Abdallah Jumʿa

Abdallah Jumʿa ( Arabic عبدالله جمعة, DMG ʿAbdallāh Ǧumʿa , according to the English transcription Jumah or Jum'ah ; * 1941 ) was managing director of Aramco , the largest oil production company in the world , from 1995 to December 31, 2008 .

Life

Jumʿa is a graduate of the American University in Beirut and Harvard University. He has been with Aramco since 1968 and is a member of the Saudi Aramco Board of Directors . He was appointed Managing Director of the Group in 1995 by the Minister of the Saudi Oil Industry, Ali Al-Naimi . He writes for the specialist magazine Worldenergymagazine . According to him (early 2008) the world will not have to worry about oil depletion anytime soon, literally:

"We have grossly underestimated mankind's ability to find new reserves of petroleum, as well as our capacity to raise recovery rates and tap fields once thought inaccessible or impossible to produce."

"We have grossly underestimated the human ability to locate new oil deposits, to increase production rates and to tap inaccessible and seemingly impossible fields"

- Abdallah Jumʿa

Jumʿa assumes that less than 10% of the existing liquid oil reserves have already been extracted.

His successor as CEO of Aramco was the Saudi Arabian manager Chalid al-Falih in 2009 .

Web links

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↑ http://www.saudiaramco.com/irj/portal/anonymous
^ Aramco chief says world's Oil reserves will last for more than a century. In: Oil and Gas Journal. Retrieved July 29, 2008 .
↑ Abdallah S. Jum'ah: Rising to the Challenge: Securing the Energy Future. (No longer available online.) In: World Energy Source. Archived from the original on April 4, 2013 ; accessed on July 29, 2008 (English).
^ Peter Glover: Aramco Chief Debunks Peak Oil. (No longer available online.) In: Energy Tribune. January 17, 2008, archived from the original on February 15, 2012 ; accessed on July 29, 2008 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Jumʿa, Abdallah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jum'ah, Abdullah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Saudi entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	1941

[1] ttp://www.saudiaramco.com/irj/portal/anonymous

[2] Aramco chief says world's Oil reserves will last for more than a century. In: Oil and Gas Journal. Retrieved July 29, 2008 .

[3] Abdallah S. Jum'ah: Rising to the Challenge: Securing the Energy Future. (No longer available online.) In: World Energy Source. Archived from the original on April 4, 2013 ; accessed on July 29, 2008 (English).

[Glover2008-4] Peter Glover: Aramco Chief Debunks Peak Oil. (No longer available online.) In: Energy Tribune. January 17, 2008, archived from the original on February 15, 2012 ; accessed on July 29, 2008 (English).