I’d like, as we are receiving the last ten days of the holy month

of Ramadan, to urge you to utilize the golden chance of these holy

days in intensifying our worship hoping Allah, the Almighty, to

accept our fast and our worship as well as awarding you for your

worship and devotion exerted during this holy month.

Undoubtedly, this holy month has deeply rooted in our spirits

several values which we bid you to preserve and avail of them

practically in work field since we hope the exertion and devotion

you put forth throughout this holy month to win Allah’s satisfac-

tion to last constantly to accomplish the goals to which the cor-

poration is looking forward. However, this can be easily fulfilled

through working keenly as one team to bolster the corporation’s

status on the territorial and international levels.

Certainly, each person belonging to the oil sector should be

proud of the achievements which are being accomplished daily;

however, these accomplishments would not be fulfilled without

your diligent efforts and sincere devotion.

Among these achievements is the ostensible and constant

communication with the institutions of the civil society since Ku-

wait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) puts the social aspect among

its priorities believing that its role is not only to explore, refine,

market oil and petrochemical industries and efficiently run such

activities but it also includes other aspects allotted on top of its

responsibility towards the society.

Consequently, its complete patronage for the society’s institu-

tions is ostensibly regarded; moreover, they – these institutions

– are proud of this constructive role of the corporation and its

subsidiaries.

Saad Ali Al-ShuwaibChief Executive Officer

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KPC bolsters its social roleAl-Abdullah's Ghabqa gathers the oil family

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Al-Abdullah Ghabqa

gathered the oil family

In a wonderful evening party, HE Oil Minister, Minister of Information and Chairman of KPC board of directors Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah received congratulations on the advent of the holy month of Ramadan during a Ramadan Ghabqa held in honor of the oil sector’s personnel in Sheraton Hotel on Monday August, 23, 2010.

The celebration was attended by several lead-erships and employees from the sector as well as media persons. The attendees enjoyed a cordial and family atmosphere since the min-ister was keen on receiving and welcoming them personally to exchange congratulations.

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In an initiative reflecting its social respon-sibility aiming to serve the institutions of the civil society, Kuwait Petroleum Corpo-ration and its subsidiaries have donated a car to Social Affairs and Labor Ministry in order to transport the technical staff that is in charge of home service for elderly people.

On this occasion, Sheikh Talal Al-Khalid, the Managing Director of Governmental, Parliamentary, Public and Media Rela-tions, received Mr. Mohammed Al-Kan-dari, Undersecretary of Social Affairs and Labor Ministry and Ali Hassan, Manager of Elderly Care Department, on August 9, 2010 to deliver them the corporation’s gift.

In his keynote speech, Sheikh Talal stressed KPC and its subsidiaries are permanently ready to support the various institutions

of civil society, adding “KPC is keen on showing gratitude to one of the most im-portant groups in the society; thus it has gifted the department this simple gift as those elderly people spared no effort dur-ing their primes to serve and help develop the State of Kuwait.”

He further said the corporation is used, in line with its social message, to provid-ing material and immaterial support to the various groups of society, hoping to bolster communication between the cor-poration and the department to ease any difficulty impede the department; in addi-tion to harnessing all capabilities qualify them to provide distinguished services to all society’s groups in various fields.

For his part, Al-Kandari thanked and ap-preciated KPC for its initiative to support the ministry’s various departments espe-cially Elderly Care Department which pro-vides domestic medical service to more than eight hundred elderly persons in all Kuwait’s governorates, confirming the ministry is wholehearted to carry out its policy which is aimed to provide the best home medical service and care to those who deserve it particularly those who live without a family provider.

Finally, Sheikh Talal delivered the car to Al-Kandari who presented, in return, a me-morial plaque to Al-Khalid as an apprecia-tion to the corporation and its officials.

KPC dedicates a car to Social Affairs and Labor Ministry for serving elderly

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KPC has promulgated itself as a platinum sponsor for the second successive year to the contest of Kuwait Scientific Exhibition which will be held this year under auspices of HE Oil Minister, the Minister of Informa-tion and Chairman of KPC’s board of directors Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.

On this occasion, Sheikh Talal Al-Khalid, Manag-ing Director of Governmental, Parliamentary, Public and Media Relations, confirmed the corporation has renewed its patronage and subsidy for the contest this year in accordance with its diligent keenness on motivating and supporting youth who are interested in sciences and mathematics in order to encourage them on improving their creation and innovation.

He further added KPC believes in the importance of investing in scientific projects which urge the future scientists who will be the main support of the corpo-ration and its subsidiaries in the future for achieving progress.

For the second year in a row

KPC patronizes Kuwait Scientific Exhibition contest

any trivial activities which waste the precious time of this holy month. He finally hoped Allah, the Almighty, to accept their worship, wishing them to enjoy the bless-ings and grants of the month.

To reinforce intimacy

Int’l Marketing celebrates the holy month of Ramadan

International Marketing Depart-ment organized, on the occasion of the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, an awareness meeting dubbed “A bid for tolerance and reconciliation with the spirit” un-der patronage and in presence of Mr. Abullatif Al-Houti, the manag-ing director of the department on Sunday August 8, 2010 at the au-ditorium of the oil complex.

The meeting is among annual meetings which the department is interested in holding to bolster cor-dial relations and one team spirit among its personnel.

Addressing the inaugural ceremo-ny, Al-Houti congratulated the at-tendees on the advent of the holy month of Ramadan considering it the dear guest which should be honored through reciting as much as possible the holy Qur’an, biding them to refrain themselves from

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Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) took part in the conclud-ing activities of Al-Qefal Day—the closing day, of the 22nd diving journey held in Kuwait Marine Club on Saturday July 24, 2010 under auspices of HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

The closing day was attended by Undersecretary of Social Affairs and Labor Ministry Mr. Moham-med Al-Kandari who attended the celebration on behalf of HH the Amir, Hawalli governor Retired Lt. general Abdullah Al-Fares, Ku-wait Marine Club Chairman Major General Fahad Al-Fahad and Pub-

lic Relations Department Manager Mr. Ali Murad who represented KPC in the ceremony as well as the relatives of youth sailors and divers.

For his part, Al-Kandari indicated that next year’s journey will wit-ness a huge celebration as it co-incides with the 50th anniversary

A journey from history

KPC participated in Al-Qefal Day's activities

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of Independence and Liberation days.

On this occasion, Sheikh Talal Al-Khalid, Managing Director of Gov-ernmental, Parliamentary, Public and Media Relations at KPC, said, “The Kuwaiti youth epitomized during this hard journey unity and cooperation in defying difficulties and hazards expressing their pride of heritage of fathers and ances-

tors who were examples of sacri-fice and devotion while searching for provision.”

He stressed this journey is pursu-ant to HH the Amir’s directives which aim to keep holding this anniversary which commemorates national meanings of fathers and ancestors as well as bolstering co-hesion between the current gen-eration and the nation’s heritage.

He moreover stressed the impor-tance of protecting the marine heritage and rooting its impacts and morals in generations’ spirits; in addition to connecting this her-itage with national values and for-tifying loyalty to this homeland.

He finally thanked the youths’ relatives who played a substantial role in egging sons on memorial-izing their ancestors’ heritage.

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Planning Dept. celebrates field training graduatesBelieving in its social responsibility to-wards Kuwait’s sons and the necessity of participating in rehabilitating a genera-tion that is fully aware of its career du-ties, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) represented in Planning and Career De-velopment celebrated the graduation of a new batch of field training program in its summer course which included thirty-nine students from various institutions such as Kuwait University (KU), LoYAC program, governmental institutes and the Government Manpower and Restruc-turing Program (GMRP) on Thursday Au-gust 5, 2010 at the auditorium of the oil sector.

Several officials attended the graduation ceremony on top of them Mr. Abdul-latif Al-Houti, Manager of Planning and Development Department, Mr. Khalid Al-Haila’, Chief of Efficiency and Career Development section, Mr. Mesh'al Buha-mad, Assistant Officer of Administrative Services and the supervisor of the train-ing course.

In his inaugural speech on this occasion, Al-Houti applauded the tangible efforts

exerted by the students who were posi-tively cooperating and interacting with the new skills and expertise they got dur-ing the training at KPC.

He further urged them to put forth more efforts in their work locations in the future through the technical and administrative skills they got during the training course; in addition to complying with proper be-haviors, experiences and research skills in any new development takes place in their specifications to be always up-to-date to cope with the competitive circumstances of labor market locally and internation-ally.

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its among relatives and family members. He more-over, urged them to improve the state of their health through losing weight, reducing the percentage of blood pressure and cholesterol; hoping to accom-plish these goals by the end of the holy month.

Award and Recognition Committee organized, in collaboration with Occupational Health, Ergonom-ic and Office Safety Committee, a lecture themed “Promote your health through fasting” about fast-ing and its healthful and psychological benefits.

The lecture was held on Thursday 12 August, 2010 at the auditorium of the oil sector and given by Dr. Abdullatif Al-Mor, Consultant of Protective Medi-cine at Ahmadi Hospital.

The lecture included a presentation about the healthful benefits of fasting and the spiritual and moral side accompanying this holy month of Ra-madan, the matter settles psychological comfort on the Muslim person who fasts the month; in addi-tion, it increases vigor and activity round the year especially when the Muslim person complies with the divine instructions and Sunna – all the prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) deeds and speeches – in per-forming worship and even in having food and com-municating socially.

Al-Mor bid further the attendees to bestow gifts and alms for poor people, in addition to exchanging vis-

KPC hosting a lecture dubbed “Promote your health through fasting”

Planning & Career Development issued its annual report

Planning and Career Development Department issued on Wednesday August 11, 2010 its an-nual report about the most important events and achievements accomplished during the financial year 2009/2010.

During the meeting headed by Mr. Abdullatif Al-Houti, Planning and Career Development Department

Manager, he expressed his pleasure with what the annual report included from occasions, receptions and activities carried out by the department during the year; however, these occasions led to issuing the report in a distinguished manner.

Al-Houti attributed this excellence to the directives given by Sheikha Shatha Al-Sabah, the Managing Director of Training and Career Development, who stressed the importance of collecting data early and coordinating with the concerned au-thorities and departments which are in-cluded in the report.

It is worth mentioning that the team included Mr. Anwar Joma’h, Team Leader of Training Affairs, Mr. Fawaz Al-Hajeri, Data Senior Analyst and Ms. Sham-mah Al-Fahd, Data Analyst.

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Leader, briefed the significance of safety.

Moreover, Mr. Sulaiman Ismail, Risk Management consultant and Team Leader of the department which is in charge of applying group health insurance system, conducted an elaborate presentation about this new system, clarifying the benefi-ciaries of this service and the medi-cal procedures excepted from this healthful coverage.

Finally, employees have been al-lowed to submit their inquiries about the system to tackle any defaults or weak points while ap-plying this new system to modify it in cooperation with the insurance company or the concerned medi-cal centers.

Media Relations Department in coopera-tion with Planning & Career Development Department organized an awareness lec-turem, on Monday July 26, 2010 at the oil complex’s auditorium, for students par-ticipating in the restructure of manpower program to let them be familiar with the history of local oil industry, which is an approach KPC espouses keenly to attract the efficient national personnel.

Leadership Team at Financial and Administrative sector organized, in line with KPC strategy which is aimed to develop healthful ser-vices provided to its personnel, a workshop on Tuesday August,

2010 at the oil complex’s audito-rium for all employees to let them be acquainted with the details of the group health insurance.

Mr. Mohammed Al-Tahous, Fire Protection & Emergency Team

Introductory lecture about group health insurance

Media Relations organized an introductory lecture for the trainees of “Restructuring Program”

The lecture included a presentation of a documentary film on the oil industry in Kuwait and the history of establish-ing local oil companies in addition to a detailed film about Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, its establishment, nature of work and employment benefits en-joyed by the staff.

In addition, Mr. Bader Al-Wazzan, Ad-ministrator Media Relations, presented a presentation on the functions of the department and its divisions to let the trainees know work mechanism, which was exhibited in the achievements of the oil sector and by highlighting the latest in the matter of KPC employees and its subsidiaries.

The Lecture was attended by Mr. Mo-hammed Al-Baghli, Team Leader, Media Relations Department and Mr. Meshal Bou Hamad, Assistant office– Office Ad-min, who is in charge of student train-ing.

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of the meal by themselves; the matter added an eminent family atmosphere to the occasion.

Moreover, the final celebration held by Planning Sector spotlight-ed several aspects of intimacy and cohesion among the sector’s per-sonnel irrespective of their career degree. For his part, Mr. Hashim

El-Rifaai, the Managing Director of Planning, considered this amiable relation the main prop of the sec-tor and the reason behind all suc-cesses and achievements fulfilled by the sector. Additionally, the sec-tor’s employees exchanged con-gratulations on the holy month’s advent.

KPC various departments or-ganized, on the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, several Graish celebrations commenced with International Marketing De-partment which held its celebra-tion on Sunday August 8 at the Diwaniya of the oil sector.

Several employees attended the celebration on top of them was Mr. Abdullatif Al-Houti, Manag-ing Director of International Mar-keting, who congratulated the department’s employees on the advent of this holy month, urging them to fortify communication and the one team spirit among personnel. The department bid employees to receive the holy month with tolerance and recon-ciliation with the spirit.

The second celebration was held on Monday August 9, 2010 at the lobby of the oil sector. It gathered the staff of Financial and Admin-istrative Affairs. Mr. Ali Al-Hajeri, the Managing Director of Financial and Administrative Affairs, was on top of attendants. The staff marked the occasion on their spe-cial way as they served the dishes

KPC departments commemorating Graish

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Believing in the importance of supporting the Kuwaiti youth’s creativities and participation in all activities serve the society, Ku-wait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) hosted the Ramadan bazaar on Sunday August 8, 2010.

The 2-day bazaar was organized by the voluntary team of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

It is noteworthy that the bazaar included a number of manual products and new creative ideas which reflect the Kuwaiti authen-tic environment to receive the holy month of Ramadan.

KPC sponsors Kuwaiti creations

To be acquainted with pros of 6 Sigma

Team from PIC lecturing in KPCKuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) hosted Business Develop-ment Process Team from Petro-chemical Industries Company (PIC) to lecture about 6 Sigma system and the benefits of applying it; in addition to presenting PIC expe-rience in this regard. The lecture was held on Wednesday August 18, 2010 at the auditorium of the oil sector.

In his keynote speech, Mr. Aref Al-Awadhi, one of the team mem-bers, regarded that 6 Sigma sys-tem is not new technology as it

has been familiarized for twenty years as a procedure to improve positions; in addition, it has been applied in PIC since 2007.

He added the positive results of the system have been tangible in improving procedures applied in the company’s various depart-ments. These results epitomized in identifying efficiently the needs of customers and collecting data required to recognize the reasons of application’s defaults; hence solutions are to be developed to increase productivity.

He further underscored the advan-tages of 6 Sigma system as it is one of the most renowned concepts of managing comprehensive quality which depends basically on certain criteria based on identifying mea-surements as well as assessing its levels and analyzing them to be de-veloped after that to achieve higher phases in controlling quality. He said 6 Sigma system is also consid-ered a remarkable ideology in using the statistic analysis used for assess-ing and improving the operational performance through identifying the defaults of application.

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es or work papers in the monthly newsletters issued by the con-cerned authorities at the corpo-ration.

What are the procedures ap-proved, in this domain, to grant the award?

The instant award is granted in ac-cordance with a number of simple procedures carried out by more than one department as follows:

• The concerned official, who is empowered to nominate person-nel for the award, is to fill the nomination form.

• Compensations Department af-ter that reviews and analyzes the data registered in the form.

• After ensuring that all nominees meet the required conditions, they are submitted to the con-cerned managing director to ap-prove them.

• The nominee who is selected for the award is to be informed by the concerned official.

• Accounts Department is to be in-formed of the said procedures to cash the award to the winner; in addition, Public Relations Depart-ment is to be notified to publish the news in the monthly newslet-ter and through the internal elec-tronic page.

Finally, we hope that we’ve man-aged to illustrate copiously the in-stant award system.

It’s a pleasure to meet again through the third article of Com-pensations Window articles' series to shed more light on Instant Award System which has been initiated through a decision no. 34/2003 is-sued by KPC board of directors on June 21, 2003.

The employee is granted, in accor-dance with this system, an instant award for achieving any exceptional activity aimed to protect spirits or keep the assets of KPC and its sub-sidiaries or even for doing any sub-lime duty. Thus, Instant Award Sys-tem is considered a complementary tool for the other allowances which the corporation applies in favor of its personnel such as the annual increment, “Thank you card’’ and honoring the experienced employ-ees.

What are the goals of applying the Instant Award System?

This system aims actually to enable the corporation to award imme-diately its efficient employees for fulfilling exceptional duties in order to improve work efficiency and in-crease productivity to utilize well human resources and perk up con-sequently performance.

What are the conditions of win-ning the instant award?

The system has stipulated some principal conditions to nominate personnel to such award; however, we will mention some of these con-ditions as follows:

• To submit applicable new ideas or modern systems help increase productivity and improve perfor-mance particularly in cases relat-

ed to health, safety and environ-ment at the corporation.

• To take part in banning the oc-currence of accidents which lead to material losses or casualties, or even to participate in rescuing an injured colleague or provide first aid to reduce injuries.

• To partake in conferences, pres-ent researches or work papers represent KPC and underscore its effectual role in several activities; however, these participations must win rewards or at least be honored by the organizing au-thority.

• The managing director in charge can also grant instant award to the employee for any sublime ac-tivity he, the managing director, sees it deserves the award.

However, the system stipulates that these conditions must not be in-cluded among the career tasks of nominee.

What are the merits of the award?

Apart from the financial value of the instant award which may be es-timated to 300% of the main salary maximum, the system has actually added some other immaterial pros such as:

• Publishing the distinguished employee's name in the corpo-ration's monthly newsletter and through its electronic website; in addition to briefing the achieve-ment qualified him to win the award.

• Publishing also the eminent ac-complishments such as research-

A series of administrative articles...towards establishing a pioneering institutional culture

(3) Instant award system...conditions, regulations and due proceduresBy Ibrahim Awadh - Compensations Department Manager

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Memorializing Kuwaiti authentic habits

KPC marking Gairge’an

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In accordance with its annual habit to commem-orate the Kuwaiti authentic habits, Public Rela-tions Department at KPC organized Gairge’an celebration on Saturday August 21, 2010 at the lobby of the oil sector for all KPC personnel and their relatives.

The celebration was attended by a large number of employees and their relatives who enjoyed the entertainment activities and competitions which were prepared in advance for this occasion.

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