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Oil & Gas Middle East Awards 2010
Oil & Gas Middle East celebrates its inaugural awards event in style
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Mohammed Ahmed Al Muflehi, HSE manager, ADMA-OPCO receiving the Outstanding Leader of The Year award from Jimmy Larsen, deputy managing director of Momentum Group, one of the major sponsors of the event.
The awards drew in a great and varied crowd from the upstream and supporting industries.
Guests gathering ahead of the glittering awards event.
Some guests didn’t waste time in acquainting themselves with others with business cards to hand.
The team from ADMA-OPCO enjoying a chat before the night’s proceedings.
Mark Carne, Shell Upstream executive VP for MENA, delivered the opening speech to the inaugural awards event.
Mohammad Al-Benali, vice president, Technical Services of EQUATE with a guest.
Phil Baron, HSE manager at Drydocks World clearly engrossed in a little ‘light reading’ before the awards ceremony began.
The event kicked off with a great introduction from Master of Ceremonies Tom Urquhart.
The very first Oil & Gas Middle East Awards was held at the opulent Westin hotel in Dubai.
Another chance to do a little networking.
Foroohar Farzadnia, corporate marketing and business development director, AlMansoori Specialized Engineering picked up the much-coveted Middle East Oil Field Service Provider of The Year award..
Harvey Lines, director of operations, Africa & Middle East, Wings Travel Management and Amanda Claassens, general manager gave their backing to the event.
Barbara Lak, Technical Assurance manager, MENA, Shell E&P received the award for Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery Project of The Year on behalf of PDO from Proclad Academy principal Mark Cullens.
Christophe Rojas, Operations manager for Schlumberger Testing Services received the award for Best Technology Implementation of The Year.
Maersk Oil Qatar’s head of Geoscience Esbern Hoch collected the award for Offshore Project of the Year.
Mohammad Al-Benali, vice president, Technical Services of EQUATE picked up the award for Corporate Social Responsibility.
Omar Al Shamlan, HSE manager of ADMA-OPCO collected the Overall Exploration and Production Performance of The Year award.
Rob Dakers of Shell received the Gas Project of The Year award.
The very first Oil & Gas Middle East Awards trophies are surely to become a collectors item for the upstream industry’s finest performers in the years to come.
Phil Baron, HSE manager at Drydocks World receiving the Health & Safety Initiative of The Year award from the EIC’s managing director Terry Willis.
Foroohar Farzadnia, corporate marketing and business development director, AlMansoori Specialized Engineering with Karim Pachiyannakis corporate HSE & quality manager, AlMansoori Specialized Engineering (left) and Bob Thubron, general manager, Specialised Oilfield Products (right).
Mohammed Ahmed Al Muflehi, HSE manager, ADMA-OPCO catching up with colleagues and guests ahead of the award-giving ceremony.
The Oil & Gas Middle East Awards of 2010 drew in a high caliber of representatives from the upstream industry’s top performers who left the event with slightly heavier contact books.