MIDDLE EAST
Gulf producers are restarting idled units after the 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis, and the pace of restart is becoming a competitive edge. Every week of restart you recover is cash flow you keep, and resilience you can prove.
*Source: WEF Global Lighthouse Network report.
Chokepoint risk
The 2026 Hormuz shutdown took 11–14 mb/d of regional crude offline overnight. Every mile of bypass pipeline built to route around it just became a strategic asset.
Operational Resilience
Refineries and LNG trains come back online over weeks, in stages. CDUs run a 14-day purge and thermal ramp. LNG trains cool down one at a time. Every stage is a decision point: get it right, and you buy back both speed and asset life.
Digital-first turnarounds
Operators who digitized shutdown and turnaround planning are recovering faster and more predictably. More operators are building this into every turnaround plan.
We take in your process data (temperature, pressure, flow), design drawings, and inspection and maintenance data.
Physics-based AI builds a structural twin of your equipment. It calculates real structural limits continuously.
You pace restarts, time turnarounds, and plan asset life with clear evidence behind every decision.
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At this WEF GLobal Lighthouse site, Akselos delivered the #1 ROI site-wide – more than the next four digital technology combined.
– Tjerk Joustra | Manager Business Development, Shell Ventures –
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2-5 November 2026
Abu Dhabi, UAE
VP of Sales – MENA
Ibrahim partners with industrial leaders across the region to strengthen operational resilience. He uses physics-based AI and structural twins to help operators plan maintenance ahead of failure, not after it.
Director of Business Growth
Abed partners with operators across LNG, refining, and offshore to turn structural insight into actionable decisions that improve reliability, extend asset life.
Senior Sales Engineer
Amine specializes in structural engineering to drive operational resilience across the Middle East, partnering with regional operators to help operators apply Akselos SPM’s physics-based AI to real structural integrity problems.
