OMAN - Profile - John Malcolm.
One of Shell's heavyweights, Malcolm became PDO's managing director in early November 2002. He succeeded Steve Ollereanshaw, a former Shell CEO in Nigeria who was moved to Oman a few years earlier and who in late 2002 moved to Australia to take over as CEO of the North West Shelf (an integrated natural gas and LNG business in which Shell holds 34%).A process control engineer, Malcolm began his career in the British chemicals industry before working in the Middle East oil refining business. In 1984, he took two years off to teach at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. He joined Shell in 1986 and his first job was with PDO, as head of instrumentation and process control. He stayed at PDO for just over two years before taking up a range of different positions in the UK and the Netherlands.
In 1999, Malcolm moved to Syria to take up the position of general manager of Al Furat Petroleum Co. (AFPC), by far the main oil producer in that country which is a JV between the state-owned Syrian Petroleum Co., Shell and Petro-Canada. Later he became Shell country chairman in Syria and general manager of Syria Shell Petroleum Development (SSPD).
The Shell reason for moving Malcolm to Oman was partly the same as the one that took him to Syria: to turn the oilfields' precipitated production fall to a managed decline mode in the first phase, 2003 to mid-04; to stabilise their production, using three different EOR technologies, and increase the output by up to 40,000 b/d in late 2004 to 2006; and then to raise PDO's production to 800,000 b/d by 2008 (see Oil & Gas Market Trends No. 6). In Syria Malcolm succeeded in stabilising production at 300,000 b/d and was replaced there by Chris Haynes, who until October 2002 was Ollereanshaw's predecessor as CEO of North West Shelf (see survey of Syria which is to be serialised as from next week in Review Nos. 9-12).
The Deputy Managing Director of PDO is Abdullah Al Lamki. The head of New Technology PDO is Abdulsattar Al Murshidi, whose role in selecting the right option for each of the company's EOR or IOR requirement is of critical importance. The head of PDO's Contracting and Procurement is Mohammed Toki, of critical importance to suppliers of goods and services to the company. Toki's department is linked up with Oman TradaNet (OTN) and thus uses a digitised system which connects with the suppliers electronically.
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| Publication: | APS Review Downstream Trends |
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| Date: | Feb 23, 2004 |
| Words: | 416 |
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