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GOFSCO Hails Successful Sponsorship of Maker Faire Kuwait 2018

Gas & Oil fields services company (GOFSCO), one of the biggest incorporated service providers in Kuwait specializing in the upstream oil and gas industry, both onshore and offshore, recently hailed a successful silver sponsorship of the prominent Maker
Faire Kuwait 2018 which was held under the patronage of His Highness the Amir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah.

GOFSCO's sponsorship can be found in line with its solid business social responsibility technique that focuses on sustaining young skills, particularly those who have the capacity to develop handcrafted crafts and innovative suggestions to profit the culture.
During the event, GOFSCO's booth welcomed approximately 43,000 site visitors of every ages, whereby they were introduced to the company's area of services and background, in addition to being provided with the possibility to experiment the process of oil testing. The task allowed both young people and grownups to recognize the process of separating oil in a highly secure atmosphere, hence highlighting the value of engineering within this field of business.

Discussing GOFSCO's participation in the exhibition, Eng. Hussam Ali Marafie - Chairman and President at GOFSCO said: "It gives us terrific pride to be part of an event that underscores the importance of entrepreneurial abilities of local and regional individuals. Our sponsorship of Maker Faire Kuwait 2018 is driven by our company social duty method that focuses on helping youth that have a passion in technology, hand-crafted crafts and arts to take their passion of developing ideas from square one to new heights. We believe that our area of occupation plays an integral role in comparable occasions, and to highlight our obligation in the direction of the youth and the culture as a whole, our cubicle included a number of tasks that explained how engineers are continuously exposed to situations that drive them to create and establish ideas from scratch.

Eng. Marafie added: "In support of GOFSCO, I wish to thank Kuwait Investment Company for arranging this occasion for the 2nd year straight. GOFSCO encourages youth to utilize their skills to its complete potential in an action towards achieving a sustainable future for our culture.".

MakerFaire is a globally prominent occasion that collects tech fanatics, crafters, instructors, and students of all ages to present their productions and share their competence in unique means. The event was come from the USA and has actually quickly gotten glo bal popularity to the level that it was taken on by previous U.S President Obama and hosted in the White Residence. Since then, the Maker Faire occasion has actually been held in several nations all over the world, now consisting of the GCC region with Kuwait as the only unique host.

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