Ahmed Al-Shaibani is the Project Manager & Internal Audit Manager at Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) after he has been the project manager of a Ras Al Hamra Development Project for PDO since April 2014, a mega mixed-use real estate a role. Ahmed is a graduate of University of Leeds, UK where he received a BA in Mechanical Engineering; he is also a Shell Project Academy Certified project portfolio manager and a professional member of the Project Management Institute (PMI). After graduation Ahmed joined PDO in 1998 and worked as an oilfield mechanical engineer. In 2001 he transferred to project management and after successfully managing number of business critical projects he was appointed as head of the South Oman Project Services team in 2005. During Ahmed’s two years in the role he managed to develop and implement enhanced project controls and planning capabilities throughout the business unit. In 2007 he was appointed as head of the Marmul Oilfield Cluster project and promoted to the leadership team. In 2010 Ahmed was nominated for a cross-posting opportunity to Brunei Shell Petroleum where he headed the On-Shore Projects team and successfully managed to deliver a number of business critical projects. On his return to PDO in 2013 he was appointed as the project manager for the Amin Oilfield Development Project, which is one of Shell’s top 70 projects globally.