Encik Ku Azhar Bin Ku Akil ("Encik Ku Azhar") has more than 30 years experience in the upstream oil and gas business, and has worked in various technical and managerial roles associated with the assessment, development and operations of the oil and gas fields. He has broad and diverse experience having covered operations in onshore, shallow-water and deep-water environment; inside and outside Malaysia. Encik Ku Azhar spent 15 years with Esso, 10 years with Murphy Oil and more than 6 years with Sapura Energy Berhad.

Encik Ku Azhar started his career as a Reservoir Engineer with Esso Production Malaysia Inc. (EPMI) in 1988, and has since worked in key  areas such as sub-surface engineering, corporate planning, front end engineering, project coordination, project costing and scheduling, and facilities engineering. He was also part of PETRONAS CORAL initiative as a full-member, representing EPMI. He then moved on to work with Murphy Oil as Project Services Manager and subsequently promoted as Development Manager for Murphy's shallow water fields and then as Project Manager for one of its deep-water fields.

Encik Ku Azhar joined Sapura Energy in 2013 as Vice-President, Technical Support and Services as part of Sapura's ventures to become  fields' Operator and was instrumental in the successful acquisition of Newfield Malaysia operations. He was also the Director of Sapura's joint-venture operations in Uzbekistan. His last position with Sapura was Vice President, Performance and Planning.

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