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With CEO Hashem Sayed Hashem at the helm of affairs since May 2013, the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) presently is among the top ten global oil and gas companies in terms of revenue. The KOC – a subsidiary of the state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation – is also the main revenue earner for Kuwait. Under Hashem’s […]

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 […]

Ayman Asfari in 1991 established Petrofac International, of which he became the Group CEO in 2002. Under his leadership, Petrofac has emerged as a prominent EPC contractor in the region. Petrofac was recently awarded an EPC contract by Saudi Aramco for its Fadhili gas greenfield development. The asset, which will have a capacity of around […]

Under the leadership of Mohammad Al-Mutairi, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) posted a revenue of over $44bn in 2014, an increase of $2.3bn from the year before. A chemical engineer from Kuwait University, Mutairi joined KNPC in 1987 and has gathered about 27 years of experience in downstream and refining, technologies and management. He has […]

David T. Seaton serves as the chairman and chief executive officer of Fluor Corporation, the American engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance services companies. Seaton became CEO and joined Fluor’s board of directors in February 2011, and was elected to the role of chairman of the board in February 2012. In the Middle East, a consortium […]