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PART TWO
OAPEC Activities in 2012
3–22 The 8
th
CoordinationMeeting forManagers ofArab Petroleum
Training Institutes in OAPEC Member Countries
The 8
th
Coordination Meeting for Managers of Petroleum Training
Institutes was held on 13 and 14 October 2012. 16 specialists attended
the meeting from the training institutes from OAPEC’s members except
(Bahrain and Syria).
HE Abbas Ali Naqi, OAPEC Secretary General, who welcomed
the participants and thanked the Ministry of Petroleum in Egypt for its
efforts to hosting the meeting, opened the meeting.
HE also emphasized the importance of these meetings to identify
the possibilities and capabilities of the member countries in various
fields of training and exchanging of experiences in this vital area, which
represents the cornerstone of the oil and gas industry. HE assured the
importance of working to achieve integration among the countries to
reach the greatest possible utilization of the available capabilities.
Officials of the training institutes of the member countries presented
the current situations and training programs in their countries, and
the aspiration of these institutes to cooperate with its counterparts.
Based on the presentations and the related discussions, the following
recommendations were achieved:
On the second day of the meeting, many of the participating
delegations attended a field trip to the headquarters of the Oil and Gas
Skills Company in New Cairo
3.23 4
th
Training Course on Energy Statistics
In implementation of the General Secretariat’s Action Plan 2012
regarding developing and training the General Secretariat’s Data Bank
staff, to familiarize them with more global experiments, and upon
the invitation by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the General
Secretariat participated in the events of the “4
th
Training Course on
Energy Statistics”, which was held at the headquarters of IEA in Paris
during the period 15-19 October 2012.
