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Honorary Chair

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Ali Rashed Al Jarwan  
Chief Executive Officer
Dragon Oil 

Conference Chair

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Fareed AlHashmi
COO, Non Operational Assets
Dragon Oil

Programme Chair

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Hesham Zubari 
Chief AI & Innovation Officer
Dragon Oil 

Executive Committee Members

Mohamed Mahmoud Abdelrahman 
Senior Reservoir Engineer
ADNOC Onshore

Sasidharan Adiyodi
Facilities Innovation Manager
Dragon Oil 

Abdulla Al Ali
Acting Director - New Ventures & Exploration
Dragon Oil 

Saeeda Mohamed Al Ameri
Specialist, Reservoir Engineering 
ADNOC

Mubarak Al Hajeri
Assistant Professor
Kuwait’s Petroleum Engineering Technology

Ziad Al Jalal
Well Engineering & Geoscience, Frac Technical & Sales Director
TAQA

Emad Walid Al Shalabi 
Assistant Professor, Petroleum Engineering
Khalifa University

Ahmed Alaa
Sales Director – MENA Region
VOOVIO

Programme Committee Members

Haider AlAnsari
Head, HSEQ Operations Support
Dragon Oil

Abdulla AlDahmani
Reservoir Manager, LAM Main
Dragon Oil 

Sima AlDroubi  
Head of HR
Egypt
Dragon Oil 

Omar AlFarisi
Senior Technology Advisor
Dragon Oil 

Ahmed AlHanaee
Non Operated Assets Manager
Dragon Oil

Muna AlHebshi
Senior Operations Support Engineer
Dragon Oil 

Fardin Aliniaei 
Well Completion Intervention Manager
Dragon Oil

Khuloud AlMaeeni
Innovation Process Analyst
Dragon Oil

Hamdan AlNuaimi
Operations Support Engineer I
Dragon Oil

Huda AlShammari
Head of Learning and Development
Dragon Oil 

Majid AlShehhi
Facility Engineering Manager
Dragon Oil 

Ali M. AlSumaiti
Senior Specialist Reservoir Engineer
ADNOC

Amir AlWazzan
Production Assurance Manager
Dragon Oil 

Giamal Ameish
G&G Team Leader
Cheleken Exploration
Dragon Oil 

Rameez Anwar
Regional Technical Specialist
Sprint Oil and Gas Services 

Jyotsna Asarpota
Senior Consultant 
Halliburton

Talal Aulaqi 
Engineer
OQ 

Nurul Aminah Binti Mohd Azmi
Manager
FEED Upstream Cluster 
PETRONAS

Azatmurad Bayramkulyev
Head of Field Operations Support
Dragon Oil 

Mansour Belhadj  
General Manager Energy & Resources Industries , CEMA
Microsoft

Fadhil Beljafla
Senior E&I & Integrity Engineer
Dragon Oil 

Andres Blanco
Reservoir Team Leader
LAM WEST
Dragon Oil  

Daniel Busby
Subsurface Decision Solutions Project Manager   
TotalEnergies

Maryam Dashtebayaz
Lead Simulation Engineer
Dragon Oil 

Roberto Espinoza
Reserve Assurance Manager
Dragon Oil 

Fadi Fahmy
Senior Equipment Drilling Engineer I
Dragon Oil 

Paul Fidder
Drilling Department Manager
Dragon Oil 

Tony Fitzgerald
Head of Drilling Operations
Dragon Oil 

Ian Fletcher
HSE Manager
Dragon Oil 

Nata Miranda Franco 
Performance and Technology Lead
SLB

Mohamed Gamil
South GOS Base Management Team Lead
Dragon Oil

Aygul Gazakbayeva
HSE Coordinator
Dragon Oil 

Wassim Ghadban
Vice President, Global Innovation & Digital Engineering
Kent

Mohd. Faizal Bin Ghazali  
Construction Manager
PETRONAS

Muhammad Gibrata
Senior Petrophysicist I
Dragon Oil 

Alaa A. Hassan
Data Analytics Specialist
Dragon Oil 

Alaa Hassan
Reservoir Management Team Leader
Dragon Oil 

Nabila Iabbassen
Senior Engineer, Drilling (Directional Drilling) 
Drilling Division 
ADNOC

Aynura Ismailova 
Reservoir Engineer
SLB

Fayez H. Issa
Well Integrity Advisor 
ADNOC

 Ramin Jafarov
Senior Petroleum Engineer I 
Dragon Oil 

Siddharth Jain
Field Development Team Leader
Exploration and Production Department
Sharjah National Oil Corporation

Muhammad Shahzad Kamal
Research Associate Professor 
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) 

Michel Khammo
Operations Support Managers
Dragon Oil 

Muhammad Navaid Khan
Specialist, Reservoir Engineering
Offshore Development Division
ADNOC

Mohammad Arif Khattak
Cementing Technical Manager, UAE
SLB

Alexander Khlustikov 
Middle East Domain Champion
Gowell

Aleksandra Khramtseva
Caspian Technical Sales Lead
Baker Hughes

Roman Kontarev
Senior Petroleum Engineer (Operations) I
Dragon Oil 

John Kottappuram
Head - Electrical Engineering
Dragon Oil 

Qun Li
Senior Specialist
RC and Cooperation Division, R&D Department
CNPC

Jose Lozano 
Reservoir Manager
Zhadanov and Other Structures 
Dragon Oil 

Mohamed Maged
Senior Geophysicist
Dragon Oil 

Aliakbar Marandi
Integrity Superintendent
Dragon Oil 

Hamood Meraj
Vice President - Middle East
Petrolink

Abdelmaksoud M. Mohamed 
Base Management Lead
Dragon Oil 

Omer Mohammed 
Project Engineer, Global DE&I Software
Weatherford

Eldar Mollaniyazov 
Reservoir Team Leader 
Dragon Oil 

Noha Najem
Senior Specialist (Innovation & Technology Group)
Kuwait Oil Company

Shahin Negahban 
Reservoir Technology Manager
Dragon Oil 

Alexey Obedkov
Head of Operations Engineering
Dragon Oil 

Dickson Omonze
Drilling and Well Intervention Specialist
Dragon Oil 

Javier Ernesto Torres Premoli
Solutions Advisor
Regional Drilling Lead
Landmark
Halliburton

Md Motiur Rahman
Professor
Khalifa University

Mohammad Azizur Rahman 
Associate Professor 
Texas A&M University at Qatar 

Arshad Raza
Assistant Professor
Petroleum Engineering College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences 
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Lamia Rouis
Reservoir Manager
LAM West
Dragon Oil 

Nael Salah
North GOS Exploration Assistant General Manager
Dragon Oil 

Eman Shahin
Senior Petroleum Engineer
Dragon Oil 

Abdul Mujeer Shaikh
Senior Business Development Manager
Baker Hughes 

Pavel Shaposhnikov
Well Integrity Domain Champion 
SLB

Rohit Singhal
Senior Drilling Database Planning Engineer
Dragon Oil 

Selbi Tacheva
North GOS Exploration Petroleum Engineer
Dragon Oil 

Oumer Tahir
Technical Sales
(OCTG) and Business Development Manager
MEA Region
Hunting

Bicheng Yan
Assistant Professor 
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Arif Yousuf
Regional Technical Manager
Sprint Oil and Gas

Kain Zhu
Executive Solution Manager
Energy Unit, ME&CA Enterprise Business
Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd.

Wael Ziadat
Vice President
Corva.ai