Qatar Petroleum’s Offshore Operations recently honoured its department managers and employees at its annual awards and recognition ceremony, held at the Al-Ghazal Club.

On the occasion,  Mubarak Awaida al-Hajri, operations manager-Offshore Fields, expressed his gratitude for the support of HE Dr Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry, and for the guidance and encouragement for Said Mubarak al-Muhannadi, director of operations of QP.

Al-Hajri emphasised that health, safety and environmental protection was always a priority and fully integrated in their operations.

He announced that a number of Offshore Operations’ departments have already achieved over 1mn man-hours without lost time incident.

He further added that Offshore Operations had successfully aligned itself with the spirit of the QP’s slogan, “Committed to Excellence”.

During the ceremony, al-Hajri  distributed certificates of appreciation and gifts to offshore managers and employees in recognition of their outstanding performance and valuable contribution in achieving the department’s business and safety targets in 2012. Among those awarded were offshore employees who participated in QP events as well as the members of the Offshore Operations Specialised Team (OOST), Plant Change Request (PCR) team and Continual Improvement (CI) team.

Offshore Operations also honoured the management of Bul Hanine and Maydan Mahzam fields for successfully completing the 2013 major shutdown according to the allocated timeframe without any incidents.