Eng. Wissam Chbat

Eng. Wissam Chbat

Petroleum Administration Authority (LPA)

Wissam Edmond Chbat has 25 years of experience in Energy and notably in the oil and gas E&P. He graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1995 (BE in electrical engineering) and holds a master’s in finance from the Ecole Supérieure Des affaires Beirut. He joined Schlumberger oilfield services in 1997 and held various field operations, operations management (multi-segments) and business development positions. He worked in various countries around South America, South East Asia, West, South and North Africa and India gathering wide international experience before Joining the Lebanese Ministry of Energy and Water as the advisor to the Minister in late 2009 involved in country level energy efficiency, renewable energy and fuel sourcing sectoral plans and implementations. He worked also on establishing the institutional, technical, fiscal and legal frameworks of the oil and gas sector in Lebanon. Since December 2012, he was appointed by the Council of Ministers as a board member at the Lebanese Petroleum Administration and head of the Geology and Geophysics Department, and served as a Chairman of the Board in 2017.In October 2020, he was assigned to the Lebanese Maritime boundary negotiation team that was concluded on the 27th of October,2022 opening the way for resumed exploration operations offshore.

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