Suleiman al-Abbas


Suleiman Al Abbas is a Syrian engineer and politician who is the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.

Education

Abbas holds a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering, which he received from the Romanian University of Ploieşti in 1982. He also obtained certificates in oil well control and contract arbitration from the Arab Engineers Federation.

Career

Abbas served as director of Al Jibseh oil fields in 1997. Then he was appointed director of planning department at the Syrian Petroleum Company in 2005. He became a board member of Al Furat Oil Company in 2008. He also served as deputy oil minister. On 9 February 2013, he was appointed Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources to the cabinet headed by prime minister Wael Al Halki in a minor cabinet reshuffle. Abbas replaced Saeed Hunedi as oil minister.