Mohammed Ali Al Barwani - Chairman of MB Holding

Mr. Barwani age 56 years, is the founder, owner and Chairman of the MB Group. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Science from Miami University, Ohio, USA, and a Master’s Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Herriott-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. He acquired extensive experience in the upstream oil industry as a reservoir engineer employed by PDO (1976-86) (a joint venture between a Shell International Company and the Government of Oman). Mr. Al Barwani started MB Petroleum Services in 1986 in Oman. Mr. Al-Barwani is on the Board of several joint stock companies in Oman including, Transgulf Investment Holding Company (Chairman), Al Madina Gulf Insurance Co. (Chairman), Oman Aviation Services Co. Mr. Al Barwani was on the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Oman (1997-2005) and Taageer Investment & Leasing Co. (2001-2005) and Shell Oman Marketing Co. SAOG ( 2001-2006). He has also been Regional Vice President of the International Associations of Drilling Contractors. He is also an active member of Oman-India business association.
 

Sharifa Mohammed Abdulla Al-Harthy - Deputy Chairperson of MB Holding

Mrs. Sharifa Al Harthy is Mr. Mohammed Al Barwani’s wife. She has a B.A in Business Administration from Jordan University (Amman, Jordan), and also holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Texas Southern University (Houston, Texas, USA). She has attended several short specialised courses in Human Resources, manpower development, training and administration. For the last 15 years she has been responsible for the personnel and human resources aspects of MB Petroleum Services. She is responsible for advising group companies on human resources policy and development. She is also responsible for government relationships and community development.
 

Hafidh Al Busaidy - Managing Director of MB Petroleum Services

Mr. Hafidh Al Busaidy, aged 59 years, has B.Sc. (Geology, Chemistry) and B.Sc Engineering (Petroleum Engineering) degrees from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University. He also holds a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance from the Chartered Institute of Certified Accountants, London. He has 30 years experience in petroleum engineering, drilling, work over, gas engineering and coordination, economics, planning, production operations and management. He has worked in senior positions in Abu Dhabi Operating Company and PDO before joining MB Petroleum in 2000
 

Jean Denis Bouvier -  Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Petrogas

Mr. Bouvier has a B.Sc. in Geology and an M.Sc in Geology and Mining Engineering from University of Geneva, Switzerland. He has more than 25 years experience in the exploration and production of oil and gas in the areas of geophysics, geology and reservoir engineering. He possesses long working experience with Shell International in research, operating companies and corporate head office with extensive management and corporate governance experience. He has also worked with Petroleum Development Oman in Oman. He was exploration advisor for Shell International and then shareholder’s representative for the governance of BEB (Germany) and RAG (Austria). In 2002, he joined the MB Group as Director-Exploration and Production and during his tenure within the MB Group, he managed Block 5 as well as Block 7. Currently he is the Chief Executive Officer of Petrogas.
 

Neville Storey - Chief Operating Officer of United Engineering Services LLC (UES)

He has over 25 years of experience in oil & gas industry. Stared his career as seismic engineer with HGS (Halliburton Geophysical Service) and progressed to a managerial role in an oilfield support company and moving in to Business Development within the marine Oil & Gas sector. Prior to Joining UES, Neville was employed by Baker Hughes Western Geophysical in a project management team based in Norway for the construction of two state of the art seismic vessels.

He joined UES in 2002 and since then his role has expanded and under the guidance of Smith Services Inc he developed the Agency Sales stream. In 2005 Neville accepted the additional responsibility of the Manufacturing and Services stream, under his guidance and aggressive style UES manufacturing quickly prospered. Following 100% acquisition by MB Holding, he was made CEO of UES.
 

Usama Al Barwani - Director of Business Development for MB Holding and Director of Mazoon Petrogas

Mr. Usama Al Barwani is Mr. Mohammed Al Barwani’s eldest son. He has obtained a B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from Tulsa University (USA) and an M.Sc. (Energy, Trade and Finance) from City University, London. After completing his Petroleum Engineering he was employed with Daleel Petroleum for two years and has gained experience in the operation and management of the E&P business. He has attended numerous courses, seminars and conferences around the world. Currently Usama is Director-Business Development in MB Holding and is responsible for new projects and the investments of the MB Group. He is also actively involved in the MB Group's trading business. He is on the Board of Directors of Ahli Bank SAOG, a commercial bank in Oman, Taager Finance Company SAOG, an independent leasing entity and is Chairman of Flexible Industrial Packaging Co. SAOG, a company engaged in the manufacture of flexible packaging, each of which are publicly traded on the Muscat Securities Market.
 

Pinak Chaudhuri - Chief Financial Officer, MB Petroleum Services LLC

Pinak is a law & business graduate and also a qualified Chartered Accountant. He has experience of 24 years in areas of finance, commercial, legal, corporate governance, and administration functions in multinational corporations. Pinak started his career as an internal auditor in Dunlop tyres and had worked in course of his career in various prestigious organizations, including BP and Alcan. In 2000 he joined Technip SA, a leading EPC Company in Oil & Gas/Petrochemicals, having substantial interests in offshore activities as CFO in their Indian subsidiary. During his association with Technip he has held many important positions in India, CIS area, France and finally served as Division Controller for North Sea Canada Division based in Aberdeen , Scotland. He has joined MB Petroleum Services LLC as Chief Financial Officer and in October ’07.
Pinak is responsible for MB Petroleum, the flagship company of the Group and is also responsible for financial affairs of all the overseas entities of the Group.
 

Sushil Srivastava - Chief Financial Officer for MB Holding

Mr. Sushil is a graduate in chemical engineering, has a Masters degree in Finance (AICWA) and a post graduate diploma in computers and over 20 years’ experience in corporate finance, M&A, project finance and structuring. He has worked with premier financial institutions and merchant bankers in India for eight years and possesses extensive experience in project financing, financial due diligence, economic modelling, advisory services and managing initial public offers. For the last ten years he has been employed in Oman. His key role has been identifying and appraising investment opportunities in the region, acquisitions, structuring, negotiating deals, arranging finance through international banks and institutions and group’s treasury management. He joined the MB Group in 2001 and currently he is heading the corporate finance division of MB Holding at corporate office. He is also on the Board of Flexible Industrial Packaging Co., a public company listed on the Muscat Securities Market engaged in the manufacture of flexible packaging.
 

Mohammad Masoud Al Kharusi - Director Human Resources & Information Technology

He is a Mathematician by education with 36 years working experience in the Oil and Gas Industry in the field of Information Technology and Human Resources. He has worked in both local and global environments having spent most of his working life in Exploration & Production with Petroleum Development Oman. After retiring from PDO he also worked in the Downstream of Oil & Gas business by joining Shell and Total. He has had 2 years overseas working assignments in Brunei Shell Petroleum Company and with Shell International Exploration and Production in the Hague, Emirates National Oil Company in Dubai as the Group HR Manager with key responsibilities to move HR management to the next level.

He was involved in the major HR change projects in Shell, PDO, ENOC and currently in MBH in transforming HR and most recently in the development of a High Performance Organization which was part of an overall programme to transform the companies. Mohammad has a very good business understanding of the Oil & Gas sector. His experiences cover both Management of Human Resources and Information technology and is passionate about HR transformation and building HR capabilities to support the business having being strongly influenced by the work of David Ulrich.
 

Murali Chidambaram - Chief Internal Auditor for MB Holding Company

Mr. Murali is a graduate in commerce and a qualified Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountant of India. After completing his chartered accountancy course, he worked in private companies as a finance executive and, in 1994, joined Ernst & Young, Bahrain for a period of six-and-a-half years in an audit supervisor position. On leaving Ernst & Young, Bahrain, Murali joined the second largest bank in Kuwait, Gulf Bank, for a period of two-and-a-half years, as an assistant internal auditor and later moved back to Ernst & Young, Dubai office for a period of one-and-a-half years. He joined MB Holding in 2002 and was instrumental in setting up the internal audit division of the MB Group.
 

Moza Al Adawy - Chief Operating Officer of Daleel Petroleum

Ms Adawy holds a Masters Degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southern California, USA. She has more than 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. She has directed and participated in the development and management of large oil and gas projects both upstream and downstream. She possess valuable experience in well and reservoir management and significant exposure to enhanced oil recovery. She has worked for De Nederlande Aardolie Maatschappi B.V. (NAM) and PDO and as an expert in the Ministry of Oil and Gas in Oman. Before joining the MB Group she was Director General of oil and gas development and production in the Omani Ministry of Oil and Gas.
 

Mr. Louis Tapa, Chief Executive Officer, MB Century Drilling Limited

Mr. Louis has over 23 years of management experience in construction, building, civil, mechanical and drilling. He worked for 14 years for the Ministry of Works and Development (now Works Infrastructure) in New Zealand before joining Downer Construction (NZ) Ltd in 1987. Since then has held various senior positions within the Downer Group in New Zealand, PNG, Western Samoa and Singapore before taking up position at Century Drilling in Brisbane. Mr. Louis’ experience in logistics, contract and plant management combined with his skill to motivate staff make him a valuable member of the Century management team. Until FMarch-2008, he was working as Deputy Chief Executive officer of Century Drilling. Following relocation of Robert Hackett, CEO to Oman, he was promoted as CEO of MB Century.
 

Jawed Khan - Group Manager-Information Technology, for MB Holding

Mr. Jawed Khan is graduate engineer from NWFP University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan with specialization in Electronics & Computer Engineering. He possesses over 16 years of international experience in Information and Communication technology. He is responsible for all IT functions of MB Group companies including development, implementation & maintenance of group information and communication technology deployment plan in line with business strategy. Develop and manages plans for data and equipment security, information privacy, internal controls, and business continuity. Actively participate to organizational re-structuring in view of mergers and acquisition of new companies to re-align IT systems and processes. He joined MB Group in 1999.
 

Joerg Walter Schulte - Managing Director of MB Petroleum Deutschland GmbH

Mr. Schulte age is 59 years. He holds a university degree in economics & operation research as well as mechanic engineering from TU Karlsruhe (Dipl.-Wirtschaftsing.). He had worked for Mobil Oil (1976-1984), Christensen Diamond Products (Baker Hughes Inteq GmbH) (1984-1988), FUBA (1988-1994) and ITAG (1994-2006). Since 2007 he is working for MB.
 

Alejandro Meyer - Commercial Manager EEW

Mr. Meyer age is 40 year. He is born in Cuba. He finished school in Cuba with university-entrance diploma. He holds a university degree in economic for the energy industry from University Zittau, further more he is a certified auditor. He had worked for utility company City Wismar (1992-2005). He joint EEW 2005 working as Commercial Manager.
 

Friedrich Kummert - Manager Drilling & Workover EEW

Mr. Kummert age is 64 years. He holds a university degree in drilling for University Breitenbrunn. Before going to university Mr. Kummert joint EEW after finishing school with university-entrance diploma in 1970. He has worked in all positions available on rig site. After university Mr. Kummert worked as fishing engineer, tool pusher and till now as fully responsable manager for all drilling and workover operations of EEW. 180 manpower are reporting to Mr. Kummert.
 

Jürgen Kunze -  Manager Human Resources EEW

Mr. Kunze age is 60 years. He holds a university degree for drilling from University Freiberg. In addition he holds a controller certificate. Mr. Kunze joined the company in 1965 after finishing school with university-entrance diploma. For 3 years he worked on several positions on rig site. Since 1972, coming back to EEW from university Mr. Kunze served as Mgr. Planning, Mgr. Administration and general and since 1993 as manager human resources.
 

Dieter Zilt - Technical Manager EEW

Mr. Zilt age is 55 years. He holds a university degree of drilling from the University of Freiberg. He joined the company 1981 and worked at various positions on the rig site. As well as doing the university study. From 1991-2008 he worked as Technical Manager for ITAG. Mr. Zilt joint EEW 2008, roughly 30manpower are reporting to Mr. Zilt. He is a public mining & drilling authority, certified by mining authority Germany.
 

Remeczki, Ferenc - Managing Director of MB Drilling Overseas Ltd. Cyprus, MB 2001. Ltd Hungary

He studied Masters in Moscow University of Oil and Gas named by Gubkin. He has 22 years of vast experience in Oil & Gas Industry. He worked in various positions in the Drilling field before he took over as Managing Director of MB Drilling Overseas, Syria & Hungary in 2003.
 

Tarjani, Laszlo - Managing Director of MB Workshop LTD in MB Drilling Overseas Ltd in Hungary

He holds a post graduate degree in Pressure/Mechanical Sciences. He has vast experience and worked at various levels in the workshop.
 

Gulyás, Ferenc - Operations Manager of Syrian Operations of MB Drilling Overseas LTD Hungary

He is 50 years old and holds a Petroleum Engineering Degree from University of Miskolc, Hungary. He has 25 years of experience in Drilling and Workover Operations.
 

Hnisz, Laszlo - Managing Director of MB Property Management Ltd., Szolnok, Hungary

He holds degrees in Engineering and Economics from University of Miskolc, Hungary.He holds this position since 2005. Prior to this he was Director of Finance MB Drilling Co., Szolnok, Hungary.
 

Lazar, Gabor -  Finance Manager - Controller for the Hungarian MB companies and MBDO

He is responsible for the finance, accounting, budgeting and reporting of the companies. He holds a degree in Finance & Economics from College for Finance and Economics- Budapest, Hungary. He is 51 years old.
 

Dr. Said Al Mufarji - General Manager, Research & Development, MB Petroleum Services

Has over 27 years experience in the Oil & Gas Industry as a Senior Petroleum Engineer who worked in onshore, sub-sea and general offshore environments both in the UK and Oman. He worked for PDO and Shell for 22 years (1982 – 2004) in various PE departments then joined MB Petroleum in 2004 as New Technology & Production Solutions General Manager responsible for introducing and developing new and unparalleled projects to various clients in and outside Oman. As a performance demonstration, one of his projects received PDO Chairman’s Gold Award from HE the Minister of Oil and Gas in 2007. As the activities henceforth focused solely on research related technologies, recently his department was re-branded as R&D.

Dr. Said holds a B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from Tulsa University – USA, M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College – London, DIC from Imperial College, London and Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering (Fines Migration Mechanisms in High Permeability Sands) from Robert Gordon University - UK. He is keen in developing and patenting new technologies which do not exist to help in more efficient and more economical oil and gas exploitation in Oman and overseas where MBPS operates.