DATUK ABDULLAH BIN KARIM

Malaysia

Male

64

Director

Independent and Non Executive

1) BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Australia
2) Diploma in Gas Engineering from the Illionis Institute of Technology, USA

Datuk Abdullah Bin Karim ("Datuk Abdullah") was the Vice President & Venture Director, LNG Project-Domestic, Global LNG, Upstream, PETRONAS from July 2012 until his retirement in July 2016. Datuk Abdullah joined PETRONAS in 1977 and has over 39 years experiences in the oil and gas industry, having served as Project Engineer (1981) and General Manager, Engineering Division (1991) in PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd (PETRONAS Carigali) responsible for petroleum engineering, drilling and facilities development in new oil and gas fields. He became the Executive Assistant to the President of PETRONAS in 1994, after which he was appointed Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) of OGP Technical Services Sdn Bhd, a project management consultancy company from 1995- to 1999.
In 1999, he assumed the position of MD/CEO of Malaysia LNG Group of Companies, responsible for construction of MLNG 3 plant, marketing and operations of PETRONAS LNG Complex in Bintulu before his appointment as Vice President, Exploration & Production Business in 2004. In March 2007, he assumed the position of Vice President PETRONAS and MD/CEO of PETRONAS Carigali, a wholly owned subsidiary of PETRONAS involved in the exploration, development and production in Malaysia as well as in 23 countries worldwide. In July 2010, Datuk Abdullah was appointed as the President, PETRONAS Carigali, and Vice President/CEO of PETRONAS Development & Production.

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