The biennial Abu Dhabi Petroleum Exhibition and Conference last month was notable on two counts: the apparent paranoia of its host, state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), and the matching reticence of many international oil and gas producers in attendance.
It was an occasion on which everybody was minding p’s and q’s and most industry notables were careful to avoid imparting unscripted asides to the press.
For the first time in the history of the big Middle East regional oil gathering, media representatives were banished from plenary sessions, about halfway through the opening plenary.
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