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Dr Kaled Kansao
Non-Executive Chairman - Venezuelan/ Lebanese National born 1950
Doctorate in Geology by Training,
Former Advisor to PDVSA (National Oil Co in Venezuela) and to Minister of Oil in Venezuela,
Former Ambassador of Venezuela to Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Former Representative of Venezuela at OPEC,
Member of US / North America Energy Council.
Trevor Runge
Non-Executive Director – Canadian, over 35 years of Experience in Oil & Gas
Trevor started his career in Canada working for Home Oil Co, Canadian Hunter, before starting an International career with Shell in the North Sea then joined BP and held various senior positions at BP including:
Vice President Activity Planning for BP Upstream group Worldwide,
Chirag Asset and development Manager in Azerbaijan overseeing over 150,000 bbls per day of Production and field development with managing over 140 people between staff& contractors,
Reservoir & Wells Manager, Chirag/Deep Water Gunashli Performance Unit, BP Azerbaijan (over 50 staff) overlooking development and update of depletion plans, reserves progression and management, reservoir studies, forecasting, new well planning and execution (wellsite geology, geo-steering, logging), Drilling Schedule optimization, near-term production forecasting and optimisation, surveillance, well integrity management, and production accounting.
He worked also as a subsurface Team leader in BP assets Egypt, Reservoir, operations department head in BP GUPCO (JV with EGPC) in Egypt.
Trevor is also an Advisor to several companies.
Trevor has world-class experience and brings to our clients his breaths of operating experience in a worldclass IOC on very complex and large producing assets (over 100,000 barrels a day) in challenging environments and has a track record of overseeing very large operations & developments.
Tamim Zeidan
Executive Director, New Ventures
Tamim has over 20 years of Oil & Gas international experience gained including 9 years spent at Shell International with a wide exposure. He started his career with Shell in the Corporate Business Planning department in Shell UK, Aberdeen, working on Shell’s North Sea Annual Business Plan. He then worked offshore on several North Sea Brent Platforms as Shell’s representative to the drilling contractor, overseeing well operations (PLT’s, Perforations, Drilling...). He then joined the subsurface Teams as a Petroleum engineer looking after North Sea Brent Reservoir Field Developments and field management. He then worked at shell headquarters in the Hague as a project manager in the central Technical consultancy Team of Shell at its headquarters in the Hague, with involvement in some of Shell’s key projects worked out of the Hague: Qatar Gas, Field Development Planning for Nigeria, etc.
He was overlooking METSCOoil’s advisory activities in Kurdistan, Iraq and Syria, assisting several of METSCOoil’s clients, including Maersk Oil, Oryx Petroleum, Tethys Petroleum, Nations Energy (Syria), Gulfsands (Syria), etc.
His expertise lies in opportunity generation and deal structuring, bringing parties together, creating value and win win scenarios for clients.
He holds a MSc in engineering from the Swiss Institute of technology in Lausanne and an Executive MBA from HEC in Lausanne, Switzerland.