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Executive Committee Co-Chair
Manager (Production and Projects - GAS)
Kuwait Oil Company
ETSA Contract Manager
North Kuwaiti Jurassic Gas
Shell
Senior upstream technical professional with more than 20 years’ experience from Shell and other Major Oil Companies. Broad experience in field development leadership for complex reservoir settings including management of large development projects, delivering well and reservoir management activities, executing drilling campaigns and delivering key business processes such as reserves and business planning. Experience from the North Sea, Africa and the Middle East.
Technical expertise within development and reservoir management of tight fractured reservoirs (carbonates/chalks) with current world class 4D seismic and reservoir modeling integration experience.
Experienced in asset management with current hands on experience from leading an offshore hub cost transformation project with focus on asset process safety, integrity and implementation of continuous improvement processes.
Proven record in building credibility and trust within a non-Shell organization enabling strong delivery in leadership roles. Known for constant focus and care for building strong teams with specific emphasis on people development and for building strong relationships across internal organizational boundaries and within Joint Venture partner settings.
Assistant Professor, Programme Director, MSc Reservoir Evaluation and Management
Herriot Watt University
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Research and Graduate Studies, College of Life Sciences, Kuwait University
Herriot Watt University
Associate Professor Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering
Herriot Watt University
Gas Industry Expert, OAPEC
has more than 20 years’ experience in the gas Industry. He started his career as a gas engineer in 2004 at Petrobel company (one of Eni's joint ventures in Egypt), and held several roles from field operations to production planning until held the position of production department manager.
Since 2013, he joined the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), in Kuwait. He acts as the organization’s gas/hydrogen expert who is responsible for developing and reflecting OAPEC views and insights on hydrogen as well as the gas and LNG developments regionally and globally. Mr. Moati also represents OAPEC in the UN Group of Experts on Gas in Geneva.
Mr. Moati has received several global awards and honours. In 2021, he was awarded “The rising Star Global Energy Award” from S & P Global Platts in New York, USA.
Mr. Moati holds a MSc degree in Petroleum Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in Italy and a MBA diploma in Project Management.
