Fares El Khazen

Fares EL Khazen

VP Business Development Refining & Petrochemicals Middle-East & Africa, TotalEnergies

After joining TotalEnergies in 2006, with a first experience in Engineering with an EPC contractor, Fares El Khazen alternated between positions on large Exploration and Production projects in United Kingdom, Norway, Angola and Nigeria and Development positions for Middle East in Paris. In 2019, he was appointed Project Director of the Marsa LNG project in Oman.

In 2021, he took the position of Vice President Business Development Refining & Petrochemicals Middle East & Africa, covering the Company downstream new business and developments including Petrochemicals and circularity (Plastic recycling, Sustainable Aviation Fuel, etc.).

In November 2023, he was named VP Gas & LNG within OneTech Branch covering pre-FID studies and projects for LNG, H2 and Biogas.

Fares El Khazen is a graduate of Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Beyrouth (ESIB) and holds an MBA from Paris La Sorbonne.