UGE -Tapping into the best of both worlds between Baku and Dubai

For more than 10 years I have been operating my UGE companies between Baku and Dubai, working with national and international partners, and where Dubai acts as a gateway to Baku just as Baku is a bridge to Dubai.

Let me explain what I mean and help make clear how we at Union Grand Energy are accelerating material exchanges, logistical services and learning between Baku and Dubai.

Our work in energy, construction, trade and technology development forms a natural synergy, between companies, cultures and markets-we transfer what we learn, apply and know from one location to the other.

It means that we have been able to attract high levels of national and international capital and investment.

We started with advanced computer electronics, which quickly became a model for further applications and high-tech services, trading and manufacturing.  Where we could we created the design and blueprints for these systems ourselves, and then 'exported' them to our other businesses. This kind of entrepreneurship helped our companies grow and expand in Baku, and have created a bigger more modern domestic marketplace.

It also makes us more innovative, open and competitive, where we know and understand how business gets done, working inside stable and predictable environments, where we welcome foreign investment.

What matters most to us wherever we are working is protecting and promoting the domestic interest of a country and public in all our ventures, helping support national economic and social fundamentals.

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Union Grand Energy - Committed to Smart and Sustainable Development

Our focus doing business, at home and overseas, is on developing and finding new technologies to be more competitive and efficient in our ventures and services.

We call it smart and sustainable development.

What does that mean in our projects and partnerships?

We can see, for example, in our work with international partners on the massive Baku White City redevelopment venture, that our use of new forms of technologies to reclaim abandoned land and build 21st century infrastructure using the latest environment-friendly methods. This kind of public and private partnership, where we combine expertise, investment and cutting edge modern resources, is a model for our business.

Likewise, our upstream oil project at Azerbaijan's Surakhani Oil field, where we have made massive investments to rehabilitate decayed and decrepit facilities, transforming the infrastructure and totally renewing  producing assets, with more than 60 new wells drilled, and more than doubling volumes (you can view images here).

On all our projects we take seriously our mission to not just upgrade facilities but to work actively to improve economic and social conditions for our workers and citizens, including good salaries and jobs. At Surakhani we have kept and added jobs, paid millions in taxes, and continue to invest and reinvest in the community.

You can find more information about what we are doing, these ventures and others at our company website, www.uegpte.com

Union Grand Energy priorities: Bringing new life, social, and economic activity to our historic urban areas

One of our projects at Union Grand Energy that will revitalize the landscape of Baku is our White City development. 

Working closely with international ventures like Atkins (UK), Foster and Partners (UK) and our Azerbaijan partners, White City is being built as one of the biggest urban development and land reclamation projects constructed on land ecologically reclaimed from a former industrial zone.

Our company mission on all the projects we undertake is to bring high-tech innovation to each of our ventures, in the process creating new work, social activity and economic progress, transforming old and obsolete infrastructure into modern restorations and renewals.

You can see more about White City at www.bakuwhitecity.com, and also the
brief summary here:

- One of the biggest

Baku White City will be one of the largest modern projects in  the world, built entirely on ecologically reclaimed industrial zone

- 221 ha development

Baku White City will encompass 221 ha, making it largest development in Caucasus region - 11 times the size of Iceri Shahar in Baku and bigger than Monaco

- 50 000 residents

When completed Baku White City will be able to accommodate approximately 50,000 people, which is approximately equal to the population size of Andorra

- 39 ha landscape

1/3 size of the Hyde Park - one of the largest parks in London

- 10 districts

Baku White City consists of 10 neighboring districts. The effective use of land for the development of each district  is crucial for the realisation of the entire masterplan.

- about 3.5 mln sqm gross built area

- up to 18 000 residential and commercial units

- 48 000 workplaces

When completed Baku White City will be able to provide 48 000 workplaces.