provision of services, expertise in the field of international human resources and personnel assignment to all affiliated or controlled companies and enterprises, directly or indirectly, by the Group, in Switzerland or abroad; study, research and examination of all financial, industrial, commercial, oil and/or gas and/or related products (including leasing, acquisition, disposal, sale of all mining rights such as wells, land, deposits, concessions, exploitation permits or research permits); intervention as economic, financial, real estate, technical and management advisor in the oil and/or gas and/or related products sector for Maurel & Prom Group companies (i.e. any company owned by more than 50% of the capital and/or voting rights by the French company Etablissements Maurel & Prom); acquisition, management and disposal of all securities and social rights, excluding participations in companies with a real estate purpose within the meaning of the LFAIE; acquisition of foreign real estate, their management or sale; trade in all products or goods; all related operations (see articles of association for complete purpose).