Hammodat Mishal (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Green wraps titled in English and Arabic 17 x 24cm with 90pp text in Arabic only. Wraps good with wear and a little loss to spine tail, fading towards the edges, and small tears. Interiors very good, lightly tanned with some creasing. Rare, with 4 locations on Worldcat and Jisc (BL, University of Manchester, Harvard, Indiana). Al-Mu'allim al-jadid, or the New Teacher Bulletin, was published quarterly by the Ministry of Education Press, and distributed to teachers. Its Committee included Dr Faisal Al-Mani, Jafar al-Khayyat, Dr Muhammad Wasil Al-Zahir, Abdul Muttalib Abdul-Rahman, Dr Abdul Jalil Al-Zawbi, Faisal Najm al-Din, Dr Ahmed Mutlab, and Ali Al-Shobaki. Professor Hammodat (b. Mosul 1929) graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois. He joined the Iraqi Oil Refineries Authority where he contributed to the construction and operation of the Dora Refinery (inaugurated by King Faisal II in 1955). In 1959 he authored the first curriculum in petroleum engineering for the University of Baghdad's College of Engineering. He was appointed General Manager of the Authority in 1967. He then worked at the Oil Ministry, National Oil Company, and Khanaqin oil fields, planning and supervising the development of refineries and the liquefied gas industry. Relevant to this work, he urged the disruption of jobs occupied by foreign employees in the oil industry, promoted the training and employment of Iraqis, and supported nationalisation. In 1981 he was appointed Director General of the Oil Industry Training Academy. This is regarded as one of his most important works. It was published shortly after Qasim's government had created the National Oil Company (Feb 1964) to operate areas confiscated from IPC under Law 80 (12 Dec 1961). It describes Iraq's relations and negotiations with the Iraq Petroleum Company. Hammodat starts by describing Iraq's importance as an oil producer, then places it in historical perspective, describing how oil had been used traditionally, and by Bedouin to the present. He goes on to survey the concessions with IPC, BPC, MPC, and the Khanaquin Oil Company, negotiations with the Iraq Government, price setting, the appointment of Iraqi directors and staff and the disruption of jobs, the use of Iraqi tankers, OPEC, expropriation under Law 80 (1961), and the creation of the National Oil Company (1964). (Ref: Ghanim Anaz Blogspot).