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Dear DMS Members, Are we making our world more complicated in the search of more value in a purchase of something that will do so much more than we actually need it to do? Whether an automation system or a smart phone we seem to prefer to buy something with all the ‘bells and whistles’ that shows it is worth more than we pay rather than ask for a cheaper product with only the features we really need. Problem is that we often can’t purchase the simple option since the manufacturers want to sell something at higher value. As such, our automation systems have become more and more complex with many application services running on the workstations and servers that are not required to control the process. This is exacerbated by using off-the-shelf computing equipment designed for IT and not OT such that it becomes ever more difficult to protect our systems. We have an understanding that IT cybersecurity has very different drivers from OT cyber-security and I wonder therefore if, in our endeavour to harden our systems’ networks, we should be directing our efforts at having computing equipment designed specifically, for OT. The automation systems of old used their own processors, workstations and servers which were designed purely to control the process. In such systems the speed of the processor was not as big a concern since in many cases the process changes state slowly and not so many processes and services had to run in the background because the number of applications was smaller and certainly, less complex. The thing is, many computers today run as slowly, or slower, than they did then purely because they are doing so much in the background, have inefficient code and have anti-virus software. Proprietary operating systems were replaced by standardised ones to save cost, but has this actually put the cost up today merely because so much money has to be spent in the hardening of it? It was true some years back that the iOS was less targeted than Windows mainly because it was less ubiquitous. Any proprietary operating system used for automation then would likely fall into the ‘less targeted’ category making it more attractive and, because it was simpler in terms of the services running in the background, easier to harden. Less complexity also has the benefits of being cheaper in many cases, more reliable and perhaps easier to maintain. Do we make a U-turn now or do we continue to believe that it’s important to always go forward since we know more than those before us?!

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Mohammed Loch President and CEO DMS Global Director Industry Development ISA

Hugh Wingrove Editor-in-Chief DMS Global

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Abu Dhabi National Oil Company(ADNOC) is Moving Forward with Petrochemicals

ADNOC is showing an increased interest in the petrochemical sector and its potential benefits. Not only through increasing project plans but through agreements with companies such as Borealis, Nova Chemicals, and Cepsa, ADNOC is again, since the merge, displaying a moving towards a more modern approach, one of which is expanding the nation’s petrochemicals market. After a number of plans, holdbacks and various changes in ownership and design, the long-anticipated Tacamol Aromatics Project has finally experienced promising movement. After years of uncertainty and the industry’s concerns related to whether or not this project will ever move forward, concrete progress has been evident in 2017. Due to changes in shareholders, ownership and numerous complexities related to the project’s scope of work and receiving approvals, the project has been stuck, after which it finally flashed a green light. ADNOC Refinery’s take over of the project allowed this to happen and the company’s team, formerly known as Takreer, is currently working on completing the front-end engineering design (FEED) in 2018 in order to ensure a successful, safe and reliable project delivery. The project initially known as Madeenat Chemaweyaat Al Gharbia included several parts such as the Naphtha Cracker and involved constructing a 7 million ton-per-year (t/y) petrochemical complex. The scope consisted of various aspects such as the aromatics plant, ammonia plant, hydrogenation plan and various units from polypropylene to butane. Although the current scope of work hasn’t directly been announced by ADNOC,

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the industry is looking forward to the outcome of completed FEED. Moreover, ADNOC & Borealis have been engaged in planning several projects, including the Polypropylene (PP) Plant currently under the evaluation of the technical bids, as well as the Borouge 4 complex where the tender is expected to float this year. The PP Plant will be integrated with the existing Borouge 3 complex and is expected to add value to the surplus propylene available from the new Propane Dehydrogenation (PDH) unit. While the Borouge 4 will be integrated with the ADNOC’s Refinery complex and will implement a world-scale, mixed feedstock cracker, using existing feedstock and downstream derivatives units for both polyolefin and non-polyolefin products. Furthermore, ADNOC Refining is receiving approvals for the LPG recovery project, while Borouge is also working with the Borouge 3 Ethylene plant expansion with Wison Group who is currently carrying out the contracting for the boiler and water pump section of the project. Overall, 2018 appears to be a promising year for the Petrochemical sector in the UAE and investors and contractors are eagerly awaiting further progress and announcements by the ADNOC Group.

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A Glimpse of the Saudi: Power, Petrochemical and Refining Industries As a key element in Vision 2030, the kingdom plans to restructure the power sector to raise future sustainability. The government plans to sell Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), a state-owned power generation firm, and push forward the privatization process to an advanced stage. The privatization of state assets would raise $200 billion and allow for greater private sector participation. Along the restructuring process, Saudi Arabia aims to diversify its energy mix to generate electricity and wean off the reliance on fossil fuels in power production. By 2023, 10% of power will be generated through renewable sources. In March, Renewable Energy Project Development Office (REPDO) has selected ACWA Power to develop Sakaka Solar Independent Power Project (IPP). This award is important as it signifies the beginning of the kingdom’s renewable ambition and moving projects towards implementation. Next March, companies will submit bids for a 400 MW wind farm in Dumat Al-Jandal and an award will take place in June 2018. On the other hand, the kingdom aims to increase its non-oil economy. National Transformation Program

(NTP) identifies the petrochemical industry as a key pillar to push away from fossil fuels reliance and considers the industry’s growth as an integral part to raise non-oil exports from 16% of GDP in 2015 to 50% of GDP by 2030. In recent years, Saudi Aramco has moved into the petrochemical industry and launched Sadara, a joint venture between Dow and Aramco, to push further towards downstream specialty products. Additional projects are in the pipeline and Aramco will play a key role to boost the industry’s contribution to the GDP. A major upcoming project is a joint effort by Aramco and Sabic to establish Crude Oil To Chemicals Complex in Yanbu. In fact, the bidding for the engineering contract has started. In the refining industry, the kingdom plans to retain its position as the 4th largest refiner worldwide. An Additional 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) of refining capacity is expected to be added by 2020. Domestically, there are multiple ongoing refining projects such as SASREF Refinery Modernization and Saudi Aramco Jizan Export Refinery.

Oman Inaugurates World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Oman’s biggest solar power plant was recently inaugurated by Petroleum Development Oman (PDO). Four blocks of the plant have been commissioned on time and on budget with steam production integrated with the Amal network. Eight more blocks are on track to be commissioned in early 2019. Once fully complete, the one-gigawatt installation will consist of 36 blocks built in and commissioned in succession in groups of four, which allows PDO to benefit from solar steam now and gradually ramp-up production over time to meet the Amal oilfield’s steam demand. Unlike solar panels that generate electricity, Miraah uses large mirrors to concentrate sunlight and boil oilfield water directly into steam required for thermal enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The steam is used for the extraction of viscous or heavy oil as an alternative to steam generated from natural gas. The natural gas saved, 5.6 trillion British Thermal Units (BTUs) of natural gas each year, can be exported or directed towards higher-value applications such as power generation or industrial development, helping to diversify the economy. The project is also expected to reduce CO2 emissions by over 300,000 tons annually.

In addition to its Miraah solar project. PDO plans for its first renewable energy project, a 100MW(AC) solar farm to be built at Amin Field in the southern region of the country. PDO has issued a call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) for BOOT contract. The winning developer will have to complete the project in 18 months from the contract award date. PDO will procure the output of the plant under a 23-year power purchase agreement (PPA). The tendered announcement followed a tendered for qualification released by Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) for a 500MW solar plant to be built in Wilayat of Ibri in Al Dhahirah, northern of the country. The development contract for the Independent Solar Power Plant will be released in mid – 2018. The plant is hoped to be commissioned by 2021.

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INSIGHT! FEATURE

Interview with Saud Fahdi - PDO

Q) What kind of Industrial Automation Technologies is PDO currently using? The new technologies bring simplicity, reduced maintenance and cost reduction, values that PDO is in the forefront to adopt into its complex operation; state- of the art control and safeguarding system, multi-phase metering, analytics, wireless system communication and cyber security are areas the PDO consistently exploiting. Q) How can the latest developments in industrial automation help end users operate more efficiently? The adaptation of new technology has an immediate effect in operation Excellency, it provides safer operation with reduced manpower and consequently less risk exposure to human, efficient production with advanced predictive maintenance and to digitalization that enables operation simplicity, all are elements that support smart fields to operate in a much effective way. Q) What are your expectations for the ISA Oman Section Event this year? ISA is a platform that links automation end users, automation manufacturers and providers, with engineering integrators in a professional structure, this

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year will hopefully build upon the success of ISA Oman conference of the last year here in Muscat, I expect it will attract all automation community in Oman and will have wider audience and participation from end users, suppliers and manufacturers. I am confident that the conference exhibition this year will cover a larger area and will share the focus on the conference. Q) What would you like to see from the ISA Oman Section Event in future? ISA Oman should support young generation with easy access to training, my understanding that quite a lot of progress in this direction has been achieved and in my view should also include automation students in Oman universities. Future events should slot a “Back to Basic” session targeting young engineers to support them not only with “how” but as well “who” to strengthen their bond to Automation community. Hopefully, future events will invite more participation from end users of the Gulf countries, many aspects and challenges are shared and common, no doubt the lesson learned and knowledge sharing will be of great value to all participants. In my opinion, “ISA Oman” should lead automation society in Oman with the richer yearly timetable and conduct more frequent events, in the form of conferences, exhibitions or training events.

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Day One: Wednesday 28th February 2018 7:30 am - 8:30 am Registration 8:30 am - 9:30 am Keynote Speeches

Mohammed Loch President & CEO DMS Global Director Industry Development ISA

Salim Al-Hinai ISA Oman Section President

Hamood Salim Al Sinaidi CEO Oman Society Of Engineers

Saud Fahdi 2nd ISA Oman Section Event Chairman Control and Automation Discipline Head of Petroleum PDO

9:30 am Exhibition Ribbon Cutting and Tour Session One 9:45 am – 11:15 am Digitalization Track Chairman

Hamzah Salim Lead E&I Engineer Duqm Refinery

Speakers

Waleed Hassan Butt Project Head Delta Controls FZCO

Salim Al-Sibani Smart Field Project Manager UOA7 PDO

Mehul Vaidya Asst. General Manager / Global Project Pursuit Pepperl+Fuchs ME FZE

Dr. Darius Ngo PSC Sales Division Manager Yokogawa Middle East & Africa

Presentation Digitalization in Chilled Water Distribution – District Cooling

Presentation PDO Integrated Operation Centre (IOC)

Presentation Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 for the Processing Plant

Presentation Yokogawa Co-Innovation – Digital Transformation

11:15 am –11:45 am Coffee Break Session Two 11:45 am – 1:30 pm Flow Metering and Process Analyzers (Session 1) Track Chairman

Fahad Al Kaabi Instrument Engineering Manager Oman LNG

Speakers

Ganesan Kathirvel Marketing Manager Endress+Hauser

Derek Scott Consultant Kelton

Hamed Al Dhahri Production Measurement Specialist PDO

Gurvinder Singh Sales Manager MENA VEGA Technique

Presentation It’s Time to Resize Your Analytical Measuring Points!

Presentation From FDS to FAT and SAT – You Think We Would Have Learned

Presentation Coriolis Meter For Low GVF Application

Presentation Density Profilers for Improving Separation Processes in Desalters and Separators

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch Session Three 2:30 pm – 4:45 pm Flow Metering and Process Analyzers (Session 2) Track Chairman

Fahad Al Kaabi Instrument Engineering Manager Oman LNG

Speakers

Zaheer Juddy Managing Director AIMS

Athar Waseem Manager, Analytical Division AIMS

Presentation 7 Liabilities of Having Non-Performing Analyzers at a Plant

Dawood Al-Shilleh Commercial Manager Air Products

Andrew (Sam) Nolan Head of QMI PDO

Presentation Challenges of Obtaining Quality Process Analyzer Utility and Calibration Gases in Oman

Komal Kumar Sr. QMI & Metering Engineer Oman LNG

Ajay Laghate AIT Technical Sales Consultant Schneider Electric – Applied Instrument Technologies

Presentation Oman LNG Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Station - Sustainable Performance

Presentation Best Practices For Process Analyzer Systems In Gasoline Blending Operation

Ravi Sinha Regional Sales Manager Siemens Presentation Analyzer System Manager – A Holistic Approach Towards Performance Optimization & Efficiency

4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Coffee Break

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Session Four 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm FieldComm Group End User Council and Vendor Marketing Committee Meeting

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Ravi Sinha Regional Sales Manager Siemens Presentation Analyzer System Manager – A Holistic Approach Towards Performance Optimization & Efficiency

4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Coffee Break Session Four 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm FieldComm Group End User Council and Vendor Marketing Committee Meeting

Mohammed Loch President & CEO DMS Global Regional Director Middle East FieldComm Group

Nick Garrett Marketing Manager FieldComm Group

Day Two: Thursday 1st March 2018 8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration Session One 9:00 am – 11:00 am Process Control and Optimization Track Chairman

Hilal Al Harthy Team Leader of Process Control & Optimization PDO

Speakers

Medhat Zaghloul Regional Technology Manager Compressor Controls Corporation

Mohammed Mustafa Ali Al Humeid Process Control and Optimisation Engineer PDO

Presentation Refrigeration Basics For the Oil & Gas Industries

Presentation Process Control Helps Plant Operators - A Case Study

Hilal Al Harthy Team Leader of Process Control & Optimization PDO

Steve Niu Senior Process Control & Optimization Engineer PDO

Presentation Compressor Control in PDO

Krishna Bidare Venkata Sr. Technical Sales Consultant Schneider Electric Presentation Have Process Insights for Getting the Best Value in Automation Upgrade Projects

Vahid Rezagholizadeh Product Portfolio Manager Siemens Presentation Operation & Maintenance Excellence, New Trends in Process Automation

11:00 am –11:30 am Coffee Break Session Two 11:30 am – 12:45 pm Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Track Chairman

Ali Al Khaburi IM&T Information Security Lead, Information Management & Technology PDO

Speakers

Nick Garrett Marketing Manager FieldComm Group

Gilles Loridon CEO Global Security Network

Ahmed Khalifa Cybersecurity Technical Sales Manager Siemens

Presentation Intelligent Device Integration Technology Including Cybersecurity for the New Industrial World

Presentation How to get Aboard the IIoT Bandwagon Securely

Presentation The Digitalization Challenge and Cybersecurity as the Key Enabler – Energy and Oil & Gas

12:45 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch Session Three 1:45 pm – 3:45 pm Functional Safety Track Chairman

Mohammed AL Mandhari ICAT Engineering Team Lead Occidental

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Ali Al-Nahash Solutions Business Manager Solution Business Unit Endress+Hauser II AG Presentation Overfill Prevention Saves Lives

Jan-Willem Noorloos Safety Consultant Honeywell

Teeba Al Akhzami System Engineer Oman LNG

Rajeshkumar Modi Lead SIF and FGS Engineer Oman LNG

Palaniappan R Kannan Consultant PDO

Yusuf S. Kapadia Principal Technical Consultant Schneider Electric Systems ME

Presentation Why, When, and How to Certify

Presentation Improve the Reliability of SIL 2 Flame Scanner Type in HTF Furnace in Oman LNG

Presentation Are We Confident About Installed ‘Fire & Gas Detection System’?

Presentation Partial Stroke Testing: A User Perspective

Presentation Does Digitzation have a Use-case in the Domain of Safety Compliance / Functional Safety Lifecycle Management ?

3:45 pm – 5:00 pm Exhibition

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Keynote Speakers Mohammed Loch President & CEO DMS Global Director Industry Development ISA Mohammed Loch is the President & CEO of DMS Global. DMS Global’s range of activities include Events, Publishing, Video Production, Web Services, PR & Branding Solutions, ultimately complementing its project intelligence database. With this diverse range of activities, DMS is the only media company that can truly call itself a marketing specialist for the Energy Sector. Other than DMS Global, Mohammed’s other roles include; the Director Industry Development for the International Society of Automation (ISA), the Middle East, Africa & Asia Pacific Partner of the ARC Advisory Group, Regional Director Middle East for the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) as well as FieldComm Group, Director of Market Intelligence for the Bilateral US-Arab Chamber of Commerce, and Partner & Executive Director of the Choice to Change Foundation.

Salim Al-Hinai ISA Oman Section President Salim Al-Hinai is independent Control and Automation Consultancy. Salim Experience spans more than 40 years in Control and Automation, including hands-on experience as Instrument technicians, maintenance supervisor and Field Construction. Salim is now retired after spending 40 years as Control and Automation engineer and later as Head of Discipline from Petroleum Development of Oman. He also worked as C&A project Lead with various International EPC Contractors. Salim Has witnessed technology transformation over the last decades and played a key roles to ensure that PDO has benefitted from new technologies. Within ISA, Salim is an active member of the Society’s Recruitment and Nominations Taskforce and participates in the ISA Mentor Program. I hold a B.Eng degree in Automations, System, Computing and Control engineering at the Huddersfield University UK and attending intensive training programs.

Saud Fahdi 2nd ISA Oman Section Event Chairman Control and Automation Discipline Head of Petroleum PDO Saud Al-Fahdi is a senior Control and Automation engineer with over 17 years of oil and gas experience, he has extensive work experience covering overall lifecycle of projects from concept, FEED, detail design to commissioning and operation procedures. Saud has depth knowledge in all Control and Automation fields such as BPCS/FCS/PLC system design, field instrumentation, Fire and Gas, process safeguarding and design and technical safety assurance reviews. Saud is currently Control and Automation Discipline Head of Petroleum Development Oman Company.

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 Hamood Salim Al Sinaidi CEO Oman Society Of Engineers Engineer Hamood Salim Al Sinaidi is a graduate of Tulsa university, Oklahoma, U.S.A in December, 1989. He held a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering and he first started his career by Joying Halliburton worldwide company as a field engineer in May 1990. During his 15 years with Halliburton he progressed within the organization through different technical and leadership capacities and positions and worked in international locations including USA and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Since March 2005, he changed his career path by working on downstream as VP of Marketing and Shipping at Qalhat LNG and later as chief Marketing Officer with Oman LNG. Eng. Hamood bring together more than 27 years of professional experience in the Oil & Gas Industry, encompassing Technical Matters, Sales, Marketing and Business Development . Moreover, he has held the position of Human Resource Development Manager where he was responsible for the Omanisation (Nationalisation) programme and Human Resource Development while with Halliburton . From January 2017 he has been Seconded to Oman Society of Engineers (OSE) as Chief Executive Officer to lead OSE activities, and advance the society to further meet its objectives which ultimately supports the engineering discipline, accommodates the evergrowing demand and addresses engineering challenges in the Sultanate.

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Track Chairs Track Chairman: Digitalization Hamzah Salim Lead E&I Engineer Duqm Refinery Hamzah is currently the Lead E&I engineer at Duqm Refinery. He has nearly thirty years of experience in the oil and gas industry and has worked in many international companies including Occidental Oil, PETRONAS, Aker Kvearner and Technip on Upstream and Downstream projects. He was part of the delivery team involved in the engineering and design of the innovative floating LNG project for PETRONAS. He hopes to continue to drive excellence in his role in Duqm Refinery with new and innovative solutions for a safer, more efficient and cost effective engineering and operation. Hamzah graduated from the University of Texas in Electrical Engineering and is a member of the ISA as well as the Board of Engineers in Malaysia.

Track Chairman: Flow Metering and Process Analyzers Fahad Al Kaabi Instrument Engineering Manager Oman LNG Fahad have a comprehensive twenty years experience in the field of automation, Instrumentation and process analyzers. While currently occupying the Instrument Engineering Manager position of Oman LNG LLC, Fahad worked for several national and International companies in the Oil, Gas and Chemical streams. Fahad graduated with Bachelor of Engineering Science in Electrical Engineering and currently holds TuV Functional Safety certification and PMI Project Management Professional Certification. Fahad is known for encouraging young Omanis in pursuing a career in the Instrumentation field, and also known to develop young Omani talents who are holding rewarding Instrumentation position in several Oil, Gas and Chemical companies in Oman. Fahad participated in several mega projects in Oman such as Oman LNG and Aromatics Oman (currently part of Orpic) from early stages of the projects. Fahad worked also in several international assignments mainly with Shell global solutions and Dow Chemicals. Fahad feels that pursuing a career in Instrumentation is very rewarding and challenging in the same time. Being technically excellent and always strive to develop your knowledge, skills and talent in all aspects of the business is what make an instrument staff shine all the time.

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 Track Chairman: Functional Safety Mohammed AL Mandhari ICAT Engineering Team Lead Occidental Mohammed is currently an Instrument, Controls & Automation Engineering Team Lead working for OXY. His career is over 9 years’ rich in experience with more than half spent internationally. Mohammed started his career in New Zealand working for CES Communications and Beca Consultancy being involved in various wind farm studies, protection and control design to substation upgrades and major projects like the Victoria Desalination Plant in Australia. He joined the oil and gas industry with OXY’s Instrumentation, Controls, Automation and Telecommunications team in 2011. He has been involved in fiber optic telecommunications infrastructure, process equipment design, fiscal metering stations, wireless instrumentation, alarm management, process analyzers, water treatment plants and steam injection projects. Moreover, for 2 years he was a key engineer in the Electrical SCADA/Power Management System project engineered out of Houston, USA. Mohammed holds a Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Hons.) from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has completed a master’s level research in the topic Alternative/Renewable Energy. He has also achieved the Functional Safety Professional Certification from TUV:SUD

Track Chairman: Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Ali Al Khaburi IM&T Information Security Lead, Information Management & Technology PDO Ali Al Khaburi is in charge of developing, implementing and maintaining Cyber and Information Security Governance for both Information and Operation Technologies (IT/ OT) in PDO. In IT, he leads the Information Security (IS) Programme which resulted in establishing and maintaining PDO’s Information Security Management System (ISMS) certification based on ISO 27001. He also is an advisor to the Ministry of Oil & Gas’s Information Security Team. In PDO OT, he currently is responsible to define, ensure implementation and maintenance of a Cyber Security Governance programme for PDO’s Industrial Control Systems for Oil, Gas and Electrical systems and processes which includes SCADA and safety systems based on IEC/ISA 62443. His career spans 14 years in IT Operations and Security ranging from Systems Engineering, Backup and Storage Management, SAP Basis and for the last 8 years has specialised in the field of Information Security. He holds an MBA from West Virginia University as a Fulbright scholar and a BSc in Computer and Business Studies from the University of Warwick.

Track Chairman: Process Control & Optimization Hilal Al Harthy Team leader of Process Control & Optimization PDO Hilal is the section lead of the process control & optimization section in PDO, and also the discipline lead for the process control discipline. He has over 40 years experience in process control & automation.

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Speakers Profiles Digitalization Waleed Hassan Butt Project Head Delta Controls FZCO Presentation: Digitalization in Chilled Water Distribution â&#x20AC;&#x201C; District Cooling Experienced manager with extensive controls, instrumentation, electrical, ICT & ELV systems design engineering, integration, installation, testing, commissioning & maintenance expertise, solid enterprising capabilities and proven cradle to grave project delivery skills.

Salim Al-Sibani Smart Field Project Manager UOA7 PDO Presentation: PDO Integrated Operation Centre (IOC) 23 years working in PDO where he started as an instrument construction engineer for different projects in different PDO sites. After that, he moved to the Reliability Centre Maintenance (RCM) team focusing on enhancing the reliability and availability of the rotating equipments. With these experiences, he was assigned to the production measurement team looking into all different types of meters across the organisation varying from multiphase flow meters, single phase meters, water cut meters, gas meters. During these roles, he was involved in many projects to enhance the production measurement and improving the Relocation Factor (RF). After this, he moved to the corporate team as Head of Hydrocarbon Accounting and Forecasting with the role of managing of the overall Oman production and allocate it to the different oil producers who are using PDO Main Oil Line (MOL) to transport their produced crude from the field to MAF terminal. In the last 3 years, he has resumed the role of Smart Field Project Manager managing the Integrated Operation Centre (IOC) project. Mehul Vaidya Asst. General Manager / Global Project Pursuit Pepperl+Fuchs ME FZE Presentation: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 for the Processing Plant Mehul Vaidya has 25 years of working in the field of Automation. He has wide spectrum of experience with various technologies and hazardous area solutions. He has also served as the Chairman of Foundation Fieldbus and Chairman of FDT Middle East working committees. He has been one of the leading presenters of Fieldbus, FDT & WirelessHART technologies in the Middle East. He is with Pepperl+Fuchs for last 15 years and have served in various capacities for Global Strategic management, Sales, Technical and Support functions

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 Dr. Darius Ngo PSC Sales Division Manager Yokogawa Middle East & Africa Presentation: Yokogawa Co-Innovation – Digital Transformation Dr Darius Ngo is the General Manager of Process Solutions Centre at Yokogawa Middle East & Africa (Bahrain). He graduated from University of Oxford (UK) in 1999 and majoring in Control and Dynamics Engineering. He joined Yokogawa upon graduation and worked in various positions for Advanced Industrial Technological solution in Asia and Middle East. His areas of expertise include Digital Transformation through IIoT, Advanced Solutions Application, Dynamic Simulation, Asset Management Solutions, Manufacturing Execution System, Network Security Solution and Intrusion Protection.

Flow Metering and Process Analyzers (Session 1) Ganesan Kathirvel Marketing Manager Endress+Hauser Presentation: It’s Time to Resize Your Analytical Measuring Points! 21 years of experience in the field of process instrumentation and analyzers in a discipline like, Service, Projects, sales and Marketing. He has done his Engineering in Instrumentation and Control at Kalasalingam University in Tamilnadu. Since 2010 working in Endress+Hauser as a Marketing Manager for Analyzers and Chemical Industry. In his previous experience he was Involved in sizable annual maintenance contracts in refineries and petrochemical companies for analyzers and associated sampling system, also worked in Major Analytical companies and closely worked with end users in Oil and Gas, Refineries, Petrochemicals, Pharma and Power Industries in India and Middle East. Derek Scott Consultant Kelton Presentation: From FDS to FAT and SAT – You Think We Would Have Learned Derek is a consultant within the Kelton team, who has been involved in the design/review process of metering system from inception through to commissioning and operation. Derek has a practical pragmatic approach based on hands on experience.

Hamed Al Dhahri Production Measurement Specialist PDO Presentation: Coriolis Meter For Low GVF Application Hamed Al Dhahri has been working in Oil & Gas companies for 20 years in different roles within the outfit of Measurement & Control. Previous working experiences include Oman LNG and Oman Gas company. Currently working as a Production Measurement Specialist at PDO and supports Engineering and Operations on metering applications.

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 Gurvinder Singh Sales Manager MENA VEGA Technique Presentation: Density Profilers for Improving Separation Processes in Desalters and Separators Gurvinder Singh is Sales Manager of Vega Grieshaber KG for MENA region . VEGA is a global manufacturer of process instrumentation. Being Instrumentation Engineer Gurvinder worked in Petrochemical facility before Joining Vega. Working with Vega the focus is entirely how to measure Level/Interface Level in different applications using different technology to fully automate control of critical process.

Flow Metering and Process Analyzers (Session 2) Zaheer Juddy (Co-Speaker) Managing Director AIMS Presentation: 7 Liabilities of Having Non - Performing Analyzers at A Plant Zaheer Juddy, MD of Analytical Instrumentation & Maintenance system (AIMS) and one of the brightest young entrepreneur in the region and brings with him a vast experience of over 19 years in Analytical field. Being an Analyzer Expert provides consultancy and trainingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to End users/Customers from oil and gas industry. Zaheer has taken several initiatives for introducing new Technologies, Applications and Analyzer Sampling System designs for online Analyzers.

Athar Waseem (Co-Speaker) Manager, Analytical Division AIMS Presentation: 7 Liabilities of Having Non - Performing Analyzers at A Plant Athar Waseem is Analyzer specialist with 30 Years of rich experience in Analytical Instrument Field. Have serviced in SABIC as Engineering Specialist, ABB as Technical Service Manager, GASCO as QMI Engineer and have several success stories to share. Athar has authored/coauthored number of technical papers. Have conducted many short / long duration training courses on online analytical system for different companies across the region. Athar is presently working in AIMS as Manager Analytical Division.

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 Dawood Al-Shilleh (Co-Speaker) Commercial Manager Air Products Presentation: Challenges of Obtaining Quality Process Analyzer Utility and Calibration Gases in Oman Originally from the Jordan, Dawood graduated as a Chemist from Jordan University of Science and technology -Jordan in 2000 and later joined Acros and then Merck as sales representative. After spending time in Jordan, Dawood joined Perkin Elmer agent as products Specialist to cover KSA market in 2004, to re-establish their business in Eastern region. In 2008, Dawood Joined Airproducts Middle East (APME) based in Dubai as business development manager to grow specialty gases business in middle east region and after eight years Dawood have been promoted as commercial manager for APME covering all sales activity for Specialty, Industrial and Helium gases. Andrew (Sam) Nolan (Co-Speaker) Head of QMI PDO Presentation: Challenges of Obtaining Quality Process Analyzer Utility and Calibration Gases in Oman Over 30 years of working with process analyzers. Supporting major projects worldwide with various service providers before joining Shell. 15 years with Shell Oil Company, More than 3 years with Petroleum Development Oman – Head of QMI, 6 Years Qatar Shell GTL – Senior QMI & Metering Engineer, 6 Years with Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas – Senior QMI & Metering Engineer. 4 years with Measurementation – Service Manager( Analyser Systems Integrator). 2 years in Houston Office 2 years in Singapore office. 10 years with CAE Singapore – Service Manager- (Analysers Systems Integrator). Tetra Laval – Singapore – Supporting Emission Monitoring systems on their Sustained Shockwave Plasma Incinerators 3 Years Badger Construction – Analyser Engineer assigned to Rayon Refining Company – Thailand. Process Analytical Services (Analyser Systems Integrator) – 3 year Assignment to Marsden Point.

Komal Kumar Sr. QMI & Metering Engineer Oman LNG Presentation: Oman Lng Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Station - Sustainable Performance Komal Kumar is with Electronics & Telecommunications Engineers background and serving various Analyzer manufacturers units ,Oil & Gas Industry from last 35 years. His current assignment is with MS Oman LNG where he is leading Analyzer maintenance, projects, custody transfer systems & Environment monitoring systems.

Ajay Laghate AIT Technical Sales Consultant Schneider Electric – Applied Instrument Technologies Presentation: Best Practices for Process Analyzer Systems in Gasoline Blending Operation He worked with Process Analyzers for more than 20 years. With major experience in refining applications. He has executed more than 10 refinery fuels blending automation projects.

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 Ravi Sinha Regional Sales Manager Siemens Presentation: Analyzer System Manager – A Holistic Approach Towards Performance Optimization & Efficiency Ravi Sinha is an Electronics & Instrumentation Engineer with pre-sales & Sales experience in the field of Online gas analytical solutions. Over the last 10 years, he has worked on various assignments ranging from Bids & proposals, Sales (pre-sales & Front end), partner management, handling project coordination as well as organizing technical sessions for various customers/end users. Presently he is sales responsible for Siemens Analytical products & solutions business in UAE/Oman & Bahrain

Functional Safety Ali Al - Nahash Solutions Business Manager, Solution Business Unit Endress+Hauser II AG Presentation: Overfill Prevention Saves Lives Ali Al-Nahash has been with Endress+Hauser since 4 years and currently serves as Solution Business Manager in the organization. He has 14 years of experience in the field of tank gauging, inventory management solutions and terminal automation and specializes in offering customized solutions for these, fulfilling customer requirements. Ali has a Bachelor’s degree in Bio Medical engineering from Technical University of Bratislava.

Jan-Willem Noorloos Safety Consultant Honeywell Presentation: Why, When, and How to Certify Jan-Willem Noorloos, Safety Solutions Consultant, (TÜV FSEng 0132/05), originally from the Netherland currently based in Dubai. Working for Honeywell Middle East, as a Safety Solutions Consultant, for both Emergency ShutDown and Fire & Gas solutions in the oil & gas and petro-chemical industry from the Middle East region. I am with Honeywell now for 16 years. I started out as a project engineer, which was in the Centre of Excellence for safety in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands and then a safety systems trainer till 2007 and after that as Safety Solutions Consultant on safety solutions for the west European region. In 2012 I relocated to Honeywell Abu Dhabi to support the Middle East region. I am holding a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Automation from the “Hoge School of Utrecht”. Teeba Al Akhzami System Engineer Oman LNG Presentation: Improve the Reliability of SIL 2 Flame Scanner Type in HTF Furnace in Oman LNG Teeba AlAkhzami, system engineer in Oman LNG, Certified incorporated engineer. I have experience in Yokogawa DCS, Honeywell safeguarding system, CCC anti-surge, GE mark V, B& K condition monitoring. I worked as well in IPF.

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 Rajeshkumar Modi Lead SIF and FGS Engineer Oman LNG Presentation: Are We Confident About Installed ‘Fire & Gas Detection System’? Rajeshkumar Modi (C.Eng, CFSE(Exida) and TUV certified FSE) is an EC engineer and having more than 30 years of experience in design,engineering,maintenance-&-construction of ‘Instrumentation-&-control’ systems for Chemical,Petrochemical,Oil-&-Gas,Fertilizers plants/ projects -client and EPC based. Presently, working in Instrument(Engineering)-OLNG. He authored technical articles on SIS in technical publications-and-international symposium.

Palaniappan R Kannan Consultant PDO Presentation: Partial Stroke Testing: A User Perspective Palaniappan Kannan is basically a Control & Automation professional with 3 decades of experience. His experience ranges from Design, Project Management, Consulting, Commissioning, O&M and System Integration. He is an expert in Risk & Reliability and was a Certified Functional Safety Expert. He has chaired many SIF Workshops and classified more than 3000 Process Industry Safety Instrumented Functions during a span of last 10 years. Kannan has published papers, presented in conferences and developed software tools related to Functional Safety. He is a Senior Member of ISA and its SP84 Standards Committee.

Yusuf S. Kapadia Principal Technical Consultant Schneider Electric Systems ME Presentation: Does Digitzation have a Use-case in the Domain of Safety Compliance / Functional Safety Lifecycle Management ? Yusuf Kapadia, is a Technology Enthusiast with the Functional Safety & Process Safety Software Portfolio Division at Schneider Electric. Yusuf has over 14 years of experience into development / implementation / adoption of Technology Backends in the field of Safety Lifecycle Management and also Functional Safety Software Tools (best practices Design Tools (Adoption of Cloud/ business analytics in the field of Safety Engineering) & now Safety Integrity Compliance Tools (“Operate as Designed” tools) for Operate & maintain Phases of Process Safety Lifecycles. When he isn’t glued to his audience or a computer screen, he spends time working in the garden, and trying very hard not to be the worst Cricket player in the city. He is currently co-authoring various Whitepapers incl. “Process Safety Gap Analysis”, “Future of Risk Visualization” to name a few.

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Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Nick Garrett Marketing Manager FieldComm Group Presentation: Intelligent Device Integration Technology Including Cybersecurity for the New Industrial World Nick is a Marketing Project Manager for FieldComm Group. Nick started his Automation career as an Instrument Apprentice in the UK and went on to gain an B.Eng Honorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Degree in Control Engineering from Sheffield University. He previously worked for Beamex and Emerson in various Instrument Asset Management roles, including a 3 year assignment resident in the Middle East. Nick sits on various ISA committees, and is a co-chair of ISA108 Intelligent Device Management.

Gilles Loridon CEO Global Security Network Presentation: How to get Aboard the IIOT Bandwagon Securely Gilles Loridon is an InfoSec Consultant for more than 19 years and in IT for 24 years. He has been leading and implementing InfoSec projects for Security Agencies and Energy companies in EMEA. As prime consultant, Gilles has been conducting, InfoSec Audits, ICS ISMS implementations and Awareness Training.

Ahmed Khalifa Cybersecurity Technical Sales Manager Siemens Presentation: The Digitalization Challenge and Cybersecurity as the Key Enabler â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Energy and Oil & Gas Ahmed is an automation and industrial cybersecurity expert engineer with professional experience in different countries and in-depth experience with several Industrial Automation Systems, Process Control, Power Generation, Energy Management & Industrial Cybersecurity. His current role is Cybersecurity Technical Sales Manager for Siemens Middle East.

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Process Control & Optimization Medhat Zaghloul Regional Technology Manager Compressor Controls Corporation Presentation: Refrigeration Basics For the Oil & Gas Industries Medhat Zaghloul is CCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Regional Technology Manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, based in Abu Dhabi. Medhat joined CCC in 1993, after a 15-year career in instrumentation and controls in the petrochemical industry. His responsibilities include providing technical guidance, supporting Sales, and developing technical solutions and control applications for CCC. Medhat has over 38 years of controls experience in a variety of up-, mid- and down-stream Oil & Gas facilities. Medhat holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Cairo Institute of Technology, Egypt.

Mohammed Mustafa Ali Al Humeid Process Control and Optimisation Engineer PDO Presentation: Process Control Helps Plant Operators- A Case Study Mohammed Al Humeid works in PDO as a Process Control and Optimisation Engineer since October 2015. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Chemical and Process Engineering and Masters of Science in Applied Process Control.

Hilal Al Harthy (Co-Speaker ) Team leader of Process Control & Optimization PDO Presentation: Compressor Control in PDO Hilal is the section lead of the process control & optimization section in PDO, and also the discipline lead for the process control discipline. He has over 40 years experience in process control & automation.

Steve Niu (Co-Speaker ) Senior Process Control & Optimization Engineer PDO Presentation: Compressor Control in PDO Steve Niu has been in the process control for over 35 years, and has been involved in almost all aspects of process control, from academic research to industrial applications, from base layer control to advanced automation applications. Steve received his Bachelor degree in Industrial Automation from Tsinghua University in China, and his Ph.D. in process control from University of Alberta in Canada. His main interest has been in advanced data analysis, model-based control, and optimization.

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 Krishna Bidare Venkata Sr. Technical Sales Consultant Schneider Electric Presentation: Have Process Insights For Getting the Best Value in Automation Upgrade Projects Have obtained post graduate degrees in Industrial Electronics and also in management from Mysore University, India. Currently employed in Schneider Electric, Middle East and Gulf operations, based in Dubai, UAE. Having more than 30 years of experience in providing automation solutions for a host of industries covering Oil & Gas, Power, Petrochemicals. Works in the sales support and solution architecture wing of Schneider as Sr. Technical sales consultant. Vahid Rezagholizadeh Product Portfolio Manager Siemens Presentation: Operation & Maintenance Excellence, New Trends in Process Automation

ABB Transmission Distribu�on LLC. (Msc)D2 Vahid Rezagholizadeh studied in Electronics Engineer (Bsc)&and Control engineer and A1 Analy�cal Instrumenta�on & Plant DCS system Artificial Intelligent. He has started his carrier 20 years back with Power engineering through Siemens solutionMaintenance partner. VahidSystems joined Siemens (AIMS)couple years later in various and different industry segment. He has hands on experience in Implementation of C2 AIR PRODUCTS the ICSS system in couple of the Oil & Gas & Petrochemical Projects. Vahid is TUV functional D3 Baker Portfolio Hughes A GE Company Certified for the Safety system. He is Product Manager for Process Automation and Safety since 2008 over Lower gulf at Siemens LLC Company. E3 Compressor Controls Corpora�on

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 ABB Transmission & Distribution LLC. Contact Person: Louai Taweel , Mahesh Davda Address: Al Dar HQ Building, Al Raha Area Telephone Number: +971 2493 8000 Mobile Number: +971506627617, +971569938871 Website: www.abb.com Email: louai.taweel@ae.abb.com, mahesh.davda@ae.abb.com Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: D2 ABB is a pioneering technology leader that is writing the future of industrial digitalization. For more than four decades, we have been at the forefront, innovating digitally connected and enabled industrial Equipment and systems. Every day, we drive efficiency, safety and productivity in utilities, industry, transport and infrastructure globally. With a heritage spanning more than 130 years, ABB operates in more than 100 countries and employs around 135,000 people. ABB is operations are organized into four global divisions. One of the division is Industrial Automation offering products, systems and services designed to optimize the productivity of industrial processes. Solutions include turnkey engineering, control systems, measurement products like Analytical Instruments, life cycle services, outsourced maintenance and industry specific products.

Analytical Instrumentation & Maintenance Systems (AIMS) Contact Person: Zaheer Juddy Address: Office 103, Al Khyeli Building, Al Salam Street, Abu Dhabi, UAE Telephone Number: +971 5 4811218 Website: www.aimsgt.com Email: zaheerjuddy@aimsgt.com Sponsor Type: Bronze Sponsor Stand Number: A1 Analytical Instrumentation & Maintenance Systems (AIMS) is Middle Eastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading and highly professional comprehensive range of services. AIMS are founded to provide expertise service for Analytical Instrumentation. We optimize your system and ensure maximum efficiency with minimal downtime. The company is led by personnel with specialized experiences in Analytical Instrumentation and Systems Development supported by a team of service personnel in the field of related process automation. These services are widely spread in Analytical Instrumentation (Lab & Online), Air Quality Monitoring, Process Solutions, Sulphur Recovery Optimization and equipment related to Sulphur Recovery Units.

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 AIR PRODUCTS Contact Person: Salil Verma Address: United Industrial Gases An Air products Company, PO Box:11, Rusayl, PC:124, Sultanate of Oman Telephone Number: + 968 24446030, +968 24446031 Mobile Number: +968 91984037 Website: www.airproducts.com Email: vermas1@airproducts.com Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: C2 Air Products is a world-leading Industrial Gases company in operation for over 75 years. The company’s core industrial gases business provides atmospheric and process gases and related equipment to manufacturing markets, including refining and petrochemical, metals, electronics, and food and beverage. Air Products is also the world’s leading supplier of liquefied natural gas process technology and equipment. The company had operations in 50 countries and has a current market capitalization of approximately $30 billion. Air Products has had a presence in the Middle East for more than 50 years through a combination of whollyowned businesses and joint venture partnerships. A provider of liquefied natural gas cryogenic technology to Oman and the rest of the Gulf Co-operation Council, Air Products has built, owned, and operated several air separation units and hydrogen production plants throughout the Middle East region. It operates a helium and cylinder gas filling and distribution facility, as well as a specialty gases center in the Jebel Ali Free Zone - UAE. The company’s strategic joint venture partnerships include: Abdullah Hashim - KSA. Ajwaa Gases in Abu Dhabi UAE and Sohar – Sultanate of Oman, Jazan Gas Projects Company, Jazan - KSA and now United Industrial Gases Company (Erstwhile Muscat Gases Co SAOG - Industrial Division) at Muscat, Sohar & Nizwa – Sultanate of Oman.

Baker Hughes A GE Company Contact Person: Samer Najm Address: Baker Hughes, a GE Company. National Industrial Park, PO Box 567 Dubai -Dubai, UAE Mobile Number: +971528007137 Website: www.bhge.com Email: Samer.najm@bhge.com Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: D3 BHGE is the world’s first and only full stream company, delivering integrated oilfield products, services and digital solutions. We deploy minds and machines to enhance customer productivity, safety and environmental stewardship, while minimizing costs and risk at every step of the value chain. As control solutions, we deliver solutions that will enable our customers to generate more revenue and spend less on operations. With a focus on safety and industry compliance, we help them improve their asset reliability and flexibility. We differentiate with software, unique domain knowledge, and collaboration with our BHGE/GE partners.

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 Compressor Controls Corporation Contact Person: Jalal Albanna Address: Sky Tower, Suite # 2201, Al Reem Island, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. Telephone Number: +9712 446 9671 Ext 114 Website: www.cccglobal.com Email: jalbanna@cccglobal.com Sponsor Type: Bronze Sponsor Stand Number: E3 CCC (Compressor Controls Corporation) was founded in 1974 as the inventor of the world’s first digital Antisurge control system, and has been serving the process control industry for more than 40 years. Today there are more than 10,000 turbomachinery trains worldwide powered by CCC control solutions – helping customers achieve reliable and efficient plant operation every day. We employ the most knowledgeable and comprehensive team of turbomachinery professionals in the world and pride ourselves on our exemplary engineering services. CCC has an extensive library of proven turbomachinery control applications that can control any combination of driver, driven equipment and process found in your plant including Antisurge control for centrifugal and axial compressors, process capacity performance control, expander control, steam turbine and gas turbine control along with machine auxiliaries. Headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa – USA and with offices located across the globe, we have strategically positioned our specialists to provide an unparalleled level of expertise, consultation, and customer support close to our client base. Today the CCC brand goes beyond “Compressor Controls Corporation”. By combining the class-leading technologies of our 4 brands (CCC, United Controls Group (UCG), Trinity Integrated Systems, SETPOINT Vibration), CCC Group delivers you an integrated turbomachinery solution that will solve broader set of challenges. For more information, please visit our website at www.cccglobal.com

DELTA CONTROLS FZCO Contact Person: R. Jei Saravana Address: RA08YD03, Jebal Ali Free Zone, Dubai, U.A.E. Telephone Number: +971 4 8808 688 Mobile Number: +971 55 9257927 Website: www.deltacontrols.ae Email: Jei.saravana@deltacontrols.ae Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: F3 Delta Controls FZCO (ISO 9001:2008 certified) provides the application expertise and solution, project management and engineering services required to provide a total automation solution to fulfill the individual client’s requirements based on Open system Architecture and platform. As an independent system supplier, Delta Controls FZCO has the capability to select most suitable hardware, software and OEM equipment to achieve the optimum system solution whilst matching specific client requirements. We work closely with our customers and partners to achieve cost effective Automation Solutions in various Industry Sectors such as Oil & Gas, Water & Waste Water, Infrastructure, Utilities, Metals and Minerals. We enjoy the status of a PLATFORM INDEPENDENT INTEGRATION C OMPANY whereby Automation solutions are woven around the products offered by OEMs who are Industry Leaders for PLC-SCADA based applications, OEMs of the repute of Rockwell Automation, Siemens, HIMA, GE, Honeywell, TBOX, Kingfisher, Wonderware and Schneider Electric can be considered for engineering solutions. For field instrumentation such as Flow, Temperature, Pressure; we provide the solutions and Products from World leaders in this field such as E&H, SIEMENS, WIKA, ABB etc... We are proud to say that Delta Controls is committed to provide value added support to our customers. A cost effective technically compliant solution increases the probability of bagging the projects. We essentially share our knowledge of Process Automation in a collaborative manner coupled with our OEM partners to offer tailor-made solutions.

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 DELTA INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS & ENGINEERING LLC Contact Person: S. Gokul Ramanan Address: P.o. Box 288, P.C. 118, Al Harthy Complex, Sultanate Of Oman Telephone Number: +968 2469 9771 / +968 2469 9772 Mobile Number: +968 99416656 Website: www.asdelta.com Email: info@asdelta.com Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: A5 Delta International, part of Al Siraj Holdings, Oman is a strategic automation partner in GCC for GE Industrial Automation, Schneider Electric Industrial Automation, Siemens Industrial Automation and Wonderware SCADA solutions. We offer life cycle support for all Automation needs of customers. Our teams of Engineers, technicians are well trained to handle any technical challenges and have in house design expertise. Apart from industrial automation, we are also providing core technology to help our customer in oil sector to improve their yield by Advance process controls and Digital Oil field applications. Actively holding contract in PDO and Daleel Petroleum for the Digital oil field solutions. Our technical consultancy team works towards optimizing process controls for refineries, factories and manufacturing sectors. Easy World Trading LLC Contact Person: Mohsen Nejadi Address: No. 511, 5th Floor, Business Center Building, Dohat Al Adab St., Al Khuwair Telephone Number: +968 242 99 177 Mobile Number: +968 936 78 936 Website: www.eworldme.com Email: m.nejadi@eworldme.com Sponsor Type: Bronze Sponsor Stand Number: C3 Easy World Group Companies (eWorld) is a leading Value Added distributor and solution provider of data communication, Industrial automation and Telecommunication products in Middle East region. Established in 2002, eWorld is a specialized distributor of leading edge mission critical, enterprise data, voice, security, and industrial networking as well as telecommunications products and solutions across the Middle East. We offer industry leading Networking and automation products backed up by our professional and experienced team to our valuable customers. Endress+Hauser Contact Person: Prasanth Sreekumar Address: 7Wb-2100, Dafza, Dubai, Uae Telephone Number: +971 42535100 Mobile Number: +971 505573247 Website: www.mesc.endress.com Email: Prasanth.sreekumar@ae.endress.com Sponsor Type: Bronze Sponsor Stand Number: A2 Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. With dedicated sales centers and a strong network of partners, Endress+Hauser guarantees competent worldwide support. Our production centers in 12 countries meet customersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; needs and requirements quickly and effectively. Endress+Hauser provides sensors, instruments, systems and services for level, flow, pressure and temperature measurement as well as analytics and data acquisition. The company supports customers with automation engineering, logistics and IT services and solutions. Our products set standards in quality and technology. We work closely with the chemical, petrochemical, food & beverage, oil & gas, water & wastewater, power & energy, life science, primaries & metal, renewable energies, pulp & paper and shipbuilding industries. Endress+Hauser supports its customers in optimizing their processes in terms of reliability, safety, economic efficiency and environmental impact. Automation

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 FieldComm Group Contact Person: Mohammed Loch Address: P.O BOX 2086, PC:111 C.P.O Seeb Telephone Number: +971 50 3123510 Website: www.fieldcommgroup.org Email: mloch@dmsglobal.net Sponsor Type: Bronze Sponsor Stand Number: E2 FieldComm Group began operations on January 1, 2015 by combining all assets of the former Fieldbus Foundation and HART Communication Foundation. FieldComm Group is a global standards-based non-profit member organization consisting of leading process end users, manufacturers, universities and research organizations that work together to direct the development, incorporation and implementation of communication technologies for the process industries. Membership is open to anyone interested in the use of the technologies. In addition to HART and Foundation Fieldbus communication technologies, FieldComm Group is responsible for ongoing development of Field Device Integration (FDI) Technology. The establishment of the FieldComm Group allows developers of digital open standards to better collaborate on new and existing technologies and to increase market share of digital field devices in the total device market.

Global Computer Services. LLC Contact Person: George Thomas Address: PO Box 875, PC 130,Azaiba, Sultanate of Oman Telephone Number: +968 24394006, +968 24482351 Mobile Number: +968 92812290 Website: www.globcom-oman.com Email: george@globcom-oman.com Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: A6 Global Computer Services (GLOBCOM) an ISO 9001:2015 certified company and Microsoft certified partner is one of the largest and most experienced IT Managed Services provider in Oman with over 17 years of successful operations most of them meeting or exceeding the KPIs set by our customers. We have over 350 highly skilled and experienced support staff with 50% Omanization. The staffs are rigorously trained in both technical and soft skills. They have been exposed to most complex IT environments and highly demanding customers and on SLA based contracts with very aggressive KPIs. GLOBCOM has built competencies and is experienced in the provision of IT Services in the following areas: 1. IT Support and Managed Services 2. Application Support & Development. 3. Telecommunications & Infrastructure Support and Implementations. 4. Consultancy & Projects

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 Global Security Network (GSN) Contact Person: Roula Khabbaz Address: P.O. Box 41301, Abu Dhabi, UAE Telephone Number: 00 97126674782 Mobile Number: 00 971505362613 Website: www.gsn.ae Email: roula@gsn.ae Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: B3 Global Security Network (GSN) is a UAE based, French-owned Company, with more than 18 years of experience in delivering high-end IT Security projects in Middle East. GSN on delivering specialized IT Security solutions such as FoxIt DataDiode and Sentryo ICS monitoring solution to customers like Government High Security, Military, Law Enforcement and Critical National Infrastructure as well as Oil and Gas Companies. GSN has acquired extensive in designing, integrating and implementing turn-key cyber security solutions in very challenging environments with critical requirements in term of availability and security. As such GSN has achieved the status of being a â&#x20AC;&#x153;trustedâ&#x20AC;? security vendor for these organizations. GSN has also a boutique practice in Cyber Security services. We offer Cyber Security Risk Management services such as Audit, Gap Analysis, Awareness Program, Pen Test, Framework and policies development. We are the first company in Middle East to have implemented a Cyber Security Risk Management Framework compliant with ISO/ IEC 27001, ISA/IEC 62443 (ex ISA99) and UAE NESA.

HAIMO TECHNOLOGIES CO & LLC Contact Person: Sameer Ul Islam Address: P.O BOX 2086, PC:111 C.P.O Seeb Telephone Number: 24503828, 24503866 Mobile Number: 99882793 Website: www.haimotech.com Email: sameer@haimotech.com, keith.lobo@haimotech.com Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: D4 Haimo Technologies Group Corp. was established in 1994, with the goal of providing custom built, technically advanced and cost effective multiphase metering to the oil and gas industry. In 2010, Haimo went public in China, listed on the Shenzhen GEM stock exchange with ticker symbol: Haimo Technologies (stock code 300084). Haimo offices and group companies are now established across China, the Middle East, Africa as also North and South America. Haimo Technology is a customer driven initiative that offers Integrated Petroleum Engineering Solutions utilizing the multiphase metering data and all available surface & subsurface data to provide the verified high quality product data, maximize production, and minimize cost for optimum value of their assets. IPOS teams include geology & geophysics specialists, reservoir engineers, drilling and completion experts and production engineers. Haimo is accredited to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001 as per the IMS quality system for QA/ QC/ HSE; with various qualifications, including ASME U Stamp, API-6A, API-7K, API-16C, ATEX, CNEX & IEC Certificates.

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 HIMA MIDDLE EAST OMAN Contact Person: Manish Telange, General Manager Sales & Operations Address: HIMA Middle East LLC, P.O.B. 889, PC 100 Muscat, Sultanate of Oman Telephone Number: +968 24636765 Mobile Number: +968 92620789 Website: www.hima.ae Email: m.telange@hima.com Sponsor Type: Bronze Sponsor Stand Number: C1 HIMA, Germany, is the world’s leading independent designer of automated safety solutions used in the process industry. The company has more than 100 years history and still a family owned business. HIMA develops solutions for almost every safety-critical application: in process automation, for the rail sector and for logistics and machine safety. HIMA Middle East LLC, Oman is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company, was established in 2010 as service support office for serving prestigious clients like PDO, ORPIC, OGC etc. in Oman. The range of products & services includes sales & distribution of modules and complete systems, application engineering, project management and engineering, start up, training, commissioning support, after sales service as well as functional safety consultancy. We have a dedicated team of experienced TÜV Certified FS engineers and professionals who have successfully completed many prestigious and significant safety automation related engineering projects in Oman as well as the entire Middle East region. We are focused to provide our customers with high-quality and competitive products and services, within agreed time to ensure that customer gets the maximum benefit provided by an ideal balance of safety, availability and cost-effectiveness.

Honeywell & Co. Oman LLC Contact Person: Nada Al Balushi Address: Qurum Oasis,Bldg No 112,Block No 218,4th Floor Street No 103,P.O.Box482,PC 116 Mina Al Fahal,Sultanate of Oman Telephone Number: 968 24589 Mobile Number: 968 99312585 Website: www.honeywell.com Email: nada.albalushi@honeywell.com Sponsor Type: Silver Sponsor Stand Number: E1 Honeywell invents and manufactures technologies that address some of the world’s most critical challenges around energy, safety, security, productivity and global urbanization. We are uniquely positioned to blend physical products with software to support connected systems that improve homes, buildings, factories, utilities, vehicles and aircraft, and that enable a safer, more comfortable and more productive world. Our solutions enhance the quality of life of people around the globe and create new markets and even new industries. Today, nearly half of our revenue is linked to energy efficient products, and a growing portion supports clean air and clean water to promote good and safe living - especially in parts of the world where the need is greatest. We are committed to enabling a better quality of life and a cleaner, more sustainable environment for future generations. More than half of our engineers are focused on software and 100% of our global software divisions are compatible with Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®) Maturity Level 5, which enables continuous improvement and innovation for products that are intuitive, reliable, and meet customer needs. As a Fortune 100 company with $39.3 Billion in sales in 2016, Honeywell has established a track record of strong financial performance over time. We routinely set and achieve challenging five-year financial targets that distinguish us from our peers.

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 Kelton Engineering Limited Contact Person: Donald Angus – Middle East Business Manager Address: The Mackenzie Building, 168 Skene Street, Aberdeen, AB10 1PE, Scotland, UK Telephone Number: +44 1224 630000 Mobile Number: +44 7584414127, +968 9799 7713 Website: www.kelton.co.uk Email: sales@kelton.co.uk Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: B2

Delivering Measurement Excellence

Fully accredited, KELTON® is the leading independent measurement consultancy and software developer for the oil and gas industry. For well over two decades, KELTON® has helped many international and national operators to ensure their full compliance with industry regulations. Whether clients require inspection, auditing or certification as part of System Compliance, uncertainty calculations for System Assurance or System Support – in KELTON® they find a partner they can trust. Services include: o System Compliance o Inspection o Audit o Certification o System Assurance o Design uncertainty o Modelling uncertainty o System uncertainty

o System Support o Manual/guidelines o Procedure generation o Educational o Specialist Measurement Software o Desktop applications o Database applications o Pipeline applications

KELTON® encompasses ISO/EN 9001 & 14001, BS/OHSAS 1800 and UKAS type ‘C’ Accreditation, is Microsoft Certified and is recognised as an Investor in People. Support is available from three strategic locations; UK, Qatar and Abu Dhabi. The KELTON® Partner in Oman is Pipeline Supply Company (PSC).

Middle East Scientific Equipment Corporation LLC Contact Person: Vijay Sharma Address: PO Box 1848, PC 130, Al Azaiba, Sultanate of Oman Telephone Number: + 968 24228757 Mobile Number: + 968 99377309 Website: www.mescientific.com Email: vijay.sharma@mescientific.com Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: F2 Middle East Scientific Equipment Corporation LLC (MESEC LLC), a leading sales and service provider of Industrial and Laboratory Equipment in Sultanate of Oman, cater to its client’s need with highly technological and engineering skills. We have qualified and experienced staff available for sales and after-sales services. Our extensive range of products include – Ambient Air & Source Emission Monitoring System; Process Analyzers, Density Analyzers and Nuclear Level Gauges (for Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Power and Steel Industry); Complete Laboratory Solutions (Equipment, Lab Furniture, Chemical, Glassware & Consumables); Noise and Radiation Monitoring Equipment; Standard Reference Material; Gas Distribution and Gas Detection Systems. MESECLLC, with continuous growth and expansion in its client network, is committed to provide value added solutions for specialized requirements of its customers

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 Metrohm Middle East Contact Person: Viswanath.V / Anson Jaison Address: B2-21, SAIF Zone, PO Box 120747, Sharjah, U.A.E Telephone Number: +971 6 557 5991 Mobile Number: +971505003543 Website: www.metrohm.ae Email: info@metrohm.ae Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: D1 Metrohm is a worldwide leading manufacturer of precision instruments for chemical analysis in the laboratory and online Process equipment. In the field of electrochemical ion analysis we have been the unchallenged world number one for many years. Our dedicated teams in Technical Marketing, Application and Service Support ensure that customers maximize the utility of their instruments with enhanced support. With a Regional support facility - Metrohm Middle East based in UAE, we extend valuable and timely support for our customers and distributors in Middle East and North Africa region. Meet us at our booth to know more about what we offer. Pepperl+Fuchs (M.E.) FZE Contact Person: Bennet Joseph Address: PO Box 61398 Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai,UAE Telephone Number: +971-4-8838378 - 204 Mobile Number: +971 506290895 Website: http://www.pepperl-fuchs.com Email: bjoseph@ae.pepperl-fuchs.com Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: E5 PEPPERL+FUCHS is known by customers around the world as a pioneer and an innovator in Foundation Fieldbus physical layer, intrinsic safety barriers, electrical explosion protection box solutions & Sensor technology. PEPPERL+FUCHS has recently taken over ecom instruments GmbH, the world market leader for intrinsically safe mobile computing devices (4G LTE); Smart Phone device, Tablets, PDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s & Communication devices (4G LTE); Smart Phone & Mobile phones. With a passion for automation and groundbreaking technology, we are committed to working in partnership with you, now and in the future. ROCKWELL AUTOMATION Contact Person: Rishit Hemani / Neil Quadros Address: 18th Floor, Al Wahda Commercial City Tower 1 Sheikh Hazza Bin Zayed The First Street PO Box 45235, Abu Dhabi, UAE Telephone Number: +971 2 694 8100 Website: http://www.rockwellautomation.com/en_MDE/overview.page Email: rhemani@ra.rockwell.com nquadros@ra.rockwell.com Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: A3 Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information, makes its customers more productive and the world more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs over 22,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries. A more productive and sustainable world is a world with a higher standard of living and quality of life for everyone. At Rockwell Automation, our resources are squarely focused on turning this aspiration into a reality. Through the power of industrial automation technology, we develop innovative solutions that help our customers achieve Smart, Safe, Sustainable operations in a wide range of industries throughout the world. To achieve success, Rockwell Automation has long recognized the importance of connecting independent automation systems in manufacturing environments. In fact, our vision of The Connected Enterprise has guided the development of our Integrated Control and Information Technology for decades. Now, with the convergence of plant-floor Operations Technology (OT) and business-level Information Technology (IT), the vision of The Connected Enterprise has become a reality. 32 Automation

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 Schneider Electric Contact Person: Abdelilah Amalou Address: Knowledge Oasis Muscat (KOM), Building No 4, Office 0401-Z 210, First Floor, P.O. Box 80, P.C. 101, Muscat, Oman Telephone Number: +968 2417 0081 Mobile Number: +968-9817 5086 Website: www.schneider-electric.com Email: abdelilah.amalou@schneider-electric.com Sponsor Type: Silver Sponsor Stand Number: B1 Schneider Electric is the global specialist in energy management and automation. Our 160,000+ employees serve customers in over 100 countries, helping them to manage their energy and process in ways that are safe, reliable, efficient and sustainable. From the simplest of switches to complex operational systems, our technology, software and services improve the way our customers manage and automate their operations.

Siemens Contact Person: Jeanne-Marlen Prell Address: Unit No. B-05, Masdar City, P.O.Box 47015, Abu Dhabi, UAE Telephone Number: +971 2 616 5100 Website: www.siemens.ae Email: communications.ae@siemens.com Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: A4 Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality for more than 165 years. The company is active in more than 200 countries, focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of efficient power generation and power transmission solutions and a pioneer in infrastructure solutions as well as automation, drive and software solutions for industry. The company is also a leading provider of medical imaging equipment – such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging systems – and a leader in laboratory diagnostics as well as clinical IT. In fiscal 2016, which ended on September 30, 2016, Siemens generated revenue of €79.6 billion and net income of €5.6 billion. At the end of September 2016, the company had around 351,000 employees worldwide.

VEGA Technique Contact Person: Gurvinder Singh Address: 104 Al Khaimah Building, Deira Dubai UAE Mobile Number: +4 294 7552 Website: www.vega.com Email: Gurvinder.singh@vega.com Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: E6 VEGA is a German manufacturer with decades of experience in measuring instruments intended for a wide range of industries. Our instrumentation solutions measure level, point level, pressure, and density in tanks, pipes, and containers with exceptional accuracy. VEGA Technique (Dubai Branch) is one of the 19 subsidiaries worldwide catering to more than 80 countries. We have all the essential certificates and approvals for worldwide applications. With its sustainable goal, VEGA continues to develop innovative and trend-setting products that offers maximum safety and reliability.

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ISA OMAN SECTION EVENT 2018 Waleed Associates LLC Contact Person: Yusuf Ibrahim Address: PO Box 437 Muscat PC 100 Telephone Number : 24737428 Mobile Number: 95502296 Website: www.omzest.com/html.wa Email: sales-wass@omzest.com Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: F1 Waleed Associates LLC., is part of OMZEST Group. We are certified solution partners for Siemens - Automation & Drives Systems and authorized distributors of products & services for Siemens. We have ISO 9001- 2015 certified Systems Integration Centre in Muscat, approved by PDO for local assembly of VFD panels. Our 2nd factory at Rusayl specializes in assembly of Intelligent MCC’s, Switchgear & Power Distribution Boards, under the name Waljat Modern Projects Company. Our Automation & Drives Department undertakes following 3 main activities: SYSTEMS INTEGRATION Design, engineering, assembly, commissioning and site services for: Industrial Automation Systems - PLC’s, SCADA, DCS, Telemetry, Variable Frequency Drive Systems, Field Instrumentation – Pressure, Flow, Level, Temperature, Low Voltage Control Panels & Switchboards, Final Distribution Boards, Liquid & Gas Analyzers, Gas Chromatographs SITE SERVICES Locally available team of engineers for: Commissioning, Troubleshooting, AMCs, Supervision of installation, Customer Training, Retrofit Solutions SUPPLY OF PRODUCTS SIEMENS: Programmable Logic Controllers, SCADA, DCS, Field Instrumentation, Analyzers , Motors , Variable Frequency Drives, LV Control Gear , LV Switchgear HAWKE Cable Glands & Junction Boxes, CHALMIT Hazardous Area & Industrial Light Fittings, FLENDER Gear Boxes & Couplings, MOCOTECH MV Soft Starters. We also deal in : Harmonic filters – passive & active, power factor correction solutions & power quality analysis, Pumps & Valves.

Yokogawa Contact Person: Jean- Raphael Brousseau Address: Bldg 1/232, Plot 785, Complex 252, Ghala Heights District, P.O. Box 2667 Muscat, Sultanate of Oman Telephone Number: (+968) 24 230 402 Mobile Number: (+968) 00968 92079901 Website: www.yokogawa.com/bh Email: jeanraphael.brousseau@bh.yokogawa.com Sponsor Type: Exhibitor Stand Number: E4 Yokogawa Middle East & Africa B.S.C. (c) (YMA), is wholly owned subsidiary of Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Japan. Yokogawa’s comprehensive solutions range from sensors (such as pressure transmitters, flow meters and analyzers) and network solution products, to control and safety systems. This includes the software for advanced control that optimizes productivity; and services that minimize plant lifecycle costs. Yokogawa Middle East & Africa (YMA) has its regional headquarters in Bahrain. We offer Process Automation Solutions locally with engineering and commissioning projects. Further we contribute to Customers’ optimum plant operation and maintenance by providing committed after-sales support through training and service on a 24/7 basis.

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Functional Functional Safety Safety AIR PRODUCTS AIR PRODUCTS C2 BakerBaker Hughes Hughes A GEACompany GE Company D3 F3 DELTA DELTA CONTROLS CONTROLS FZCOFZCO DELTA DELTA INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS PROJECTS & & A5 ENGINEERING ENGINEERING LLC LLC Endress+Hauser Endress+Hauser A2 A6 Global Global Computer Computer Services. Services. LLC LLC C1 HIMAHIMA MIDDLE MIDDLE EASTEAST OMAN OMAN E1 Honeywell Honeywell & Co.&Oman Co. Oman LLC LLC E5 Pepperl+Fuchs Pepperl+Fuchs (M.E.) (M.E.) FZE FZE B1 Schneider Schneider Electric Electric E6 VEGAVEGA Technique Technique E4 Yokogawa Yokogawa A3 ROCKWELL ROCKWELL AUTOMATION AUTOMATION A4 Siemens Siemens

C2 D3 F3 A5 A2 A6 C1 E1 E5 B1 E6 E4 A3 A4

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Endress+Hauser Endress+Hauser Global Global Computer Computer Services. Services. LLC LLC HAIMO HAIMO TECHNOLOGIES TECHNOLOGIES CO &CO LLC& LLC HIMAHIMA MIDDLE MIDDLE EASTEAST OMAN OMAN Honeywell Honeywell & Co.&Oman Co. Oman LLC LLC Kelton Kelton Engineering Engineering Limited Limited Middle Middle East East Scien�ﬁc Scien�ﬁc Equipment Equipment Corpora�on Corpora�on LLC LLC Metrohm Metrohm Middle Middle East East Schneider Schneider Electric Electric VEGAVEGA Technique Technique WALEED WALEED ASSOCIATES ASSOCIATES LLC LLC Yokogawa Yokogawa

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#ISAUAE 16th - 17th May

St.Regis Abu Dhabi, Nation Tower, Corniche - UAE

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2nd ISA UAE CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION POST SHOW REPORT

Following the success of the 1st ISA UAE Event in 2016, the 2nd ISA UAE Conference and Exhibition 2017 aimed to provide an even larger platform for the Automation Industry in the UAE and the region to connect, interact and grow. The two-day Conference and Exhibition took place on the 16th and 17th of May, 2017 at the St.Regis Abu Dhabi.

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KEYNOTE SPEECHES The Conference opened with the Keynote speeches by dignitaries.

“These goals need to be achieved in the most

economical and sustainable way while ensuring safety and asset integrity. There is no better enable for this than digital oil field and automation.

”

“This is the beauty of ISA, we are vendor neutral, we are end user neutral. We just want to bring all of you together for the benefit of the industry.

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“ISA

is first and foremost a society made of Engineers with a focus on automation. Here the emphasis should not only be on technology and products but rather on the engineers themselves who represent the heart and minds of the society.

Qasem Musallam Al Kayoumi Manager Technology E&P Directorate ADNOC

Mohammed Loch President & CEO of DMS Global, Director Industry Development International Society of Automation (ISA)

Maurice Sakr CEO & Partner Autochim Systems

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“

What is most important for each and every one of you in this room is the profession. The automation profession being recognized as a profession and acting as profession together. As ISA we are committed to that.

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Timothy Feldman Director Global Business Development International Society of Automation (ISA)

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THE EVENT IN NUMBERS

750

EXHIBITION VISITORS

SPONSORS

EXHIBITORS

SPEAKERS

2016

150

2017

300

2018

400

*expected projections

The participating companies represented were mainly vendors.

VENDORS 7 18 D USER N E S 5

61% 39%

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AWARDS CEREMONY & SYMPOSIUM PICTURES Following the Keynote speeches, the event sponsors and organizers were awarded. Award given to : Gold Sponsors, Bronze Sponsors

Gold Sponsor

Bronze Sponsor

Yogesh Madnani, LBU Manager, ABB

Neil Ayre, General Manager, Advanced CAE Randy Hauer, Product Manager, Ametek Process Instruments Zaheer Juddy, Managing Director, AIMS

Stefanie Koch, Senior Product Manager, BARTEC BENKE

Anne Joseph, CEO, Chemtrols Jens Winkelmann, Managing Director, Endress+Hauser Arnaldo Barrucci, Pre Sales Manager, Schneider Electric Manoj Kumar, Director - Sales & MarketingÂ , Teledyne Advanced Monitoring Solutions

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SYMPOSIUM The Symposium was inaugurated by Abdul Nasser Al Mughairbi ,Senior Advisor (ADNOC Executive Office),ADNOC, President ISA UAE

20 regional and international companies exhibited at the event.

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SPEAKERS AND TECHNICAL PROGRAM The 2-day Symposium covered the following main topics: Best Practices for Analytical Systems Emission Monitoring and Reporting Innovation in Analytical Techniques Maintenance Challenges for Analytical Equipment Keynote Speakers

Mohammed Loch President & CEO - DMS Global Director Industry DevelopmentInternational Society of Automation (ISA)

Abdul Nasser Al Mughairbi Senior Advisor (ADNOC Executive Office) ADNOC ISA UAE President

Randy Hauer Product Manager Ametek Process Instruments Past Director, ISA Analysis Division

Session 1: Best Practices for Analytical Systems Track Chairman

Shafee Shahjahan Sr QMI Engineer Al Hosn Gas

Speakers

Saqib Sajjad

Energy Efficiency Section Head GASCO

Mahesh Davda

Service Manager Gulf ABB Process Automation

Sriram Anantha Narayanan

Integration of a Practices in Laboratory & Online Analysis and its impact Process Gas Chromatograph Controller with the on Energy Performance Analytical Oven of Gas Sweetening Units (Author Tracy Dye)

Ajay Laghate

Vice President Yokogawa Middle East & Africa

AIT Technical Sales Consultant Schneider Electric – Applied Instrument Technologies

Analyzer selection, Interference removal and Sampling techniques

Best Practices for Analytical Systems in Gasoline Blending Operation

Session 2 : Best Practices for Analytical Systems Track Chairman

Shafee Shahjahan Sr QMI Engineer Al Hosn Gas

Speakers

Shine Scariah

Co-Speaker

Senior Instrument & Control Engineer GASCO

A. Valasubramanian

GASCO Experience with different H2S Analyzer technologies and future expectations

Ramzi Hammad

Neil Ayre

Frank Zorn

Sales Manager – Middle East Xylem Inc

General Manager Advanced CAE (ME)

International Sales Manager Lar Process Analyzers AG

Advanced Wastewater Online Monitoring and Control

Installation and Operation of Online Analytical Equipment in the Middle Eastern region.

Fast and reliable on-line analysis of oils inwater by carbon detection – costeffective monitoring of water quality in the petrochemical sector (Author Samuel Bakheet )

Senior Instrument and Control Engineer GASCO

Maintenance Challenges for Analytical Equipment Track Chairman

Speakers

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Shine Scariah

Co-Speaker

Senior Instrument & Control Engineer GASCO

A. Valasubramanian

GASCO Experience with different H2S Analyzer technologies and future expectations

Ramzi Hammad

Neil Ayre

Frank Zorn

Sales Manager – Middle East Xylem Inc

General Manager Advanced CAE (ME)

International Sales Manager Lar Process Analyzers AG

Advanced Wastewater Online Monitoring and Control

Installation and Operation of Online Analytical Equipment in the Middle Eastern region.

Fast and reliable on-line analysis of oils inwater by carbon detection – costeffective monitoring of water quality in the petrochemical sector (Author Samuel Bakheet )

Senior Instrument and Control Engineer GASCO

Maintenance Challenges for Analytical Equipment Track Chairman

Mohammad Asam Choudhry Sr. Analyzer Engineer Borouge

Speakers

John Benjamin Suresh

Co-Speaker

General Manager AIMS

Athar Waseem

The Seven mistakes of Analyzer Maintenance Contracts

Manager AIMS

Shafee Shahjahan

Andrew (Sam) Nolan

Co-Speaker

Sr QMI Engineer Al Hosn Gas

Head of Quality Measurement Instrumentation (QMI) PDO

Dawood Abdullah Al Sulaimani

Analytical Troubleshooting Techniques

Maintenance Challenges in today's economic oil climate

QMI Engineer PDO

Andreas Udvardi-Lakos

Head of Analytical Products & Solutions Siemens Enhanced analytical Reliability and simplified Maintenance in Process Gas Chromatography

Session 1 : Innovation in Analytical Techniques Track Chairman

Saeed Ahmed Al Shehhi

Senior Instrument Engineer, IC&EE Dept. ADGAS

Speakers

Dr. Peter van Vuuren

Mahesh Davda

Process Raman Gas in Ammonia Production and Refining

Right On The Money, Right On the Pipe! – Downstream Process Control Applications of a Unique At-line Process Chromatograph (Author Steve Lakey )

Director of OptografTM Service Manager Gulf Business Development ABB Process Automation SpectraSensors, An Endress+Hauser Company

Ravi Sinha

Michael B. Simpson

Priteshkumar Patel

Regional Sales Manager Siemens

O&G Industry Manager ABB Inc.

Maintenance Engineer (Inst & Control) ADCO

AMADAS – the Value of Extended Data to Support Analytical Performance and Reliability (Author Andreas Udvardi )

Measurments of Trace gases for Industrial Process Monitoring and Control (author Douglas S. Baer)

Improving Quality & Accuracy of Gas Well Testing by in-situ Water Analyzer.

Co-author: Edward Orr

Session 2 : Innovation in Analytical Techniques Track Chairman

N.V. Kulkarni

Team Leader Instrumentation & Control ZADCO

Speakers

Stefanie Koch

Senior Product Manager Analyzer BARTEC BENKE

Michael B. Simpson

O&G Industry Manager ABB Inc.

Ralf Bünder

Manager Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH + Co. KGm

Naphtha Steam Cracking (NSC) Modern measurement New Physical Property Unit Optimization: The Use of technology with digital Analyzer rapiDist-4 for fast online control Robust On-line Analyzer Technology sensors for various for the Real-time Optimization industries of Steam-cracking Furnace Operation

Zaheer Juddy

Priteshkumar Patel

Managing Director AIMS

Maintenance Engineer (Inst & Control) ADCO

The Tunable Filter Spectrometer (TFS), an innovative Technology

Sample Conditional System (SCS) for GC to analyze the Gas Stream of 3-phase Fixed Test Separator (FTS)

Co authors: Edward Orr and Allan J. Rilling

Emission Monitoring & Reporting Track Chairman

A. Valasubramanian Senior Instrument and Control Engineer GASCO

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Speakers

Ayesha Al Hemeiri

Kunal Kothari

Environmental Engineer GASCO

Vice President Sales Teledyne Analytical Instruments

Challenges in Emission Reporting at GASCO

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Shayma Al Mazrouei

Randy Hauer

Product Manager Ametek Process Instruments

Co-Speaker

Abbad Cheik

John Williams

Zaheer Juddy

Past Director, ISA Analysis Division

Managing Director AIMS

Middle East & Africa Manager DURAG Group

Senior Environmental Engineer GASCO

Sulfur Recovery Hot-Wet CEMS, (Re)Designing for Process Condition You Won’t Find on the Data Sheet

Advantages and Limitations of Differential Pressure and Ultrasonic Stack Flow Monitoring

GHG Emission Reporting: Challenges in Accurate Emission Quantification in Middle East National OIl Companies

Instrumentation & Control ZADCO

Analyzer BARTEC BENKE

ABB Inc.

POST SHOW REPORTNaphtha Steam Cracking (NSC) New Physical Property Analyzer rapiDist-4 for fast online control

Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH + Co. KGm

Modern measurement Unit Optimization: The Use of technology with digital Robust On-line Analyzer Technology sensors for various for the Real-time Optimization industries of Steam-cracking Furnace Operation

AIMS

(Inst & Control) ADCO

The Tunable Filter Spectrometer (TFS), an innovative Technology

Sample Conditional System (SCS) for GC to analyze the Gas Stream of 3-phase Fixed Test Separator (FTS)

Co authors: Edward Orr and Allan J. Rilling

Emission Monitoring & Reporting Track Chairman

A. Valasubramanian Senior Instrument and Control Engineer GASCO

Speakers

Ayesha Al Hemeiri

Environmental Engineer GASCO Challenges in Emission Reporting at GASCO Co-authors: Shayma Al Mazrouei Debasish Bandopadhyay Ravish Agrawal

Kunal Kothari

Vice President Sales Teledyne Analytical Instruments CEMS – Monitoring & Reporting

Randy Hauer

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Sulfur Recovery Hot-Wet CEMS, (Re)Designing for Process Condition You Won’t Find on the Data Sheet

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Call for Technical Papers The International Society of Automation (ISA) United Arab Emirates Section is delighted to announce that the 2018 3rd ISA UAE Section Event with the theme of “Digital Transformation” will be held at Abu Dhabi, UAE on 17th – 18th April 2018. The conference features several technical sessions and workshops that are designed to cover innovative technologies and solutions to the pressing technical challenges of today. The 3rd ISA UAE event organizing committee is soliciting papers to be presented in the technical sessions under the technical sessions topics below. Abstract submission deadline is 21st Feb 2018. For full details of the event programme, submittal guidelines, and to submit an abstract, please visit the event website at www.isa-uae.org

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DIGITALIZATION

Major Industry Partners Collaborate to Advance FDI Technology As digitalization increases throughout industrial operations, there is the creation of a significant amount of additional data. Thus, more sophisticated strategies are needed to manage data from intelligent devices and other sources, determine what is relevant, and assure that relevant data is made available to the appropriate systems. Interoperability and data transparency on all levels are key factors in the acceptance of emerging technologies in the process industries. The following article describes how Field Device Integration (FDI) technology, through its full featured capabilities, backward compatibility and wide industry support, provides automation stakeholders with an open, future-proof standard for integration and a superior user experience.

Need for seamless integration In todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complex process automation systems, field instruments from many different manufacturers have to be integrated â&#x20AC;&#x201C; resulting in significant effort for installation, version management and device operation. The latest intelligent devices can also pose an information management problem, especially when there are devices on different networks with different underlying technologies for displaying and managing information. Responding to the need for open and standardized device integration, leading process industry foundations, including FieldComm Group, Profibus International, and the OPC Foundation, jointly developed the FDI standard. Their goal was to solve the problem of integrating field devices with the multitude of networks, operating systems and control systems commonly used in process plants. FDI helps bring previously inaccessible data into commonly reported and displayed information, so it can be used to add value for applications and businesses. The specification is based on the IEC 61804 - Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) standard for the description of devices. It takes account of the various tasks over the entire lifecycle for both simple and the most complex devices. The primary objective of FDI is to dramatically simplify software installation, configuration, maintenance, and management of field instruments and host systems. Modern field instruments often include a

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device information file that provides software access to the features and functions of the device, one or more user interface plug-ins that integrate with host system software to enhance the usability of the device with the host, numerous user manuals, installation instructions, and data sheets. FDI brings standardization to the packaging and distribution of all the software and tools necessary to integrate a device with a host system. All registered FDI devices are required to have an associated FDI Device Package, which is a collection of files including an Electronic Device Description (EDD)-based on IEC 61804-3, an optional user interface plug-in (UIP) based on WindowsÂŽ Presentation Foundation (WPF), and instrument documentation and technology-specific files. FDI not only supports FieldComm Group protocols such as HART, WirelessHART and FOUNDATION Fieldbus, but also Profibus, Profinet and ISA 100.11a. Through standalone communication servers, additional protocols like Modbus and EtherNet/IP are also integrated with the technology.

Preparing for digital transformation In the industrial automation sector, there are everincreasing demands to leverage process automation data from information systems, as well as utilize architectures for more open interfaces. Initiatives like the NAMUR Open Architecture, Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) all seek to break down proprietary architecture barriers between field devices and, ultimately, cloud-based computing platforms. They are revolutionizing the way users and machines interact, as well as the way machines engage with each other. Recognizing current trends in digital transformation, the architects of FDI partnered with the OPC Foundation to include several OPC specifications that define field device integration in the context of FDI technology. Their intention was to ensure that as systems evolve an open pathway to field device information is assured. This work holds significant value for automation end users, allowing them to take the data and information models for the applications and devices supported by FDI technology and leverage OPC-UA information modeling and corresponding services for complete application-to-device integration. FieldComm Group and OPC Foundation, as of Q4 2017, have formed an official working group around the OPC

DIGITALIZATION Unified Architecture (UA) to develop an OPC-UA FDI Device Information Model for process automation. The goal of the working group is to leverage the extensive experience of FieldComm Group with the HART and FOUNDATION Fieldbus communication protocols to standardize data, information, and methods for all process automation devices through FDI using OPC UA. The OPC UA base information model and companion Device Information (DI) specification will be extended to include the generic definition and information associated with process automation devices. This information model is at the core of the FDI standard. It seamlessly integrates with OPC-UA to enable further integration with platforms like the Microsoft Azure IoT hub. The OPC-UA FDI Device Information Model defines how the information of a field device – described by an Electronic Device Description (EDD) document – is mapped to OPC-UA Objects, Methods and Variables. The model is mainly based on OPC-UA for Devices specification; in fact, most of the OPC-UA for Devices model has been driven by FDI requirements. The FDI architecture brings field devices to the IIoT, with each device type represented by a Device Package. FDI specifies a Device Information Model and uses OPC-UA communication to enable other applications to access it. This model is the single access point for external applications. FDI also addresses cyber security with manufacturersigned packages that hosts validate to ensure they’re genuine and haven’t been altered. This reduces the maintenance costs and security implications.

Realizing the promise of IIoT Throughout the process industries, developments such as the IIoT will enable the transition from reactive to predictive maintenance, as well as the optimization of asset management strategies to improve operations and reduce costs. Their promise is full utilization of digitally available information from existing, installed field instruments to improve safety, operations, and reliability. Plant floor to executive office real-time access is key to delivering value to the enterprise. By including all tools, documents, and interfaces in a single device package, FDI improves system integration efficiency and allows easier access by Information Technology (IT) systems to Operational Technology (OT) information. Moreover, it unifies device drivers, configuration tools, diagnostics and documentation regardless of operating system with an independent and downloadable software package compatible with any FDI-registered host system.

62541-100), the client/server architecture of FDI technology provides all functions for modeling real devices as virtual objects for the IIoT. Manufacturers and other industrial firms deploying IIoT applications can connect to valuable information in intelligent field devices – regardless of protocol – by using FDI to integrate the information in a process control system, asset management tool or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system; visualize and evaluate the data; and then take action based on the information to prevent shutdowns, lower operating costs, reduce maintenance expenses, and become more predictive in how plants are run.

Looking to the future For industrial organizations of all sizes, utilization of digital intelligence empowered by the IIoT will create more capital investment. Higher field reliability will help ensure increased uptime, safer operations, and greater efficiency. Advanced automation technology will also raise productivity, manage assets over their entire lifecycle, and optimize experts’ knowledge to drive profitable business results. The future is sure to bring additional advancements in digital transformation. For example, the FieldComm Group-OPC Foundation Integration Working Group is currently enhancing the OPC-UA FDI Device Information Model specification to provide semantics for machine-readable information. When complete, this specification will allow cloud-based applications to process field device information without extra configuration. Thanks to FDI, automation suppliers and end users can look forward to applying a single integration technology that can translate the binary data delivered by any communication protocol into tangible information that can be displayed and used by systems at varying levels throughout the enterprise.

Conclusion The future is digital, and digital should be intuitive and easy to use. FDI is a versatile device integration technology that has been designed to meet current and future plant needs, which include investment protection, robustness, easy system administration, easy to use devices, interoperability, and simple migration.

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INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS CYBERSECURITY

IIoT Cybersecurity: A New Paradigm The Cyber Security of Operational Technologies, SCADA, DCS or ICS, is facing a new challenge threatening its very core concepts: Industrial Internet of Things, IIoT. IIoT is the new buzzword which vendors are using to push IT open technologies further into the Industrial realm. This is the same trick some of them used to replace proprietary technologies by COTS, commercial of the shell, products such as MS Windows, PC and TCP/ IP. Yes, they delivered cheaper, interoperable and more flexible solutions, but they introduced an all new world of threats and vulnerabilities. As usual, cyber security was an afterthought at best. Could a brave Cyber Security Specialist stand in front of the IIoT bandwagon and oppose this trend in the name of Cyber Security? No, if he wants to avoid being crushed and set aside, he should better jump on the bandwagon! So now we are in the IIoT wagon, could we recycle/ reuse (also a very fashionable trendâ&#x20AC;Ś) our previous security concepts? Since they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work today, they will probably not be up to the next challenge. If, in theory, the standards such as IEC/ISO 62443 are offering good solutions, in reality, the concept of zones and conduits are difficult to implement and the control at our disposal are grossly ineffective. Why? Because firewalls are used to control the conduits. They are more like Swiss cheese and less like an actual wall: they are full of holes. They are software running Operating Systems, both with bugs and vulnerabilities. Therefore, if you want to assure some kind of control on one conduit, let say the network connection between OT and IT, you actually need two firewalls of two different technologies/brands/countries. If you purchase two slices of Swiss cheese from two different shops, they will not have the same holes, so in the case of firewalls they will not share the same vulnerabilities and backdoors

I am a foodie, before I introduce the onion model of Defence in Depth. The other very important cyber security concept for OT is the Defence in Depth. As an onion has multiple layers of skin, your cyber security has layers upon layers of controls: if one layer fails to stop an attack it should be stop or delayed by the next one. But, unfortunately, none of the controls are 100% efficient: for example, none of the Antivirus will block 100% of the malwares, at best they block the ones we know about. So far, we established that the current cyber security models are not really up the task today , without even taking into consideration IIoT challenges. IIoT boils down to message producers and consumers. Some agents, such as a digital flow meter, will be only message producers. Others, more complex agents, will produce information, this information will be processed somewhere in the Cloud, and they will receive from the Cloud optimized parameters or setpoints. This immediately put in jeopardy the concept of zone & conduit because of session-less, connectionless messages going from the deepest to the highest layers of the network and vice-versa. How to move from this picture:

You will double the capex, greatly increase the opex because now your team needs to maintain, support and monitor two different kinds of firewall, but you will also increase the complexity of your operations. At this stage, I believe that I need to deny the fact that

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To this one?

One solution could be something we could call the IIoT Highway:

This could be an additive instead of disruptive approach: we could keep the Zone & Conduit infrastructure and superpose the IIoT infrastructure with its own controls. With proper controls in place, it would have no impact on safety or availability. I can hear the outcry of the most attentive readers of this article: there is not such thing as “proper controls”. Yes, today’s controls infrastructure is inadequate for Critical Infrastructure Operators, we need to think outside the box. We can’t afford anymore the somewhat secure air-gap or the very secure one-way communication. We need the most secure way to allow communications into and out of the IIoT highway. I believe there are two clear business cases: safety and non-safety systems. Safety systems shouldn’t be in the

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scope of the active optimization: their job is to keep the installation safe not linked to the performance of the process (excluding accidental/malicious trips). Therefore, they could send message into the highway but they shouldn’t receive any. Hence, one-way controls, such as DataDiodes, could and must be used to control the flow between the Safety Systems and the IIoT highway. The case of the non-safety systems is much more complex, they will subscribe and publish messages. Thus, the classical one-way control seems not applicable, but I would like to suggest the following architecture inspired by the classical governmental cross domain controls: two one-way controls in opposite direction. Again, the most acute security practitioners would object to this arguing that two opposite direction DataDiodes are no better than a firewall. Actually, this is not accurate. Yes two opposite direction Datadiodes are obviously less secure than a single Datadiode, but they do offer much more security than a firewall. Indeed, the two opposite direction Datadiodes offer a true protocol break: no single TCP/IP connection will go from one side to the other. Moreover, they will offer the opportunity of application level break as well. Because of the one-way characteristic of the Datadiode, the MQ-like protocols will have to be translate to one-way protocols, which could be combined with data-sanitization and transcoding to eliminate XML embedded malware. What we will lose in flexibility (any message formats are accepted), we will gain in stability and interoperability (common message format with strict enforcement of restrictive XSD). In conclusion, Cyber Security practitioners should jump in the IIoT bandwagon now and proactively seek new cyber security standards and new network architecture to augment the current ones not disrupting them. There is hope in creative application of current controls but, for once, let’s focus on cyber security before implementing IIoT solutions.

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OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Top Ten Business Challenges Addressed by Automation By Dick Hill and Larry Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien, ARC Advisory Group

Keywords Automation Technology, Obsolescence, Operational Excellence (OpX), Business Risk, Control System Migration Overview Manufacturers and other industrial organizations today face many different challenges. These include the often-obsolete automation systems controlling the production processes in their brownfield plants. While the threat of system-related production interruptions and increased maintenance costs typically associated with obsolete technology certainly pose a risk to the business, this often is still not enough to justify upgrading the automation. So how should industry go about justifying these costly and often disruptive technology upgrades? ARC Advisory Group believes that the answer is to focus on the potential benefits that modern automation can bring to a business. Based on numerous ARC engagements with our end user clients over the years, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to identify ten distinct areas in which automation technology could help an industrial organization meet its evolving business requirements and thus help justify upgrading the installed automation systems. While the threat of system-related production interruptions and increased maintenance costs typically associated with obsolete technology certainly pose a risk to the business, this often is still not enough to justify upgrading the automation. ARC believes that the best way to justify automation upgrades is to focus on the potential benefits that modern automation can bring to a business. The next wave of radical value increase will come from empowering and engaging people with knowledge and authority through better information and automation. 1. Achieving and Sustaining Exceptional Business Performance Through Operational Excellence Exceptional business performance for most manufacturers relates closely to achieving operational excellence (OpX). This requires continuous improvements. Automation can facilitate those improvements. The fundamental premise is that, unlike previous technology-focused incremental change, which derived its incremental value from cost 72 Automation

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reduction and efficiency improvements, the next wave of radical value increase will come from empowering and engaging people with knowledge and authority. Modern automation systems support the connectivity, information integration, decision support, and visualization capabilities needed to help more people make the correct decisions more often. Empowering people will require a change in how companies justify spending capital as well as how the resulting information is used. 2. Increasing the Reliability of Human, Process, and Equipment Physical Assets In the heavy process industries most plants must operate continuously, 24/7. In other process and batch industries, plants must be ready to perform when needed to capitalize on business opportunities. This makes reliability critical. Research performed by the Abnormal Situation Management (ASM) Consortium and others indicate that the three largest sources of unreliability are people, equipment, and process. Modern automation can help in each area.

Sources of Unscheduled Shutdowns and Slowdowns (Source: ASM Consortium)

People Reliability Research indicates that people are the largest cause of unreliability in process plants. This begins with designing and building activities, and continues throughout the operational life of the plant. It may be a surprise to many that people issues are larger than equipment issues. This is actually good news because automation can do a lot at a reasonable cost to improve people reliability. At the same time, automation can free people from manual tasks, enabling them to focus on more value-adding activities as knowledge workers. Equipment Reliability Research shows that equipment failure is the second major cause of unreliability in process plants. Equipment failure relates directly to both incident avoidance and maintenance issues, which are aggregated under equipment reliability. The latest

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE automation technology helps address both through improved human interfaces and decision support tools that help avoid abnormal operations and support for predictive maintenance solutions that help identify and thus avoid or at least mitigate the impact of many (if not all) equipment-related failures. The latest automation technology helps address both abnormal operations and equipment reliability through improved human interfaces and decision support tools that help avoid abnormal operations and support for predictive maintenance solutions that help identify and thus avoid or at least mitigate the impact of many (if not all) equipment-related failures. Process Reliability Process reliability is a function of variability in feedstocks, ambient conditions, inadequate utilities, etc. These tend to be independent variables outside the control of the process automation system. However, to a large extent, automation technology can insulate the plant from the consequences of unplanned shifts in these variables. Analyzers, sensors, and other field devices can measure these unplanned changes to allow the control system to compensate for changes in plant conditions. In the case of unmeasured disturbances, modeling and predictive analytics technologies can anticipate these disturbances and compensate for their consequences. 3. Reducing Complexity and Customization Process manufacturing can be complex. If the underlying automation technology is implemented without a strategy, the results can be extremely difficult and costly to manage. However, when new automation is viewed as part of the overall business solution (including associated information technology), it can help reduce the overall complexity. Automation users often find it challenging to convey common requirements internally within their respective organizations and externally to candidate suppliers. Making their IT/OT requirements understood more precisely is important to ensure the right supplier(s) and technologies are selected. Another issue that adds to unnecessary complexity is project-related customization. Approximately 75 percent of the engineering on a typical project is custom or one-off engineering. The latest generation of automation technology tends to be much more aware of both relevant industry and industry standards and new “value adding processes” that can reduce initial and long-term customization requirements to a significant degree. 4. Creating Proactive Culture to Capitalize on Opportunities Currently, most process plants are operated reactively,

rather than proactively. Anyone with a need to know should have visibility into their area of responsibility at any point in the production cycle under normal conditions. If the trajectory for their operation is not on target, they should have the opportunity and facility to make the adjustments to complete the production cycle on target. The proactive culture needs to allow the organization to capitalize on previously unforeseen opportunities and avoid or mitigate situations that can compromise performance or impose unplanned costs. Today’s IT/OT applications increasingly include analytics capabilities. As more analytics are deployed, at any point in the production cycle the operator should have the option to enter into a “what if” scenario to qualify a set of candidate parameters leading to improved business performance. This function should be independent of real-time operation. Predictive/prescriptive analytics should also be able to identify when abnormal conditions are developing that threaten to throw the unit into a critical condition leading to an incident. These tools should provide the operator with ample warning and suggested parameters to avoid the incident or mitigate the consequences. 5. Insulating Business from External Challenges The ultimate goal for plant operations is to meet the business objectives. This often requires insulating the plant operations from the impact of external variations. Unforeseen external variations that could influence plant operations include volatile feedstock prices, changes in energy costs, unforeseen product demand, or changes in product market price. For example, when the front end of the plant cannot accommodate unplanned changes in feedstock, the plant must compensate for these changes sequentially through every unit operation. This can wreak havoc if each sequential is not performed with precision. From a purely business perspective, the answer is for users to reduce fixed costs to a minimum (because they are a constant in the business performance equation) and minimize the incremental nature of variable costs in a way that there is a direct correlation (or possibly a less-than-direct correlation) to increased business demand. Automation facilitates these strategies. 6. Unifying Business and Production with a Common Business Plan Modern enterprises require that manufacturing and business activities be much more synchronized and coordinated than in the past. Previously, plant operations focused on production and efficiency targets and business systems were not presented a clear picture of where the plant operations stood in relation to business plans’ end-of-day roll-up reports. With a common focus for both manufacturing and business, coordinated support is a key requirement.

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OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE This coordination requires a clear understanding of how resources should be deployed and optimized. Modern automation supports this unification, while helping insulate operations from unauthorized intrusions. Modern enterprises require that manufacturing and business activities be much more synchronized and coordinated than in the past. 7. Meeting Health, Safety, and Environment Requirements The need to establish a “safety culture” should be foremost in the minds of everyone across all process industries, and especially those in the US subject to OSHA 1910 and/or have embraced the American Chemical Council Responsible Care or similar industry initiatives. Unfortunately, the need to cut costs often gets in the way (which, ironically, often results in far more costly consequences resulting from avoidable industrial incidents). Safe operation is as much a business challenge as it is a technical challenge. However, to a large degree, modern automation technology is both HSE-aware and incorporates mechanisms to support continuous improvements in this critical area. We have discussed reliability and performance challenges but we must view these within the context of an overall safety strategy. As has been shown repeatedly, it is more costly to have an unsafe business than to have a safe business of which you can be proud. 8. Protecting Operations from Cybersecurity Threats Numerous trends and practices related to automation systems and IT-OT convergence put critical infrastructure at increased risk from cyber-attacks; and most legacy automation technology was developed before cybersecurity was even a concern. Developing a strategy for cybersecurity is not enough by itself. Users must add appropriate layers of protection and use automation hardware, networks, and applications that incorporate secure-by-design principles. Today’s more open and interoperable automation systems and business processes introduce new cybersecurity vulnerabilities. At the same time, cyber-attack capabilities are also becoming more sophisticated, and the risk of attacks from terrorists and even nation states continues to increase. Automation technologies selected must be part of the solution to overall cybersecurity. The good news here is that modern automation technology is both “cyber-aware” and, increasingly, will feature “baked in” cybersecurity. Modern automation technology is both “cyber-aware” and, increasingly, will feature “baked in” cybersecurity.

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9. Providing and Sustaining a Skilled Workforce The Millennial Generation of workers now entering industry are “digital natives,” in that they grew up with digital devices and tend to be very comfortable with technology. However, do not expect this generation to be satisfied with their “father’s job.” Instead, they want to be knowledge workers with the opportunity to contribute directly to the business. These digital natives tend to have a higher level of native, multidimensional problem-solving ability than displayed by workers who did not grow up in the computer age. The best are not afraid to make decisions if they have the relevant information. Rather than just being responsible for blindly completing a set of manual tasks, they want to be engaged and in a position to demonstrate their economic contribution. These are the same people you will be competing against Silicon Valley and other attractive high-tech work locations to hire. Modern automation technology increasingly incorporates capabilities to help capture and transfer the knowledge of the retiring Baby Boomer generation of workers and includes concepts and technology to keep your staff engaged and your plant successful. 10. Synchronizing the Business ARC believes that process automation can deliver an extraordinary competitive advantage to process manufacturers. The effectiveness of a manufacturing company operating at the highest level for manufacturing is directly correlated to the operation being internally synchronized and supportive. Many of the most recent advancements in automation technology reflect this need for internal synchronization. Recommendations Faced with global business challenges, an aging automation system may seem like just another expense facing the corporation. However, upon closer examination, it should become apparent that the expense of upgrading or replacing the obsolete control system may actually pay for itself in the increased business benefits that the right modern automation system can bring. ARC has prepared a series of “Technology and Supplier Selection Guides” that you may find helpful for identifying the automation technologies and solutions that could best meet your specific business requirements and selecting the right supplier or suppliers. If you are experiencing decline in your automation performance or reliability, ARC recommends that you take immediate action to get your plant or plants performing up to their true potential. The best solutions for your plants and your businesses are now readily available; you just have to begin the process.

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PROCESS ANALYZERS

FUTURE OF ANALYZER TECHNOLOGY ZAHEER JUDDY INTERVIEW Managing Director - AIMS These services are widely spread in Analytical Instrumentation, Process Solutions, Sulphur Recovery Optimization and equipment related to Sulphur Recovery Units. Insight: And what are some of the main factors that you feel make AIMS unique from some of the other players in the sector? Zaheer: Service, Service, Service! Service is key to our success customer are looking for local service prompt solution within no time where I believe our company is unique. Our Passion and commitment make it. The company is led by Technical Experts which team with young dedicated staff We are well-known company for providing Analytical Solution for Sulfur Recovery Units for decades. Our principal is reputed multinational for having an expertise and proven technology in this area.

About: Analytical Instrumentation & Maintenance Systems (AIMS) is founded to provide expert service for Analytical Instrumentation. The company is led by personnel with specialized experiences in Analytical Instruments and System Development supported by a team of service personnel in the field of related process automation. These services are widely spread in Analytical Instrumentation, Process Solutions, Sulphur Recovery Optimization and equipment related to Sulphur Recovery Units. Insight: Good day from ISA, I take the pleasure of interviewing young and dynamic entrepreneur in the Middle East for exclusively Analytical Instrumentation. Zaheer: Thank You, Thank you for having me Insight: So starting off, Please give us brief overview of the company Zaheer: AIMS (Analytical Instrumentation & Maintenance Systems) is founded 10 years before mainly for analyzer service we started our journey with most difficult application Sulphur recovery unit tail gas analysis. The company is led by personnel with specialized experiences in Analytical Instruments and System Development supported by a team of service personnel in the field of related process automation.

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Moreover, we always venture out for new technologies like TFS, TDLAS, Vacuum UV, RAMAN Spectroscopy etc. As AIMS we take these technologies to the customer, test it on their sample/process and provide a complete solution to their analytical challenges with performance assurance. TFS and TDLAS are the game changers in the current market. With our technical experts, the value addition being made to customize the product is always key for which we are uniquely known. In the years to come, the Oil & Gas Industry will have a lot of uncertainties, but technology can help us to become more independent of these uncertainties Being in UAE, we always promote MADE IN UAE. We completely fabricate our design with our In-house capabilities. Likewise, our workshop and testing facility in Oman is also in operation and we have started doing integration and testing of our Omani projects in a facility in Muscat. This shows our commitment to In-Country Value (ICV) campaign by Sultanate of Oman. Another important factor which makes us unique is our Service Abilities. Our Technical Experts always analyze the root cause of the technical issue.

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Insight: What is your approach in promoting new technologies, being a regional company, it’s always challenging for vendor/technology registration in bigger groups like PDO, OGC, OXY, OLNG, SABIC, ARAMCO, QP, QCHEM, KNPC ADNOC etc. Zaheer: Yeah quite a challenging question. We believed in Technology and customer believed in us. So we always ensure the Technology makes his sound. We always believed in Promoting new technologies. To identify the right application and engineer the prerequisites of client and promote. The evaluation was always our need for customers.

significant growth and upside assuming we achieve what we need to achieve in all our endeavors.

Finally, TECHNOLOGY SURROUNDS US….. AWAKE!...

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FEATURED PROJECT

PROJECT NAME: DRPIC - Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Complex - Duqm Refinery - Offsites and Utilities Name of Client

DRPIC - Duqm Refinery and Petrochemical Industries Company

Estimated Budget ($ US)

2,200,000,000

Revised Budget ($ US)

2,200,000,000

Facility Type

Refinery

Sector

Oil, Refining

Status

Engineering & Procurement

Location

Duqm

Project Start

Q3-2006

End Date

Q4-2019

FEED

Amec Foster Wheeler

PMC

Technip, Amec Foster Wheeler

Main Contractor Contract Value ($ US)

Samsung Engineering Company, Petrofac 2,000,000,000

Award Date

Q3-2017

Project Background The 230,000 barrels per day capacity refinery is part of the government's plans to develop the Duqm area, in which a port and associated facilities are being built. 65% of crude feedstock for the refinery will be from Kuwait, while the remaining 35% will be supplied by the Sultanate. Natural gas for the utilities necessary to operate the plant will be supplied via a pipeline that Oman Gas Company (OGC) is laying from Saih Nihayda in central Oman to the Duqm SEZ. Central Utilities Company (CUC) will develop and operate Seawater Intake facilities associated to the refinery. Duqm Petroleum Terminal Company (DPTC) will build a Liquid Jetty to handle ships bringing in crude for processing, and carrying refined fuels and petrochemicals for export markets.

Related Projects DRPIC - Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Complex - Site Preparation Package DRPIC - Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Complex - Duqm Refinery - Main Process Units DRPIC - Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Complex - Duqm Refinery - Overview DRPIC - Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Complex - Duqm Refinery - Package 3 DRPIC - Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Complex - Petrochemical Complex

Project Status 31 Jan 2018

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FEATURED PROJECT

15 Jan 2018

KPI confirms its ownership of a 50% share of the duqm refinery.

22 Oct 2017

CCC is Petrofac's local construction contractor for the offsites and Utilities package.

06 Aug 2017

The 50-50 JV of Petrofac and Samsung Eng receives notification of intent to award the EPC contract. The contract worth approximately $2 b. Amec FW wins the PMC contract for the EPC phase.

17 May 2017

The preferred bidder for the EPC contract is selected. The award of the contract, expected by late May, is pending KPI's final investment decision.

10 Apr 2017

OOC and KPI sign a 50/50 joint venture agreement to develop the Duqm Refinery.

03 Apr 2017

Evaluation of the commercial proposals for the EPC contract is under way.

01 Feb 2017

Contractors have until 20 February to submit their commercial proposals for the EPC contract.

31 Jan 2017

The bidder for the PMC contract are: - Amec Foster Wheeler - Bechtel – KBR - - Technip

26 Oct 2016

DRPIC invites groups to bid for PMC contract to manage the EPC contractors. The groups include: - Amec Foster Wheeler – Bechtel – Fluor - Technip

20 Sep 2016

Evaluation of the technical bids is ongoing. The commercial bids are due to be opened by Q4-2016.

21 Mar 2016

DRPIC revives bids for the EPC contract from: - JGC Corp., GS E&C Corp., Saipem - Petrofac, Samsung Eng. Co., Chiyoda Corp - TR, Daewoo E&C Co. - ITOCHU, Hyundai E&C, Hyundai Engineering

15 Dec 2015

WoodMac and IHS have been appointed as Market Consultants for the project. Marsh Oman is the project insurers.

22 Nov 2015

The following Pre-qualified firms are invited to bid for the EPC contract: - JV of CB&I, CTCI Corp - JV of TR , Daewoo E&C Co - JV of JGC Corp., GS Engineering & Construction Corp., Saipem - JV of SK Daelim Industrial Co., Hyundai E&C, Hyundai Engineering Co - JV of Petrofac International,Samsung Engineering Co., Chiyoda Corp. - Fluor Corp - SK Engineering & Construction Co

03 May 2015

Galfar officially wins the site preparation contract. Works will start by mid -015 and finish in mid-2016.

15 Mar 2015

DRPIC receives pre-qualification documents for the EPC contract.

01 Feb 2015

DRPIC invites firms to prequalify for the EPC contracts.

26 Nov 2014

A preliminary usufruct agreement is signed between SEZAD and DRPIC.

19 Nov 2014

The bids for the site preparation work package have been. The contract will be awarded in early 2015

12 Aug 2014

DRPIC has floated a tender for site preparation work.

18 Jun 2014

DRPIC is expected to appoint a civil contractor to prepare the construction site for the refinery by Q1-2015, with completion slated in 12 months thereafter.

17 Jun 2014

Allen & Overy is appointed as legal advisor for the project while Credit Agricole-CIB is appointed as financial advisor.

30 Mar 2014

The FEED contract was awarded to Foster Wheeler (UK).

29 Aug 2013

The bids for the FEED contract were submitted. The bidders are Bechtel, CB&I Lummus, Foster Wheeler, KBR and Technip. Automation | February 2018

11 Apr 2013

18 Jun 2014 DRPIC is expected to appoint a civil contractor to prepare the construction site for FEATURED PROJECT the refinery by Q1-2015, with completion slated in 12 months thereafter.

17 Jun 2014

Allen & Overy is appointed as legal advisor for the project while Credit Agricole-CIB is appointed as financial advisor.

30 Mar 2014

The FEED contract was awarded to Foster Wheeler (UK).

29 Aug 2013

The bids for the FEED contract were submitted. The bidders are Bechtel, CB&I Lummus, Foster Wheeler, KBR and Technip.

11 Apr 2013

The FEED pre-qualification process is completed. The FEED-ITB will be released in mid-May 2013.

08 Aug 2012

Shaw group, the division that is now owned by Technip, was awarded the PMC contract.

Mar 2012

The PMC-ITB for the refinery has been issued.

Sep 2011

The feasibility study is awaiting approval from the authorities.

18 Jul 2010

KBC Advanced Technologies Inc is conducting a feasibility for the project

Oct 2009

OOC and IPIC sign a cooperation agreement to study the feasibility of building a refinery and petrochemicals complex.

Nov 2008

The project was put on hold due to financial reasons.

Feb 2008

OOC is in advanced stage of negotiations with two potential foreign partners on the project. T he project has been stalled because of rising EPC costs

Oct 2007

The feasibility study has been complete and is with the Council of Ministers for approval.

Feb 2007

Invitation to bid for the FEED contract has been released.

17 Dec 2006

The government is in talks with international companies regarding investing in the project

Dec 2006

Technology bids have been invited for the residual fluidised catalytic cracker and aromatics units, and are due by mid-February 2007

Sep 2006

Bids for a feasibility study contract are under evaluation. The bidders are Fluor, Jacobs and WorleyParsons.

Sep 2006

Jacobs wins a contract for a feasibility study, which is expected to be completed by March 2007.

Aug 2006

Companies were invited to submit bids by 1 September 2006 for a contract to conduct the feasibility study. The invited Companies are ABB Lummus Global, Fluor, Foster Wheeler, J acobs, Mott MacDonald , Technip, WorleyParsons

Contractors PMC PQ -

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Bidders

Awarded

â&#x20AC;˘ Technip â&#x20AC;˘ Amec FW

FEATURED PROJECT

EPC PQ • Fluor Corporation • Tecnicas Reunidas • Maire Tecnimont • Chiyoda Corporation • CTCI Corporation • SINOPEC • JGC Corporation • Saipem • GS Engineering & Construction • SK Engineering & Construction • Hyundai Engineering & Construction • Samsung Engineering Company • CB&I • Petrofac • Daelim Industrial Company • Daewoo E&C Construction • Hyundai Engineering Company

Bidders

Awarded

• Tecnicas Reunidas • Chiyoda Corporation • CTCI Corporation • JGC Corporation • Saipem • GS E&C • Samsung E&C • CB&I • Petrofac • Daewoo Engineering & Construction

• Samsung Engineering Company • Petrofac

Bidders

Awarded

• Bechtel Corporation • KBR • Technip • CB&I • Amec Foster Wheeler

• Amec Foster Wheeler

Bidders

Awarded

FEED PQ • Bechtel Corporation • KBR - Kellogg Brown & Root • Technip • CB&I • Amec Foster Wheeler SUB-CONTRACTORS PQ

• Marsh Oman • Allen & Overy LLP • Credit Agricole • KBC Advanced Technologies Inc. • IHS • Wood Mackenzie • CCC

Project Schedules Feasibility Study On Hold PMC ITB PMC FEED ITB FEED EPC ITB Engineering & Procurement Completed

3Q-2006 4Q-2008 1Q-2012 3Q-2012 2Q-2013 1Q-2014 1Q-2015 3Q-2017 2Q-2019

Project Scope The scope of work for the Refinery Utilities and Offsite facilities: • Utilities (Power, Water, Gas, Steam, Air, N2)

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FEED ITB FEED EPC ITB Engineering & Procurement Completed

FEATURED PROJECT

2Q-2013 1Q-2014 1Q-2015 3Q-2017 2Q-2019

Project Scope The scope of work for the Refinery Utilities and Offsite facilities: • Utilities (Power, Water, Gas, Steam, Air, N2) • Tanks (Crude, Products and Intermediate) • Buildings (Admin, Maint, Lab, Control Room)

Project Finance October 2009 – OOC and Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Co. (IPIC) have signed a cooperation agreement to study the feasibility of building a refinery and petrochemicals complex. Duqm Refinery and Petrochemical Industries Company (DRPIC) is the client. DRPIC is a 50/50 joint venture of: • Oman Oil Company (OOC) • IPIC (Abu Dhabi) 7 November 2016 - Oman Oil Company expects to sign a memorandum of understanding with Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) for a partnership at Duqm refinery on 9 November. 1 February 2017 - A 50:50 equity JV agreement between OOC and Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) for building Duqm refinery will be finalised soon. A financial closure is expected by the middle of 2017. 60% of the project finance arrangement will be equity and 40% will be project finance. The debt will be mostly from international banks and from export credit agencies. 16 March 2017 - DRPC hires Credit Agricole to advise on fundraising for the refinery project. Credit Agricole will help DRPIC raising a lone of more than $2 b. 10 April 2017 - OCC and KPI sign a 50/50 JV to develop the Duqm Refinery. The refinery will be 35% financed by the two partners with the remainder, $5b, to be raised from local and international banks. DRPIC is aiming at reaching a financial closure by the end of 2017. 28 Jan 2018 - KPI is considering financing its share of the project with 50% debt and 50% equity. The company will start talks with international and Kuwaiti banks for $2 billion loans. International lenders are expected to contribute to $1 b of the loan while the other part, $1 b, is to come from Kuwaiti financing institutes.

Key Personnel Name

Designation Lead Mechanical Engineer Senior Project Engineer

Hamed Shahverdi Ibrahim Al-Busaidi

Company

Telephone

DRPIC

+968 9974 9689

DRPIC

+968 2206 2740

Ibrahim.albusaidi@duqmrefinery.om

Jacobus Nieuwenhuijze

Project Director

DRPIC

+968 2206 2700

Mubarak Alnaamani

Project Director

DRPIC

+968 2206 2700

DRPIC

+968 2206 2736

murtadha.hameed@duqmrefinery.om

Murtadha Abdulamir Hameed Project Engineer Saleh Al-Amri

Head of Project Systems

DRPIC

+968 2206 2733

saleh.alamri@duqmrefinery.om

Yaqoob Al-Habsi

Process Department DRPIC Manager

+968 2206 2734

Yaqoob.alhabsi@@duqmrefinery.om

Celso Rodriguez Moreno

Proposal Manager

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Tecnicas Reunidas +34 91 158 3335

crmoreno@tecnicasreunidas.es

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STATUS

BP - Block 61 - Ghazeer Field Development BP - Block 61 - Khazzan and Makarem Gas Fields Development

Gas Field Development Gas Field Development

5,000,000,000 24,000,000,000

Engineering & Procurement Construction

BP - Block 61 - Khazzan Gas Fields Development - Phase 1 - Central Processing Facility BP - Block 61 - Khazzan Gas Fields Development - Phase 1 - Overview

Gas Processing Gas Field Development

1,200,000,000 15,000,000,000

Construction Construction

BP - Block 61 - Khazzan Gas Fields Development - Phase 1 - Package 1 BP - Block 61 - Khazzan Gas Fields Development - Phase 1 - Package 2 DNO - Block 8 Oil & Gas Field Development

Gas Field Development Gas Field Development Gas Field

1,500,000,000 130,000,000 45,000,000

Construction Construction Construction

DRPIC - Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Complex - Duqm Refinery - Main Process Units DRPIC - Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Complex - Duqm Refinery - Offsites and Utilities

Refinery Refinery

4,000,000,000 2,000,000,000

Engineering & Procurement Engineering & Procurement

DRPIC - Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Complex - Duqm Refinery - Overview DRPIC - Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Complex - Duqm Refinery - Package 3

Refinery Oil Storage Terminal

7,700,000,000 250,000,000

Engineering & Procurement Engineering & Procurement

DRPIC - Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Complex - Petrochemical Complex Duqm Development Company - Duqm Frontier Town Duqm Petroleum Terminal Company - Duqm Liquid Jetty

Aromatics Residential Development Oil Storage Terminal

4,500,000,000 120,000,000 600,000,000

Feasibility Study Project Announced Engineering & Procurement

Florexx International Investments - Biofuels Refinery Haya Water - Al Amerat Waste Water Project - Eastern Area Sewer and Treated Effluent Pipeline

Biofuels Sewerage

800,000,000 63,000,000

Engineering & Procurement Construction

Haya Water - Al Amerat Waste Water Project - Western Area Sewer and Treated Effluent Pipeline - A2 Haya Water - Sea Outfalls at New Darsait STP Hydrocarbon Finder - Block 7 Onshore Exploration and Production Masirah Oil Ltd - Block 50 (Masirah Bay Offshore) - Exploration Medco Arabia - Block 56 Onshore Exploration and Production

Sewerage Water Exploration Exploration Exploration

80,000,000 30,000,000 50,000,000 250,000,000 20,000,000

Construction Construction Engineering & Procurement Construction Engineering & Procurement

Mingyuan Holdings Group - Methanol-to-olefin (MTO) Scheme Ministry of Oil & Gas - Iran to Oman Subsea Natural Gas Pipeline MOG - Block 43b Onshore Exploration and Production MOG - Block 47 Onshore Exploration and Production MOG - Block 51 Onshore Exploration and Production MOG - Block 57 Onshore Exploration and Production MOG - Block 65 Onshore Exploration and Production OLNG - Qalhat LNG Expansion Oman Gas Company - Muscat Gas Network Oman Gas Company - Saih Nihayda to Duqm Special Economic Zone Gas Pipeline Oman Gas Company - Salalah LPG Extraction Oman Lasso Exploration and Production Karwan - Block 54 Onshore Exploration and Production OMIFCO - Ammonia-Urea Plants OMPET - Sohar PTA/ PET - Overview OMPET - Sohar PTA/ PET - PTA Plant OOCEP - Block 48 Onshore Exploration and Production (Malih Block) OOCEP - Block 60 Concession - Onshore Orpic - Liwa Plastics Industries Complex - NGL Extraction Units Orpic - Liwa Plastics Industries Complex - NGL Pipeline Orpic - Liwa Plastics Industries Complex - Overview Orpic - Liwa Plastics Industries Complex - Polyethylene and Polypropylene Units Orpic - Liwa Plastics Industries Complex - Steam Cracker

Petrochemical Plant Gas Gas Exploration Exploration Exploration Exploration Gas Exploration Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Gas Network Gas Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Exploration Urea Purified Teraphtalic Acid (PTA) Purified Teraphtalic Acid (PTA) Exploration Oil & Gas Field Natural Gas Liquefaction (NGL) Gas Polyethylene Polyethylene Ethylene

2,300,000,000 600,000,000 40,000,000 40,000,000 30,000,000 3,000,000 40,000,000 100,000,000 100,000,000 100,000,000 650,000,000 50,000,000 1,200,000,000 850,000,000 400,000,000 30,000,000 1,100,000,000 700,000,000 400,000,000 6,500,000,000 800,000,000 2,900,000,000

Engineering & Procurement FEED EPC ITB EPC ITB EPC ITB Engineering & Procurement EPC ITB EPC ITB Feasibility Study Construction Engineering & Procurement Engineering & Procurement Project Announced EPC ITB EPC ITB Engineering & Procurement Construction Engineering & Procurement Construction Construction Construction Construction

Orpic - Muscat-Sohar Product Pipeline (MSPP)

Oil

320,000,000

Commissioning

Orpic - Nitrogen Gas Plant OTTCO - Main Line Oil - Ras Markaz Crude Oil Terminal Pipeline OTTCO - Ras Markaz Crude Oil Park

Nitrogen Oil Oil Storage Terminal

50,000,000 300,000,000 400,000,000

Construction FEED EPC ITB

PAEW - Bausher to Seeb Water Transmission Pipeline PAEW - Qurayyat Tie in PAEW - Water Transmission System from Sohar to Dhahira Governorate

Water Water Water

85,000,000 60,000,000 520,000,000

Construction Construction EPC ITB

PDO - Amal Steam Phase 1C Surface Facilities

Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)

80,000,000

Construction

PDO - Amal Steam Phase 1C-2 PDO - Flare Gas to Power Schemes

Oil Field Development Gas Recycling

300,000,000 60,000,000

EPC ITB Project Announced

PDO - Kauther Depletion Compression Phase 2 (KDC2)

Gas Compression

190,000,000

Construction

PDO - Khulud Tight Gas Development Project (KLD) PDO - Mabrouk Deep Phase-3 (Gathering & Surface Facilities) PDO - Rabab-Harweel Integrated Plant (RHIP) - Overview

Gas Field Development Gas Gathering Gas Processing

300,000,000 200,000,000 3,000,000,000

Engineering & Procurement Construction Construction

PDO - Saih Nahaydah Depletion Compression Phase-2 (SNDC2) PDO - Saih Nihayda Condensate Stabilization Plant

Gas Compression Gas Treatment Plant

180,000,000 115,000,000

Construction Construction

PDO - SRCPP & SNGP Condensate Recovery Maximisation PDO - Yibal Khuff Sudair Field Development PDO - Yibal Rejuvenation

Gas Processing Oil Field Development Oil & Gas Field

300,000,000 3,000,000,000 500,000,000

Commissioning Construction Engineering & Procurement

Petrogas Kahil - Block 55 Onshore Exploration and Production Port of Duqm Company - Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU)

Exploration LNG Regassification

45,000,000 500,000,000

Construction Feasibility Study

Salalah Methanol Company - Salalah Ammonia Plant (Luban) Sohar Asphalt - Bitumen Refinery

Ammonia Bitumen

750,000,000 300,000,000

Engineering & Procurement Engineering & Procurement

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