Ahmed Al Azkawi serves as the Chief Executive Officer for OQ Exploration and Production SAOG “OQEP”. He has 25 years of experience in senior management roles, particularly in the upstream industry in Oman.

He has been employed with OQEP since 2021. His career in oil and gas began with PDO in 1997, where he worked in gas fields, light oil, heavy oil and EOR. He later occupied various management and executive roles in the energy and logistics sector, including as Chief Executive Officer of Oman Logistics Company SAOC (Khazaen) and as Well and Reservoir Team Leader, Senior Value Assurance Consultant and Petroleum Engineering Cluster Manager at PDO.

Prior to his present role, Ahmed was the Vice President of procurement, contracts and inventory at OQ, and was responsible for the governance structure, policies, procedures, systems and dashboards to track the performance of procurement functions across nine OQ companies.

He is a member of various committees and boards, holds a BSc. in Physics from Imperial College London and MEng in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.