21-23 January 2013

Qatar National Contention Centre, Doha, Qatar

25th May 2011, The 4th Offshore Middle East Conference & Exhibition will return to Qatar in 2013, to be held at the Qatar National Convention Centre, Doha, on 21-23 January 2013.  

To ensure that Offshore Middle East 2013 continues to provide the best technical forum in the oil and gas exploration and production industry within the Middle East region, the Offshore Middle East Advisory Board has added further expertise to its ranks with the addition of:

Kevin Rose

Occidental Petroleum of Qatar

Pascal Taillefer

TOTAL E&P Qatar

Sultan Masoud Al-Merikhi

GDF Suez

Bart Cahir

ExxonMobil

The Offshore Middle East Advisory Board, Chaired by Mubarak A. Al-Hajri, Operations Manager, Offshore Fields, Qatar Petroleum, already includes members from such influential local and international organizations, such as Qatar Petroleum, Total E&P Qatar,  Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co. and Qatar Shell Service Company WLL.

"We are delighted to welcome our new Advisory Board members, providing great assistance in ensuring that we continue to provide a comprehensive technical conference to those who attend Offshore Middle East 2013," said David Paganie, Chief Editor of Offshore Magazine and Conference Director, PennWell. "With the guidance of Mubarak A. Al-Hajri and Qatar Petroleum, invitations have been issued to additional operating companies in the region with the intent of building an all-inclusive advisory board."

Offshore Middle East 2013 will gather over 40 speakers from leading organizations around the world expected to present the very latest knowledge and technology within the oil & gas exploration and production industry.

After recently announcing the inclusion of a Gas Industry Operations track at Offshore Middle East 2013, the Advisory Board will soon provide further information regarding the proposed session topics that will form the conference program. This was discussed at the recent Advisory Board meeting, which took place in Doha, Qatar, as was the Call for Abstracts deadline, which has provisionally been set for 22nd November 2011. The Advisory Board also confirmed their next meeting will take place in January 2012, to discuss the abstracts, and with the aim of issuing the preliminary conference program shortly after.

For further information please visit www.offshoremiddleeast.com.

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Editors Notes:
PennWell Corporation is a highly diversified, business-to-business media company providing authoritative print and online publications, conferences and exhibitions, research, databases, online exchanges and information products to strategic global markets.

Since 1910 PennWell has been known for providing comprehensive coverage of several strategic markets.  In those early days, PennWell was a pioneer in the emerging oil industry with Oil & Gas Journal magazine, founded in 1902. Today PennWell publishes over 75 business-to-business print and on-line magazines and newsletters, conducts over 60 conferences and exhibitions on six continents, and has an extensive offering of books, maps, directories and database services.

For further information contact:
Lee Catania, Marketing Manager, PennWell
T: +44 (0) 1992 656 647
M: +44 (0) 7983 390 561
F: +44 (0) 1992 656 700
E: leec@pennwell.com   

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