The Gulf Organisation for Industrial Consulting (Goic) will organise a workshop for Gulf petrochemicals manufacturers in London next week.
Entitled “Petrochemicals: key issues and strategy,” the workshop will be held at the Rosewood Hotel in London on August 26-27 to support the Gulf’s petrochemicals sector and to unify efforts for a sophisticated Gulf strategy in the region’s industry.
It also aims to provide a platform for decision-makers in the Gulf petrochemicals sector to exchange ideas when facing the future challenges. The participants, using their expertise in long-term planning, will be able to develop strategic options allowing the possibility of effectively developing the petrochemicals industry.
The workshop targets senior management and senior staff of the industrial sector in GCC countries, as well as investors, senior advisers from the public and private sectors, and workers close to the decision making process in the petrochemicals and related industries.
During the two-day activity, the Goic will provide an overview of the industry in the region. The sessions will also address the plenary topics of strategic energy issues, raw materials, demand for petrochemicals, and major regional issues related to refineries.
The workshop will be led by experts John Kelly, Bob Townsend, and Goic’s business development consultant Ismail al-Shafie.
Kelly heads a team of experienced advisers and trainers and has spent 35 years with Shell Chemicals Company in the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany where he held senior management positions.
Townsend, meanwhile, is a senior vice president specialising in olefins, particularly ethylene, propylene, and polycarbonate plastic. In the last 10 years, he worked on evaluating the security of raw materials and economy to a group of clients, including companies like Basil, Shell, and Haldia Petrochemicals.
Al-Shafie holds a Masters in Energy from Pennsylvania State University and has more than 20 years of experience in the chemicals and petrochemicals sector in the GCC countries.
The lecturers will address the strategic advantage of the gas, the main role of basic blocks in petrochemicals, in addition to presentation of the key issues that affect the demand for their main derivatives.
The sessions will also discuss the effectiveness of the major pricing mechanisms in the field of petrochemicals, marketing and trading, as well as the strategic role of the main drives of this sector in the world and strategic challenges ahead.
The GOIC seeks to promote individual and organisational capacities of the industrial sector in GCC countries and Yemen through its Training and Capacity Development Program (TCD). To register, visit www.goic.org.qa and click on similar workshops or logon via Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
