As the Middle East’s longest established privately-owned upstream petroleum company, Crescent Petroleum is always on the look out for new opportunities, as Executive Director Badr Jafar explains.
National oil company Saudi Aramco is the world’s largest oil and gas company, boasting about 58,000 employees. Huda Ghoson, General Manager of Training and Development, leads one of the Saudi Aramco organisations responsible for attracting, retaining and developing staff. For her, the company offers so much more than just an attractive salary.
Fifty years ago this month in Baghdad, five oil-producing nations joined forces to create the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in order to stabilise prices and safeguard supplies. O&G’s Julian Rogers meets Secretary General Abdalla Salem El-Badri to hear about OPEC’s crucial role in meeting future soaring demand.