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Mr Isam A. Al-Bayat,
VP, Engineering Services
Plenary Speaker
Saudi Aramco

Mr Al-Bayat joined the company in 1971 as an engineer III in Engineering Technical Services after graduating from the University of Basra in Iraq with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He completed rotational assignments in Engineering before becoming a foreman at the Dhahran Power Plant in 1973. In 1976, he was assigned to the OOK Project Management team working on the power generation and transmission projects. Upon his return, he was named assistant superintendent for Southern Area Power Generation in 1979 and superintendent for Power Operations in 1980.

After earning a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from King Fahad University of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and completing an assignment as acting manager of the SCECO Systems Operations Department in 1981, he was loaned to SCECO, and in 1986, he became Vice President of Operations, SCECO East.

In mid-1992, he returned to Saudi Aramco as Manager of Projects for the Communications/SCADA Project Department. He had an acting assignment as general manager of Central Area Projects and then in 1994 became manager of projects for the Central Area Projects Design and Construction Department.

In mid-1994, he acted as manager of the Facilities Planning Department and took on the full job in October.

In 1996 for a short time, he acted as the manager of Consulting Services, before returning to Facilities Planning.

In 1999, he became President and CEO of Saudi Refining Inc. in Houston, Texas.

He returned to the Kingdom in August 2001 to Domestic Joint Ventures. He became Vice President of Project Management on November 1, 2001 and in April 2004 he moved as Vice President to New Business Development. Since September 2007 he holds the position of Vice President Engineering Services.

When he can find the time Isam enjoys a good book and likes watching soccer.

Message:

Fathi Al-Qadeeb
Conference Chairman

The Saudi Arabian Section of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing along with the NDT Chapter of Saudi Council of Engineers and Bahrain Society of Engineers are organizing the Fourth Middle East Nondestructive Testing Conference and Exhibition at the Gulf International Convention Center, Gulf Hotel in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain on December 2-5, 2007.

The conference organizing committee is proud to announce that the first three MENDT conferences were very successful with over 1000 attendees and more than 120 exhibitors participating in the only Middle East event dedicated to nondestructive testing. These conferences have provided an excellent forum for NDT professionals, service providers & users, and vendors from all over the world to interact and share their knowledge and experience in the use of the latest NDT technologies to address inspection challenges in the Middle East region.

The highlight of the Fourth Middle East Nondestructive Testing Conference and Exhibition will be the informative keynote address and plenary lectures by distinguished international figures in the field of NDT. The technical program will include sessions and courses in the various NDT disciplines. You will also have the the opportunity to visit the Exhibition, where industry leaders in the field of NDT will have their products and services on display.

It is an honor to invite you and your organization to participate in this important event. The conference organizing committee is confident that you will find this event as a key to solve your inspection challenges and hope your organization will participate in this unique conference.