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Ssara Akbar brings over 28 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Her experience includes having worked in challenging positions in the Kuwait Oil Company and also in the Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company. She holds a B.Sc in chemical engineering from the Kuwait University. Akbar has served as a board member and […]

Khaled Nouh joined Baker Hughes as President of the Middle East Region in September 2009. He brings 20 years of oilfield experience to Baker Hughes. He started his career with Saudi Aramco in 1990 before joining Schlumberger in 1994 as field engineer. After operational positions in various Middle East countries, he held global marketing, human […]

As GE president and chief executive officer for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, Hisham Albahkali continues to strengthen the presence of GE in sectors such as oil & gas, power, water, aviation and healthcare, in addition to aligning the company’s development programmes in line with the Saudi Vision 2020 to promote diversification and knowledge sharing. Saudi […]

Abu Dhabi has targeted crude production of 3.5 million barrels a day by 2018. It is now up to operators such as National Drilling Company, headed up by Abdullah Saeed al-Suwaidi, to make that ambitious production boost a reality. Established in 1972 by ministerial decree, Abu Dhabi’s National Drilling Company (NDC) is considered to be […]

The enigmatic Nabil Al Alawi tipped 2011 as a year of recovery for the region’s oil and gas contracting environment, and he was right. The resolutely bullish Alawi has been hiring hundreds of staff this year for UAE-based, home-grown Al Mansoori on the back of a strong order book and excellent prospects for large upstream […]

Mott MacDonald’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals units were involved in projects with a capital value of $8.8 billion in 2010-11, and 2012 saw even greater success, particularly with its Zakum Water Injection Upgrade Project. The company was commissioned for a $350 million project to increase water injection capacity and pressure in the Zakum West and […]

Dave Tredinnick helps to keep the region’s oil & gas projects running smoothly. As regional president of Emerson, a worldwide supplier of process automation technology and services, he has participated in the boom in large infrastructure projects, with Emerson often providing bespoke solutions that push the region’s development forward. Emerson has been in the UAE […]

Under Ali Vezvaei’s leadership, Siemens has continued to make inroads throughout the oil and gas industry. The company recently signed a contract to service the Habshan-Fujairah pipeline’s automation, control and telecom systems that have been installed and commissioned by the operator, ADCO. Earlier this year, the company also bought Expro’s Connectors and Measurements arm, including […]

The UAE remains as one of the most important hubs for the regional energy industry. While the oil & gas industry only directly contributes about 30 per cent of the country’s GDP, it is still a central location for many companies with activities related to the sector. The Zakum oil system is still the third […]