IRAQ - Decision Maker: Rafed Abdel Halim.Recently appointed as Executive Director of the State Oil Marketing Organisation (SOMO SOMO Special Olympics Missouri SOMO State Oil Marketing Organization SOMO Singly Occupied Molecular Orbital SOMO Space Operations Management Office (NASA) SOMO Suspension of Military Operations SOMO Space Operations Management Organization ), Abdel Halim is a technocrat tech·no·crat n. 1. An adherent or a proponent of technocracy. 2. A technical expert, especially one in a managerial or administrative position. . This post had been vacant since August 2001, when SOMO's head Saddam Al Zibn Al Hassan Al Majid (a cousin of President Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad) President of Iraq (1979–2003). He joined the Ba'th Party in 1957. Following participation in a failed attempt to assassinate Iraqi Pres. ) was made deputy oil minister. From August 2001 until recently, SOMO used to be run by Ali Hassan Rajab who heads the organisation's Crude Oil Department. Previously, Abdel Halim was head of exploration at the Oil Ministry. Until mid-2001 he was head of the Northern Oil Co. As head of SOMO, his task is to maximise oil exports. SOMO has a good number of customers buying crude oil under the oil-for-aid deal with the UN, and they represent markets on both sides of Suez. SOMO has been one of the few concerns in Iraq with direct satellite communications facilities. It can be contacted by telex telex: see telegraph. telex International telegraphic message-transfer service consisting of a network of teleprinters. Subscribers to a telex service can exchange textual communications and data directly with one another. , telephone, fax or e-mail from any point in the world. Dr. Faleh Al Khayat is the director general of the Technical Directorate, which is in charge of follow up and trouble-shooting. Previously, he was head of planning, studies and follow up at the ministry and took up that position in late 1995, succeeding Dr. Radwan Al Saadi. Now the director of planning is Thamir Abbas Ghadban, a geologist with a decree from Imperial College, London. Ali Hamid Mohammed Saleh heads the Northern Oil Co. (NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, ), a post he took up in mid-2001 from Rafid Abdel Halim. Abdulbari Mahmoud Shawkat heads the Southern Oil Co. (SOC (System On a Chip) The electronics for a complete, working product contained on a single chip. While a microcontroller includes all the hardware components required to process instructions, an SoC includes the computer and all required ancillary electronics. ). A technocrats with a degree from Mosul University, he was previously director of Technical Department at the Oil Ministry, and before that director of distribution of oil products. |
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