Introduction
The United Arab Emirates petroleum
reserves are ranked as the world’s seventh largest (97 billion barrels) [1].
Also, the UAE is considered as one of the most developed economies in west
Asia. Since discovery of oil in 1960s, the UAE’s economy growths rapidly
because the demand of oil and natural gas increases over the world. They play
an active role as a source for power generation and petrochemicals industry. As
the oil industry expands rapidly, there is a need for more cadres.
Petroleum Industry in the UAE
The United Arab Emirates’ economy is
based on oil exporting (more than 85% of the UAE’s economy [2]). In order to
maintain the production and to expand of the oil and natural gas industry in
the UAE, more employees are required. ADNOC leads several companies like ADCO,
GASCO, BOROUGE, ADMA, etc. These companies need lots of engineers to operate
their plants.
Chemical Engineering
Chemical engineers are very important to
operate the plant because they are responsible for the processing and operating
the equipments. BOROUGE and TAKREER will be discussed to show the need for more
chemical engineers.
BOROUGE
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Position Title
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Location
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Deadline
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UAE - Ruwais
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31-Jul-2012
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UAE - Ruwais
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30-Jun-2012
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UAE - Ruwais
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31-Jul-2012
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UAE - Ruwais
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30-Jun-2012
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UAE - Ruwais
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30-Jun-2012
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UAE - Ruwais
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30-Jun-2012
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UAE - Ruwais
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30-Sep-2012
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UAE - Ruwais
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30-Jun-2012
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UAE - Ruwais
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30-Jun-2012
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TAKREER
TAKREER produces several products out of
the crude oil such as petrol, Diesel, tar, etc. It has several distillation
columns to separate the mixture into its component parts depending on the differences
in their volatilities. This process needs chemical engineer to operate the
distillation column. The company requires more chemical engineers as it is
mentioned in their website [4].
Need in other fields
There are enormous expansions in Al-Ruwis
for the ADNOC companies such as TAKREER, BOROUGE and GASCO. These companies
will need more chemical, electrical and mechanical engineers to achieve their
goals. As a consequence of the expansions in ADNOC companies, expansions in
other fields are required. The employees will live in Al-Ruwis so they need
homes which will be built by civil engineers. The residents of Al-Ruwis will
need food so there should be restaurants and supermarkets. In addition, they
need hospitals and pharmacists. Indubitably, employees will bring their family
and children so there should be schools and teachers. As a result of the needs,
there should be businessmen to manage the businesses over there. In order to keep the safe and security, police
station is required. These days, if someone visits Al-Ruwis, he will see how it
changed over the last ten years.
Obviously, the development in oil
industry will lead to develop in other fields as mentioned before which looks
like a chain. Also, this speech emphasize the needs of more cadres “Without
a cadre of mathematicians, the industrial companies can’t function. What the
country needs is a cadre of young Emirati engineers, scientists and mathematicians
who can defend their country” said Kevin Massengill, vice-president of
Middle East and North Africa, Raytheon Company [5].
References
[2] “Oil and Gas in the UAE”,
Gerald Butt, geopowers.com
[5] Newspaper: khaleejtimes, 11 November 2010, written by Olivia Olarte
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