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The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Qatar Section’s first award night and knowledge sharing session in progress at the Sheraton Doha.
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Qatar Section recently held its first award night and knowledge sharing session at the Sheraton Doha, which was attended by many Oil & Gas professionals and students from across Qatar.
Speaking at the event, Sheikh Faisal bin Fahad al-Thani, SPE Qatar Section chairperson and deputy manager director, Maersk Oil Qatar (MOQ), said, “2015 was certainly a very successful year for the Qatar Section as the section received ‘SPE Gold Standard’ award, in recognition of its exceptional programmes in industry engagement, operations and planning, community involvement, professional development and innovation.”
In September, Sheikh Faisal also became a recipient of the ‘SPE Middle East Regional Service’ award as an acknowledgement of his exceptional contributions to the SPE at section and regional levels and recognition of his devotion of time and effort to the programmes and development of technical expertise.
The event was opened by Nayef Mohamed al-Hajri, assistant manager, Qatar Petroleum Offshore Operation Oversight/Excellence, who presented the topic of the “Development of knowledge / best practices sharing platform”.
Al-Hajri explained how Qatar Petroleum formed several best practice forums to share knowledge and experience amongst companies operating in Qatar. For example, the Offshore Operations Forum was launched in order to achieve operation synergies and operation excellence.
Mike Gunningham, programme chair, SPE Qatar Section and head (Subsurface Support Team) Maersk Oil Qatar, presented “A celebration of success — SPE Qatar Section 2015”.
Since January, Qatar Section held as many as 17 events and the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs declared the Section to be in top three among 25 professional societies in Qatar.
To mark these achievements, Sheikh Faisal presented Qatar Section Awards to the following outstanding professional members and students: Jassim al-Khori, MOQ; Ali al-Mana, QP; Mike Gunningham, MOQ; Haytham al-Meer, Qatargas; Elsiddig Elhafyan, student Texas A & M University; Ali al-Obaidli – student, Qatar University; in recognition of their enthusiasm and great efforts in developing and conducting the Section’s programmes and promoting the SPE values and mission.
In Qatar, there are some 437 professional members and 159 student members at Qatar University and Texas A&M University, Qatar.
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