1-Carte:

2-Main industries:

    1- Oil, natural gas and chemical industries.

    2- Mechanical engineering, Metallurgy and Aeronautics.

    3- Agribusiness.

    4- Electronics & Information technologies.

    5- NTIC- Call Centers.

    6- Textiles, Board sports and Skiing.

3-A few programs for oil and gas:

    Approximately 1,800 people work in the Lacq area for companies such as EAEPF, ATOFINA-Lacq, ATOFINA-     Mont, GRL and SOBEGI.
 

    The equivalent of around 14 millions barrels of oil a year are pumped from the French Southwest.

    2000 people in Pau work in exploration and refining.
 

4-Textiles, Board Sports and Skiing:

Board sports and skiing represent over a thousand jobs in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, spread over several dozen local businesses.

Annual sales amount to between 150 and 230 million Euros, with fashion and surfware accounting for 80% to 90% of this total.

Textiles industry:

QuikSilver, European surfwear leader in St Jean de Luz, with 300 employees.

Rusty in Biarritz

Oxbow, Rip Curl and Billabong in the rest of Aquitaine.

The Basque Coast, with 30 km (19 miles) of shore stretching from Anglet and Biarritz to St-Jean-de-Luz and Hendaye is world renowned for the quality of its waves, the longest in Europe.
Our geographic location and climate allow board-sports in almost any season. With surfing being practiced on the Basque coast since the 1950's, the Pyrénées-Atlantiques is one of the world's most prestigious venues for world-class surfing.