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Recent articles from APS Review Downstream Trends

Kuwait's Decision Makers - The Case For ETSAs & SPC's Position.
June 29, 2009... For many years, since 1994 when Project Kuwait was launched (see omt26KwtWhoJun29-09), KPC executives and Oil Ministry officials have been warning the National Assembly (parliament) that the group's local E&P arm KOC lacked the skills and technology required to limit rising oilfield operating...

Sami Al-Rushaid.
June 29, 2009... The KPC Managing Director for E&P and Chairman/CEO of KOC since the autumn of 2007, Rushaid has been very eager to promote Project Kuwait and the ETSAs. He and KPC's CEO Sa'd al-Shuwaib have doubled their efforts in this respect since a new parliament was elected on May 16 and a new...

Husnia Hashem.
June 29, 2009... Deputy CEO of KOC in charge of the northern Kuwaiti oilfields, Ms Hashem is the point executive for the Lower Fars project to produce ultra-heavy crude oil under a 20-year ETSA to be signed with ExxonMobil. This project is to produce up to 450,000 b/d and to have an upgrader for a synthetic...

Farouq Al-Zanki.
June 29, 2009... KPG Managing Director for Refining and Chairman and CEO of KNPC since September 2007, Zanki took up this position from Rushaid. From September 2004 until 2007, Zanki used to be KPC MD for E&P and head of KOC, he had taken over the E&P firms from Ahmad al-Arbeed. Until then September 2004,...

Badr Nasser Al-Khashti.
June 29, 2009... Chairman and CEO of Kuwait Gulf Oil Co. (KGOC) since September 2007, Khashti took over from Abdul-Hadi al-Awwad who was in charge of KGOC from September 2004, then having succeeded Muhammad Ali al-Jazzaf. KKOC has a wide mandate, overseeing Kuwait's 50% share in the Divided Zone (DZ) -...