Azhari Mohd Kalok

Main area of responsibilities: Business Development, Project Governance & Compliance, Strategic Planning and Capital Projects Planning & Budgeting.
Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer:
● Ensure governance and overall management of portfolio of capital projects as per approved capital budget and planned schedule (Chairman Of Technical Committee, overlooking the technical approval of new projects and related activities prior to allocation of funds for FEED activities. Highly involved in the consolidating of all capital projects followed by the budget planning and execution of the projects.
● Spearhead new plant/business process/activity optimisation opportunities which will drive down production costs and increase profits to the company (Business Excellence)
● Identify and develop new business opportunities related to sales of QAFCO products and also diversified products from QAFCO, in line with company’s new strategic initiatives up to 2030
● Focal person for QAFCO in managing and maintaining communication and relationship with shareholders namely IQ/QP and Yara.

Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer:
•Lead in ensuring governance and overall management of portfolio of capital projects as per approved capital budget and planned schedule. The capital budget planning is a major input in the annual company budget planning and strategy moving forward i.e expand or stay the same.
•Lead and steer new optimization opportunities which will drive down production costs and increase profits to the company
•Lead, strategize and steer the revision and implementation of Business Development and Improvement (Project Management) standards for ORYX GTL Ltd thus ensuring projects conducted in-house are executed according to governance requirements.
•Lead in the review of new business opportunities related to sales of GTL products and its byproducts.

Upstream Project Execution & Engineering, Project Implementation Dept, Petroleum Management Unit (PMU), PETRONAS PMU is the oil and gas authority and regulator of the petroleum industry in Malaysia under the Petroleum Development Act 1974.
(Main area of responsibilities: Project Development and Execution, Project Governance and Compliance, Strategic Planning, ETC )
•Successfully program-managed and influenced the timely delivery and execution of multiple oil and gas projects by various PSC/PSA holders e.g ExxonMobil, Murphy Oil, Petrofac, Shell, etc. Total No. of projects ranges from 25-40 with total cost of more than USD10bil (close to 60 projects of various sizes at peak of development activities). The development projects are mainly categorized as small/marginal fields, shallow water depth (less than 100m WD), and EOR/IOR development of brown field facilities.
•Closely guided and reviewed submissions from PSC/concession holders of their Work Program and Budget (WP&B)/Year End Review and Carry Over (YERCO)/Additional Budget Request (ABR) submissions to be technically justifiable and are in accordance to approved development plans.These reviews contributed towards the overall WPB for development areas in Malaysia on a 1+4 years basis.
•Major achievements: Led in the establishment of Project Management Framework for all development projects in Malaysia to ensure the projects executed are delivered within planned costs and schedule (80% of all projects within budget). For more than 3 years, managed a portfolio of offshore projects of various sizes with total cost of more than US$10bil.

Project Management & Coordination, Gas to Liquids Project (GTL), PETRONAS
GTL Project Team role at that time was to undertake concept works/feasibility studies (pre-FEED) for the development and construction of a GTL plant in Uzbekistan (estimated cost of USD4Bil)
(Main area of responsibilities: Project Services, Strategic Planning, Project Planning & Coordination, HR and Manpower Sourcing, Stakeholder Management)
•Lead in managing Project Integration and Coordination of multidisciplinary team members from upstream, petroleum product marketing, HSE, corporate planning, public affairs, legal, finance, technical etc for PETRONAS and the representatives from the JV partners, namely SASOL and UNG.
•Major achievement was successfully setting up the project team for PETRONAS and ensured all governance and procedures are observed and followed. This resulted in the project team completing Pre-FEED activities on time and a technical team consisting of representatives from the shareholders was timely assembled which led to early start of FEED phase for the GTL plant.

LNV role is to seek and evaluate new LNG projects worldwide to supplement MLNG’s production of 23.1MTPA in Malaysia.
Main area of responsibilities: Business Development, Project Evaluation, Development and Coordination, Strategic Planning and Budgeting, Stakeholders/Shareholders Management
•Lead and strategize business development activities for potential LNG and gas (either power generation or gas supply) projects in the Middle East Asia, Africa, and South American regions. Working closely with PETRONAS Carigali (Upstream Company), lead in the economic evaluation analyses of integrated upstream gas asset monetization via LNG production. Explored various options in coming up with the most optimum development concept to support Carigali in their quest to acquire/farm into gas blocks available to them in the Middle East and Africa regions.
•Manage and coordinate various activities by multiple disciplines ie. commercial, legal, technical, logistics, finance, and project management for Pars LNG project in order to meet the Final Investment Decision (FID) date in 2008. Ensured all the conditions set out in the Joint-Venture Agreement were met i.e. Upstream development FID achieved on time, GSA signed by a certain target date, etc.
•Major achievements include making inroads for new LNG/gas projects identified in the African region (Ethiopia via Djibouti, Mozambique and Mauritania). In addition, developed excellent coordination among the shareholders of the LNG project in Iran which was missing prior to joining the project.

PETRONAS Vietnam PETRONAS Vietnam Office Role is to integrate all the businesses PETRONAS is involved in in Vietnam and seeking (at country-level) new business opportunities in the country.
(Main area of responsibilities: Business Development, Project Evaluation, Development and Coordination, Strategic Planning and Budgeting, Stakeholders/Shareholders Management, )
•Strategize and lead in identifying new business opportunities for PETRONAS in Vietnam especially in the upstream oil and gas development, marketing of petroleum products such as LPG and retailing and petrochemicals products through holding regular discussions, communication, relationship building etc. with central and provincial government/authorities, PetroVietnam, GLCs, etc.
•Provided in-country views/knowledge/information scanning to PETRONAS Corporate Planning Dept coming up with PETRONAS overall country strategy for Vietnam, covering upstream development and production, development and operation of a petrochemicals plant, reviewing refinery opportunities in North and Central Vietnam, potential power plant to support offshore gas discovery, lubricant and petroleum product business development, LNG terminalling and operations, etc.
•Major achievements include integration and coordination of all PETRONAS businesses in Vietnam, from upstream to downstream sectors and close relationship and trust gained with the Ministries and authorities of Vietnam.

Gas District Cooling Malaysia GDCM is a PETRONAS subsidiary involved in the supply of utilities such as Chilled Water and Electricity to a specific district or development area utilizing gas as the main driver for its cogeneration facilities.
(Main area of responsibilities: Business Development, Project Evaluation, Development and Coordination, Planning and Budgeting)
•Coordinated the business development activities for new GDC plants in the new administrative capital in Putrajaya and several industrial areas near Kuala Lumpur. Successfully coordinated the execution of techno-commercial studies for the development of new Cogeneration/ District Cooling and Heating plants (DCHP) through conducting economic evaluation analyses and explore various options in coming up with the most optimum development concept.
•Contributed in the strategic planning of new Cogen/DC ventures in Malaysia for GDCM, with target market being new business districts or major manufacturing looking into reducing energy costs using energy efficient schemes, while maintaining a profitable business in 3 major development in Malaysia.
•Support & coordinate the negotiations of Utility Supply Agreements (Chilled Water and Power) with customers which include Government ministries/departments, local authorities(airports, city councils, etc)
•Actively promoted efficient energy usage through Cogeneration and DCHP in the national and international arena via participation in various seminars, conferences and exhibitions;
•Notable achievement include coming up with new business process workflows for the company, developed strong coordination among internal teams namely planning, technical/project, operations and finance;

Malaysian International Trading Corp, MITCO is a PETRONAS subsidiary which undertakes the trading and marketing of petrochemicals and general products.
•Even though I was a junior staff, I was entrusted to manage the business planning and execution of the trading and marketing of Petrochemicals products including polymers (HDPE, LLDPE, LDPE, PP), olefins (Ethylene and Propylene) and Chemicals (Methanol, MTBE) from PETRONAS petrochemical plants. Undertook the business strategy planning and execution polymers and chemicals marketing department throughout my time in MITCO.
•Successfully managed the shipping and logistics operations of bulk chemicals and containerized products.
•Major achievements include: Creation of process workflows for the department and successful project delivery of petroleum products storage conversion to chemicals storage in East Coast Malaysia. This was followed by delivery of Methanol to the storage terminal and later coordinated the first break bulking business from the chemicals terminal (via sales in drums) to nearby chemical factories and further export to Vietnam.