Mohammed Al QahtaniChairman

Mohammed Y. Al Qahtani is Saudi Aramco’s president of Downstream, where he has served since July 2023.

In addition to leading the Downstream organization, Mr. Al Qahtani serves as chairman of Aramco Trading Company, Motiva Enterprises, the King Salman Energy City Development Company, and Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP). He is Vice Chairman of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), and member of the Boards of the Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden), S-Oil, the Dhahran Techno Valley Holding Company, and Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA).

In addition, he is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Bilateral U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce. Other boards on which he has served include the Saudi Council of Engineers, the Arabian Geophysical & Surveying Company Ltd., the Pengerang Refining Company Sdn Bhd and Pengerang Petrochemical Sdn Bhd (collectively known as PRefChem), and the International Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Over the course of his career at Saudi Aramco, Mr. Al Qahtani has demonstrated versatile leadership in roles spanning the corporate, upstream, and downstream sectors. In 2007, he was president and CEO of the Aramco Services Company in Houston, Texas. In 2008, he was appointed Saudi Aramco’s Chief Petroleum Engineer.

In 2009, he assumed the position of executive director and then vice president of Petroleum Engineering & Development, followed by roles as vice president of Saudi Aramco Corporate Affairs and vice president of Corporate Planning. In 2016, Mr. Al Qahtani became a member of corporate management and was named senior vice president of Upstream. Following that, he held the role of executive vice president of Downstream from 2020 to June 2023.

Mohammed earned a BS degree in petroleum engineering from King Fahad University of Petroleum & Minerals in 1988, followed by a master’s degree and doctorate in the same field from the University of Southern California in 1992 and 1996, respectively.

He took part in several leadership and management training programs, including the IMD Leadership Program in Lausanne, Switzerland; the Saudi Aramco Management Development Seminar in Washington, D.C.; the Oil Economies Seminar in London; the Career Development and training program in Bahrain; and the Oxford Energy Seminar in London.