Hesham El-Brollosy has been appointed as LUX Assure’s new vice president of business development, the company’s Middle East-based recruit. We met Hesham in LUX Assure’s new Dubai office to find out his plans for the region.
LUX Assure’s first office in the region is in the safe hands of Hesham El-Brollosy, who brings 13 years of oil and gas experience. Hesham has progressed through a variety of technical and management roles, stationed in Australia and the Middle East.
After a five-year career in the mining sector in Australia, Hesham was drawn into the offshore sector, where he worked for companies based in Southeast Asia.
He remembers that during those days extracting oil from the sea was anything but easy: “Back then it was challenging, it wasn’t as easy as it is now. Today we see a lot of technologies helping operators drill deeper and into the unreachable oil.”
This transformation in the use of technology within the oil and gas industry has opened up doors for LUX Assure to expand its reach into the Middle East.
In light of the declining price of oil, operators, service companies and contractors are focusing on how to cut down on costs. Many are focusing on maintaining existing assets rather than investing in new ones, which can be a significant challenge.
LUX Assure currently delivers two key technologies to help extend the life time of assets, CoMic™ and OMMICA™. CoMic™ is a revolutionary technology that mitigates pipeline corrosion and provides considerable time and cost savings.
OMMICA™ is a hydrate inhibitor detection kit designed to determine the concentration of methanol or monoethylene glycol (MEG) in oil or water.
Hesham, however, is no stranger to high pressure environments, reflecting on his time spent working on the oil and gas transmission system of the world’s most expensive project, the Kashagan project.
He says: “It was challenging, and we had all sorts of troubles that can happen in the oil and gas industry in terms of logistics, payments, local employment, to name a few. The biggest challenge was the weather. The temperature ranged from 40 degrees in the summer to minus 40 in the winter.”
Hesham always wanted to move back to the Middle East and explains that LUX’s significant investment in establishing the new Dubai office shows commitment to clients within the region.
It confirms the company’s ambitious growth plans for the area and means that continued close working with partners in the UAE gives LUX Assure an exciting opportunity to build a strong sustainable business within the region.
LUX Assure is a market leader in innovative oil and gas corrosion technologies, founded and based in Scotland, UK.
