Executive Committee

MOHAMMED E. MAKKAWI - Projects Director

He is a highly experienced engineer with direct involvement since 1983 in project management and development of new projects, mainly in the gas sector. Mr. Makkawi is the former Chief Engineer in Sharjah Container Terminal, and Site Engineer with Contracting & Trading Company (CAT) of Lebanon. Mr. Makkawi graduated in 1974 from the American University of Beirut, with B.E. Mechanical Engineering.

ANDREW ROBERTS - Legal Director

He is responsible for all the legal aspects of Crescent Petroleum's major projects and transactions. Mr. Roberts was a partner in private practice with a London law firm before working in-house in the oil business. He has substantial international experience having been based, at various points in his career, in London, Qatar, Dubai, Malaysia and Geneva before taking up his current position with Crescent Petroleum in 2000. He has acquired specific experience in relation to onshore and offshore upstream oil and gas related matters. Mr. Roberts graduated from Oxford University with an MA (Honours) and was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1984.

THOMAS S. WATTS - Projects Director

Mr. Thomas joined Crescent Petroleum in 1989 and was initially responsible for the installation of Crescent Petroleum's offshore gas processing platform and pipeline, and later conceived, developed and implemented the Gas Supply Project. More recently, he played a pivotal role in securing the contracts with the Kurdistan Regional Government for 2 large gas fields and oversaw the fast-track implementation of the surface facilities to supply gas to power stations, and is currently responsible for the appraisal of those fields and further development of projects in North Iraq. Thomas has 30 years of international experience in the development and management of oil and gas projects specializing in the structuring of the gas-chain (facilities, transportation, processing and distribution) and the marketing and sales of gas and LPG. He was previously involved in several major projects in Denmark, Norway, the U.K. and the U.S.S.R. for multi-national oil companies and consultants. Mr. Watts graduated in 1979 from Birmingham University with B.Sc. (Honours) in Mechanical Engineering.