STATIC ARABIA 2027

STATIC ARABIA is the Middle East's specialist expo and technical conference for static equipment engineering and maintenance: the heat exchangers, pressure vessels, columns, tanks and piping that run refineries, petrochemical plants and power stations. The 7th edition returns to Dhahran Expo in the Eastern Province under the theme "Engineering, Maintenance, and Performance Excellence in Static Equipment", with an exhibition, technical conferences, a workshop and co-located shows on metals, tubes and non-metallics and on tanks, terminals and pipelines.

Focus areas for 2027

The 2027 programme links static equipment practice to the region's energy transition and manufacturing localization goals.

• Static equipment engineering analysis, design and standards
• Downstream and energy-transition breakthroughs
• Refining and petrochemical efficiency
• CCUS for decarbonization
• Plant and refinery maintenance and HSE
• AI, smart manufacturing, cybersecurity and 'Made in Saudi' localization

Technical topics

Sessions and exhibitors cover the full life cycle of fixed plant equipment, from materials and fabrication to inspection and reliability engineering.

• Heat exchangers, pressure vessels, boilers and furnaces
• Columns, towers, reactors, filters and cooling towers
• Advanced alloys, coatings, welding and composites
• Corrosion inhibitors, cathodic protection and SSC/SCC/HIC
• Predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, drone and robotic inspection
• FEA, CFD, FMEA, RCM and life-cycle cost analysis

Who attends

The organizer expects more than 5,000 professionals from the energy, oil and gas, petrochemical and power sectors: static equipment, mechanical, inspection, corrosion and maintenance engineers, plant and turnaround managers, procurement teams, fabricators, manufacturers and service providers. The executive and technical committee includes senior technical leaders from Saudi industrial companies such as Chemanol and Luberef.