GE in the Middle East

Kuwait
Since the early 1970s, GE has partnered with both the Kuwaiti
government as well as the private sector companies to
implement strategic solutions. From broadening our
infrastructure offerings to accommodate Kuwait's large
economy to creating a safe and dependable means for
obtaining drinking water in hard-to-reach areas, GE is
committed to address the various needs of the Kuwaiti
government and population.
Bahrain
GE first set up operations in Bahrain through
Middle East Engineering, Ltd. in 1973 to help
service the large inventory of GE gas turbines in
the Middle East. The new three-storey office
houses employees from the various GE businesses
showcasing our various capabilities from training
to customer service, as well as our commitment to
growing young local talent through the Graduate
Management Program.

Qatar
With years of success in the Qatar market,
GE's multi-storey office building, located on
the C-Ring Road, is home to the company’s
wide range of businesses from energy, water With nearly a century of collaboration together, the
technologies and security to aviation and
healthcare. In addition as a further reiteration amazing relationship that GE and the Middle East
region have fostered continues to grow.
to the company's commitment to Qatar's
infrastructure and industrial growth, GE made
a major investment in a GE Oil & Gas Service
Workshop in Ras Laffan to better serve its
customers in the country and the region.
Having embarked on partnerships that range from
power and water technology to entertainment, from
financial services to transportation and more, the
region holds a lot of potential for growth.

What unites GE and the Middle East are the

Saudi Arabia
From appliances in people's homes to helping
lead the oil discovery expedition in Saudi
Arabia with the first refinery, GE has been a
major player here since 1942. Our operations
have since grown into the largest GE
workforce in the Middle East - 670 employees
striving in healthcare, transportation, energy,
oil & gas, water and aviation. GE continues to
increase its regional presence and partner
with local enterprises.
Oman
GE has been operating in Oman since 1975,
and we continue to provide solutions today.
GE operates in Oman through its diverse
businesses and is committed to further
growth through focusing on technical
leadership, customer partnerships and
global competitiveness.
developments we devise, create and implement
together. These advancements enhance everyday life
UAE
while creating opportunities to effect positive change
GE's partnership with the United
Arab Emirates began over 70
on an infrastructure, on an economy, and most
years ago. Through our business
offerings that include power,
importantly, on a people.
water , health, aviation, and more,
GE is able to be a partner in the
UAE's quest to solve its toughest
challenges. From clean energy
Our focus in the Middle East is to build partnerships,
centers to the world's soon-to-be
largest theme park, successful
provide solutions and empower the youth to become
partnership with the United Arab
Emirates' governments and
tomorrow’s leaders. As we move forward into the
first-rate companies resulted in
the impactful presence of GE in
future, more than 1,700 employees are making their
the country.
imagination a reality.
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GE Water technologies purify

enough water to satisfy the
daily needs of 39 million people
around the world.

Middle East Engineering With an investment of US$75 million, and 125,000

square feet in space, GE Energy is developing a
Ltd Saudi Arabia (MEELSA) new state-of-the-art service centre in Dammam,
in association with GE’s joint venture partner Ali A
Tamimi & Sons Company.
The Power Technology Center will provide the latest
in repair technology for B, E and F gas turbines. It
will also feature state-of-the- art coating facilities,
lean flow/design for reduced time cycles, as well as
a crane weight-capacity of 100 tons.
GE provides a broad range of products and services throughout the world Expected to be operational in 2010, the facility will
in energy, oil and gas, and water and process technologies. double the amount of GE’s service technologists in
the region.
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GE’s Graduate
Management Program
in Bahrain
GE’s Energy business has launched the Graduate Management
Programme (GMP) to encourage Bahrainis and Saudis to work with
the global organization. The program offers a unique educational
and work experience for young Bahrainis and Saudis by providing
them first-hand experience on working with GE.
The GMP is one of GE’s important community initiatives to add
value to the community we serve in and also create a strong
pool of local workforce. It is a paid, 12-month, post-graduate
programme that offers participants real world work experience
in a challenging work environment which is followed-up with a
structured performance evaluation.
GE Energy Infrastructure
A partnership between GE Water & Process
Technologies and the Saudi Arabia based Al
Tamimi Group resulted in “GET Water” which
brought a fleet of GE Mobile Water Treatment
Systems to Saudi Arabia. The mobile fleet
supplies the Saudi Arabia marketplace with
on-site, drought-proof supplies of water,
water reuse, wastewater management and
emergency water response capabilities.
A further commitment to meet growing
demands for quality water treatments in the
Kingdom, a near US$10 million GE Saudi Water
& Process Technology Center was recently
inaugurated.
GE Saudi Water &
The new Technology Center incorporates a
blending plant for water treatment chemicals Process Technology Center
and offers advanced water, water reuse,
wastewater and process solutions to local and
regional customers. It is the second GE Water
facility in the Gulf, following a recently opened
manufacturing facility and office complex in
Dubai, UAE. The new center marks another joint
venture between GE and Al Tamimi Group.
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GE Water Regional Serving 14 MEA countries, GE Water & Process Technologies’

38,000 m2 Regional Center of Excellence (COE) in Dubai, UAE, is
Center of Excellence now the largest purpose-built water plant in the Middle East.
in UAE Underscoring the company’s commitment to delivering GE Water To help counter the growing demand for safe and potable water in
Kuwait and the Middle East, GE helped establish a state-of-the-art
efficient resource use technologies to the Middle East and
Africa region, the facility is set to produce cost-effective water
Purification wastewater treatment plant in Sulaibiya. In collaboration with the
Kuwait government, GE Water & Process technologies and Kharafi
treatment technologies and solutions designed to address the Plant in Kuwait National have teamed up to deliver a plant that will purify over
region’s burgeoning water issues.
(Sulaibiya Plant) one million gallons of wastewater every day for agricultural and
industrial uses.
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Petroleum Development Oman

GE’s relationship with Petroleum Development
Oman (PDO), a major exploration and production
company in the Sultanate of Oman, started with
supplying centrifugal compressors for projects for
two of its fields. For more efficient extraction of gas
from depleted wells in four of its gas fields, PDO has
turned to advanced, high-pressure compression
technology from GE Oil & Gas.
Under a multi-year, multi-project contract
valued at more than US$250 million, GE will
supply 16 electric motor-driven centrifugal
compressors for high-pressure injection
applications in the Kauther, Saih Nihayda
and Yibal gas fields of Oman.

GE Oil & Gas Service One of the fastest growing centers for the oil and gas
industry, Qatar is the chosen home for GE Oil & Gas’s
Center in Qatar Service Center, which is considered a milestone in the
business’ history in the country.
The center represents a significant step for GE’s
infrastructure localization strategy in the region,
and will be a Center of Excellence for GE Oil & Gas
in the Middle East. It will support both emerging
markets and the fast growing refinery industry in
the region, with application expertise ranging from
petrochemical services to LNG.
GE Energy Infrastructure The power to pull power
from out of the blue.

Gulf Turbine Services

Based out of Abu Dhabi, UAE the Gulf Turbine
Services (GTS) facility was established in 2001 to
meet local as well as regional customer needs in
the power generation and oil and gas industries.
Through the recently expanded GTS facility,
GE Energy provides repair and maintenance
services for Frame B & E stationary components
as well as DLN-1 IBH, an ecomagination product.
Winning the Environment, Health & Safety
excellence award as well as the P&RS Service
Center Quality award, Gulf Turbine Services
serves as a showcase to GE’s commitment
to invest in technology and build sustainable
quality systems for world class performance.
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GE Healthcare Service Support Centers

Every 2 seconds,
a GE-powered aircraft takes off.
in Saudi Arabia
With three new GE Healthcare service support centers in Riyadh,
Jeddah and Dammam, GE is growing its capacity to assist with
the various medical and health needs of Saudi Arabia’s diverse
population. This expansion is part of GE’s commitment to raising
healthcare standards in the region. From helping raise life
expectancy, to reducing obesity and diabetes and treating
cardiovascular disease early on, GE is applying its early
model of care to Saudi Arabia.

GE is one of the leading providers of essential technologies to developed

and emerging countries in healthcare, aviation, transportation, and
enterprise solutions.
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GE and El Seif Healthcare Arabia
GE Healthcare’s recent venture with El
Seif Development was established to help
modernize the healthcare infrastructure in
Saudi Arabia. From innovative diagnostic
and imaging equipment to patient
monitoring, data systems and software to
help streamline patient data, GE’s extensive
portfolio of medical innovations will raise
the bar for both healthcare professionals
and patients alike.
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Saudi Arabian Airlines
With over 20 years of collaboration,
GE Aviation has recently reached
an agreement with Saudi Arabian
Airlines, the national carrier of Saudi
Arabia, to support the airlines’
ambitious plan to launch overhaul
services on GE90, CF6 and CF34
engines.
Under the agreement, GE Aviation is
also providing support for the new
state-of-the-art facility that will be
built in King Abdul Aziz Airport in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The facility
will serve the Saudi Arabian and the
region market. Additionally, Saudi
Arabian Airlines and GE have signed
a memorandum of understanding
(MOU) for GE to supply material to
the airline for 14 years from when
the new overhaul facility begins
operation. The agreement is valued at
about $1.4 billion (USD) over the life of
the contract.
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GE and Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies

GE and Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Development
Company signed an extensive agreement
that expands GE’s global network of engine
maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO)
providers in the Middle East and further
advances Mubadala’s plans to build a global
MRO network centered in Abu Dhabi.
GE Aviation and its affiliates will provide technical
support and services to Mubadala’s affiliate
MRO companies SR Technics and ADAT, including
technical and corporate training support,
comprehensive material support, and the
granting of licenses to service certain GE engines.
GE will designate ADAT as a network provider in
the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for its next
generation GEnx-1B and -2B engines. The shop will
become fully operational in 2013 and support the
growing fleet of GE engines in the MENA region.

Emirates Engine Test Center

GE Aviation, Dubai, UAE, created a 13-meter cross-section
turbofan engine test cell and an auxiliary power unit test
cell capable of testing aircraft engines with up to 150,000
pounds of thrust. With the capability to test our GE engines
at greater lengths before sending them into the sky, we’re
ensuring safer travels for all the Middle East.
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As the UAE’s first calibration, repair
and training service center, GE
Sensing & Inspection Technologies
has opened its center in Abu
Dhabi’s CERT Technology Park. With
modern calibration equipment for
pressure and moisture sensors,
particularly for the oil & gas and
aerospace sectors, this center will
be the only resource in the region
capable of calibrating GE’s range of
moisture meters. It will also serve
as an on-site repair service center
where customers can upgrade their
existing equipment by the fitting of
specific manufacturers’ software.
GE Technology Infrastructure
GE Sensing & Inspection
Technologies at
CERT Technology Park
Saudi Arabian Sensing
Solutions Co (SASSCO) is the
Saudi Arabian Sensing Solutions Co
joint company formed by
GE Sensing and the Tamimi
Group, serving as a sales,
service and training centre
in Al Khobar.
The new facility forms the
sales hub for the company’s
activities in the Kingdom,
and sets the platform
for creating a dedicated
calibration, repair and
training centre. It offers
state-of-the-art calibration
equipment for pressure
and moisture sensors, and
is the only resource-centre
in the region capable of
calibrating the Panametrics
range of moisture meters.
GE Technology Infrastructure Rethinking healthcare
from the ground up.

GE Security Pro Express Shop in Bahrain

Bahrain is the home of the first Middle East-based GE Security Pro Express shop, a one address, one-
stop shop, offering convenience for security professional customers by providing easy access to a
selected range of electronic security products in a business-to-business service outlet.
Every Pro Express has a state-of-the-art live product demonstration area, staffed by a team of
enthusiastic professionals whose mission is to satisfy their customer’s needs. With its advanced
security products, GE Security has launched a fresh drive to promote the use of new technologies.
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GE Capital will provide $1.85 billion

in credit to help companies grow
and people reach

Partnering with Building on an already strong relationship and a common

view of high growth opportunities in the Middle East
Mubadala and globally, GE and Mubadala Development Company,
headquartered in Abu Dhabi, UAE, announced a framework
Development Co. agreement on a global partnership encompassing a broad
range of initiatives including commercial finance.
The commercial finance joint venture was formalized by
signing the agreement where GE and Mubadala each will
allocate up to US$4 billion in equity for the joint venture
over a three-year period. The venture will have two strategic
pillars; access to investment opportunities generated
through GE Capital’s existing global origination platform;
and building a Middle East & Africa platform with select
focus areas aligned to both partners’ capabilities and
regional presence.

GE offers an array of financial services and products worldwide aimed at

enabling businesses to grow and at providing credit and banking services to
consumers, retailers, and auto dealers.
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Venture with
the Al Futtaim Group
GE Money’s recent endeavor with Al Futtaim
Group has helped create a brand new
company dedicated to rolling out consumer
finance products that include auto and
personal loans, leases, sales financing, bank
cards and insurance coverage plans.
GE Capital
Disi Water Project
in Jordan
In an effort to alleviate a severe water
shortage in Jordan’s capital and the
surrounding area, the Government of Jordan
conceived the Disi Water Conveyance Project,
through which a 325 kilometer pipeline will
be built, pumping water from the ancient Disi
aquifer in Mudawarra to Amman.
A milestone was reached when funding
for the construction by GAMA Energy A.S., a joint venture between GAMA Holding A.S. and GE
Energy Financial Services. The US$1 billion investment will create jobs and promote private sector
participation in Jordan’s development.
Jordan is one of the world’s most water-scarce countries, and the Disi project is a key solution. It is
expected to supply Amman and surrounding areas with more than 100 million cubic meters of water
a year. The use of water from the reservoir in Disi-Mudawarra started in the early 1980s for municipal
and industrial purposes in the city of Aqaba.
With great partnerships
it’s amazing what can grow.
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Each day,
GE entertains NBC Universal City
and informs more comes to Dubailand
than a hundred
million people. As part of Tatweer’s 22 million square-
foot Dubailand project, Universal City
Dubailand will provide 6.5 million square
feet of entertainment in Dubai, UAE.
Bound to exceed all its competitors in
size and scope, Universal City Dubailand
will put GE on the forefront of providing
safe family fun for children of all ages.
It will also help the region diversify
its tourism offerings to a whole new
demographic of people.

NBC Universal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment

companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment,
news, and information for a global audience.
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CNBC in the Middle East

Celebrating its 5th anniversary in 2008-2009, CNBC
Arabiya is still innovating and bench-marking the way in
business and financial programming and news.
CNBC signs international CNBC signed a multi-million dollar,
three year agreement with the Dubai
With a major re-launch in November, 2008, the Arab
world’s pre-eminent business and financial news channel agreement with DIFC International
has renovated its programming to enhance and expand
Financial Centre (DIFC), the world’s
its viewership base. New programmes address topics
fastest growing global financial hub. The
ranging from women in business, personal finance, green
partnership, which runs through 2010,
business to private equity, with two new anchor shows, Al
comprises of cross-platform activities
Bousalla (The Compass) and Al Haseela (The Harvest) at
including on-air, online and event driven
the start and end of the transmission day being the first
elements across CNBC channels in the US,
and only shows of their kind in the region, to reach an
Europe, Asia, India and Australia.
average of 14 hours of live programming per day.
DIFC has associated itself with CNBC’s
This is the result of CNBC Arabiya’s commitment to the
new half-hour monthly magazine news
Arab viewer – to continuously add value and relevance,
programme called Gateway to the
with clear insight and objectivity. Broadcasting from
Middle East. Each month the programme
Dubai Media City, CNBC Arabiya has established bureaus
provides executives around the world with
in Abu Dhabi, Jeddah, Riyadh, Cairo, Kuwait, Bahrain,
insights into all that the region has to offer,
and Qatar, with a correspondent reporting from London.
focusing on business trends and executive
The service is free-to-air via Nilesat / Arab sat satellites,
lifestyle in the region.
reaching over 50 million homes.
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Advanced Technology & Research Center in Qatar

Qatar Science & Technology
Park aims to foster
technology development in
Qatar by providing world-
class premises and services
for companies from around
We believe “what we imagine, the world in a free-trade zone.
we can make happen.”
GE’s Advanced Technology
and Research Center is set
to be the hub for training of
GE Aviation and GE Energy
customers in the Middle East,
Africa, Europe and Asia. In
addition GE’s Global Research
Center, Oil and Gas, and
Water divisions will undertake
research and development
of technologies solutions for
Qatar’s growing needs.

GE Global Research is often referred to as “GE’s fifth business.”

Our scientists drive innovation for the entire Company from four
multi-disciplinary research centers located around the globe.
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Global Water
Sustainability
Research Center
in Qatar
With the opening of GE’s brand new
Global Water Sustainability Research
Center, innovative water solutions
are now a part of life in Qatar. In
collaboration with ConocoPhillips,
the new facilities, located within
the Qatar Science & Technology
Park (QSTP), will focus mainly on
the petroleum and petrochemical
sectors. Yet through close
collaboration with various
government sectors, GE will
also provide water solutions as
they pertain to municipal and
agricultural challenges.
Research & Development
Ecomagination Center
in Abu Dhabi
ecomagination is GE’s bold commitment
SM
to imagine and build innovative solutions
that solve today’s environmental
challenges and benefit customers and
society at large. ecomagination puts
into practice GE’s belief that financial
and environmental performance can be
integrated to accelerate profitable growth
for the company, while taking on some of
the world’s biggest challenges.
Through this commitment, GE partnered
with Masdar to be an anchor partner
in Masdar City, the world’s first carbon-
neutral, zero-waste city completely
powered by renewable energy. In a joint
Masdar-GE agreement, the two companies
outlined plans to house the world’s
first Ecomagination Centre, focused on
sustainable business solutions and to
form a broader R&D relationship that will
support the development and deployment
of new and innovative technologies.
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GE and King Fahd University of
Petroleum and Minerals
GE and King Fahd University of
Petroleum and Minerals have
partnered to conduct research
on IGCC gasification, which
aims to find means of burning
heavy crude in gas turbines.
Also, through this collaboration
support is provided to the
university’s students, allowing
for future career opportunities in
GE. Our Vice Chairman and CEO
of GE Technology Infrastructure,
John Rice, receives an ongoing
stipend as a member of the
technical advisory board, which
GE reinvests in King Fahd
by offering scholarships to
outstanding students.
Research & Development
GE and King Abdullah
University of Science
and Technology
King Abdullah University of Science
and Technology (KAUST) signed a
Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) with GE, marking KAUST’s first
private-sector alliance and establish a
cooperative relationship in research and
program development. KAUST is a new
world-class, graduate-level research
institution currently under development
in Saudi Arabia. Through the MoU
both parties will explore research
opportunities and information exchange
in mutually beneficial areas. This will
support KAUST’s mission of generating
research and discovery to benefit Saudi
Arabia, the region and the world.

At GE, learning is a cultural force.
Speak to a GE leader and you’ll begin to understand why 90 percent of GE’stop
600 leaders are promoted from within. Our people are passionate, resourceful
and committed. And GE invests around US$1 billion every year in their growth.
Global Learning
Abu Dhabi Development
Learning Center
For over 50 years, GE has been has been basics, project management and business
training and developing internal and external simulation. In addition, there will be customer
leaders, ready to take on global-scale business programs covering executive briefings, change
challenges through Crotonville, the world’s first management and integration.
major corporate university.
Through the strategic partnership between GE
and Mubadala Development Co., the Abu Dhabi
Leadership Development Center (Abu Dhabi LDC)
was established. The Abu Dhabi LDC will be the
premier corporate leadership and management
development destination in the region,
developing the skills of high-performing business
executives and leaders across the Middle East,
Africa and near Asia region.
It will form part of GE’s Global Learning
Network and will leverage GE’s world-renowned
“Crotonville” leadership curriculum, as well as
developing programs addressing specific needs
of the region. Courses will focus on executive
and emerging leaders with content ranging from
strategic thinking, operational excellence and
innovation to manager development, financial

GE believes the essence of corporate citizenship is
the inextricable link between integrity and performance
to the point that they become one and the same.
GE’s approach to citizenship is a full-time commitment with the same goals,
strategies and accountabilities that drive any other part of our business.
Citizenship at GE
GE Volunteers Foundation
By partnering with local charitable
organizations, the GE Volunteers Foundation
has helped us strengthen the communities
where we live and work. Through our
hands-on commitments in more than 41
countries, we have addressed key needs
and opportunities and supported many
worthy programs through grants
from our GE family.
GE Volunteers has been active in
various projects in Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan
and the UAE. We have provided aid to
Save the Children in Jordan, refurbished the Manzil School
for special needs children in the UAE, held a Paintfest in
the Abi Sina Physiological Hospital in Qatar, and presented
a ‘Food and Fun Day Out’ for orphaned children in Kuwait.
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