Dr. Ali Al-Gheithy has over 21 years of Petroleum Industry experience, spanning well engineering, operations and field development planning. Dr. AlGheithy is currently The Director of Petroleum Engineering (Chief PE) of PDO LLC (JV with Shell) Petroleum Development Oman, a major E&P company in Oman. Previously he worked on several positions including; Study Centre manager, Asset Manager, and reservoir engineering project manager, and Well & Reservoir Management Team Leader. He has a strong educational background with a BSC degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa, OK, USA in 1988 and an MSc and PhD degrees from Imperial College,

the University of London in 1993. He is the previous chairman of the SPE in Oman.He also worked as asset manager for a large mature field responsible for the Development planning, reserve booking, and new wells delivery and WRM; as Team Leader of WRM for Fahud and Lekhwair assets; as Cluster Leader for the Lekhwair Asset; and as reservoir Engineer for Nimr asset team responsible for several fields for the taking care of field management, development and reserves bookings. During his carrier he was cross-posted to Shell Nigeria (4.5 Yrs.) where he worked in the integrated study team on the Diebu Creek and Soku Fields Studies; and led the sub-surface team for the Forcados-Yokri re-development project.