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Arnaud Breuillac
Regional Senior Vice President (Exploration & Production)
Total
Arnaud Breuillac has been running Total’s upstream operation in the region since July 2010, and cut his teeth in the region, starting 27 years ago in Abu Dhabi, working in partnership with ADNOC as a young process engineer.
In December 2006, he became a member of the Management Committee of the Exploration & Production Division as Senior Vice-President, Continental Europe and Central Asia. On January 1st, 2011, he was appointed member of the Group Management Committee.
In the UAE, Breuillac manages the French supermajor’s long-standing projects with ADCO and ADMA-OPCO which are shortly up for renewal, and the GASCO associated gas company with which Total signed a new 20-year extension in 2008.
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Khalid Bin Khalifa Al Thani
CEO
QatarGas
Sheikh Khalid is the champion for the Qatargas 2015 Vision which aims to make Qatargas the world’s premier LNG company for innovation, operating excellence, environmental responsibility and corporate citizenship QatarGas operates the Laffan Refinery, the only condensate refinery in the Middle East.
Under his stewardship, the Laffan refinery is currently producing 146,000bpd and it is working to upgrade its production levels.
“The new expansion project will double the capacity of Laffan Refinery to 296,000 bpd by 2015,” said Al Thani earlier this year.
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Tony Hayward
CEO
Genel Energy
Genel Energy plc has exploration and production operations in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The company owns rights in numerous production sharing contracts including in the Taq Taq, Tawke and Chia Surkh fields.
At the beginning of 2012 Genel announced plans to boost production from 60,000 bpd to 100,000 bpd from the Tawke field.
Genel also took a 23% stake in Bina Bawi, a field which lies next to Genel’s core Kurdish asset Taq Taq, by purchasing A&T Petroleum Company, for $175 million, but even more recently, the company expanded into the Malta and Morocco, spending $2.2 billion to diversify into offshore activities.
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Majid Jaafar
CEO
Crescent Petroleum
Cresent Petroleum’s CEO Jaafar is also vice-chairman of the Crescent Group of companies. He brings his experience with Shell International’s Exploration & Production and Gas & Power Divisions to the Middle East’s oldest private oil & gas company.
Majid Jafar attended Eton College and graduated from Cambridge University (Churchill College) with a Bachelor and a Masters Degrees in Engineering (Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics).
He also holds an MA (with Distinction) in International Studies and Diplomacy from the University of London’s School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), and an MBA (with Distinction) from the Harvard Business School, where he served as president of the Energy Club, Section Senator, and representative to the Harvard Graduate Council.
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Abdul-Hussain bin Ali Mirza
Energy Minister
Bahrain
HE Dr Abdul-Hussain Bin Ali Mirza is the Minister of Oil & Gas Affairs and Chairman of the National Oil and Gas Authority, he has also served as Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs.
He brings over 47 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Mirza was also a member of Bapco’s Executive Committee for over 25 years and played a crucial part in formulating Bapco’s strategies.
He was a member of the Supreme Oil Council which was chaired by H.H. the Prime Minister. Dr Mirza was awarded a PhD Doctorate in Management Change from Middlesex University in London.
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Simon Hatfield
CEO
WesternZagros
Chief Executive Officer of WesternZagros Resources Ltd. with 30 years of managerial and executive experience with Imperial Oil, Exxon Production Research Company, Petro-Canada, Chauvco Resources, Talisman Energy and Western Oil Sands.
Hatfield initiated the Kurdistan opportunity for WesternZagros and led the technical and business process which successfully concluded the signing and ratification of the company’s Production Sharing Contract.
He holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Geology with Physics, a Masters of Science degree in Geology and has completed the Executive Development Program at the University of Calgary. In November, the company confirmed oil deposits in the Eocene Formation, adding to the Oligocene reservoir in Kurdamir-2.
The company also announced that its mean estimate of gross unrisked contingent resources has increased to 147 million barrels of recoverable oil (corresponding to 464 million barrels of mean estimated gross discovered oil initially in place) and the mean estimate of gross unrisked prospective resources has increased to 1.2 billion barrels of recoverable oil (corresponding to 3.6 billion barrels of mean estimated gross undiscovered oil initially in place) for the Oligocene reservoir in the Kurdamir Block.
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Ahmad Ali Al Sayegh
CEO
Dolphin Energy
Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh has overseen Dolphin Energy, one of the most important cross-GCC energy infrastructure projects in recent years, and one that may be instructive in future as the demand for natural gas supplies across the GCC grows as the region continues to develop.
Dolphin Energy began gas production in July 2007. This unique strategic energy initiative involves the production and processing of natural gas from Qatar’s North Field, and transportation of the refined gas from Ras Laffan Industrial City by a subsea pipeline across joint UAE-Qatari waters to
the UAE.
Al Sayegh is also the chairman of Abu Dhabi’s MASDAR.
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Mark Carne
Executive Vice President and Country Chairman, Dubai and Northern Emirates
Shell
Mark Carne has been chairman of Dubai and Northern Emirates Region at Royal Dutch Shell since September 2010. He has served as an Executive Vice President of BG Group plc since May 1, 2005 and also as Managing Director of Europe & Central Asia since March 2006. Carne served as Managing Director – North West Europe of BG Group Plc since May 1, 2005.
He joined BG from Shell, where he served as Managing Director of Brunei Shell Petroleum and Country Chairman for Shell companies in Brunei until 2005.
He also worked in upstream assets and held a number of commercial and general management roles in the UK and the Netherlands. Other experience includes general management roles in the U.K., Holland and Oman covering operations, engineering, commercial and business development.
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Hosnia Hashem
Deputy Managing Director (North Kuwait)
Kuwait Oil Company
Hashim is the deputy managing director of the North Kuwait asset of Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), the national oil company of Kuwait, one of the ten largest oil companies of the world. Hashim joined KOC in 1982.
Her experience was developed as a petroleum and reservoir engineer, and includes extensive contributions to the Kuwait upstream business, having held diverse and challenging leadership positions in KOC, spanning from reservoir management activities to corporate-scale projects.
Hashim’s main project for the KOC is developing its North Kuwait assets to produce 1 milllion bpd by 2014, from around 750,000 bpd at present. The KOC has been ramping up production since the summer, taking an active role in calming turbulent oil markets with higher production.
In 2009 Hashim was elected as the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) regional director for the MENA and India region.
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Mohammed Husain
Deputy Chairman
Kuwait Oil Company
Under the guidance of Mohammed Husain, Hosnia Hashem and of course Sami Al-Rushaid, the Kuwait Oil Company is on track to achieving its 2020 strategy, which has included: increasing production capacity by developing hydrocarbon reserves, infrastructure and operational capabilities; maximising reserves through a value-drive process which includes exploration, integrated reservoir evaluation and enhanced technology implementation; increasing gas exploration and production activity; improving its HSE record; advancing its research and technology sectors; improving corporate culture and image through developing a skilled and competent workforce; and developing more support services to compliment its core activities.
