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His Highness the Prime Minister, Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa, graciously opened “MEOS 2005” on 12th March. Under the theme of “Meeting the Global Demand Challenge”, the event continued until 15th March at the Bahrain International Exhibition Centre. Since 1979, the occasion has been biennially organized by the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Arabian Exhibition Management in co-operation with the Ministry of Oil.

Accompanied by distinguished guests, His Highness the Prime Minister made a tour throughout the various stands of the exhibition where they were briefed on exploration for oil and gas and on petroleum associated industries. His Highness emphasized the significance of MEOS as an important international forum for sharing petroleum and gas knowledge and information. His Highness expressed satisfaction for the increasing high profile participation in“MEOS2005”.

Major international oil companies spruced up their pavilions by displaying state-of-the-art technologies and products in the areas of survey, exploration and maintenance. The participants included Chevron Texaco, Shell, Schlumberger, Exxon Mobil, Baker Hughes, BP International, Petronas, as well as the GCC national oil companie and other international corporations. There were 182 exhibitors representing 21 countries, including the GCC States, the United States of America, European Union countries and Asian countries, against 154 exhibitors in MEOS 2003. More than 5,000 visitors and delegates attended this event.

Nearly 1,200 experts and professionals presented more than 190 papers and 120 posters, against 1,000 participants and 180 papers discussed at 15 sessions in MEOS 2003. The MEOS 2005 Conference comprised 20 specialized technical sessions which covered various topics related to oil and gas production preservation techniques at matured fields,utilization of smaller fields, alternative resources of  hydrocarbons, oil and gas reservoir modeling and extraction of improved oil.