Leadership
ENGSL Minerals DMCC is led by its founder and Managing Director, Olfi Mohammed.
Olfi Mohammed
Founder & Managing Director
As Managing Director, he has led ENGSL's supply activity since 2012 and the company's move into minerals and construction materials, now its main focus.
His career includes 27 years of senior operations experience with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and international EPC project management through Costain UK. He studied engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the United States.
He is the named inventor on international patent application WO2015194963A1, filed in 2014 by ENGSL Minerals DMCC and EnPro. In 2016 the Masdar Institute reported a techno-economic study of ENGSL's carbon capture technology.
Qualifications and experience
- ADNOC
- 27 years of senior operations experience. Field work from 1994 to 2007 is listed below.
- International EPC
- Project management experience through Costain UK.
- Education
- Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), United States. Thesis work through MIT framework and pathways programmes. Additional professional and technical education in the UK and US.
- Patent application
- Named inventor on WO2015194963A1, “Process for producing soda ash”.
- At ENGSL
- Founder and Managing Director. Has led supply activity since 2012 and the move into minerals and construction materials.
ADNOC field operations, 1994–2007
This work was carried out by Olfi Mohammed in his ADNOC roles in Abu Dhabi, before ENGSL.
| Period | Location | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Habshan | Early production facility: delivery of the facility and start-up of operations. |
| 1997 | Abu Dhabi | Water injection and field infrastructure: 44 water injection clusters, a power station, telecommunications facilities, and housing compounds for 1,200 staff at Bu Hasa and 1,400 staff at Jabal Dhana. |
| 1997–2003 | Abu Dhabi | Oil and gas separation facility (EPC): process design, FEED, procurement, construction, commissioning, start-up and operations management. |
| 2003–2007 | Bu Hasa | Large-scale three-phase oil and gas separation facility: gas compression, flow and export lines, gas injection and water-alternating-gas (WAG) wells, a power station, 33 kV overhead lines and substations. |
Related pages
ENGSL's own projects and supply programmes since 2007 are listed on the project experience page.
The management team covers commercial work, administration, maritime operations, North Africa development and finance.