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jobless interested in “entrepreneurship”, has entered its next phase. After a suc-cessful launching we have received a vast number of interested potential participants. Together with the SME Fund we are in the selection process phase. The program goal is to support start-ups with the potential to employ significant numbers of Omanis poten-tially from the drilling services segment of the industry which has recently seen reduction of Rig count an area which is highly omanized. During the month we have successfully conducted a “Get to know Opal” event in Salalah. Our attention was focused on the Dhofar region. The Introduc-tory workshop was a great opportunity for companies to meet our Manage-ment Team and stay informed about all the benefits which Our Society is bring-ing to its members.I will use this momentum to remind you on our upcoming Oil & Gas Conference that will be take place in Grand Millennium Hotel, Muscat on 29-30th October. Also starting on Sep-tember 12th and 13th, we are support-ing the “Oman Workplace Safety and Loss Prevention Conference 2017” in collaboration with Tafani. We will be presenting a paper on the new Road Safety Standards. Hope to see as many of you there.The First Annual OPAL SPORTS WEEK now is rolling with intense speed. The Event which will promote partnership between OPAL members

and the society in general is planned for period of 5-11th November. Stay updated on all our media channels with all the news and I encourage you to par-ticipate with as many as possible teams. Last but not least coming up are plans for the forthcoming Business Best Prac-tice Event. This time we are hoping to go BIG, perhaps even national! I had few brainstorming sessions with my team already and you will be hearing more of this in due course. Get pre-pared. After last year introductory of a new category - “Impact of Develop-ment of local SMEs on ICV elements” we are planning to implement two more. First will be “Business Best Prac-tice Award for CSR Project” and a sec-ond one, coming from R&D segment, and in conjunction with the Research Council, we will be introducing the “Innovation Encouragement Award”. The idea is to empower future Omani industrial Innovators, in their research, which will benefit the country as a whole and our Industry in particular.As you can see there are so many fronts where our focus is being laid. As the Voice of Oil & Gas Industry we are marching on to continue to serve the needs of our members and Society. The new edition of the OPAL Maga-zine is in print as we speak and will hit the stands soon. Get your copy quick-ly. In the meantime, keep your com-ments and articles coming please. Until then…” Musallam Al Mandhari

August 2017 www.opaloman.org Issue 26

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A productioN of commuNicAtioN depArtmeNt editor: Azza Al Hilali ([email protected]) executive editor: Nenad Valentik ([email protected]) supervisor: Abdullah Al Harthy ([email protected])

EdItorIAl tEAm rEsErvEs thE rIght to AdApt thE tExts to spEcIfy thE coordInAtE formAt And ImprovE thE quAlIty of nEwslEttEr

“With the holiday season over it’s all hands on deck – catch up time!! OPAL, as your Voice in the Industry,

we are moving forward on a number of fronts. On hand is a substantial portfolio of initiatives under various stages of de-velopment and implementation. The list seems endless – OPAL offices are a beehive of activities - implementa-tion of the Road Safety Management system, work on Heat Stress Mitiga-tion , questions on implementation of Camp Standards, discussions on Fall-ing Object Prevention, accreditation of Training providers. Initiatives are piling up on a break neck speed – really, I am beginning to feel what His Excellency said at the AGM “OPAL on Steroids”. “Ta’sis Program”, a program to get the

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Opal Oil & Gas Conference - OOGC 2017 30-31 October 2017First Annual Opal Sports Week 5-11 November 2017Opal Awards - Best Business Practice Dates to be announced

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It is a remarkable success for fos Energy well test unit 3 as on 30 July 2017, petroleum development oman well Engineering team, once again, recognized wtu-3 for its outstanding 15 years of operation without a lost time Incident.this exceptional achievement would not be possible if it were not for a highly qualified dedicated and hardworking crews and the most special-ised equipment which enabled well test unit 3 to manage the hazards of h2s gas and operate at 24 hours a day in a challenging harsh desert environment of the oman oilfields.It is worthy to note that a number of initiatives have also contributed to this excellent recognition. fos Energy has been certified to Iso 9001 quality standard and ohsAs 18001 international safety standard. this certification clearly demonstrates that with its objective of ensuring safety and quality services. fos Energy continue to endeavours to implement a wide range of hsE programs including but not limited to advanced safety training programs, onsite hsE controls, hsE frequent audits and continual staff development programs.with everything mentioned above, fos well test units maintains its repu-tation of being the longest serving division of fos since it started in 2002 and continued to work for pdo in the highly sour fields such as Alnoor, Bir-ba and harweel in north oman. A part from wt3, fos Energy is proud of other 9 units with a unique safety records in well testing services operating for pdo and other clients.

fos eNergy outstANdiNg 15 yeAr lti free sAfety record

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All of newrest wacasco’s 105 sites were closely monitored during the year 2016 year and the winners were selected based on their perfor-mance in terms of food safety, hAccp, work safety and environmental indicators. the winnings sites belong to prestigious clients such as galfar, schlumberger, hydrocarbon finder, ndsc, saxon, sogex and shaleem petroleum company.the senior management of newrest wacasco travelled to all of the win-ning sites to handover the awards and celebrated the success along with the employees and the client representatives on site. “these awards were initiated to recognize and motivate the hard working teams on sites. It highlights the importance of qhsE systems and encour-ages the employees to abide by them. this is also a recognition of the good cooperation between newrest wacasco and its clients as in our environment the excellent qhsE measure can only be achieved by a joint efforts. we would like to congratulate all the winners”, said nicolas pauly, newrest wacasco’s general manager, during this site visit.

Newrest wAcAsco AwArded the ‘ANNuAl QhSe AWArDS 2016’ tO 7 OF itS teAmS ON SiteS

GAlFAr AChieveS 3 milliON SAFe mAN hOurS iN BP KhAzzAN PrOjeCt

galfar Engineering & contracting sAog, the largest multi-disciplinary engineer-ing construction company in oman has achieved a significant safety milestone of 3 million safe manhours without lost time Injury on 1st Aug 2017 in Bp Khazzan gas gathering system, phase 1 project which is one of its prestigious projects galfar is executing for British petroleum.this achievement come as yet another demonstration of galfar’s commitment to protect its employees & other stakeholders from injuries & ill health, prevent damages to assets and minimize impact on the environment in the course of its business.galfar commenced Bp ggs project in June 2015, with current strength of about 650 multi-cultural workforce. working closely with the expectations & objec-tives of Bp & Jacobs, galfar has achieved this milestone despite the challenges involved in a project of such magnitude.project team is fully committed and moving forward towards further milestones aiming at finishing strong.

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the first mechanical manufacturing Engineering national occupational (nos) development workshop took a place on 8th & 9th August with the involvement of companies across the oil and gas sector, organized by opAl in partnership with the ministry of manpower and facilitated by sEmtA (uK based standards organization). prior to the workshop opAl and sEmtA were invited to visit several compa-nies, working in the arena of mechanical manufacturing, to view their op-erations and to get a feel for the types of job roles relating to mechanical manufacturing. opAl management would like to take this opportunity to thank all companies for their support and involvement on this project.A special thank goes to the following companies, for their support and direct involvement with this nos development project:occidental oman Inc, oman oil refineries and petroleum Industries com-pany orpIc), oman oil company Exploration & production llc (oocEp), Arabian Industries manufacturing llc, BAuEr nimr llc, tAsnEEA oil and gas technology llc, techno gears Ind. llc, cameron schlumberger Interna-tional, united Engineering services llc, seeh Al sarya Engineering (sAs), International college of Engineering & management, vAnguArd oil tools & services llc, solid Earth company. for more information, please do not hesitate to contact: [email protected]

OPAl AND SemtA CONDuCteD DevelOPmeNt OF meChANiCAl mANuFACturiNG eNGiNeeriNG NAtiONAl OCCuPAtiONAl StANDArDS (NOS) WOrKShOPS

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the sponsorship pro-gram “Empowerment of women” which is running under Inter-serve Employee foun-dation has allowed 15 teenage orphan girls to receive train-ing on hand crafting gifts such as natural soap, candles, bags, key chains & jewelry.It was an opportunity for the oman con-struction company

(toco) & douglas ohI to demonstrate a commitment to create aware-ness and raise funds while creating opportunities for special needs in this community. we care centre is an orphanage school in Al Khoudh (muscat) which provides a platform for individuals to purchase handcraft-ed products made by their orphan girls, such as key chains, handmade soaps, coasters, Bags, candles, candle holders, Jewelleries and other unique Knick knacks that make lovely gifts. All the items for sale were made by the orphan girls, in-house, in the vocational training unit. they displayed their items in our office, and won our support through purchase of these items . Both douglas ohI and the oman construction company (toco) came together to support these orphan girls through a charitable craft fair which was organized in our offices on 1st August in douglas ohI and 2nd August in the oman construction company (toco). during the Event companies managed to raise omr 550.

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our New members

we are pleased to welcome to our fraternity new member company - Bashair nimr International Asso.suhail salim Al Junaibi, cEo & communication manager and saud salim Al Junaibi, hsE manager took the opportunity to take the photo with our communicatione Executive manager mr. Abdullah Al harthy during recev-ieng the membership certificate.


oman society for petro-leum services (opal) and Eshraqa, Khirnji ramdas social development Arm have signed a mou (mem-orandum of understanding) to fulfil the nation’s training and development needs. the initiative will be implement-ed by the Khirnji training Institute in association with

Eshraqa and opal and comes in response to the country’s need for building its capacities in the area of national capital development. nailesh Khirnji and musallam Al mandhari signed the mou. According to the mou, the focus of the collaboration will target key interven-tions in the area of national human capital development in the following areas - training for Employment, training for development and training for leadership. under training for employment, candidates will be enrolled in vo-cational training ranging from four to six months with employment at any of opAl’s member organisations on completing their education at the school or college level.the programme’s training for development will offer 100 complimentary seats for management development programmes and international certification over a two to a four-day course for omani nationals working at opal and its mem-ber concerns. there are also 10 seats for career development programmes extending six to eight months for all omani nationals employed at opal or its member companies.the leadership Academy programme will focus on developing decision-mak-ing and leadership skills among omani nationals working at opal and organi-sations that are opal opal and organisations that are opal members.

At the end of August opal has organized press conference for media rep-resentatives. Among many attendees present were journalists from major omani media houses such are: muscat daily, times of oman, shabiba, oman tv and many more.during the conference it was highlighted that the event will be an opportu-nity for oil and gas professionals to boost their sports skills and cooperation with each other. It will also enhance the company’s partnership with the society. Abdullah Al sinani, hr executive manager said, “the day is meant to encourage communication between employees and also the society. It is a healthy way of involving staff in various activities and getting them to talk to each other and promoting a healthy lifestyle. we will update our social media channels about venues and other information.”the week will also encourage employees to be more active and network with members outside the com-pany.during the conference opAl has presented new logo for opAl sports ventures in the future. opal sports week will be held from 5-11 november 2017.

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DIAMOND Sponsor: 25,000 OMR• Naming rights for the event and inclusion of logo on all event materials• Banner at event locations • Opportunity for sponsor to have a booth at final party of the event• Company Advertisement in OPAL magazine• 15 seats to final event ceremony and 5 VIP Place preview• Featured in all media campaings for the event• Logo featured on website for one year on event invitations and materials• Free participation in all games.

PRIZES/PARTNER Sponsor: • Logo right in the prizes• Featured in newspaper and backdrop advertising for

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news,• 3 seats to the event final ceremony and 1 VIP place preview. • Free participation in all games.

Payment Mode:

1. If paying by cheque: please ensure cheque are crossed and made payable to:

Oman Society for Petroleum Services (OPAL) 2. If paying by Bank transfer please transfer the funds to our account with:

National Bank of Oman, Mina Al Fahal , Branch A/C # 1032-342120-001 and inform us Accordingly.

Golden Sponsor: 15,000 OMR• Advertising in OPAL media

channels• Featured in newspaper and

backdrop advertising for event• Logo featured on website for

one year on event invitations and materials (special position)

• 10 seats to final event ceremony and 2 VIP place preview

• Free participation in all games.

SILVER Sponsor: 7,500 OMR• Advertising in OPAL media

channels• Featured in newspaper and

backdrop advertising for event• Logo featured on website for

one year and on invitations and event materials

• 5 seats to final event ceremony, and 1 VIP place preview


BRONZE Sponsor: 4,500 OMR• Featured in newspaper and

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and logo featured on website for six months

• 5 seats to event final ceremony and 1 VIP place preview.


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