Minister of State for Energy Affairs HE Saad Sherida Al Kaabi honoured the winners of the 2022 Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) Scientific Research Awards, for their contributions to furthering sustainability research in the oil and gas field with a focus on OAPEC operations. As Chairman of the current OAPEC session for the year 2024, Al Kaabi presented the awards to two teams. The first award is split between two researches the first research awarded to Dr. Mamoun Absi Halabi from Lebanon, and Dr Faisal Salman Al Humaidan from Kuwait, for their research titled, ‘Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Prospects of the Decarbonization of the Oil and Gas Industry.’ The second research for the team from the Egypt comprising Dr Lamya Ahmad Abu Shahba, Eng. Hiba Bishr Nasr, Eng. Yahya Nassar, and Inas Ibrahim Zahran, for their research titled ‘Decarbonization and Circular Carbon Economy in the Oil and Gas Field Implications for OAPEC Countries’. The awards were presented during the OAPEC’s 113th Ministerial Meeting in Kuwait City, as part of OAPEC’s decision to dedicate this edition of its awards to the field of new and renewable energies.
