Mr. Qarni has been working with Saudi Aramco for the last 26 years. He started his career as an outside Operator in Ras Tanura Refinery (RTR) utilities division. He then joined Operations Engineering department in RTR. Mr. Qarni holds a Mechanical Engineering Degree from Prince Mohammed University. In 2017, he worked with Clean Fuels Project (CFP) detail design in Spain for one year and half that planned to be executed in RTR. Currently, he is working with Technical Support Division that provides the required support for Saudi Aramco’s Global Manufacturing.
Tom Di Giacomo, currently CEO of the Cabinda Oil Company in Angola, has had a successful Downstream career that spans the last four decades. Tom began his professional career as a process engineer in the USA with Mobil Oil and Sun Oil during the 1980s, and as an assistant operations manager with Texaco during the 1990s.
Maan Surahi is a chemical engineer with 5 years of experience. His career was started as an operation engineer in petrochemicals section responsible for Utilities and Off-site Units.
Maan Surahi is a chemical engineer with 5 years of experience. His career was started as an operation engineer in petrochemicals section responsible for Utilities and Off-site Units. Then, he shifted his experience to be a process engineer in Oil & Gas. He is currently a process engineer handling Crude, Vacuum, VisBreaker, Jet Merox and Butane Splitter units in Samref since 2021.
Experienced Chemical engineering with > 17 Years commencing with Saudi Aramco upstream process engineering to petrochemical and projects in both SABIC and petro-rabigh. Re-wired back into downstream process engineering and operation in oil refining for more than 10 years.
Kevin is a Senior Consultant with Solomon Associates. He has previously worked for ICI, Huntsman and Sabic in a variety of technical and senior management roles. Kevin is a professional mechanical engineer with 35 years industrial experience in major chemical / petrochemical organisations, He has global experience, including 1 year in Holland, 5 years in Saudi Arabia and 4 years in Bahrain.
Morgan Allen is a Senior Technical Service Manager for GRACE Refining Technologies, Middle East, he is a Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers FIChemE and holds a BSc Chemical Engineering degree. Morgan has more than 30 years of experience in Refining spent predominately at the Murco Refinery in Milford Haven where his roles included Cracking and Olefins Superintendent and Senior Process Engineer positions.
Nihar has over 15+ years of experience in the refining and petrochemical industry, particularly in ethylene manufacturing (gas and liquid cracking), EDC/VCM, Fluidized Catalytic Cracking, Delayed Coking and Aromatic Reforming. He has hands-on experience in technical services, operations, process design and engineering. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from ICT, Mumbai.
Wafa is a Senior Specialist at Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company. She previously worked for Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and Energy House Holding Company in different strategic planning, business development and asset management roles.
Wafa has a total of 19 years industrial experience in oil and gas operations, particularly downstream refining and petrochemicals and oil and gas investments and portfolio management.
Dr. Yaser Mohammed Boghdadi Joined the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), as an petroleum industries expert, since 2016.Prior to his career at OAPEC, Dr. Yasser was the general manager at the Egyptian Petrochemical Holding Company (ECHEM), since 2011.
Fahad Al-Ruwaijeh is a chemical engineer graduated from Kuwait university in 2016, Fahad joined KNPC in 2016 working in Corporate Planning Department with a 4.5 years experience in Plans Coordination, Projects Evaluation and Business Development Divisions.
Fahad has advance knowledge in LP modeling working in Mid term and Long Term Planning.
Nasser Al Shammari is Mechanical engineer with hands-on experience in providing support to maintenance
Mr. Saad Al-Ghanim holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Kuwait University. His professional background is from Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), in Technical and Operations positions. Mr. Al-Ghanim is currently managing the JV investment project of Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI).
Hameed Murtadha works for the Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) as Superintendent Operational Excellence & Governance. He holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering, Diploma in Electrical Engineering and Certified as Lead Auditor for four ISO Management systems.
His current role focuses on supporting Operational Excellence at Bapco through analysis of gaps, the development and implementation of gap closure plans and providing effective training. He has a special interest in the topic of the evolution and change in organisational cultures.
