As head of Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company by production, Abdallah Jum’ah manages a quarter of the world’s reserves. The government-owned firm has a monopoly on the oil supplies of the oil-rich country and with crude prices shattering the US$100 mark earlier this year, Jum’ah is playing an increasingly prominent role on the world stage.
He joined Saudi Aramco in 1968, becoming head of the company in late 1995. Saudi Aramco has operations that span the globe reaching into every area of oil industry and achieved revenues of US$3bn last year. It is the largest oil company in the world. A dark cloud on the horizon however, continues to be the escalation in attacks on Westerners that could lead to an exodus of expatriate oil workers, threatening the oil industry of the whole kingdom.
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