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Gold & Gala Dinner Sponsor

Nexen Inc. is an independent, Canadian-based energy company having global assets in the Gulf of Mexico, off-shore of Nigeria, UK North Sea, Norway, Canada, Colombia, and Yemen.

In Yemen, Nexen operates two producing blocks: Masila (Block 14), notably the country’s largest oil project, and East Al Hajr (Block 51). The blocks operate under subsidiary entities of Nexen collectively known as “Canadian Nexen”.

The Yemen projects, which together currently produce approximately 80,000 bopd, are remarkable examples of successful long-term partnerships built on co-operation and collaboration among Canadian Nexen, its partners in Blocks 14 and 51, the Government of Yemen and Yemeni communities.

Canadian Nexen has been active in Yemen since the mid-1980s and currently has more than 900 national employees. The company is committed to having socially and environmentally responsible operations in Yemen as evidenced by its world class scholarship, community affairs, and health, safety and environment programs.

Gold Sponsor & Delegate Bag Sponsor

Yemen LNG Company produces and delivers Liquefied Natural Gas to North America, Asia and Europe. Having full control of the LNG chain from the well to the delivery port, operating state of the art facilities and a fleet of new built tankers, Yemen LNG offers an environmentally clean energy in unequalled conditions of security and quality. The largest industrial company in Yemen, Yemen LNG Company is solidly supported by major shareholders and by an international syndicate of first rank lenders. Deeply enrooted in Yemen, the Company actively implements an ambitious program of sustainable development focused on water, electricity, health, education, agriculture and fisheries.

تعمل الشركة اليمنية للغاز الطبيعي المسال في إنتاج وتصدير الغاز الطبيعي المسال إلى كل من أمريكا الشمالية، آسيا وأوروبا. وتتولى الشركة إدارة سلسلة إنتاج الغاز بدءا من منشآت المنبع إلى ميناء التسليم وتدير بذلك منشآت حديثة جداً وأسطولاً من ناقلات الغاز الجديدة، الأمر الذي يساعد الشركة على تقديم طاقة صديقة للبيئة تحت ظروف لا تضاهى من الأمن والجودة. وباعتبار المشروع الاستثمار الصناعي الأكبر على الإطلاق في اليمن، تتلقى الشركة دعماً قويا من قِبل المساهمين الرئيسيين و مجموعة عالمية من المُقرضين من الدرجة الأولى. وتُساهم الشركة بنشاط في تعزيز مسيرة التنمية في اليمن من خلال تنفيذ برامج طموحة في التنمية الُمستدامة التي تركز على مشاريع المياه، الكهرباء، الصحة، التعليم، الزراعة،والثروة السمكية.

Gold Sponsor

Consolidated Contractors Oil & Gas Company (CCOG) is an independent exploration and production company with assets in the Middle East and Africa.

• CCOG has participated in "world class" oil and gas facilities as an operator, investor and partner. CCOG's position in Yemen has provided a unique "full-cycle" view of large scale E&P operations.
• Current Target Market: CCOG is currently focused on new venture opportunities in the Middle East, the Commonwealth of Independent States and a few select African nations.
• Through its parent company, Consolidated Contractors Group Holding, and the CCC Group of companies, CCOG has access to one of the leading international engineering and construction companies in the world. CCOG can tap into an experienced finance, management and engineering team that is focused on developing the most complex projects for the oil and gas industry.

Gold Sponsor

A Limited Liability Partnership formed between Yemen Investment Company in Oil & Minerals (YICOM), a subsidiary of the Ministry of Oil, and the Albert Abela Group. The company was formed in 1991 to operate in support of the Yemeni Oil sector. It has been active in all parts of the country ever since.

During the last 27 years, Abela and later YCS, have covered all the oil and concession blocks in the country, from the blocks along Saudi border to the shores of Hadramount. We have provided catering & camp services for seismic crews all over the country by successfully setting up supply lines, allowing us to provide high standard catering services to most of the major companies operating in Yemen.

Gold Sponsor

Kuwait Energy Yemen (KEY) companies are amongst the largest acreage holders in the Republic of Yemen with interests in seven blocks. Kuwait Energy (KEC) has been present in Yemen since 2006 and its Sana'a office oversees local operations. The company is committed to develop Yemen's natural resources in partnership with Yemen Government for the benefit of the country.

KEC was established in 2005 and is one of the fastest growing independent oil and gas exploration and production company companies in the Middle East. The Company has a high quality and diverse portfolio of oil and gas assets. Its experienced management team has been able to grow reserves and production year on year while being profitable since inception.

Gold Sponsor

Safer Exploration and Production Operations Company was established under the laws of the Republic of Yemen on March 23, 1997 as the national upstream oil and gas company, empowered to carry out oil and gas exploration, development and production operations in the country. Safer headquartered in Sana'a is wholly owned entity of the government of Yemen..

On November 15, 2005 Safer assumed all upstream oil and gas operations in Yemen's premier Mareb/Aljawf Block (18) as the sole designated operator of this entire area.

Safer is the exclusive supplier of the government owned gas to YLNG gas liquefaction facility at Balhaf. The average daily production between November 15th, 2005 and August 31st, 2010 is nearly 57,000 barrels of crude oil per day (the total crude oil production during this period exceeded 100MM barrels), and 24,000 barrels of LPG per day as well as supplying fuel gas to Mareb Gas Power Station from 17 producing fields.

Gold Sponsor

On January 12, 1997 Dove Energy Limited signed the Production Sharing Agreement with the Ministry of Oil & Minerals, Yemen as the Operator of Block 53, East Sarr.

The block is located in the Masila-Seiyun basin with proven oil systems and reservoir potential in the Qishn clastics, Sarr carbonates / clastic sequence and the fractured granitic basement. Block 53 is adjacent to Total’s Block 10, DNO’s Block 32 and Canadian Nexen’s prolific Block 14.

In the year 2000, the second well of the first exploration period resulted in the discovery of the Sharyoof Field. Exploration activities continued in parallel with the development of the Sharyoof oil field.

Following Sharyoof’s success, Dove Energy discovered Bayoot – a fractured granite basement oil field. Bayoot crude is commingled with Sharyoof crude and exported 70 kilometres via a dedicated Dove pipeline to Nexen’s Masila facility

Dove Energy produces 10,000bopd from a total of 20 wells.

Gold Sponsor

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:OXY) is an international oil and gas exploration and production company, and its OxyChem subsidiary is a major North American chemical manufacturer. The fourth-largest U.S. oil and gas company, based on equity market capitalization, Oxy has nearly 30,000 employees and contractors working in three geographic regions: the United States, the Middle East/North Africa and Latin America.

More than one-third of Oxy’s worldwide production comes from the Middle East/North Africa region, where the company has operations in Yemen, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Iraq, and is a partner in the giant Dolphin natural gas project. Oxy is one of the most active exploration and production companies in Yemen, with significant interests in both of the major oil- and gas-producing regions.

Oxy is committed to safeguarding the environment, protecting the safety and health of employees and neighboring communities and upholding high standards of social responsibility throughout the company’s worldwide operations.

Gold Sponsor

Dana Gas is the first regional private-sector natural gas company in the Middle East, established with over 300 reputable founder shareholders from across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, and some 400,000 investors from over 100 nationalities worldwide who submitted applications of over US$ 78 billion over ten days in the company's regional IPO in late 2005 .

Headquartered in Sharjah in the UAE and listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), Dana Gas already possesses a network of offices in Saudi Arabia, Kurdistan Region – Iraq, Egypt, and UK, with further offices opening throughout the Middle East. Dana Gas currently has assets and projects in gas exploration and production, processing, transportation and marketing in several countries, and aims to play a major role in the rapidly-growing natural gas business throughout the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA) Region across the entire gas value chain.

Dana Gas continues to expand its business interests in the gas sector throughout the region, including into upstream exploration and production, and downstream into gas-related industries, and is building important strategic alliances and partnerships at both the regional and international level. Acquisition of strategically important assets in new and growing gas markets is an important part of Dana Gas’ objectives.

Gold Sponsor

Hunt Oil Company is one of the leading independent oil and gas companies in the world. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, The privately held firm concentrates on oil and gas exploration and production in the United States, Yemen, Peru and other countries.

Jannah Hunt Oil Company (JHOC), a subsidiary of Hunt Oil Company operates a Production Sharing Agreement with Yemen Company for Investment in Oil and Minerals (YICOM) in Blk 5. This project was registered in Yemen Feb 9th 1994.

Currently JHOC is preparing to build a cryogenic gas plant at Blk 5 to recover LPG from the gas stream. Due to our well trained employees JHOC is able to minimize operational costs and maximizes profits to the government and partners of Blk 5.

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Gold Sponsor

Background:
CACBank: (The Cooperative & Agricultural Credit Bank) is a government owned bank that was established in 1982 under a special act .

For the subsequent 22 years, the bank served as a specialized lender for  specific development sectors .

Since the year2004, and under its new management, the bank supported by the government has extended its line of services to cover all commercial banking services for both corporate and retail customers.

Our-vision:
The leader financial institution

Bronze Sponsor

Bronze Sponsor

As one of the largest global Energy Services providers, Weatherford builds innovative mechanical solutions, researches and develops technology applications, and provides services for Oil & Gas industry on a comprehensive scale for the drilling and production sectors. Weatherford operates in over than 100 countries and employs more than 52,000 people and serves all Major E & P companies and other operators worldwide.

Lunch Sponsor

OMV currently holds three large exploration and production licenses, focusing on further developing the already producing “Block S2”. Since the drilling and construction activities are located in the desert, far away from any kind of infrastructure, production poses a particularly difficult challenge for both man and technology. Here, OMV can rely on its broad experience in operating in a desert environment and its access to state-of-the-art technology through worldwide operations. One of the company’s major assets is the competitive advantage of a highly experienced exploration team, vast expertise in complex fractured basement formations and in interpreting petrophysical & reservoir data.

Refreshment Break Sponsor

Schlumberger Limited is the world's leading oilfield services company supplying technology, information solutions and integrated project management that optimize reservoir performance for customers working in the oil and gas industry. Founded in 1926, today the company employs more than 105,000 people of over 140 nationalities working in approximately 80 countries , driven by two business segments: Schlumberger Oilfield Services that supplies a wide range of products and services from formation evaluation through directional drilling, well cementing and stimulation, well completions and productivity to consulting, software, information management and IT infrastructure services that support core industry operational processes & WesternGeco which is the world's largest seismic company and provides advanced acquisition and data processing services.

Schlumberger QHSE policy that is Commitment to Quality, Health, Safety and the Environment.

Schlumberger Yemen history & Overview
A Successes Established in Yemen since 1992 with two operating bases in Masila and Marib with the following services ( Drilling & Measurement , Wire line , Well Services , Well Testing , SIS - Schlumberger Information Solutions , Artificial Lift , DCS - Data & Consulting Services & WesternGeco) lead by being Leaders in setting the standards for QHSE as part of our culture supported with Premium Technology in all services in Yemen along with facilities that’s Fully Equipped with Laboratory, Maintenance Shops, Warehouses, Dry Bulking, Blending Facility & Wash and Pressure Test Bays to serve our Yemen operation.

Refreshment Sponsor Day 2

Halliburton, founded in 1919, is one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the energy industry. With more than 50,000 people in nearly 70 countries, The company serves the upstream oil and gas industry throughout the life cycle of the reservoir - from locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction and completion, and optimizing production through the life of the field.

Halliburton’s mission is:
To create sustainable value by delivering outstanding products, services and Digital Asset solutions that help our customers succeed by:
• Maximizing production and recovery
• Realizing reserves from difficult environments
• Improving operational efficiency.

Support Sponsor

OSROYL Profile:

• Was incorporated in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in 1929
• Is PNG's largest oil and gas producer and operates all of PNG's producing oil and gas fields
• Has been operating in Yemen for eight years and currently operates Blocks 7 and 3 in Shabwa Province
• Has a 29% interest in the world scale PNG LNG Project, operated by ExxonMobil, which commenced full construction in March 2010
• Has 2P reserves of 566.9 million barrels of oil equivalent, including 505 mmboe relating to the PNG LNG Project, and contingent 2C resources of 281 million barrels of oil equivalent.
• Is publicly listed on the Australian and Port Moresby Stock Exchanges and trades in the US through the ADR market
• Has a market capitalisation of around US$6 billion
• The Independent State of PNG is the Company's largest shareholder with a 15% interest. The PNG State has issued exchangable bonds over its holding to IPIC of Abu Dhabi
• Is one of PNG's largest companies and tax payers
• Has approximately 1,000 full-time staff and over 1,000 contractors located in PNG, Australia, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates
• Has exploration activities in PNG, Yemen, Iraq and Tunisia

Support Sponsor

DNO International ASA at a Glance

DNO is an independent E & P company with its headquarters in Oslo, Norway. We currently operate production and exploration licenses in Yemen and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, exploration licenses in Mozambique and the United Kingdom and is a partner in an exploration license in Equatorial Guinea. Our growth comes from smart exploration, cost effective and fast track field developments, efficient operating techniques and strategic acquisitions.

Support Sponsor

Support Sponsor

Lanyard Sponsor

Nabors Drilling International operates both land and offshore rigs in 30 countries around the globe and has become the world’s largest provider of land and platform drilling contract services for exploration and development of oil, gas and geothermal wells.

During the last 28 years Nabors Drilling International (Yemen) has operated up to 14 rigs and a significant fleet of logistics equipment operational in the Republic of Yemen.

More recently, Nabors has been actively expanding its business into areas that supplement its primary business as a drilling contractor. These businesses provide our customers with information technology, drilling systems, engineering, transportation, construction, maintenance, well logging, well services and other support services in selected domestic and international markets.

Business units:

• Canrig Drilling Technology Ltd, manufactures and markets a full range of top drives as well as floor wrenches, catwalks, rig control systems and top drive accessories for enhanced directional drilling. Canrig latest merger with Epoch, creates a drilling technology company offering an extensive and diverse product line to the global energy industry including a full line of drilling data, analysis and reporting systems and software. Products offered such as;
  
  • ROCKIT™ is a programming tool developed to enhance directional drilling enabling the operator to keep consistent tool faces and enhances steering capabilities.
  • K-box Suite™ CRT is designed to replace the existing doghouse knowledge box, the Canrig K-Box Suite™ offers integration of the best-in-class drilling instrumentation, IADC tour sheet reporting, anti-collision controls, choke controls and drilling optimization applications, as well as Canrig's DrillSmart™ automated technology.
  • SUREGRIP™ is an automated casing running tool that decreases drilling costs while helping to overcome complex well conditions.
  • DML™ provides maximum flexibility for the collection, storage, export and presentation of mud logging and engineering data. The program can integrate all wellsite log data, including MWD/LWD/PWD and wireline electric log data, along with the basic mud logging and drilling parameter data.
  • mywells.com is a premier source of secure, real-time wellsite information for the oil and gas industry.


• Ryan Energy Technologies provides complete horizontal and directional drilling services and solutions along with measurements while drilling (MWD) services for both conventional and unique drilling applications. The company specializes in proprietary downhole and surface technologies and equipment, particularly as they apply to multi-well platforms, multi-leg horizontals, under balanced wells, casing drilling and coal bed methane projects.
• Peak USA Energy Services is a diversified oilfield service company specializing in rig moving, custom heavy hauling, crane and rigging services, and oilfield transportation.
• Nabors Well Services, Inc. has a fleet of 1000+ well service/work-over rigs strategically located throughout the U.S., Canada and in select international markets, Nabors provides customers with a full array of well-related services necessary for prolonging the productive life of an oil and or gas well. Nabors is looking to expand and offer its well services in international markets.
• Nabors Canada provides oilfield electrical services, maintenance and manufacturing. This division developed and continues to expand the PACE™ technology and also developed the proprietary Commander Drawworks, which is available on Nabors rigs. Academy also designed, engineered and manufactured the company’s innovative AC coiled tubing / jointed pipe hybrid rig.

Visit our website at: http://www.nabors.com

Documentation Sponsor

SAHRA started as a boutique company in 2006 focusing mainly in providing a synergized set of consultancy and advisory services in niche market projects in technical, financial and legal aspects of petroleum, minerals and a wide range of related industries. The company expanded rapidly with its affiliates within (SAHRA Group) in Malta, Oman, UK and Yemen and through its associates/alliances (worldwide) to offer various oil, gas and mining services.