Former Deputy Premier and Energy and Industry Minister HE Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah will be bestowed with highest honour ‘Dewhurst Award’ by World Petroleum Congress (WPC), for his “exceptional” role as the architect of Qatar’s energy transformation.
Al-Attiyah, who now chairs Qatar’s Administrative Control and Transparency Authority, will be presented with WPC’s prestigious ‘Dewhurst Award’ during the 21st WPC in Moscow in June this year.
“Al-Attiyah is an inspirational leader for our industry and has left an enormous legacy for his country and the sector as a whole...on behalf of our board and the 70 member countries of the WPC, I am delighted to congratulate him on this recognition,” Dr Renato Bertani, president of the WPC, said.
The award is named after Thomas Dewhurst, who organised the first WPC in 1933. Celebrating scientific and technological excellence in the petroleum industry, the award is a tribute to him and to the person asked to deliver the Dewhurst Lecture.
Having led Qatar’s rise as one of the key players in the global gas sector and the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, al-Attiyah, joins a prestigious group of past recipients who have been respected leaders in the industry and demonstrated unusually high achievements over many years.
Like his predecessors such as the previous recipients, Guillerme Estrella from Brazil and Ali al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, al-Attiyah will give a Dewhurst Lecture, one of the highlights of the event, at the close of the world’s largest oil and gas congress on June 19, 2014.