Licensable activity
Energy, oil & gas
Oilfield services, petroleum products trading, storage and blending, renewables development, and the engineering and supply chain around all of it.
Classification
How it is coded.
UAE activity lists derive from ISIC Revision 4, the United Nations industrial classification. Each emirate's economic department and each free zone then extends that base with its own numbering, so the same activity carries a different code in Dubai than it does in Sharjah or inside DMCC.
- ISIC Rev. 4
- Section B — Mining and quarrying; Section D — Electricity and gas; Section C — division 19, refined petroleum
- Licence category
- Commercial or Industrial
- Regulator
- Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure · emirate energy authorities
Approvals beyond the licence
- Storage and blending
- Environmental and civil defence approvals graded by volume and product class.
- Operator vendor registration
- ADNOC, ENOC and the utilities each run their own supplier qualification, separate from any licence.
- Renewables
- Emirate utility and regulatory approvals for grid-connected generation.
In practice
Fujairah for storage and bunkering, Hamriyah for oil and gas services, KEZAD for heavy industrial, Masdar City for the energy transition. The clustering here is real rather than promotional.
Coverage
Where it can be licensed.
Of the 40 licensing authorities across the UAE, 6 issue licences covering this activity, spread across 4 of the seven emirates.