn from practical reality will deliver successful energy portfolios that can provide, and deliver, power to where it is needed.
Infrastructure Investment
Infrastructure investment was another dominant theme. In his opening address, H.E. Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber (member of the UAE Federal Cabinet, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, Managing Director and Group CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company ADNOC) underscored the urgency: “Infrastructure is still way behind where it needs to be. We need at least six million kilometres of new transmission lines by 2050. You simply can’t run tomorrow’s economy on yesterday’s grid.”
Dr. Sultan Al Jaber’s full speech is online at https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQmBWQ5iMQw/
For OGCS, ADIPEC 2025 reaffirmed both the scale of the opportunity and the responsibility to support clients with the commercial discipline and execution certainty required for this next chapter.
OGCS is ready in the Middle East and beyond, to support the delivery of complex, resilient and commercially sound energy projects worldwide.
Connect with Andy Taylor to learn how OGCS can support your project through our expert consultants and world-class systems.