Chen Kah Seong is the Vice President of Centre of Excellence, focused on delivering upstream growth proposals, governing technical standards and guidelines and providing specialised services that drive quality and value generation for the entire upstream value chain focusing in the areas of Subsurface, Drilling, Operational Excellence, Economics and Capability.

Leading up to his appointment, Chen was Vice President of International Assets, Development & Production, Upstream.

Since joining Petronas in 1988 as a Reservoir Engineer, Chen has assumed various positions as a Gas Planner, Petroleum Economist and Field Development Plan Leader.  He has also successfully led teams for Field Development, Projects and Petroleum Engineering.

He was also involved in Petronas Corporate Strategic Study, which laid out the direction for the company’s exploration plan in Malaysia, and was also a Business Planner to the Vice President of Exploration & Production.  Prior to his appointment as Vice President, he was Country Chairman of Petronas Myanmar.

Chen holds several international directorships in Petronas companies such as Petronas China Energy Ltd, Petroliam Manpower Services S.A de C.V and Pacific Northwest LNG Ltd.

He holds a degree in Petroleum Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and is also a Harvard Business School alumnus.

David leads our digital transformation capabilities within Energy at IHS Markit. The company’s innovation trajectory has accelerated by implementation of best data science practices from the finance sector following the merger between IHS and Markit. This drives proof of concept through to delivery for technologies that link sourcing and commercial outcomes to geoscience interpretation and engineering. David gave a keynote at the SPE event in November that was very well received. David is also a proposed keynote linking to energy transition at EAGE Vienna event. However we propose a keynote highlighting the role of subsurface data for KL. Also then available for panel sessions.