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Qatar Science & Technology Park and Cisco Collaborate to Help Improve Human Capital and Technology Development Cisco to establish office at QSTP
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DOHA, Qatar, January 22, 2008 - Cisco Chairman and chief executive officer John Chambers met with Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned today to announce that the company would establish a research and technology base at Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP).
Cisco plans to invest approximately $40 million in its centre at QSTP over the next three years.
As part of this plan Cisco will collaborate with Qatar Foundation on a series of projects to help enable QSTP's vision of transforming Qatar into a knowledge-based economy, while facilitating youth employment across the country.
Qatar Foundation will work with Cisco on the launch of 'Project iQ', a global project aimed at building a collaborative platform comprising business and collaboration applications, including blogs, wikis, TelePresence, social networking and unified messaging. Through utilising technology, the project will allow people from Qatar Foundation, Qatar and across the globe to collaborate on areas of research, education, health and youth employment.
The announcement follows Cisco's recent official recognition as one of the first global strategic technology providers for Qatar's newly launched Youth Employment Initiative, announced by Sheikha Mozah at the UN Alliance for Civilization High Level Group Forum in Madrid on January 15.
QSTP Executive Chairman, Dr Tidu Maini stated: "Networks are an essential part of business, education, and communications technologies. We are very pleased to embark on a major research initiative with Cisco to help transform Qatar's ability to access and share information across technical and national boundaries."
Paul Mountford, president, Emerging Markets for Cisco said: "Qatar Foundation has earned a well-deserved reputation as a leader in providing innovative solutions and improving the lives of the citizens of Qatar. We are committed to working with Qatar Foundation to help improve the development of human capital and technology by transforming the education strategy through technology in Qatar and across the region."
Through Cisco's capability in being co-located with QSTP, Cisco will share its knowledge and expertise in the industry's leading solutions, working with local partners and customers to introduce Connected Healthcare, Connected Education, Connected Tourism and Real Estate industry solutions throughout Qatar.
During his visit to Qatar, Chambers also attended an education roundtable discussion hosted by Dr Sheikha Al Missned, president of Qatar University. The roundtable addressed the global challenges of creating education systems that can deliver 21st century skills to help drive technology innovation, economic prosperity and social cohesion.
To enhance information technology skills in Qatar, Cisco will provide technical training to local universities, partners and customers as well as offer internship opportunities. Cisco further aims to address the needs of entrepreneurs and small-to-medium business owners at its Entrepreneur Institute. Working with local organisations, the programme will develop or license educational content for entrepreneurs to enable sustainable business growth.
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ConocoPhillips and GE Collaborate in Global Water Sustainability Research Center
HOUSTON, TX and TREVOSE, PA, USA, April 21,2008 -- ConocoPhillips [NYSE: COP], and GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company [NYSE:GE], today announced that GE has become an equal co-venturer in ConocoPhillips' Water Sustainability Center (WSC) in Qatar. Set within the Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) in Doha and expected to open in late 2008, the WSC will research and develop water solutions primarily for the petroleum and petrochemical sectors, but also will focus on municipal and agricultural solutions.
"We are very pleased that GE will join ConocoPhillips in this important endeavor," said Mike Stice, president, ConocoPhillips Qatar. "Our vision is for the WSC to become ConocoPhillips' global corporate center of excellence for water-related research and expertise. GE's leading-edge technologies in chemicals, equipment and advanced membranes, coupled with ConocoPhillips' industrial applications and test facilities, will help us achieve this goal," he added.
On average, approximately three barrels of water are produced for every barrel of oil produced worldwide. However, this water may contain residual components that limit its use without extensive treatment. ConocoPhillips and GE will work to develop more efficient and cost-effective treatment technologies at the WSC. The collaboration will leverage GE's global scale and broad water portfolio with ConocoPhillips' understanding of the petroleum and petrochemicals industries to deliver innovative water solutions to customers in the Middle East region and around the globe.
"This collaborative effort builds upon GE's commitment to delivering innovative technologies that drive growth and deliver economic and environmental benefits to our customers," said Jeff Garwood, president and CEO, GE Water & Process Technologies. "We are pleased to be a co-venturer in the WSC and we look forward to harnessing the collective strength of GE and ConocoPhillips as we explore solutions that address the world's most pressing water challenges."
"Water sustainability is vital for Qatar and the Middle East, and central to QSTP's strategy of developing key technologies demanded by the local community," said Dr. Tidu Maini, executive chairman, Qatar Science & Technology Park. "I am very pleased to see ConocoPhillips and GE join forces to advance research in this field. This is a great example of the vibrant collaboration that QSTP is designed to foster."
About 75 percent of the WSC's work will focus on the petroleum and petrochemical sector and about 25 percent on non-industrial sectors, primarily municipal and agriculture. Proposed uses for treated water could include crop irrigation, livestock watering, wildlife habitats, and industrial cooling, potentially leaving more fresh water available for domestic use.
A longer-term goal of the WSC will be to sponsor sustainable development projects that benefit the local community such as programs to encourage water conservation, exhibitions and public or industry workshops. The WSC also is expected to collaborate with relevant Qatari organizations to develop a Water Visitors' Center that will promote water conservation and technology applications to the residents of Qatar within the context of a national awareness campaign.
DeltaDot-QSTP JV to Create Qatar's First Proteomics Facility
June 18, 2009
By Tony Fong
UK firm DeltaDot and the Qatar Science and Technology Park have partnered to bring proteomics to Qatar in full fashion.
On Tuesday the two announced a three-year, $15 million joint venture to create a 500-square-meter (5,382 square feet) proteomics facility headquartered in Doha that would be the Arab emirate's first such facility.
Work at the center, expected to become operational later this year, will concentrate on biomarker discovery and validation with a focus on diseases that are of special concern to the Qatari people, such as cancer and diabetes. Eventually, new technology development will also be included, and contract services will be available, officials connected to the facility said.
The idea for the center began forming two years ago when the executive chairman of QSTP, Tidu Maini, asked John Hassard, the founder and chief technology officer of DeltaDot, to set up a proteomics facility in Qatar, Hassard told ProteoMonitor this week.
QSTP serves as a base and incubator for both established and start-up technology companies in the country and provides services to the firms to commercialize their technologies.
For DeltaDot, creating such a facility in Qatar was an opportunity to broaden the reach of its technology to a geography that could be described as a pre-emerging market in proteomics.
DeltaDot has a "unique set of tools, which make it quite appropriate for a country like Qatar, which is going to try to leapfrog old technologies and go into new areas in the rapidly growing field of proteomics," Hassard said.
The company has developed technology for label-free analysis of biomolecules. According to the company's website, the technology is derived from particle physics techniques to characterize sub-atomic particles.
Compared to traditional gel electrophoresis and chromatography technologies, the company claims that its Peregrine High Performance Capillary Electrophoresis and DeltaTiter systems offer faster run times, improved ease of use, and greater resolution, sensitivity quantification, reproducibility, and robustness.
"Qatar's got very clear national goals to do with the healthcare of its people," said Hassard, who will become the CEO of the joint venture, called DeltaDot QSTP. "We have technology that is ideally suited for building up biomarker panels and one of our main jobs is to help in the development of biomarker panels for diagnostics, and the treatment and mitigation of these diseases."
Of the $15 million investment by QSTP into the project, $5 million is an equity investment into DeltaDot, and the balance is to set up the proteomics facility, said Danny Ramadan, the technology investment advisor for QSTP, which currently houses 21 firms in a 45,000-square-meter complex, including Microsoft, General Electric, and EADS.
Over the next few months a space chosen within QSTP will be "fitted out" to meet the requirements of DeltaDot, he added. In addition to DeltaDot's technology, Hassard said that the facility will be outfitted with instruments such as mass specs and bioinformatics software.
According to Judit Nagy, director of the proteomics facility at Imperial College and head of the scientific advisory board at the Qatar facility, among the instruments that the Doha space will have is a MALDI mass spec which will be the workhorse instrument for high-throughput protein identification; and an LC-MS platform with an interchangeable MALDI in the front end for research in post-translational modifications and quantification, as well as more in-depth proteome analysis.
Officials said they are close to making a decision on which mass spec platforms they will purchase but declined to name them.
The DeltaDot technologies will be interfaced with the mass specs to "make the facility more high throughput, much more cutting edge than anything that you've seen," anywhere, Nagy said.
The 5,382-square-feet center is expected to open by the end of the year and will concentrate initially on biomarker discovery and validation with a focus on diseases that are of special concern to the Qatari people, such as cancer and diabetes.
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ExxonMobil Opens World-Class Research Center
Doha, Qatar – May 6 (2009) marked the official inauguration of ExxonMobil Research Qatar (EMRQ) at the Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP) in Education City. Held under the patronage and presence of His Excellency Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry, the ceremony is a major milestone in ExxonMobil’s long term commitment to the Qatar Foundation and Qatar's energy industry.
The ceremony, hosted by Stephen Cassiani, President ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company and Alex Dodds, President and General Manager ExxonMobil Qatar Inc., was attended by His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Al-Sada, Minister of State for Energy and Industry Affairs and Cabinet Member, key Government officials, senior executives from Qatar Petroleum, Qatargas, RasGas, Qatar Foundation, Qatar University, ExxonMobil and other VIP guests.
His Excellency Minister Al-Attiyah commented, "I am delighted to inaugurate ExxonMobil’s new research facility at the Qatar Science & Technology Park. The research programs carried out by ExxonMobil will help strengthen QSTP’s standing as a world-class center of scientific excellence and will support the implementation of Qatar’s National Vision.”
Stephen Cassiani said, “ExxonMobil is proud of its strategic partnership with Qatar Petroleum. We are also honored to be working with the Qatar Foundation and to be an anchor tenant at QSTP. Qatar's expansive plans for LNG and petroleum-based businesses involve the application of leading edge technologies. Research carried out at EMRQ will help advance these technologies, provide facilities to support training and provide a platform to contribute to the exchange of ideas with others working at QSTP.”
EMRQ’s research activities on environmental management and LNG safety started well in advance of the official inauguration. In 2006, EMRQ launched its first research project to evaluate the potential formation and impact of chlorination by-products due to the discharge of cooling seawater in the coastal waters near Ras Laffan Industrial City, an important goal of the Ministry of Environment. “The study has involved offshore marine surveys, sampling and testing of seawater, laboratory experiments, and numerical modeling of the transport and breakdown of residual chlorine,” explained Dr. Adeyinka Adenekan, EMRQ Environmental Science Research Lead.
Furthermore, EMRQ recently completed the design and construction of a 3D visualization environment which will serve as a research platform for improving the way individuals are trained to work in Qatar’s oil and gas production and processing facilities and onboard LNG ships. Mr. Joe M. Cheben, EMRQ LNG Safety Research Lead said, “The intent of this research is to enable people to work even more safely and effectively, after having been trained in the virtual reality environment which simulates their actual working environment.”
Dr. James R. Rigby, EMRQ Research Director concluded, “ExxonMobil fully embraces the pillars of Qatar’s National Vision 2030 and we are honored to play a key role in developing the strategy needed to implement the National Vision through our research activities and through our partnerships with Qatar.”
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About ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil is the world’s largest publicly traded integrated petroleum and natural gas company. We operate facilities and market products around the world, and explore for oil and natural gas on six continents. We lead the industry in almost every aspect of the energy and petrochemical business. ExxonMobil Qatar Inc. (EMQI) is a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation and is the interface point within Qatar for all of ExxonMobil's affiliated activities.
About ExxonMobil Research Qatar
ExxonMobil established ExxonMobil Research Qatar (EMRQ) as an anchor tenant at the Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) in Education City, Qatar. EMRQ will house offices, laboratories and a training area in QSTP to conduct research in areas of common interest to the State of Qatar and ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil shares the Qatar Foundation’s objectives to advance science and technology through research and development and is actively involved in helping to QSTP realize its potential of becoming a world-class R&D center.
Rolls-Royce establishes presence in Qatar Science and Technology Park
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has signed a tenancy agreement with the Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP). In support of Qatar’s mission to create a hub for technology development, education and research in the region, this initiative will provide a focal point for activities to develop intellectual capital. Working closely with local industry and academics, OSyS, the wholly owned subsidiary of Rolls-Royce, will take the lead in establishing a research, training and development program in the QSTP.
An Asset Optimization Centre (AOC) will be created to enable commercial airlines to enhance operational and environmental performance whilst reducing costs. The AOC will utilise the same world class analytical techniques used in the Rolls-Royce Operations Centre and is the first of its kind to ever be deployed in a technology park. In addition, following successful first flight of a Qatar Airlines aircraft powered by alternative fuels on 12 October 2009, further research will be undertaken with industry and academic partners.
Dr. Tidu Maini, Science and Technology Advisor, Chairman Qatar Science and Technology Park, Miles Cowdry, Director- Global Corporate Development, Rolls-Royce, and Andrew Hutson-Smith, Vice President – Middle East Operations, OSyS, took part in a signing ceremony at Dubai Airshow.
Miles Cowdry, Director- Global Corporate Development, Rolls-Royce, said: “We are proud to be part of the Qatar Science and Technology Park. Today’s agreement underscores our commitment to working across industry and academia in support of the Qatar National Vision. Our activity will enable development of core skills and partnerships which are critical to developing a competitive and diversified economy.”
Dr. Tidu Maini, Science and Technology Advisor, Chairman Qatar Science and Technology Park, said: “This collaboration will develop a solid foundation for young Qataris, having Rolls-Royce in QSTP will help us deliver great technologies and will form a part of our path to support the national vision of Qatar. We are very keen to develop capacity building programmes and this endeavour, overall, will be beneficial for Qatar and beyond. We are pleased to have Rolls-Royce as part of QSTP.”
Andrew Hutson-Smith, Vice President – Middle East Operations, OSyS, said: “OSyS is a world leader in asset optimisation and environmental management solutions and this agreement provides an excellent opportunity to assist development of a sustainable and skilled workforce.
We work with industry and academic partners around the world and look forward to bringing our knowledge and expertise to bear in Qatar.”
Early collaborating partners include Qatar Airways and Dolphin Energy. It is expected that activities will commence in early 2010.
Rolls-Royce to Develop Test Facility at Qatar Science & Technology Park
3 July 2005
Rolls-Royce is to set up a new testing and maintenance facility at the Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP) in Qatar. The facility will support the development of new applications for Rolls-Royce’s Trent gas turbine engines.
An agreement that will lead to Rolls-Royce starting work on the test and maintenance facility at QSTP in August 2005 was signed in London today by Sir John Rose, Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce, and His Excellency Dr Abdullah Al Kubaisi, Chairman of QSTP.
The facility will be used to support new marine and aeronautical applications of the successful series of Rolls-Royce Trent engines.
It will be implemented in two phases: The first phase will consist of the design of support infrastructure for the facility. The second, targeted for 2006, will see the full implementation and operation of the facility, plus development of a think tank and post graduate research programmes.
Sir John Rose said, “Throughout the world, Rolls-Royce prides itself on supporting the communities and countries in which it operates. We are therefore delighted to be among the first investors in QSTP and support its quest to become an international hub for applied research and technology commercialisation.
“Furthermore, as our business is expanding in the Middle East, it made sense to invest in a new development facility there. The Qatar Science & Technology Park was the obvious location because it is designed specifically for corporate technology operations.”
His Excellency Dr Abdullah said, “We are delighted that Rolls-Royce will be developing its test and maintenance centre in the Qatar Science & Technology Park. There is a tremendous market for new industrial technologies in Qatar, and Rolls-Royce is showing that these technologies can now be developed locally.”
Rolls-Royce which operates in four global markets - civil aerospace, defence aerospace, marine and energy - already has a considerable presence in Qatar with an agreement in place to power Qatar Airways' A340 fleet of aircraft, and another to supply industrial Trent engines for the Dolphin Project which will pipe natural gas from Qatar to the United Arab Emirates.
Rolls-Royce's operations in Qatar will be led by Terry Holland, Regional Executive for the Middle East, who said, "Our investment in Qatar will not only allow us to be closer to our customers but it will also allow us to develop and test new capabilities which we can then bring to market.
“Through our initiatives, we also want to be able share our best practices in developing the Qatari industrial sector. QSTP will act as a platform for developing and delivering present and future ground-breaking technologies."
Siemens to invest EUR 10 m for development centre at QSTP
DOHA , 15 June 2010:Siemens has announced plans to launch a development centre at Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) marking a major move for the company in its drive to develop local access to specialist technology and engineering disciplines.
The centre will include an industry research laboratory that will undertake research in fields such as transportation solution system design, operability and maintainability; integrated mobility strategies such as light rail vehicles for extreme climates, and energy assessment for light rail systems.
Siemens also plans to set up a clinical training facility to deliver courses for clinical applications for doctors and technicians in Qatar and the region.
"The collaboration between Siemens, QSTP and our clients is a testament to the commitment Siemens is making to the development of applied research in the fields of engineering and medicine," QSTP executive chairman Dr Tidu Maini said.
Pointing out that Siemens has a prestigious commercial track record in Qatar, he expressed his belief that the establishment of the development centre will make a significant contribution helping QSTP support the delivery of the Qatar National Vision 2030.
"The establishment of this centre in Qatar is a natural progression of our historic relationship with the Middle East region - a key region for Siemens," said chief technology officer Professor Hermann Requardt.
When launched at the end of this year, the centre will host technology sessions on clinical innovation, focused on specialists from the healthcare industry. The overall target is to reach approximately 600 candidates by the end of 2013.
Meanwhile, the centre will also host a research team from Siemens' Mobility Division. Among their targets is a planned study on the impact of extreme environmental conditions on urban mobility solutions, such as trams and trains.
In undertaking this work Siemens will develop a collaboration with the Williams Technology Center (QSTP-LLC) on the interaction of Mobile Energy Storage Units in light rail systems.
The results of this work are expected to help in the development of mobility solutions, which are optimised to withstand the challenging climate and soil conditions of the Gulf region.
"Our historic strengths in developing engineering innovation are continued in every part of our organisation," Requardt said adding over 30,000 researchers ensure that Siemens remains at the leading edge of developing technologies to meet the infrastructure development needs of rapidly evolving societies.
Siemens has maintained a continuous presence in the Middle East region for over 150 years and in the Gulf region since the 1950s. During this time, the company has been an active partner in building infrastructure to help support the region's development.
The company entered Qatar in 2005 and since has played an important role in infrastructure building in the country. Among these are a sizeable number of contracts to help build the electrical transmission and distribution system in Qatar.
"We have a successful history in Qatar and there is yet more we can do here," said Siemens Qatar CEO Martin à Porta adding that the new centre is part of the company's commitment to the country.
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