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The Ministry of Oil participates in the fourth meeting of the Petroleum and Gas Committee in the Gulf States

11-08-2022

Presentation of two working papers on the environmental fuel project..a proposal to establish a unified electronic platform for technologies and technology - Inviting the ministries of oil and companies in the GCC countries to participate in the Ministry of Oil competition for digital transformation (Hackathon 2022) The Petroleum and Gas Committee of the Gulf Cooperation Council held the fourth meeting of the committee on the eighth of August 2022, through visual communication technology, and the Ministry of Oil participated in the meeting through a team from the Technical Affairs Program and the Public Relations Department to represent the State of Kuwait, headed by the Director of Public Relations and Media in The Ministry of Oil, Sheikha Tamader Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The Ministry of Oil said in a press statement, that the fourth meeting of the Petroleum and Gas Committee of the GCC States was held under the chairmanship of Mr. The team of the Ministry of Oil consisted of Director of the Department of Drilling and Production Fahd Abdul Rahman Al-Holi, Director of the Exploration and Development Department Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Issa, Senior Specialist Engineer - Environment and Safety Department Mona Abdullah Malik, Specialist Petroleum Engineer - Environment and Safety Department Razan Al-Duaij, and Senior Specialist Engineer Chemistry - Environment and Safety Department Hadeel Darwish Al-Aradi. The ministry stated that the meeting approved all items on the agenda, where the minutes of the third meeting of the Petroleum and Gas Committee of the GCC States were reviewed, and the proposals of the State of Kuwait on the committee of petroleum media specialists were reviewed, as it was agreed to form a small working group to study the proposals of the State of Kuwait, and to discuss preparations for the Fifth Petroleum Media Forum. In terms of the date of the meeting and the host country, it was agreed that the General Secretariat would address the member states to express their opinion on determining the venue and date of the forum. Strategy update The meeting also discussed updating and reviewing the strategy of the Petroleum and Gas Committee for the GCC states, based on what was stated in the five-year plan. Reviewing the results of cooperation between the General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (the Presidency State). The field of energy and climate change, namely energy security, economic development and climate change. Coordination was also made to prepare a workshop in the field of cooperation between the GCC countries to support the efforts of the Middle East region in achieving the Green Middle East Initiative, and to prepare a report for the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to activate what was stated in the Riyadh Declaration in this area to be adopted during the next summit, to be completed at the beginning of the month September 2022 AD, for submission to the Petroleum Cooperation Committee in the GCC states, and the formation of an internal working group between the General Secretariat and the Ministry of Energy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the purpose of preparing and coordinating the workshops that were discussed. They reviewed the ongoing preparations for holding a workshop entitled (Methods of Strengthening the Integration of Economic Work in the Field of Energy and Climate Change), to be held on August 22-23 at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf in Riyadh. In addition to reviewing the results and recommendations of the joint dialogue between the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries on energy and climate issues, where the dialogue was held on May 10-11. two worksheets The Ministry of Oil indicated that the State of Kuwait presented two papers in which it reviewed the achievements of the environmental fuel project, which was presented by Razan Al-Duaij, a petroleum engineer specialized in the Environment and Safety Department, and a proposal to establish a unified electronic platform for technologies and technology, allowing the sharing of ideas, innovations, challenges and the most important industrial practices in the oil and gas industry between countries. the Council. The Ministry of Oil concluded its participation in the meeting, where it called on the GCC countries to encourage their ministries concerned with the oil and gas industry and their petroleum companies to participate in the Ministry of Oil’s competition for digital transformation (Hackathon 2022), by presenting at least 3 projects for each country in the areas of digital transformation and the latest industrial practices, which Introduced by the Director of the Department of Drilling and Production Fahd Al-Houli.