MEPEC - Middle East Process Engineering Conference & Exhibition
06 - 08 May 2024 | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
aBOUT mepec
MEPEC is the definitive event in the Middle East for process engineering, offering a platform for leaders to engage with the dynamic challenges and promising opportunities within the field. Designed to be a forum for the exchange of cutting-edge ideas, technologies, and the sharing of experiences and best practices among peers, it's a driving force toward a more efficient, secure, and prosperous process engineering industry. Additionally, it serves as a crucial junction where industry connects with academic institutions and research and development centers, fostering collaboration under a single roof. With a core focus on pivotal industries, such as oil, gas, petrochemicals, and utilities, MEPEC is at the forefront of shaping the future of process engineering.
MEPEC 2024 Theme:
Digitalizing Process Engineering for a Sustainable Future
MEPEC 2024 AIChE Official Announcement
Call for Abstracts, Now Open
TOPICS: DEADLINE: 20 DEC 2023
> Process Excellence
Exploit opportunities to boost plant performance or safety
> Decarbonization & Energy Transition
Examine emerging technological innovations enabling reductions in carbon footprint and greater efficiency in energy use
> New Energies
Address alternative energies complementing conventional sources which is the future energy landscape
> Digitalization
Deliberate digital solutions driving process industries towards a more sustainable future
About AICHE
The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
AIChE is a professional society of more than 60,000 chemical engineers in 110 countries. Its members work in corporations, universities and government using their knowledge of chemical processes to develop safe and useful products for the benefit of society. Through its varied programs, AIChE continues to be a focal point for information exchange on the frontiers of chemical engineering research in such areas as energy, sustainability, biological and environmental engineering, nanotechnology and chemical plant safety and security.
Key targets
- 10,000 sq.m of exhibition space
- 150 exhibitors
- 100 sponsors and partners
- Over 5,000 unique attendees over 3 days
Conference and Education Program
- Keynotes, plenary and panel discussions
- Multi-track technical sessions
- Poster Presentations
- Workshops and training courses
- Innovation & Commercialization zones
- Youth Program
- Chem-E-Car competition
- Career Day
- Awards and recognition ceremonies
2019 Speakers
His Excellency Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa
Minister of Oil, Kingdom of Bahrain
His Excellency Elnur Soltanov
Deputy Minister of Energy, Republic of Azerbaijan
Ahmad A. Al Sa'adi
Senior Vice President, Technical Services, Aramco
Bassam Al Bokhari
CEO, Saudi Petroleum Services Polytechnic
Deborah L. Grubbe
Owner and President, Operations and Safety Solutions, LLC
Jonathan Forbes-Lane
Regional VP - Catalyst Sales, Shell Catalysts & Technologies
Keith A. Couch
Senior Director Business Development, Honeywell UOP
Naji Skaf
President - Middle East, Egypt, Turkey, Air Products
Nasser A. Abanmi
Former President , SABIC - KEMYA
Saad Al-Ayedh
EVP Petrochemicals, TASNEE
Dr. Sun Xiansheng
Secretary General, International Energy Forum (IEF)
Tor Fjaeran
Manager Investment Arena, Equinor
Walt Szopiak
Vice President, Chevron
Faisal Addas
Director, SABIC
Gerardo Uria
Vice President, American Petroleum Institute
June Wispelwey
Former CEO and Executive Director (retired), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Dr. Madhukar Garg
President Refining & Petchem R&D, Reliance Industries Ltd
Mohammed Al-Habib
Regional Energy Transition Executive Director - MENATI, Baker Hughes
Norm Gilsdorf
Senior Vice President, Honeywell Global High Growth Regions, Honeywell
Dr. Pinar Yilmaz
Advisor, External Projects Upstream- Retired, Exxonmobil
Rob Howard
Senior Director - Enterprise Solution Consulting, Aspen Technology
Suleyman M Ozmen
Sr. Consultant, Independent
Dr. Anissa Sedjerari
R&D Portfolio Manager, KAUST Catalysis Center
Ayman Salamah
General Sales Manager , W.R. Grace & Co
Dr. Ayuba Adesina
Lead Process Engineer, SABIC
David Renolayan
Technology & Process Engineering Lead Domestic Refining & NGL Fractionation, Aramco
Gerrit Polhaar
Technology Marketing Regional Director, Chevron Lummus Global (CLG)
Gina M. Gatto
Membership Manager , American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Hamza Alawi
Business Development Manager, Lummus Technology
Dr. Hayat Abdulla Yusuf
Assistant Professor and PCAP Program Coordinator, University of Bahrain
Hiroki Usami
General Manager - R&D Center- Process Solution Business, Yokogawa MEA
Jad Abou Charbine
Technical Services Manager, Axens
Jim Brigman
Managing Director, Ingenero Inc
Mohammad N. Al-Haji
Engineering Consultant , Aramco
Dr. Nasiru M. Tukur
Engineering Consultant, P&CSD, Aramco
Nikola Georgiev
Senior Account Manager Refinery , Topsoe
Dr. Oki Muraza
Associate Professor, Center of Research Excellence in Nano-technology, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
Dr. Pierce Riemer
Director General, WPC Energy
Saeed S. AlAlloush
Engineering Consultant, Aramco
Saifuddin Sheikh
Sr. Director – Solution Consulting, Aspen Technology
Shahid Azam
Chief Scientist, Functional Chemicals, SABIC
Waddah Al-Zaabi
Sales Manager, ART Hydroprocessing
Pedro Miras Salamanca
President, WPC Energy
Milton Costa Filho
Secretary General, IBP - Brazilian Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Institute
Eithne Treanor
CEO, E Treanor Media
Abdelghani Daraiseh
Sr. Engineering Consultant, Aramco
Abdullah Al Ismail
Process Safety Manager, SABIC - KEMYA
Abdullaziz Alghanim
Operation Engineer , Aramco
Abdulrahman Ashour
Venture Manager, SABIC - IBNRUSHD
Abdullah Malki
Gas & Shipping Lead Engineer, Aramco
Abdullah Nooh
Research Engineer, Olefins & Aromatics, SABIC
Ahmed Aseeri
Founder & CEO, Gulf Advanced Process Technologies Co. (GAPTECH)
Ahmed Altarkeet
Snr Manufacturing Excellence Engineer, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)
Abdullah Ahmad Mandani
Sr. Eng.Process Ref., Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)
Anas H. Safar
Process Engineer, Aramco
Syed A. Ahmed
Process Engineer, Aramco
Ammar S. Bakhurji
Advanced Process Control Engineer, Aramco
Ayman Abu-Shameh
Instrumentation Team Lead, Aramco
Dr. Anthony Gerbino
Customer Success Leader , OLI Systems Inc.
Bernt Hiddema
Solution Consultant , Aspen Technology
Carlos Gonzalez
Lead Process Control Engineer, SABIC
Dr. Chun Han
Gasification & IGCC Specialist , Aramco
Azhari Dafaalla
Senior Staff Consultant , KBC (A Yokogawa Company)
Dhanasekar Periyasamy
Sr. Principal Solution Consultant, Aspen Technology
Dong Kyu Lee
Senior Process Engineer, Aramco
Dilipkumar Thakur
Shell Catalysts & Technologies
Edward Griffiths
Technology Manager, KBR Inc.
Dr. Enow Achuo Kima
Chemical Treatment Specialist, Aramco
Fahad Alsaad
Manager, Process Engineering, SABIC - KEMYA
Faisal Al Ashour
Process Engineer , Saudi Chevron Phillips (S-Chem)
Fayyaz Karim Qureshi
RECIPs and D&IS (Retrofit) Technical Leader, Baker Hughes
Gerardo Sanchis Andreu
Senior Consultant Engineer , Process Systems Enterprise (PSE)
Hamad Al-Othman
Lead Engineer, Analyzer, SABIC - KEMYA
Hasan Ali Amin
Engineer I, Aramco
Hae Yong Noh
Senior Chemical Engineer, Aramco
Hesham Fandy
Principal Risk Management Advisory Consultant, DNV
Hussain Alibrahim
CHE Senior student, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
Ibrahim Alsugai
Senior Scientist, SABIC
Ibrahim N Nashri
Chemical Engineer, Aramco
Jacinthe Frécon
Technology Group Manager , Axens
Jatin Shah
Director, Automation & Process Technologies, KBR Inc.
Jai Prakash Jain
Sr. Scientist, SABIC Research and Technology Pvt. Ltd
Jim Brigman
Managing Director, Ingenero Inc
Jinquan Zhu
R&D Senior Engineer , Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, SINOPEC
Joy Clarke
Principal Process Engineer, Wood Plc
Dr. Julie Chabot
Chevron Fellow, Chevron Lummus Global (CLG)
Suhaib Kaki
Process Engineer, SABIC - YANSAB
Khalid Ghazal
Technical Process Engineering (Sulfur & Amine Specialist), Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Company Ltd. (SAMREF)
Koos Overwater
Vice President - Hydrogen Product Line, TechnipFMC
Krishna Chada
Senior Principal Solution Consultant, Aspen Technology
Dr. Madhukar Garg
President Refining & Petchem R&D, Reliance Industries Ltd
Majed A. Al-Jeshi
Process Engineer, Aramco
Majed Mulla
Process Engineer , Saudi Chevron Phillips (S-Chem)
Mana Alowaidh
Engineering Consultant - Energy Systems, Aramco
Matt Kirchner
Marketing Director - FCC Catalysts, W.R. Grace & Co
Mohammed Alyanbaawi
Technical Support Engineer , Aramco
Mohammed AlMahmood
Process Engineer, Aramco
Mohammad Alabdullah
PhD Student, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Mohammed Benchekchou
Director, Shell Catalysts & Technologies
Mohammed Fahad Ajmi
Senior Operations Engineer, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)
Muhammad Ilyas
Technology Licensing Manager , Topsoe
Nageswararao Kesanapalli
Manager Solution Consulting, Aspen Technology
Narayanan Suresh
Regional Subject Matter Expert – Flow Applications, Yokogawa MEA
Nihar Gulwadi
Regional Head - MENA, Ingenero Inc
Norbert Jung
VP Product Management - Process and Simulation, AVEVA
Othman M Al-Ghamdi
Process Engineer, Sipchem
Praveen Dhote
Team Leader Process Safety, Siemens Energy
Radhi Ali Aqeeli Al
Process Engineer, SABIC - KEMYA
Rawaf Al-Rawaf
Superintendent – Process Engineering, Saudi Chevron Phillips (S-Chem)
Roy Calder
Oil and Gas Industry Principal - New Energies, AVEVA
Sachin Kanade
Process Safety Lead, Siemens
Saeed Al-Shahrani
Control System Engineer , Aramco
Safi M AlBuhairi
Senior Process Control Engineer , Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Company Ltd. (SAMREF)
Saifuddin Sheikh
Sr. Director – Solution Consulting, Aspen Technology
Saptarshi Bhowmick
PSS Department Manager, Yokogawa MEA
Satish Mantri
Process Engineer, Sipchem
Dr. Huawei Shao
Senior Engineer, SINOPEC
Shardul Shindadkar
Asst Mgr - Sales and Marketing, Ingenero Inc
Shahreyar Khan
Engineering Specialist - Process & Control Systems Department, Aramco
Simon Cackett
Licensing Technology Manager, Shell Catalysts & Technologies
Dr. Steve Hall
Independent Industry Consultant
Dr. Theo Maesen
Director CLG R&D, Chevron Lummus Global (CLG)
Tuiana Shoinkhorova
PhD Student, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Vijay Shirpurkar
Process Engineer, Sipchem
Vijayaraghavan Ganeshkumar
Process Engineer, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)
Vishnu Narayanan
Chartered Engineer, Wood Plc
Yazeed Homaid
Energy Engineer, Aramco
Youngghee Jang
Energy Engineer, Aramco
Dr. S M Zakir Hossain
Associate Professor, Department Of Chemical Engr., University of Bahrain
Abdul Salam Sheik
Process Engineer, Hydrocracker Unit, Aramco
Ahmed Al-Alouni
Aramco
Ahmed Altarkeet
Snr Manufacturing Excellence Engineer, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)
Andrew P. Bartlett
Solutions Consultant Global Solution Engineering , Sphera
Dr. Anthony Gerbino
Customer Success Leader , OLI Systems Inc.
Aurelio Ferrucci
Executive V.P., PROMETHEUS SRL
Eric Huelson
Product Manager, John Zink Hamworthy Combustion
Dr. Fernanda Tavares
Post Doctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineer, KAUST Catalysis Center
Hasan Ali Amin
Engineer I, Aramco
Hashim AlHajji
Process Engineer, Aramco
Hongli Guo
Director -Technical Marketing and Licensing Business, SINOPEC Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology
Ilya Simonov
CROC VR Director, NGN International
Dr. Liping Ren
Staff Engineer, Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, SINOPEC
Mohammed Fahad Ajmi
Senior Operations Engineer, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)
Mohamed Soliman
Senior Operation Engineer, Aramco
Naif AlGhuthayf
Mechanical Engineer, Aramco
Omar Al-Rashidi
Manufacturing Excellence Engineer , Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)
Oussama Ould Zmirli
Manager, Solution Consulting, Aspen Technology
Pankaj Chaware
Lead Machinery Engineer, SABIC - KEMYA
Piyush Jain
Principal Solution Consultant , Aspen Technology
Roy Calder
Oil and Gas Industry Principal - New Energies, AVEVA
Dr. Sachi N. Maiti
Manager – Downstream Technology Taskforce, SNC Lavalin
Seunghan Park
Environmental Engineer, Aramco
Dr. Shikun Niu
Senior Engineer, SINOPEC
Dr. Huawei Shao
Senior Engineer, SINOPEC
Sivakumar Sankaran
Mechanical Engineer , Aramco
Suhaib Kaki
Process Engineer, SABIC - YANSAB
Dr. Theo Maesen
Director CLG R&D, Chevron Lummus Global (CLG)
Tuiana Shoinkhorova
PhD Student, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Turki Hujaili
Analyzer Engineer , SABIC - KEMYA
Yousif AlDhafeery
Lead Inspection Engineer, SABIC
Dr. Zhang Bin
SINOPEC Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology
Zhang Long
Senior Engineer , Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, SINOPEC
AIChE Middle East Regional Chem-E-Car Competition®
Chemical Engineering students from reputable Universities compete for the only AIChE Chem-E-Car competition in the Middle East.
ChemME - Dedicated for Students and Young Professionals
The initiative featured comprehensive program of activities that was attended by a large number of students and early career professionals from the MENA region.
Innovation & Commercialization Zone
This hands-on innovation zone featured startups and scale-ups and conducted live demonstrations of technologies at the event.
2019 industry initiatives
MEPEC 2024 committee chairs
Wail A. Al Jaafari
Executive Vice President Technical Services, Aramco
Dr. Darlene Schuster
Executive Director & CEO, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Walid Al Naeem
Vice President & Chief Engineer, Aramco
Abdulaziz Al-Ghamdi
Manager, Downstream Process Engineering Division, Process & Control Systems Department, Aramco
Dr. Basim Abussaud
Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
MEPEC 2024 IN NUMBERS
10,000 sq.m
Exhibition Space
5,000
Attendees
150
Exhibitors
100
Sponsors & Partners
200
Speakers
50+
Represented Countries
2019 INDUSTRY TESTIMONIALS
Barry Perlmutter
President & Managing Director, BHS Sonthofen Inc
MEPEC provided a wide range of attendees, manufacturers, operating companies and applications. The conference generated new ideas and forward-thinking for new products and improvements to existing products. We met important clients with serious interests, which is a true measure of a technical conference.
Dr. Hosni Zubeir
Head of Chemical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Bahrain
The organizers "all committee members" were so kind, helpful and professional. Appreciated the time and the effort put by them. The technical session was very interesting and exiting to share ideas with expertise. The exhibition was organized in a professional way and gave real time appropriateness to share information and techniques. I found the workshop I attended very useful. the topics are directly applicable to our teaching and professional goals. The instructor was clear and professional. The student program was very useful and gave the students tremendous appropriates to learn and practice. In general the conference was an excellent sours of forecasting techniques and practice.
Jim Brigman
Managing Director, Ingenero Inc
MEPEC 2017 facilitated information exchange on operational excellence between companies top process engineers allowing opportunities to be discussed, goals stated, technology demonstrated, opinions expressed and paradigms exposed.
Joseph Ibrahim
Managing Director, Axens
During this MEPEC 2017 I have witnessed interesting presentations given by companies presenting for the first time in the Middle East which demonstrates that MEPEC focuses on bringing new ideas and new players.
Dr. Nasiru M. Tukur
Engineering Consultant, P&CSD, Aramco
I found the 3-day conference inspiring, enlightening & stimulating. The panel discussion sessions were excellent platforms for exchange of knowledge and experience between industry leaders and younger talents.
Nafees Ahmad
Senior Process Engineer, TASNEE
This year’s MEPEC conference is great, very interactive and thought-provoking conference. Every MEPEC is a little different but this time the specialty are fully technical sessions, interaction with industrialist, research scholars and university graduates. As a speaker, I was glad to share my knowledge, exchange experience and made new connections with visitors/delegates.
Shaalan Al Zahrani
General Manager Technical, Saudi Chevron Phillips (S-Chem)
MEPEC 17 was a remarkable success. It was impressive with its insightful key note speeches, interactive panel discussions and very informative technical sessions covering a wide spectrum of industry aspects. MEPEC has certainly become one of the most high profile conferences in the region.
Soner Tetik
Geophysical Engineer, Risk Deger
We made some business partnership agreements with the show for the ME Market.
Started already new connections for trading and consultancy services. We have learned a lot from the show exhibitors, hope that we give information from us for the visited company managers and staff in all stages. Even with fresh graduated University students shared our knowledges and we appreciate to everyone who visited us. Especially we are thankful for the Turkish Consulate of Turkey for visiting us and some turkish University teachers who are working in Bahrain University.
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