Petroleum engineering is a field of engineering concerned with the activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil or natural gas. Exploration and production are deemed to fall within the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry. Exploration, by earth scientists, and petroleum engineering are the oil and gas industry's two main subsurface disciplines, which focus on maximizing economic recovery of hydrocarbons from subsurface reservoirs. Petroleum geology and geophysics focus on provision of a static description of the hydrocarbon reservoir rock, while petroleum engineering focuses on estimation of the recoverable volume of this resource using a detailed understanding of the physical behavior of oil, water and gas within porous rock at very high pressure.
Haider Jawad Kadhim al-Abadi is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq from September 2014 until October 2018. Previously he served as Minister of Communication from 2003 to 2004, in the first government after Saddam Hussein was deposed.
Sayyid Dr. Muhammad-Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloom is an Iraqi politician, academician, and petroleum expert. He has served twice as the Iraqi Minister of Oil. He first took the ministerial role as part of the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003 until June 2004. Bahr al-Uloom went on to serve a second term as the minister in 2005 where he then submitted his resignation in protest against a governmental decision to increase the price of oil products five-fold.
Aiham Alsammarae is a nationalistic, Sunni Muslim, Iraqi politician who served as Minister of Electricity from August 2003 until May 2005. He has been an active member of the Iraqi National List and has fought hard for political reconciliation among Iraq's political parties as well as against the policy of de-Ba'athification, since his resignation as Minister of Electricity. Previously, he was a prominent member of the Iraqi Opposition and lived in exile in the United States for over 30 years.
Hussain Ibrahim Saleh al-Shahristani is an Iraqi politician who served in different cabinet posts, including as Iraq's Minister of Higher Education.
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) is a nonprofit research university in Dhahran, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. Established in 1963 by King Saud bin Abdulalziz as the College of Petroleum and Minerals, it is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed A. Aldouri was the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations from 2001 to 2003.
Bijan Namdar Zangeneh is an Iranian politician, who served as minister, at different cabinets after the Islamic Revolution, for 30 years. He lately served as Minister of Petroleum from 2013 to 2021 in the cabinet led by Hassan Rouhani.
Richard Henry Jones is an American diplomat and the former Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency.
The University of Baghdad (UOB) is a public research university in Baghdad, Iraq. It is the largest university in Iraq and the tenth largest in the Arab world.
Shant Kenderian is notable as an Iraqi-born United States citizen who became an American prisoner-of-war after being forced to fight against the United States in the Persian Gulf War.
Sayyid Masoud Mir Kazemi is an Iranian conservative politician and the former Vice President of Iran and head of Plan and Budget Organization. He was a member of the Parliament of Iran from Tehran district from 2012 until 2016, and also previously served at two ministerial posts in the cabinet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Ali Aldabbagh is an Iraqi engineer, businessman and politician who served as government spokesman until November 2012.
Mohammad Javad Bagher Tondguyan was an Iranian engineer and petroleum minister under Prime Minister Mohammad-Ali Rajai from 2 September to 3 November 1980 when he was captured by the Iraqi forces in November 1980 during Iran-Iraq war.
Abdul Karim Luaibi Bahedh is an Iraqi politician who served as the minister of oil of Iraq between December 2010 and 8 September 2014.
Dr. Albert C. Reynolds is McMan Chair Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Tulsa, where he is the Director of the Tulsa University Petroleum Reservoir Exploitation Projects (TUPREP). He is known for his research in the areas of reservoir characterization, well testing and reservoir simulation.
The School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering is one of seven schools in the University of the Witwatersrand's Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment. The School offers 4-year undergraduate degrees and post-graduate degrees in chemical and metallurgical engineering.
Emad Zaki Yehya, was born in Baghdad. He was an Iraqi petroleum engineer, author, scholar, and a PhD lecturer at Simón Bolívar University in Caracas, Venezuela
Iraq–Spain relations are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between these two countries. Iraq has an embassy in Madrid. Spain has an embassy in Baghdad and an honorary consulate in Erbil.
Sayyid Dhia Jafar Hasem al-Musawi was an Iraqi engineer and statesman who held various ministerial positions during the monarchy in Iraq. He was closely connected to Nuri Al-Said and Iraq's last King Faisal II. He was a cabinet minister from 1947 to 1958, serving as Minister of Transport, Economy, Finance and later as Minister of Development.
