Partnership: an alternative to open international markets
Information, market intelligence, commercial opportunities; all vital concepts in an process of internationalization. Concepts that the GAPP (Grupo Argentino de Proveedores Petroleros), an association of small and medium companies, learned to capitalize knowing that synergy is the key for export development.

The GAPP is a net created by the Argentine Bureau of External Affairs. It consist in a flexible scheme in which an enterprise pool share key and vital information to confront export markets and different tasks related to the development of its own export efforts.

The global scope of GAPP comes from products and services related to the Oil & Gas industry, as metal manufactures, chemical products, working and safety garments, engineering services and industrial software for special uses and tailor made.

Each GAPP member, develops its commercial policies and they count with an ample degree of liberty to form functional groups for special purposes.

Advantages of Partnership
The main advantage for the companies is the existence of an umbrella as an association. That means, that GAPP members, can share good commercial information, exchange experiences, more power in presentations as a group, because the GAPP works as a driving force to commercial missions and public presence in a better way than each company could obtain alone.