DATUK ABDULLAH BIN KARIM

Malaysia

Male

65

Member of Audit Committee

Independent and Non Executive

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Bachelor of Sciences in Mechanical Engineering from University of Western Australia
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Diploma in Gas Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Datuk Abdullah Karim (Datuk Abdullah) was the Vice President & Venture Director, LNG Projects-Domestic, Global LNG, Upstream from July 2012. 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. 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/CEO of OGP Technical Services Sdn. Bhd., a project management consultancy company from 1995 to 1999.
In 1999, he assumed the position of Managing Director/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 VP/CEO of PETRONAS Development & Production.

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