Siemens has opened a Oil & Gas Regional Business Center in Kuala Lumpur. From the Malaysian capital it will offer its oil & gas clients in the Asia Pacific region expert services for its rotating and electrical equipment based solutions business. Kuala Lumpur is the center of the region’s oil & gas industry with all major players in walking distance in and around the famous Petronas Twin Towers. Numerous customers and business partners attended the official opening.“Nowhere else in the world are our customers so concentrated in one spot as here in Kuala Lumpur,” stressed Klaus Voges, President of Siemens Power Generation (PG), at the official opening ceremony. “This is so important because the development of solutions for the oil & gas industry is a highly interactive process. The proximity to our business partners will help speed up processes and drive efficiency in the day to day work with our customers.” “Asia-Pacific is a power house in the global oil & gas business, and Malaysia offers the opportunity for us at Siemens to add value to our customers operations in the region. Our presence here and in Singapore will allow us to participate in the expected growth by supporting it with our innovative solutions”, said Rainer Althoff, President and CEO of Siemens Malaysia Sdn Bhd. “Malaysia has established an ideal infrastructure to support the vibrant oil & gas industry which makes Kuala Lumpur an ideal launch pad for doing business in the region.”

About Siemens Oil & Gas
Siemens is an international electrical engineering and electronics company with a presence in over 190 countries around the globe and a workforce in excess of 430,000. With a broad portfolio of products and services it offers customized solutions to the oil & gas industry for applications as diverse as compression and pumping, power generation and distribution, automation and control, industrial IT and life-cycle services for on- and offshore production, transportation and storage as well as for refining and petrochemical processes. With thousands of projects successfully executed around the world Siemens is a world leader as a system integrator in this business field.

About Siemens Malaysia
Siemens is a global leader in electrical engineering and electronics. Our six business areas in Malaysia– Information & Communications, Automation & Control, Power, Transportation, Medical and Lighting place us in a strong position to leverage on synergies to create and develop cross-disciplinary solutions. Our offerings include comprehensive products, services and solutions for the telecommunications, oil & gas, power, rail, airports & seaports, automotive, financial, manufacturing, buildings, logistics, healthcare, lighting, semiconductor and water industries.

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