Achievement Visit Campaign - Kuwait Oil Company

Bahrain Hosts 2 nd MEMCEWK Participated With Technical PaperKOC has actively participated in the 2nd Middle East MaintenanceConference & Exhibition recently held in Manama, the capital of theKingdom of Bahrain, under the auspices of the Minister of Finance and theMinister In Charge of Oil & Gas Affairs Sheikh Ahmad Bin Mohammad Al-Khalifa, themed “A Journey Towards Excellence”.The Conference hosted distinguished representatives and speakers frommajor oil and gas companies in the Gulf and beyond, including Kuwait OilCompany, Saudi Aramco, Qatar Petroleum, Sabic, PDO, Adnoc, Bapco.KOC was represented at the Conference by Senior Electrical Engineer,Wael Hussain, and Electrical Engineer, Ashwin Kaushik, both from theExport Maintenance Team.Engineers Hussain and Kaushik jointly presented a technical paper titled,“Maintenance Engineering–Variable Speed Drives: An Engineering Marvel”in which they highlighted the numerous advantages of variable speed drivesboth in terms of technological advancements and significant energy savings.Emphasis was placed on the 11KV, 24 MVA water cooled variable speeddrives installed at KOC’s North Pier Pumping and Metering Station, whichhas yielded many benefits in line with KOC’s 2020 Strategy.FD (S&EK) Organizes Workshop“Planning and Placing Horizontal Wells for Optimal Oil Productivity”The Fields Development Group (S&EK) organized a workshop, a secondof its kind, entitled, Planning and Placing Horizontal Wells for Optimal OilProductivity.”On the occasion, the Group Manager, Jamal Al-Humoud, emphasizedthe importance of holding such workshops to keep pace with the latestdevelopments in drilling and production domain.For his part, Senior Geologist, Hussein Bahman, who organized the eventalong with the Manager, stressed that Geo-steering is critical and importantfor drilling and production success.He further noted that complex formation and tougher operating environmentare among the challenges that need to be tackled in the coming period.The workshop was coordinated by Rohit Kotecha,Senior Geologist, with theparticipation and involvement of a number of colleagues within the Group.5