KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 1): Deleum Bhd (KL:DELEUM) has appointed former Petronas director Ainul Azhar Ainul Jamal to the integrated upstream oil and gas outfit’s board.

Ainul Azhar has taken up an independent non-executive director post on its board effective Friday, according to Deleum’s exchange filing. He previously sat on the board of Petronas between May 2018 and April 2023.

“He was also the founding board member of Gentari, a wholly owned entity of Petronas,” Deleum noted.

Before that, Ainul Azhar spent most of his career at American oilfield services company Schlumberger.

Over the course of his 32-year stint with the company, he held various technical, managerial and executive roles in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, France, Canada and the UK, culminating in his appointment as the chairman and director at Schlumberger in Malaysia.

In July this year, he was appointed as a director of Icon Offshore Bhd (KL:ICON). He also currently serves as a director at Cetco Energy Services (M) Sdn Bhd and Danau Selasih Sdn Bhd.

Shares in Deleum settled five sen or 3.47% higher at RM1.49 at the noon break, valuing the group at RM598.31 million.