Management Message

I am pleased to announce that your organization has had another successful year, continuing its long history of growth, achievement and progress.
The oil, gas and energy sector at regional or international level has been growing tremendously. With all this growth there were many challenges, we saw in all of this opportunity to further consolidate and enhance our organization’s capabilities and strengthen our mutual cooperation. We established a more dynamic outlook and built stronger goals and objectives to be achieved.

2008 – 2009 goals are directed at playing a leading role in the process of our core business (oil spill and incident response, under the mutual aid concept), establishing policies and procedures, national contingency plan, communication and coordination, availing all available resources to members and serve the region in a wider role such as safety, integrity, health, security and total environment.  These strategic initiatives are the main engines of growth for us and the region.

We have achieved a number of millstones that includes, budgetary compliance,    planning and coordination of a number of major oil spill exercise at members levels, planning and conducting a number of training and development opportunities, planning and formalizing all the topics and activities for Offshore Arabia 2009 conference and exhibition, establishing a global reach and cooperation that includes strong partnerships and relations with regional and international bodies & organizations, and the re launch of the organization bio-monthly magazine Offshore Arabia in Arabic and English.

We established a platform for associated members to provide services to organizations in the region. Primarily, it will provide alternative and additional resources to improve compact capabilities and strengthen contingency planning and social responsibilities. Working closely with all major stakeholders and providing technical expertise and in-depth oil spill knowledge. All these investments in strategic initiatives, increasing expenditure on staff, inflationary pressures in the economy and competition for resources have all combined had little affect in our drive to achieve.

We have entered into a number of strategic business alliances during the year, including partnerships with UNEP, UNESCO, ROPME/MEMAC, PERSGA, IMO, UNU-INWEH, IUCN, IPIECA, Gdansk University of Technology, UNCCD, UNOPS, Korean Petroleum Association and many other associations that works towards our goals and objectives.

Your Organization continues to provide support for community initiatives and activities as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility programme, and educational institutions. We will continue to advocate for environmental issues, the nurturing of young talent, while we continue to actively promote the rich cultural heritage of our region.

In conclusion, I would like to thank my fellow directors for their support during the year and on behalf of the Board of Directors, offer my thanks to the management and staff for delivering yet another successful year.

خــمـيـس جــمـعـة بـوعــمـيـم
Khamis Juma Bu-Amim
Regional Clean Sea Organisation (RECSO)