Taken from the New Straits Times, dateline 2010-02-03:
Shamsul Azhar is new PETRONAS president and CEO
PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Shamsul Azhar Abbas has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Petronas effective February 10 2010, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced today.
He has also been appointed Acting Chairman of the Petronas Board of Directors.
Shamsul Azhar, 57, who served as MISC President and Chief Executive Officer between 2004 and 2009, will replace Tan Sri Mohd Hassan Merican whose contract ends on February 9.
We welcome the new PETRONAS president, which ends the uncertainty surrounding who will step up to the plate. Those of you who have Datuk’s ear, please whisper the word ‘Synergy Oil & Gas – bagus” once in a while.
I hope this means that Datuk’s signature will soon flow from his pen, signing all those projects I presume have been put on hold until the succession issue was sorted out.
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Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 
he has held everything in Petronas from oil business, petrochem, upstream, maritime & logistics save finance & treasury . here’s looking forward for the speeding things up esp in upstream…
I will tell Datuk Shamsul about how great Synergy is.
Maybe he reads Ja-Hutt’s comments on Wata’s blog… we never know.
we’ll have lunch later. maybe i’ll tell him that.