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Annual Report
II: Conferences and Seminars Organized by the General
Secretariat
2-1 The Hydrocarbons Transportation Pipelines in Arab Countries
Conference
In pursuant to its 2011 plane, the General Secretariat of OAPEC
held a conference on (Hydrocarbons Transportation Pipelines in Arab
Countries), from 21 to 23 February 2012, in Cairo, under the patronage
of H.E. Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources in Egypt, in
association with the Japanese Cooperation Centre Petroleum (JCCP).
Specialists in operating, maintenance and monitoring of oil pipelines
participated to this event. They came fromOAPECmembers’NOCs and
IOCs, the Japan Cooperation Center, Petroleum (JCCP), and regional
and international research institutes. His Excellency the Secretary
General, Mr Abbas Ali Naqi, opened the conference welcoming the
attendees, and browsing in some guidelines the goals and objectives
of the conference, as an occasion for exchanging experiences, opinions
and views about the latest developments in oil technologies fields and
in the rehabilitation and the maintenance of oil and gas pipelines.
In his speech pronounced on his behalf by the Engineer Hani Dhahi
, CEO of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, HE Engineer
Abdullah Ghorab Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of the
Arab Republic of Egypt affirmed that oil and gas pipelines in the Arab
countries achieved real industrial jumps and strengthened the bonds of
Arab joint cooperation .After that, HE theAmbassador of Japan in theArab
Republic of Egypt gave keynotes in which he welcomed the participants
in the conference, praised the constructive cooperation between Japan and
the Arab countries in the petroleum industry and other fields . From his
part Mr. Morihiro Yoshida, JCCP’s CEO pronounced a speech in which
he expressed the role of cooperation between the Organization of Arab
Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) and Japan Cooperation Center
Petroleum (JCCP) in the exchange of expertise between the two sides.
