Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd’s (MHI) new Abu Dhabi Office will initially be located in Mohammed Bin Zayed City, a free zone, and in the future will move to Masdar City(1), which is now under construction. Kinya Watanabe, General Manager of the Strategic Business Development Office for the UAE at MHI’s Machinery & Steel Structures Headquarters, has been appointed representative of the new office. Operations at the new office, which will also have two local employees, will get under way with support from head office staff dispatched from Japan. The launch of the Abu Dhabi office, which begins operations on 1 April, is aimed at increasing the company’s business opportunities in Abu Dhabi, which is currently promoting large scale renewable energy development projects and an environment-friendly social infrastructure leveraging its revenues from petroleum resources. In the near term, MHI will mainly target projects involving carbon capture and storage coupled with enhanced oil recovery and next-generation transportation systems. The new office will function as a base for dynamic, locally tailored information gathering and business development activities.