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With chairman Wang Yilin at the helm of affairs, the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is aggressively expanding in the region. In December, CNPC signed an agreement with Mubadala Petroleum to foster greater co-operation between the two companies in the oil and gas exploration and production sector. The agreement identifies potential areas for collaboration in […]

With Emma Marcegaglia at the top, Italian oil and gas major Eni is making good strides in the region, particularly in Egypt, where it last year made a discovery of a giant offshore gas field off the northern coast of Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea. The Zohr field could hold a potential 30tn cubic feet […]

Musabbeh Al-Kaabi is the Chief Executive Officer of Mubadala Petroleum, responsible for developing and managing Mubadala’s portfolio of oil and gas related businesses at all stages of the upstream value chain. He joined Mubadala Petroleum in 2013 after spending 16 years working with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, where he rose to the position of […]

With managing director Bjorn Dale leading the way, Norwegian oil and gas company DNO is making significant strides in the region, particularly in Oman. DNO has recently in March this year spudded its first exploration well in Block 36 in the southwestern part of the Sultanate, marking the start of an energetic exploratory effort targeting […]

Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani chairs the board of Dubai-headquartered and Oslo-listed RAK Petroleum with indirect interests in 18 exploration and production blocks in the Middle East and North and West Africa. With an impressive number of executive roles under his belt, Mossavar-Rahmani serves concurrently as the executive chairman of Norwegian oil company DNO, 40% owned by RAK […]

Dr Abdul Jaleel Al Khalifa has certainly earned his stripes at Dragon Oil, having been appointed to its Board in 2008, having garnered management and technical experience gained during his time at Saudi Aramco. He proved to be a steady hand in 2015, when ENOC acquired Dragon Oil for $2.4bn, ending the battle to purchase […]

It was a landmark year for Dubai Petroleum, as it announced that it has identified significant volumes of gas in its T-02 well deep gas exploration well. The high pressure and high temperature T-02 well was drilled to 5,562m into the Pre Khuff formation and is the deepest well in Dubai to date. While drilling […]

Ryan M. Lance has served as chairman and chief executive officer of ConocoPhillips, the world’s largest independent exploration and production company based on production and reserves, since 2012. He is also chairman of the Executive Committee for ConocoPhillips. He has served the company in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and North America, for technology, major […]