Equity Opens Office in Middle East

Michael Pambos,
Ph.D.

Dr. Michael Pambos has spent most of his life in the Oil & Gas industry working for numerous major multinational companies in Europe, the Middle East, West Africa, South East Asia and China and North and South America. He began working for a major EPC company on refinery and petrochemical projects in the Middle East and was later given European regional responsibilities within the safety and environmental equipments division. Mike then spent several years in the London office of IMODCO, the SPM Company, during which time he worked on several major projects; Colombo Harbour, Falklands islands, Iran Offshore and others and later two periods in charge of the Asia office in Singapore leading up to the takeover by Single Buoy Moorings.

Mike then moved into consulting as Managing Director of a highly specialist consultancy and led on major projects for major multinational companies and the public sector over a period of some 15 years. He had during this period sat on the Advisory Board of ESR Technology, the then recently privatised arm of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), from which position he was appointed as Vice President in charge of the Middle East region working from the Abu Dhabi office until the company was acquired by HYDER.

Leading up to joining Equity Engineering as General Manager of the Middle East, Mike was based in Saudi Arabia within a major Saudi multi-disciplined group of companies where he was in charge of special projects including many involving the specialist services of Equity Engineering.

Mike is known as a highly skilled quantitative analyst who has led on several major research and study projects and is a regular speaker at major conferences and industry events and at major Universities where he is frequently invited to speak to post graduate students on industry trends and the implications of developments and change. Mike holds an MSc and Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde and joined Equity Engineering on the 1st January 2012.