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Volume 42 Issue 10
Professor Jan Brecht, from
King Abdullah University of
Science and Technology KSA;
Dr Jawahir Al Mudhahki,
CEO, National Qualifications
Authority, Bahrain, Eng Nizar
Al Adsani, Chief Executive,
Kuwait PetroleumCorporation,
and Lord David Howell, Baron
Howell of Guildford PC,
former Energy Minister, UK.
Simultaneously, the 10th
Middle East Refining and
Petrochemicals
Exhibition
was inaugurated. About 90
exhibitors from GCC and
Arab downstream companies
took part in the event.
OAPEC Secretariat General
participated in the exhibition
presenting a group of its
latest technical, economic and
statistical studies, periodicals,
and scientific journals.
The Secretariat General
also presented a paper to the
conference titled “OAPEC
Oil Refineries’ Strategy to
Produce Cleaner Fuel while
Maintaining
Profitability”
by Dr Samir Al Qaraish. He
reviewed the current national
standard
specifications
for transportation fuel in
the
member
countries,
most important obstacles
hindering fuel production
with international standards,
and plans and measures to
overcome these obstacles. He
then concluded by stating that
OAPEC member countries
have made a significant
advancement in improving
the
national
standard
specifications in the past 10
years. However, they still need
more measures to enable them
to produce fuel according
to the latest international
standards.
The Secretariat General
also participated with a poster