RE:Sarah Akbar Resume - Impressive. Why Sonoro?This should not get buried, this is no lightweight token appointment, as someone else mentioned and I as well have little doubt that this Lady had quite a bit of clout and no doubt many connections. There’s big value just in having her on our board. A Kuwait field could very well be in the works.. GLTA
FabiusCunctator wrote: - Akbar began her career working in departmental offices before attaining a position as a petroleum engineer for Kuwait Oil Company. She subsequently worked there in fire-fighting operations, as superintendent of petroleum engineering, and as R&D specialist.
- Between 1981 and 1999, Akbar worked in the oil sector at Kuwait Energy, a company she co-founded and served as CEO.
- During the 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, most of the oil wells in the country (80%) were attacked by Saddam Hussein's army. Akbar was the lone woman on a rogue team of petroleum engineers who acted against orders to take on the dangerous task of dousing oil well fires.
- She believes it was her familiarity with the wells that allowed her team to be successful: "I worked on the oilfields, offshore and onshore, day and night, and the result of this work was that I knew the oilfields very well... There were 800 wells and I knew every single one like the back of my hand."
- From 2001 to 2005, she was the business development manager of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company.
- In 2006, Akbar was behind the creation of oil and gas legislation and regulations in Somalia. She also was a "catalyst" humanitarian efforts in the country. Under Akbar's direction, Kuwait Energy sponsored approximately "two hundred women to start up small business markets..."
- Akbar served as the director-at-large of the Society of Petroleum Engineers in 2007.
- In January 2018, Akbar became the only woman on the Board of Trustees of the Silk City and Boubyan Island development authority for the project Madinat al-Hareer. She resigned as the CEO of Kuwait Energy in 2017.