Oil & Gas Middle East presents the fifty most influential decision makers in the regional upstream business. The second edition of the Oil & Gas Middle East Power 50 list sees the top spot claimed by a Saudi Arabian this year, however the number of people with ties to the Iraqi upstream sector who have [...]
Crescent Petroleum, the biggest shareholder in Dana Gas, said the terms of Dana's planned $920 million debt restructuring deal are fair and protect shareholders. Crescent Chief Executive Majid Jafar, who is also a board member of Dana, described the deal as "an optimum balance to serve interests of all stakeholders"
In 1958, Majid Jafar’s grandfather, then the Iraqi development minister, opened two hydroelectric dams in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. Until a joint venture between the Jafar family's Crescent Petroleum and its affiliate Dana Gas started to produce Kurdish gas in 2008, there had been no new power-generation facility in the northern region of Iraq [...]
In an interview with BBC’s Business Daily World Radio report, Majid Jafar, Crescent Petroleum’s CEO and Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council, expands on the issues underlying the disproportionate increase in youth unemployment around the world. Joined by Skills Policy Adviser, Katerina Rudiger of the CIPD, Jafar and Rudiger assess the challenges [...]
Arab World Energy Demand increases 500% in last 30 years Affordability and sustainability key to sustainable energy policy for region Crescent Petroleum, the Middle East’s oldest private oil and gas company, has highlighted the need for responsible companies in the Arab World to develop and adopt environmental policies for sustainable development as part of their [...]
In an exclusive interview with Gulf Business, Crescent Petroleum’s CEO, Majid Jafar, highlights the wealth of new opportunities underlying the Arab world’s economic revolution, and its advantages to the private sector
Majid Jafar, Crescent Petroleum’s CEO, addresses the challenges facing the energy sector today; discussing the implications behind fluctuating oil prices, the need for establishing clear energy policies and job creation in the Middle East .........
UAE-based Crescent Petroleum is gearing up for expansion in the Iraqi oil and gas sector and a debut into Libya and Lebanon, its chief executive told Reuters
Majid Jafar, CEO of UAE-based oil and gas company Crescent Petroleum, believes the Arab world's economic revolution is only just beginning, and private sector companies are driving the change
A key leader in the development of the Khor Mor gas field, Majid Jafar discusses the project that has fueled Kurdistan's economic boom and become Exhibit A in the argument for reforming Iraqi gas policy. Majid Jafar is the CEO of Crescent Petroleum and a board member of Dana Gas. The companies are jointly [...]
