Qatar District Cooling Company (Qatar Cool) has announced the appointment of its new chief executive officer, Yasser Salah al-Jaidah, who joined the company on January 18.
Before joining Qatar Cool, al-Jaidah was the general manager and director of South Hook LNG in the UK, the largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal of Western Europe and provider of 20% of the UK’s LNG consumption.
He completed his BS Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Missouri and also has an Executive MBA degree from HEC-Paris in Shanghai. He is also a certified Project Management Professional from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Al-Jaidah has over a decade of experience in the energy sector and has held positions throughout the field, including maintenance, operations engineering, project management,
marketing, and venture projects.
He also was general manager at the RasGas Korea liaison office, an entity which he set up from the ground up.  
Al-Jaidah and his South Korean team played a key role in facilitating the signing of the 2012 contract between Qatar and South Korea for an additional 2mn tonnes of Qatari LNG per year for the next 20 years.
He was also Inlet Facilities Project Lead for the RasGas expansion phase two project and was seconded to ExxonMobil as a project execution engineer in Houston, Texas.
Al-Jaidah has a breadth of experience in the energy industry and has worked on a range of worldwide projects in countries such as Qatar, South Korea, Japan, France, Norway, US, Italy, Singapore and the UK.
“I am honoured and privileged to join Qatar Cool as chief executive officer. I am committed to continuing and building on Qatar Cool’s success by empowering the Qatar Cool team to reach its full potential as we enter the next stage of growth, which must go hand in hand with the expansion of Qatar’s infrastructure. As a Qatari I feel a sense of responsibility in utilising my worldwide experience to plant my seed in the realisation of the Qatari National Vision,” al-Jaidah said.