The STO MENA Summit is taking place from 6 - 9 September 2015 in Abu Dhabi to help the region’s oil & gas companies to improve their STO processes & practices.

ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, May 26, 2015 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The 4th Annual Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages (STO) MENA Summit is taking place from 6 - 9 September 2015 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, to help the region’s oil and gas companies to methodically review and improve their STO processes, technologies and practices. Key stakeholders will meet at the summit to understand how they can best manage shutdowns and turnarounds plus improve their plant and equipment reliability.

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STOs are expensive and time consuming projects, therefore mismanaging an unplanned shutdown can have serious consequences. It is essential that STOs are planned, managed and executed as effectively as possible to ensure costs, risks and downtimes are minimised.

The summit will gather regional decision makers responsible for shutdowns, turnarounds, maintenance and planning, to meet with specialist STO contractors, inspection management and maintenance software providers in order to discuss strategies, best practices and solutions to existing challenges.

Speakers include:
• Dr. Abdelkader Salem, Turnaround & Shutdown Advisor, ZADCO, UAE
• Humod Al Humod, Senior Manager - Control Instrumentation & Maintenance, SABIC, Saudi Arabia
• Kevin Blakey, Deputy Director - Integrity & Reliability, Maersk Oil, Qatar
• Adel Mohammed Al-Onaizi, Senior Engineer - Electrical Maintenance, KOC, Kuwait
• Chandra Sekhar, TPL Specialist, KOC, Kuwait
• Akachidike Kanu, Senior Facilities and Production Engineer, REPSOL, Spain
• Ahmed Ragab, Senior Planning Engineer, ZADCO, UAE
• Ashutosh Katre, Deputy Manager - Rotating Equipment Technical Services, Borouge, UAE
• Shankar Dutt Pande, Maintenance Chief, Indian Oil Company, India
• Swapnil Sharma, Maintenance Manager, Cairn, India
• Csaba Feher, Group Maintenance Expert, MOL Group, Hungary
• Patrick Muga, EPC Brownfield Manager, Chevron, Philippines
• …and many more.

The 4th Annual Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages MENA Summit will take place from 6 - 9 September 2015 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and will feature a mix of keynote sessions, case studies, technical presentations and high level networking sessions. Sponsors include Layher and Megarme.

Find the full agenda, speaker list and registration form at www.shutdownsandturnaroundsme.com/news or call +971 4 364 2975 or email enquiry@iqpc.ae for more information.

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