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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
The Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) and ENPPI have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) focused on training in the petrochemical sector.
The signing ceremony took place in Cairo on October 21 and was signed by His Excellency Engineer Jamal Issa Al-Loughani, Secretary General of the OAPEC and Engineer Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of Enppi.
Following the signing, Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El Molla confirmed that this agreement comes within the framework of the Ministry’s strategy and its keenness to open new horizons for fruitful and continuous cooperation between Egyptian petroleum companies and international organizations to exchange technical expertise in all fields of petroleum industries to achieve the desired integration.
The minister added that OAPEC is a successful model of cooperation and integration among member states, and there is a good opportunity to increase cooperation during the coming period, pointing out that the field of training, whether technical or administrative, is one of the important areas that the petroleum industry needs to keep pace with, referring to international standards. El Molla added that Enppi is a window for training and transferring expertise to workers in OAPEC member states, as it is a specialized and pioneering company in engineering design work and has notable success in Egypt and other Arab countries.
For his part, His Excellency Engineer Jamal Issa Al-Loughani, Secretary General of OAPEC, explained in his speech that continuous training is the main building block that contributes to the development of the petroleum industry.
Engineer Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Chairman of Enppi, explained that the memorandum of understanding aims to establish mechanisms to enhance and consolidate cooperation relations between the two parties in a way that contributes to developing the capabilities of specialized scientific cadres in the member states of the organization. Exchanging technical expertise in all fields of petroleum industries and developing and raising technical and administrative capabilities in general through preparing and organizing seminars, courses, training programs and workshops for the employees of Enppi in the member states, in cooperation with international petroleum companies operating in Egypt, in a way that contributes to developing the capabilities of specialized scientific cadres. And exchange of technical experience.
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