Mehdi Jabbes

Secretary-General
Brief info

Mr Mehdi Jabbes has 32 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry. He had an international career as he worked in Turkiye, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Gabon, Germany, Ukraine, Qatar and Algeria.

After graduating from Ecole des Mines de Nancy as an Engineer with focus on Geology in 1986 and continuing with an Economic Engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs (ENSPM) - Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP) in 1987, Mr Jabbes started his career with Schlumberger as a Wireline Field Engineer and completed the steps until he was in charge of a location. In this portion of his career he had the occasion to participate in several multi-discipline operations that involved not only Wireline Logging Services but also Frac, Coil Tubing and Testing Services.

Mr Jabbes then moved horizontally within Schlumberger to be in charge of Data and Software Services and Solutions where he had a good exposure to various domains like Geology, Geophysics, Reservoir, Production, Economics and Data Management and supervised several projects like Data Management,  Real-time Drilling Monitoring and Production Optimization.

Mr Jabbes completed his career with Schlumberger as the Managing Director for Tunisia and Morocco for four years.
In his career he dealt with small operators, NOC's but also famous companies like Shell, Eni, Total and OMV.

Mr Jabbes is praised by his colleagues for his Ethics, hard work and Leadership Skills.