Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented the award, which lauded Jum’ah’s time with Saudi Arabia’s national oil company. Petrotech is a non-profit organization composed of professionals from India’s oil and gas industries
“Jum’ah’s visionary leadership enabled Saudi Aramco to gear up to meet the escalating world oil demand, locating and developing additional reserves and augmenting production and distribution capacity,” Singh said. “He brought in a structural balance in Saudi Aramco’s value chain constituencies at the Saudi Kingdom and abroad, integrating into petrochemicals, while minimizing the environmental footprint of the world’s largest oil corporation.”
Jum’ah attributed his success to the more-than 50,000 employees of Saudi Aramco and delivered a speech on sustained development in the energy industry. He donated the cash portion of the award to an Indian children’s hospital. It was the first time the award was given to a Saudi national.
The theme of the conference, which ran for three days from Nov. 1, was “Global Energy Equilibrium” with a variety of sessions to share knowledge and expertise within the global oil industry.
