Based in Abu Dhabi, Mr Washash will spearhead Penspen’s initiative to enhance its integrity services profile across the region.

Penspen is currently providing integrity services throughout the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Kazakhstan and Iraq from its principal Middle East office in Abu Dhabi. Together with his team, Mr Washash will expand this remit to incorporate the full range of oil and gas integrity services from pipelines to plants and facilities.

Mr Washash joins Penspen from Wood Group Integrity Management where he ran the company’s specialist facilities integrity management consultancy for both green and brown fields. Having worked for a number of UAE-based operators, and published extensive papers and codes of practice, Mr Washash has over thirty years’ experience in technical audits and evaluations, failure assessments, corrosion prevention, cathodic protection, intelligent pigging, risk assessment and integrity management systems.

Mr Washash is a chartered engineer, a professional member of the Institute of Corrosion, a member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and a NACE-certified Coating Inspector.

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Penspen Director of Integrity Nigel Curson said “Ibrahim’s technical experience, combined with his thirty years’ experience in the region, will enable us to capitalise on our experience and maximise the effectiveness of our client response.”