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Majid Jafar is the CEO of Crescent Petroleum and the vice chairman of the board of the Crescent Group, a Sharjah-based, family-run business enterprise. Crescent Petroleum has major operations outside the UAE, in Iraq’s Kurdistan region and Egypt. Jafar also serves as managing director of the board of Dana Gas, with which Crescent Petroleum is […]

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 […]

Jon Ferrier has been the CEO of Gulf Keystone Petroleum since June 2015, and has amassed over 35 years’ worth of experience in the oil and gas, and mining industries. Since joining the company, Ferrier has focussed on achieving safe operations, working hand-in-hand with Iraq’s Ministry of Natural Resources, and continuing to maintain stable production […]

Vagit Alekperov has been leading Russia’s Lukoil as president since 1993. The oil and gas major controls 1% of the world’s oil reserves and produces 2% of the global oil per day. Lukoil Overseas, which is prominently present in Iraq, last year reported a record increase in output, totalling 112mn barrels of oil equivalent. The […]

Making it to Oil & Gas Middle East’s annual Power 50 list is the man who is leading an initiative to tap into the vast oil and gas reserves of Iraq’s Basra Governorate . Ali Al Faris, the chairman of the Oil & Gas Committee at Basra Council – the political authority for Iraq’s economic […]