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July September 2015.Pdf Editor-in-Chief Saad Rashed Al-Azmi Deputy Editor-in-Chief Sami Al-Juhaim Correspondence concerning The Kuwaiti Digest should be addressed to: Editor-in-Chief, Kuwait Oil Company (K.S.C.) Information Team P.O. Box 9758 Ahmadi 61008, Kuwait Telephone: 965-2398-2747 Facsimile: 965-2398-1076 E-mail: [email protected] or visit the KOC homepage at http://www.kockw.com The Kuwaiti Digest invites newspaper, magazine and trade journal editors to reprint or otherwise make use of articles or illustrations appearing in this issue. Material should be credited and a copy mailed to the Kuwait Oil Company. 3 KOC Holds 18th HSSE Award Ceremony The Kuwaiti Digest is a quarterly magazine published by the Kuwait Oil Company (K.S.C.) since 1973. Contents 12 34 Professional Women Network Conference KOC to Deploy Kuwait’s Largest Solar Power Plant KOC Holds 18th HSSE Award Ceremony 3 KOC Attends MEOS 2015 7 KOC Hosts KPC Town Hall Meeting 10 Professional Women Network Conference 12 KOC Celebrates World Environment Day 17 Young Professionals Play Important Role for Future of KOC 20 KOC Implements First Wireline ESP Pilot Project 23 3rd Annual Crisis and Risk Management Summit 26 North Kuwait Celebrates 44 Million Hours Without LTI 29 KOC’s Close Cooperation with the Kuwaiti Government 32 KOC to Deploy Kuwait’s Largest Solar Power Plant 34 Heat Stroke: An Overview 36 Travel: Visit The Maldives 38 Hi-Tech 40 Ramadan at KOC 42 Celebrating Gergean 47 Letter from Saad Rashed Al-Azmi Deputy CEO the Editor (Administration & Finance) By the time this issue of The Kuwaiti Digests finds ees, who I believe are the future of the Company, you, everyone here at KOC will be in the midst and by extension, Kuwait. Throughout all Director- of observing the Holy Month of Ramadan. It is ates, young engineers, geologists, and professionals my sincere hope that this joyous month is full of of all types are making progress in their fields. It goodwill and self-reflection, and on behalf of the is my hope that senior KOC employees with years Company’s senior leadership, please allow me to of experience can find time to spend with our next extend my best wishes to you and your families generation of leaders. By imparting our knowledge on this blessed occasion. Ramadan Mubarak to all. to them, we can help do our part in ensuring the While there is no doubt that the pace of life in security and prosperity of future generations. Kuwait slows down somewhat over the summer From the Professional Women Network Confer- months, the same cannot be said of KOC’s initia- ence to the Company’s recognition of the United tives and drive to remain a global leader in the oil Nations World Environment Day, this issue con- and gas industry. In order to realize the ambitious tains a number of stories that provide an overview objectives of KOC’s 2030 Strategy, the Company of some of the major events and projects KOC must continue working hard toward the goals that has engaged in. It is my hope that everyone who have been laid before us. spends some time with this issue can take away In terms of production, it is my pleasure to say that something substantial and apply it to the work the Company’s various Directorates have contin- they are currently doing for the Company. ued their pursuit of excellence in performance. Before I conclude, I would like to take this oppor- However, great strides have not only been limited tunity to remind KOC employees that they can to new projects and initiatives. Instead, there has play a major role in Kuwait’s conservation efforts been a concerted effort across the Company to this Ramadan. By turning off lights when not in adopt efficient systems and measures of protection use and setting air conditioning units to reason- that not only protect employees and contractors, able temperatures, you can help relieve stress on but the environment and community at large. I encourage readers of The Kuwaiti Digest to learn the nation’s energy grid and save energy. By con- more about some of the Company’s efforts in the serving energy today, you are creating wealth and field of Health, Safety and the Environment by protecting the environment for the generations of reading an article in the following pages that cov- tomorrow. ers the recent CEO HSSE Award Ceremony. In closing, I would like to once again wish all our In the pages that follow, you will notice that this is- readers a very happy Ramadan. May you all enjoy sue pays particular attention to young KOC employ- this special month of prayer and observation with your families and loved ones. The Kuwaiti 3 Digest KOC Holds 18th HSSE Award Ceremony The 18th KOC CEO Award for Health, Safety, Security and the Environment (HSSE) was held recently at the Hilton Resort and Hotel in Mangaf. The event, which is hosted by the Company on an annual basis, plays an important role for KOC by recognizing some of the most outstanding initiatives made by Company employees in the field of HSSE. This year’s event was held under the theme of “Clean Air.” In a speech he delivered at the for the good of the Company values. This award ceremony 18th KOC Award for HSSE, KOC to entrench HSSE values in marks KOC’s continuous CEO Hashem Hashem told the KOC’s core business and instill effort to improve and enhance audience that KOC spared no those ideals into the everyday HSSE standards so that we can efforts in its quest to improve activities of KOC employees continue to protect the lives of and enhance HSSE standards throughout all facilities. our employees, contractors, and throughout the Company. In the wider Kuwaiti community addition, Hashem upheld his “Good HSSE practice is at as a whole,” the CEO said. “It’s belief that it was necessary the heart of KOC’s company vital that we think of HSSE the CEO said. This sentiment is exemplified in new regulations that include HSSE regulations and conditions that are written into contracts. “As a result, we have managed to reduce Lost Time Injury (LTI) incidents from a rate of 0.29 in 2003/2004 to 0.028 over the last fiscal year, which is an outstanding achievement,” he said. Other achievements the CEO mentioned in his speech included: • A new project that seeks to KOC CEO Hashem Hashem delivers opening remarks. reinforce occupational health among employees. not only as a set of industry the use of Kuwait’s natural requirements that we must resources and protecting the • Various Corporate Social meet, but as a challenge to be environment against pollution. Responsibility (CSR) innovative with initiatives that initiatives. A major initiative will better serve our community Hashem then told the audience that was recently completed and the environment,” he added. that KOC was working hard on is the installation of point- various initiatives that deal with to-point cameras along King The KOC CEO then provided environmental development. Fahad Expressway near an overview of some of the In this regard, the Company Nuwaiseeb. Company’s most important continues to work with outside • The execution of a major achievements in the field of parties and government security project in Kuwait HSSE over the past year. First, institutions that are concerned that has the aim of providing he highlighted the recent with the preservation of wildlife security services to oil success in the reduction of gas and nature reserves. installations across Kuwait. The flaring, which has been limited project will include the latest in to 1.12% over the last fiscal year. “At KOC, one of our top state-of-the-art technology. Hashem noted that this rate priorities is maintaining a culture was the lowest the Company that continuously reminds • Greater efforts toward the has recorded yet and serves as a employees to take care of their creation of better efficiency milestone for the Company that personal safety, as well as the throughout the Company’s assists its effort in optimizing safety of those around them,” various operations. The Kuwaiti 5 Digest KOC CEO Hashem Hashem with the Supreme Winners. “The nature of business in Following the CEO’s speech, were a total of 15 winners from the Company and that of the Ahmed Abbas, the Health, the applications received. oil industry requires us to Safety and Environment Group make every effort to protect Manager took the stage and 2014 CEO HSSE Supreme the lives of employees and briefly discussed KOC’s HSE Award Winner: Management Systems, which contractors alike. Meanwhile, it Non-Man Entry Tank De- is imperative for the Company include Risk Management, sludging & Cleaning to ensure that its business is Integrity Management and conducted in line with the latest Identification of Hazards within Members: Osamah Suhaim Al- HSE systems as an enforcement all KOC activities. Dabbous, Sharian Al-Dousary, of its leading role in order “The Company has Husain Ahmad Al-Saeed, to meet the development implemented a set of measures Ghassab Fahad Al-Ajmi, Ganga requirements of our country,” that fall in line with our Strategic Prasad Dharan the CEO said. Objectives concerning the Abstract: KOC’s care for the environment protection of the environment. is extensive and, according to Consequently, KOC has In the past, the method that Hashem, has proceeded at a minimized gas flaring, effluent was utilized to clean crude water disposal to the pits and faster pace and in accordance tanks throughout the Company also implemented a waste with a carefully studied involved the physical presence management program,” he said, methodology that has been of employees or contractors adding that KOC recognized developed in conjunction inside the tanks.
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