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Abdul Munim Saif Al-Kindy
CEO
ADCO
The completion of ADCO’s Habshan-Furjairah pipeline has dramatically changed Abu Dhabi and the UAE’s energy landscape. The pipeline is designed to transport 1.5 million barrels of crude oil per day, with the possibility of increasing this to 1.8 mbpd through the use of drag-reducing agents.
ADCO has been a key part of Abu Dhabi’s massive investment program, with nearly $1.5 billion into its Phase 1 Development Programme, which will add about 400,000 bpd to its output. The company has also been pioneering CO2 injection techniques, taking on a leadership role in taking this promising technology to enterprise level.
Al-Kindy skillfully negotiated EPC contracts for ADCO’s field development towards the bottom of the contracting market. Abdul Munim Al Kindy joined the Abu Dhabi Petroleum Company (ADPC) in 1975, as an apprentice, and continued his further education in the UK. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1982.
He occupied a number of senior positions in all onshore fields and terminals. In 1990 he joined British Petroleum, on secondment, and worked in North Sea operations, commercial, and strategy development.
In 1997 he was appointed as the deputy general manager of ADCO, joined National Drilling Company in 2001, as General Manager, before returning to ADCO in 2007. The next priority is building a workforce that can meet both the technical challenges of mature field development while enhancing local human capital in the industry.
“Somehow this has to be tackled without dilution to the knowledge pool,” Al-Kindy told Oil & Gas Middle East. “We are continuously exploring how we can attract youngsters to the industry. There is an underlying image for the upstream industry with the youth of today.”
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Saif Al-Ghafli
CEO
Abu Dhabi Gas Development Company
Saif Al-Ghafli is heading the Shah sourgas development, one of the most challenging upstream projects in the gulf. Abu Dhabi – and the wider gulf – needs gas supplies to meet domestic demand from power generation and industrial feedstock.
While Abu Dhabi has 200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, its potentially lethal levels of sulphur – together with low demand and high production prices – have put off the emirate from developing the field previously.
Tecnicas Reunidas and Punj Lloyd Group also won a joint contract worth $463 million for gas gathering. Fluor and CH2M Hill Companies unit Veco Corp. signed project management contracts for the Shah project last year.
Ghafli also brought US oil independent Occidental on board last year, with Oxy taking a 40% participating interest and ADNOC retaining 60%.
The project involves several gas gathering systems, construction of processing trains to process one billion cubic feet per day of gas at Shah to produce around 500 million cubic feet per day of network gas and other related hydrocarbon liquids, in addition to new gas and liquid pipelines.
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Wael Sawan
Executive vice president and chairman
Qatar Shell
Wael was appointed as executive vice president and chairman of Qatar Shell and managing director for the Pearl GTL Project in April this year.
Wael is now responsible for leading all of Shell’s activities in Qatar, particularly the Pearl gas to liquids project, the flagship $18-19 billion dollar joint development between QP, Shell and Qatar 4, the LNG joint venture between QP and Shell who own a 70-30% stake respectively.
Shell also operates a research facility in the Qatar Science & Technology Park, and has the rights to explore in Block D in partnership with CNPC.
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Raol Restucci
Managing Director
PDO Oman
Raoul Restucci serves as the Managing Director of Petroleum Development Oman, LLC and is responsible for its day-to-day management in accordance with the programme and within the budget approved by the Board of Directors.
Restucci has been an Executive Vice President and Country Chairman of Shell Group of Companies – Dubai & North Emirates at Royal Dutch Shell plc since September 2010.
Restucci has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Shell Exploration & Production Company of Shell Oil Company since August 2003.
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Dhia Jaafar
Director General
South Oil Company
Dhia Jaafar, Director-General of South Oil Company, holds immense responsibility as the head of the national Iraqi company responsible for the oil in the South of Iraq.
He is vested with the power to award contracts in the burgeoning market where tenders continue to be extremely competitive. In November, the company signed a 20 year technical service contract with BP and its partners.
The company also recently announced that it was in talks with Shell to build facilities to process associated gas into fueld for domestic consumption.
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Hamad Rashid Al Mohannadi
Managing Director
Rasgas
Hamad Rashid Al Mohannadi joined RasGas — Qatar’s second biggest liquefied natural gas producer — as managing director in 2007. He has been a board member of Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company Limited since 1993.
Prior to joining RasGas, from 1992 he was general manager at Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) responsible for its growth and expansion. In addition to his role as QAPCO general manager, he is also general manager of QATOFIN.
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Gati al-Jebouri
Executive Director and Chief Commercial Officer
Lukoil
The executive director and chief commercial officer of Russia’s largest private oil company’s growing Middle-East division. Earlier this year, Lukoil signed a contract worth US $998 million with Samsung to carry out the commissioning and start-up of the West Qurna (Phase 2) field.
The company floated a number of tenders this year for the West Qurna field which were awarded to them by the South Oil Company which is owned by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil.
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Yasuhisa Kanehara,
Senior Vice President
Inpex
Inpex continues to strengthen its position in the Middle East with senior vice president Yasuhisa Kanehara recently signing a deal with the Iraqi Federal Government and Russia’s Lukoil to explore an area believed to contain oil.
Through its wholly owned subsidiary, JODCO, Inpex owns an interest in the ADMA Block located offshore from Abu Dhabi in the UAE. Oil production currently spans five fields in the block.
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Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani
Executive Chairman, CEO and Chairman
DNO International, RAK Petroleum
Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani is an experienced oil and gas executive who, in addition to his roles at DNO and RAK Petroleumm, serves as Chairman of Foxtrot International which is a privately-held Franco-American oil and gas company active in West Africa.
He was founder and first chief executive of Houston-based Apache International Inc.
DNO was the first company to sign a production sharing contract with the Kurdish Regional Government (2004), and the first company to export Kurdish oil (2009).
In addition to his industry positions, Mossavar-Rahmani is a Director of the Persepolis Foundation and serves as a member of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Visiting Committee and on the Board of Trustees of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
He was decorated Commandeur de l’Ordre National de la Côte d’Ivoire for services to the energy sector of that country.
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Morten Mauritzen
Lead Country Manager for ExxonMobil Companies, UAE
ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil is actively developing Abu Dhabi’s offshore Upper Zakum field, one of the largest offshore oil fields in the world. The company is currently planning to expand the field’s production from 550,000 bpd to 750,000b bpd.
Through the companies ZADCO Joint Venture with ADNOC, the field is being completely redeveloped.
Extended reach wells are being drilled from artificial islands, enabling additional production that will add several hundred billions of dollars in value to Abu Dhabi.
