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Mossavar-Rahmani chairs the board of Dubai based RAK Petroleum, the largest private oil and gas company in the Middle East with indirect interests in 22 exploration and production blocks worldwide. With an impressive number of executive roles under his belt, Rahmani serves as the executive chairman of Norwegian oil company DNO, 40% owned by RAK. […]

Mohammed Al-Shatti is the chief executive officer of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and its various subsidiaries at home and abroad. With the support of the government, Al-Shatti has been leading the company into new horizons by starting a number of exploration projects overseas, one of them being offshore China in collaboration with CNOOC. Despite being one […]

Stephane Michel has headed Total’s exploration and production in MENA since January last year moving up from his role as a managing director of Total E&P Qatar. In his role as president for the Middle East and North Africa, Michel is determined to lead the company towards a planned regional expansion into Kurdistan and Egypt, […]

Bill Bullock is Conoco’s newly appointed president of Asia Pacific and Middle East- arguably the two most important regions for the US energy giant. Having spent almost three decades working for Conoco, Bullock comes to the job at a time when plans to increase production from the two regions have recently been announced. But the […]

MMajid Jafar is the CEO of Crescent Petroleum and vice chairman of the Board of Crescent Group. He also serves as managing director on the Board of Dana Gas, one of the first private energy firms in the Middle East. A Cambridge engineering graduate, Jafar worked for Shell’s Exploration & Production and Gas & Power […]

Dr. Abdul-Jaleel Al-Khalifa serves as chief executive officer of Dragon Oil, a role he has occupied since 2008. As well as being a Stanford University graduate, Al-Khalifa spent 23 years in leadership and technical roles. Chief amongst these is his 12-year managing experience at Saudi Aramco’s exploration and production departments in Dhahran. Al Khalifa served […]

Sara Akbar is the first and only woman in the Middle East sitting in the CEO chair of an oil and gas company. Chemical petroleum engineer by education, Akbar served in a number of managing positions at Kuwait Oil Company in the late ‘80s and throughout the ‘90s, before moving on to join Kuwait Foreign […]

Nasser was named vice president of Petroleum Engineering and Development in April 2006 and then as acting business line head of Exploration and Producing (E&P) in August 2007. In January 2008, he was named business line head of E&P, and five months later he became E&P’s senior vice president. Nasser has had various developmental assignments, […]

Chalmin is the man at the top when it comes to Total’s exploration and production operations in Qatar. Until the beginning of the year, production had been carried out based on an Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA), but under a new 25-year agreement, Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Total now have a 60/40 interest in […]