ADCO's Falcon club

Mr. Saqr Al Mehairbi is an ADCO employee who served the company for five decades, he is one the first Emirati managers in ADCO who managed several departments, in 1986 he created ADCO’s Falcon sports club with the support from ADCO’s management and established sport teams which included Football, volleyball, basketball, fishing, Karate, Judo and Tennis

As I interviewed MR. Saqr about his great venture we went through the history of ADCO in general and his career, he first joined ADCO 1965 as a trainee until 1969 he worked as an operator for oil and gas in Habshan and Bu Hasa.

He later became a comp foreman and was responsible for accommodations; aviation and transport vehicles then took courses in England for special aircraft attending, aviation and airport management. Then I was promoted to manage all of ADCO’s aviation fields and services, then in 1978 then was promoted to be purchasing assistant manager and handled all of ADCO’s purchasing’s for oil fields supplies as he was in charge of 36 oil rigs, then in 1986 he was promoted as a manager for general services.

As I asked Mr. Saqr on how did he start ADCO’s sport and catering club which is called the Falcon club he said “In 1982 I have requested our top management to give me further courses in catering in England which they have provided and then when I returned, I came up with an idea to start a sport league for all of ADNOC’s companies which have included sports teams for Football, volleyball, basketball, fishing, Karate, Judo and Tennis the idea went to the higher management of ADNOC and they supported the idea and enforced it on all of the group companies which included ADCO and I named the club the Falcon club, then we started the football league which included all of the companies.”

The first league was sponsored by sheik Tahnon bin Mohammed which happened in 1986 and the league consisted of 8 teams which were

·         ADCO

·         ZADCO

·         ADNOC

·         ADMA

·         UDECO

·         GASCO

·         ADOC

·         Distribution Company

Overall ADCO achieved 2 championships that were sponsored by the sheiks and 13 that were sponsored by ADNOC.

The falcon club today still stands and has been improved and developed and it is only accessible by ADCO’s employees and their families.