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The President and CEO of the National Oil Company of Tunisia (ETAP), Mohamed Akrout, says Tunisia has maintained an image of a safe investment region in the post-Arab spring era by maintaining a good relationship with all its oil & gas investors.

Leading European energy experts will address the more than 4200 smart metering experts at the annual Metering, Billing/CRM Europe conference and expo at the Amsterdam RAI from Tuesday 4 October.

Mobile pioneers Vodafone are the operator partners for the upcoming, groundbreaking Connected World Forum in Dubai from 31 October to 3 November,

South African Energy and Public Enterprises Ministers, Elizabeth Dipuo Peters and Malusi Gigaba are both speaking at the opening session of the upcoming Solar Energy Africa conference in Johannesburg from 19-20 September.

The first examples of ‘smart home’ energy management technology will be showcased at the upcoming Smart Homes 2011 conference in Amsterdam in October.

ICT will be the key to resolving important questions facing our society, such as the energy revolution, says Deutsche Telekom SVP Strategic Market Energy, Gabriele Riedmann de Trinidad.

Mobile technology is increasingly facilitating the way consumers worldwide spend, save, learn and monitor their health, says Andrea Monteiro, director of the Connected World Forum which is taking place in Dubai in October.

Baker Hughes unconventional gas expert Adrian Topham says he sees the European unconventional gas market develop primarily in Poland in the next 12 months, “through steady exploration and appraisal, but with a few wells in other countries.”

“We are living in interesting times in the energy market in Brazil”, says Adriano Rehder, the project director of the annual Metering Latin America, taking place in Sao Paulo from 25-27 October.

Massive public enterprises are still battling to get maintenance off the back-burner while at the same time huge investment is going into new-build projects, according to Tracey-Lee Zurcher, the project director of Reliability & Maintenance Week.