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Issue
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OAPEC Secretary General
HE Abbas Ali Al Naqi, received
Japan’s
Cooperation
Centre,
Petroleum (JCCP) delegation in
his office on 6 February 2018. The
delegation was headed by Mr Eiji
Hiraoka, JCCP Senior Managing
Director. The two sides discussed
the arrangements for holding the
next joint conference in 2019, in
addition to means of boosting
cooperation in the development
of downstream industries.
It is worth mentioning that the two sides
signed an MOU on 9 March 2011 agreeing
to take all measures to boost cooperation
between OAPEC and JCCP through organising
scientific conferences, seminars, workshops,
and conducting joint research and studies,
in addition to other downstream-related
programs. Since the signing of the MOU,
cooperation between the two sides resulted
in organising various joint conferences on the
development of refining and petrochemical
industries.
In the end, HE Al Naqi thanked the Japanese
delegation for their visit while reiterating the
importance of continued cooperation between
the two sides.
The JCCP delegation members included Mr
Junichi Kasuya, General Manager for Technical
Cooperation, Mr Toshifumi Amemiya, General
Manager of Al Khobar Office, KSA, and Mr
Hiroyuki Udagawa, Deputy General Manager
for Technical Cooperation. OAPEC has also
been represented at the meeting by Dr Samir El
Kareish, Director of the Technical Department,
Eng. Emad Mekki, Senior Refining Expert, Dr
Yasser Al Baghdadi, Oil Industries Expert, and
Mr Mozaffar Al Barazi, Senior Economist at the
Economic Department.
JCCP DELEGATION VISITS OAPEC