11 Jasem Ali Al Sayegh
CEO
Takreer
Jasem Ali Al-Sayegh is the CEO of Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (Takreer). He was appointed as GM of the company in November 2006. He has brought a wealth of oil refining experience to lead and manage Takreer’s 480,000 bpd production and strategically diversify its operations.
He is now overseeing Takreer $10 billion Ruwais refinery expansion project. It is progressing according to plan and is to be completed by end of 2013. The project aims to raise Takreer’s refining capacity by 417,000 barrels per day and nearly double its production of transportation fuels.
In the last three years, he has also contributed at a senior level to Abu Dhabi’s downstream sector as a member of the board to Borouge and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company distribution
Al Sayegh joined Takreer’s general management team in 2003 after successfully managing the Ruwais refinery operation and its expansion for four years.
He joined ADNOC in 1986 after graduating from the University of Washington as a chemical engineer. As the CEO of one of ADNOC’s subsidieries, Al Sayegh is widely regarded as one of the most important policy shapers in the UAE downstream industry.
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12 Mohammad Husain
President & CEO
Equate
In addition to being a member of Equate Board of Directors since 2004, Mohammad Husain took over as President & CEO in April 2012.
As soon as he took over Husain addressed a local vendors’ conference where he said the company’s annual sales to local Kuwaiti plastic manufacturers have increased by over 300% during 1998 to 2011.
Husain noted, “The plastic conversion industry is projected to have great prospects if it is positioned properly within the value-chain and optimised its operations to be more export oriented.”
With over 30 years of extensive professional service, Husain has held various leading posts, administrative and technical, at Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) and finally at Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) as Deputy Chairman & Deputy Managing Director for Mina Al-Ahmadi Refinery.
Having served at several leadership position and board memberships, Husain’s overall competencies and areas of expertise include exploration, development and production of oil and gas, petrochemical and downstream activities, as well as corporate planning and strategy development. Husain is also a Board member of the Gulf Petrochemicals & Chemicals Association (GPCA) since early 2012.
Mohammad holds a Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from the US-based University of Tulsa.
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13 H.E. Nasser bin Khamis Al Jashmi
Chairman
Oman Oil Company
H.E Nasser bin Khamis Al Jashmi, chairman of the Oman Oil Company completely control the investments made by the government owned company. OOC is one of those investment vehicles that quietly make huge investments with excellent ROIs. The company has announced plans to build an $800m petrochemicals plant in Sohar and one of the largest crude storage facilities in the world at Ras Markaz in Duqm.
The petrochemicals plant is expected to produce purified terephthalic acid (PTA) and polyethylene terephtalate (PET), according to H E Nasser bin Khamis al Jashmi, the chairman of the company and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Oil and Gas.
Creation of the Oman Oil Company was proposed in 1992 and the company was established in 1996. In addition to the oil and gas exploration and production, the company also invests in power generation, energy transportation and infrastructure, oil refining, and petrochemicals manufacturing.
One of the premier investments made by the company has to be in the Oman India Fertilizer Company (Omifco). Omifco is a world scale ammonia/urea fertilizer manufacturing facility in Sur.
The plant produces up to 250,000 metric tonnes per annum of surplus liquid ammonia and 1.65 million metric tons per annum of bulk granulated urea. With direct supplies to India, and a recent agreement on increasing the feedstock gas price, this fertiliser plant is making giant strides.
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14 Abdullah Al Suwailem
CEO
Petro Rabigh
Abdullah Al Suwailem is the new CEO of Petro Rabigh. Heading an important company like Petro Rabigh, which is the kingdom’s first integrated petrochemical and refinery complex wins him a prestigious position in the Top 50 list.
Abdullah Al-Suwailem is an official of Saudi Aramco, where he held several positions including President of Aramco – Asia Ltd in China which is a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, and Director of Saudi Aramco Overseas in Hong Kong, in addition to a number of leadership positions in teams appointed by Saudi Aramco to work in the establishment of joint venture companies, including Yanbu Refinery (Yasref), Jubail Refinery (Satorp) and Petro Rabigh.
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15 Fahad Al-Helal
President and CEO
Yasref
Fahad Al-Helal is the president and CEO of Yasref and was formerly the CEO of the Red Sea Refining Company. The Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining (Yasref) Company (formerly Red Sea Refining Company or RSRC) is now a joint venture company, owned by Saudi Aramco and China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec).
RSRC (Red Sea Refining Company) was incorporated in June 2010 and re-registered as a Yasref in January 2012 with the single purpose to establish, construct, operate, and manage a full conversion refining complex in the Yanbu Industrial City, on the West Coast of Saudi Arabia.
The project is a new grassroots refinery at Yanbu that covers about 5.2 million square meters. It is scheduled to be operational in 2014. The refinery will process 400,000 barrels per day of Arabian Heavy crude oil and produce high-quality refined products meeting the most stringent specifications for domestic and global markets.
The products include 90,000 bpd of gasoline, 263,000 bpd of ultra-low sulphur diesel, 6,300 metric tons per day (MTD) of petcoke and 1,200 MTD of sulphur.
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16 Dr. Mohamed Yousef Al Mulla
Vice Chairman and CEO
Qatar Petroleum Company
Mohamed Yousef Al-Mulla was appointed as general manager of Qapco in April 2007, following his graduation with PhD in Engineering from the Leicester University. Dr Al Mulla manages multibillion dollar projects, some are operational and others are still under construction.
Apart from QAPCO, Dr Al Mulla also supervises at Ras Laffan Olefins Company and the Qatofin project.
He joined Qapco in 1988, and held several key positions in the company including maintenance manager and head of electrical engineering division. Qatar is well positioned for a robust petrochemical industry as the country’s natural gas reserves stand at 84.5trn cu metres and LNG production should reach a level of over 77m tonnes in the next five years.
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17 Dr. Abdulwahab Al Sadoun
Secretary General
GPCA
Dr Abdulwahab Al-Saadoun assumed his job as the secretary general of Gulf Petrochemical and Chemicals Association (GPCA) in April 2009. He is PhD graduate of the University of London in Industrial Chemistry.
Dr Al-Sadoun started his professional carrier with SABIC as a senior researcher in the R&D centre where he worked from July 1990 to October 1995.
In December 2004, he joined the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) and acted as the director general of the energy sector until January 2008. Al Sadoun is a heavyweight in the petrochemical industry and extremely focussed on pulling it in the right direction.
Under the guidance of Dr. Al-Saadon, the GPCA has launched several initiatives, to serve better its members. He is a well-liked and respected authority figure in the Middle East downstream industry.
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18 Abdulaziz Al-Judaimi
VP Chemicals
Saudi Aramco
Abdulaziz Al-Judaimi is currently a member of Saudi Aramco’s executive management and was appointed vice president of RM&I’s new area, Chemicals, on October 27, 2010. This admin area is responsible for Saudi Aramco’s chemical business organisations, including the development Sadara Chemicals, and the Rabigh-II Project FEED study programme.
Prior to this, Al-Judaimi was the vice president of Ras Tanura Integrated Refining and Petrochemicals (RTIRP).
Previously, al-Judaimi was vice president of new business development and was responsible for promotion of investment opportunities in the Kingdom. He was in charge of developing the two export refinery projects in the East and West coast of Saudi Arabia.
In addition, to steering these mega projects, he was in charge of promoting local industries in the Kingdom, especially those which provide Saudi Aramco with oil and gas industry equipment and services.
He joined Saudi Aramco in 1983. He advanced through a series of field and operational assignments leading to his current position. He assumed various position in exploration and production area as well as served as manager of Northern Area Production Engineering Department.
Al-Judaimi graduated from KFUPM with a bachelor’s degree of petroleum engineering in 1983.
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19 Rüya Bayegan
CEO
Bayegan
Ruya Bayegan is an extremely ambitious lady. She has risen up to the 19th position this year as she is working very hard not just to expand her business but to establish Turkey as the new destination for petrochemical exports.
“While China is developing its petrochemical industry, and is set to be self sufficient in the futures, Turkish petrochemical imports are set to increase as there are no downstream projects in the country that can meet the soaring demand,” she said.
“Therefore, I encourage GCC producers to come and invest in the country, as the market is here,” she said.
She also puts her money where her mouth is. Middle of 2012, family-owned Bayegan Group engaged in the trading of petroleum derivatives, petrochemicals and other commodities, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Advanced Petrochemical Company, a leading Saudi Arabia based producer of petrochemical products, for the development of a $1 billion Propane Dehydrogenation (PDH) and Polypropylene (PP) plant.
Once fully operational, the plant is expected to produce 500,000 t/y of polypropylene. At current rates, this will replace approximately 30% of polypropylene imports into the country. Today, Turkey is the world’s second largest importer of polypropylene.
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20 Dr Moayyed Al-Qurtas
CEO
Tasnee
Dr Moayyed al-Qurtas, is the CEO of Tasnee, he holds degree in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in administration. Before joining the National Industrialisation Company (Tasnee) in 1996, Al-Qurtas acted as director of research and development at Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic), supervising the establishment of its research complex.
Al-Qurtas presided Petrochemia, looking after the establishment of its technical and administrative sections and the construction of many of Sabic’s projects, including “Samad” and “Ibn Hayan” in Jubail, in addition to the establishment of the Gulf Petrochemicals Company in Bahrain.
