Omani professor earns academic distinction

MUSCAT: Professor Dr Khalid bin Saif al Nabhani has completed post doctoral fellowship in Risk Assessment and Management of Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Nuclear Radioactive Material in Oil and Gas Industry, in two and half years from Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada.

He is the first Omani and Arab professor to earn this honour.

The specialisation holds new promising research areas in the scientific circles. Professor Khalid bin Saif al Nabhani has published five scientific papers in reputed journals. He published a research on Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials in Oil and Gas Production: A Silent Killer.

The research was published at issue number 99 of Process Safety and Environmental Protection magazine in 2015. The other research was titled Scenario-based Risk Assessment of TENORM Waste Disposal Options in Oil and Gas Industry.

The research was published at the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, volume 40, March 2016. Memorial University nominated professor Al Nabhani, as per a recommendation from senior scientists in chemical engineering fields, to edit a book on ‘ Methods in the Safety of Chemical Processes.’ The book, which is planned to be taught in a number of universities round the world.