South Korea’s petroleum and refinery company S-Oil Corp.’s board directors elected Othman Al-Ghamdi, Representative Director of Aramco Asia Korea, as its new chief executive officer on Thursday.
S-Oil plans to hold a general shareholders meeting on Sept. 5 and put the appointment to a vote.
Othman previously served as the operations director at Ras Tanura oil refinery of the state-owned Saudi Arabian energy company, Saudi Aramco (Aramco), and headed the Korean branch of Armaco.