Executive Team - PetroChina Canada

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Jilin Fu

President & CEO

As President and CEO of PetroChina Canada, Jilin Fu is responsible for leading the company's strategic, financial and operational performance. With more than 32 years of experience in the petroleum industry, Mr. Fu's business experience spans a variety areas, including geological engineering, exploration, reserves, seismic surveying, strategic planning and project management.

Prior to being named President and CEO of PetroChina Canada in 2017, Mr. Fu was Chief Engineer of CNODC. In addition to his time working in China and Canada, Mr. Fu has 19 years of working experience in Africa, primarily in Niger, Mauritania and Sudan. He spent 10 years as Country Manager and President & General Manager (PDG) of several subsidiaries of CNODC in Niger, including CNPCIT and CNPCIN, where he was responsible for exploration, development and pipeline projects.

From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Fu managed exploration projects in Mauritania as General Manager of CNPC International (Mauritania) Ltd, a subsidiary of CNODC, he was a Senior Geologist at China National Oil & Gas Development Corporation (CNODC) in Beijing in 2005, and he was a Wellsite Geological Supervisor in Sudan from 1998 to 2005.

Mr. Fu holds a Doctoral Degree in Structural Geology from the University of Chinese Academy Sciences in Beijing, He completed a Project Management Professional (PMP) Program at the Asian American Studies Center at the University of Houston, and he holds a Bachelor's Degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Jianghan Petroleum Institute in Hubei Province, China.

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Bob Shepherd

Executive Vice President

With more than 30 years’ experience as a petroleum engineering executive in Western Canada and Alaska, Bob Shepherd is more than aware of both the negative impacts extracting oil can have on the environment as well as the powerful benefits it bestows to people around the world.

When he visits the field, Bob Shepherd always likes it if he can detect a faint smell of oil in the air. That tiny trace of hydrocarbons in the breeze reminds him that oil is a natural product and one that does a remarkable amount of good in the world.

With more than 30 years’ experience as a petroleum engineering executive in Western Canada and Alaska, Shepherd is more than aware of both the negative impacts extracting oil can have on the environment as well as the powerful benefits it bestows to people around the world.

He lists off the many ways that oil and gas improve our lives — from providing us with greater mobility, more access to experiences and better communication to dramatically reducing human toil and increasing our productivity.

Shepherd is continually impressed with the collaboration and creativity teams use to solve problems and he’s passionate about pushing PetroChina Canada — and all energy producers — to always do better at reducing environmental impacts and improving the industry’s value proposition for society.

As executive vice president at PetroChina Canada, Shepherd is responsible for maximizing the value of PetroChina Canada's portfolio of upstream, midstream and downstream assets in a socially responsible manner.

Originally from the Stettler, Alberta area, Shepherd graduated from SAIT’s Petroleum Technology Program in Calgary and received his petroleum engineering degree from Montana Tech in 1982. He worked in a wide variety of engineering roles at Unocal (Union Oil) before moving into management where his positions over the decades include president of Marathon Canada, general manager of Oil Sands with Husky, and senior vice president of Exploration and Development with Penn West.

He feels strongly that every single person has much to offer society and shouldn’t be overlooked. It’s something he’s learned firsthand being a father to an autistic son.

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Tao Yang

VP Corporate Administration

Mr. Tao Yang is accountable for overseeing the Information Technology and Logistics and Administration functions at PetroChina Canada (PCC), as well as for managing the CNPC Representative Office in Calgary. An expert in comprehensive management practices, he has extensive experience in personnel management, financial management, information management, planning, marketing, and mergers and acquisitions negotiations.

Prior to taking on his current role in January 2018, Mr. Yang held the position of Executive Advisor, Commercial at PCC. In this role since mid-2016, he worked with PCC's executive team to support the company's new commercial activities, and to advise on and participate in corporate strategic planning, regular operational reviews and cost optimization exercises.

Prior to joining PetroChina Canada, Mr. Yang held numerous high-ranking positions at CNPC in China and internationally. He was Assistant to the Chairman of the Board of Directors at CNPC from 2013 to 2016, Assistant to the President of CNPC from 2011 to 2013, and Assistant to the Vice President of CNPC from 2006 to 2011. He also held a number of increasingly senior roles in HR and Administration at CNPC International Venezuela Ltd. from 1997 to 2002.

Mr. Yang holds an Executive MBA from the University of Maryland, as well as degrees in Finance and Economics, and Human Resources Management from Xi'an Petroleum University.

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Murray Casault

Vice President Business Integration

Murray Casault, who brings 20+ years of experience working on the operations side of the oil and gas industry over to the business side, believes adapting positively to change is the key to success. It’s something he’s learned firsthand over his long and varied career working in the energy sector.

Prior to joining PetroChina Canada, Casault spent 18 years at Shell Canada Limited in a variety of increasingly more senior roles in operations and project leadership that spanned both unconventional heavy oil and sour gas assets.

He joined PetroChina Canada in 2011 as operations manager for the Heavy Oil Assets (Mackay River and Dover North Commercial Projects) where he led the operations team through initial business and project development phases.

In 2013, he was promoted to the position of vice president for Business Services where he’s responsible for Business Transformation, Information Services, Supply Chain Management and Office Services.

In this role, he’s able to apply his many years’ experience working in disciplined operations to improve the business side, creating sustainable changes to how PetroChina Canada serves its business. Casault and his team identify and execute different initiatives that are aimed at improving operating efficiencies across the company. In addition to providing PetroChina Canada's supply chain and information system support, they’re also identifying and delivering efficient and effective business solutions that reduce redundancies, complexity and costs.

Creating new best practices for the business is challenging and rewarding work aided considerably by Casault’s depth and breadth of knowledge that he gained in two decades of diversified experience in the unconventional heavy oil and sour gas industry.

Casault, who is married with two children, graduated from Mount Royal University’s Business Administration – Management program in 1992 and Southern Alberta Institute of Technology’s Power Engineering Technology program in 1994.

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Guangfa Chang

Vice President Technical Resources

Guangfa Chang has never met a challenge he doesn’t like. In fact, PetroChina Canada's Vice President Technical Services has built a career on identifying, assessing and then wholeheartedly tackling challenges in the oil and gas industry — be they technical, financial or a few other types in between.

After decades working in Sudan and South Sudan, Chang is throwing himself headlong into something completely different: Northern Alberta and steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) to extract bitumen from two different Brion assets near Fort McMurray, MacKay River and Dover.

Bitumen is a brand new ballgame for the career energy producer. But Chang believes where there’s a challenge there’s also a solution just waiting to be found. Dedicated to performance and driven by targets, Chang is delving into technical issues around extracting bitumen and even learning how to work in similarly extreme but far different weather than he was used to in Africa. But it’s not slowing him down. In fact, it’s speeding him up.

Chang started his long career with CNPC Exploration and Development Company (CNODC) as a production engineer in Daqing, the largest oil field in China. In the nearly 30 years since, he’s earned progressively more senior roles in various projects and CNODC subsidiaries in Sudan and South Sudan. In each and every position he’s held, Chang applies his experience, intelligence and determination to the task at hand.

His positions over the years include president of the Great Pioneer Operation Company, field production manager at the Great Nile Petroleum Operation Company, field production manager of Petroenergy and section head of the Production department.

Chang completed his executive MBA from Harbin Industry University in 2005 and he graduated with a bachelor degree in seismic from Daqing Petroleum Institute in 1989. But he’s never stopped learning.

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Guoliang Feng

General Manager, CNPCI International Canada (CNPCIC)

As General Manager of CNPCIC, a petroleum company established in Calgary in 1993, Mr. Guoliang Feng is accountable for overseeing all of CNPCIC's assets, operations and business interests in Canada. Trained as a senior geologist, Mr. Feng has more than 34 years of experience working in the energy sector, including 28 years with PetroChina and CNPC.

As General Manager of CNPCIC, a petroleum company established in Calgary in 1993, Mr. Guoliang Feng is accountable for overseeing all of CNPCIC's assets, operations and business interests in Canada.

Trained as a senior geologist, Mr. Feng has more than 34 years of experience working in the energy sector, including 28 years with PetroChina and CNPC. He has experience in oil and gas exploration and operations management, including seismic survey, drilling, completion operation, reservoir engineering and project feasibility studies.

Prior to taking on his current role in 2014, Mr. Feng held a variety of increasingly senior positions. He was simultaneously Director of Offshore Project Management Department for the China National Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Corporation and President of CNPC International (Uzbekistan) Ltd. from 2010 to 2014. He was President of CNPC Silk Road Group LLC from 2006 to 2010, and also served as President of CNPC International (CAL) LTD. and the Chief Representative of CNPC Myanmar Representative office from 2001 to 2006.

Mr. Feng holds a Doctor of Engineering degree from PetroChina's Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (Beijing, China), a Master of Engineering degree from the China University of Petroleum (Huadong Campus, Shangdon, China), and a Bachelor of Science from North West University (Shaanxi, China).

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Qiang Luo

Vice President Finance

Qiang Luo worked on a variety of projects in three different continents before bringing his tremendous work ethic and well-honed sense of adventure to Calgary — a city he’s excited to call home.

Mr. Luo has worked for the China National Petroleum Corporation since he graduated from China’s Central University of Finance and Economics in 1997 with a major in international finance. In the two decades since, he’s put those international skills to very good use.

In Asia, as Finance Director of Trans-Asia Gas Pipeline Company Limited, he organized and monitored the financing for four separate pipelines, keeping construction and operation costs in line and improving project profitability. By the time he moved on, more than 1 trillion cubic metres of natural gas had been transported and operating pipelines were earning positive operating cash flow.

In Algeria, as Chief Financial Officer of two separate projects, he developed financial strategies, established financial control systems, organized the treasury management, and was responsible for international settlement, cost control, tax management and accounting.

He did much the same in Venezuela, as Chief Financial Officer of a desalting and dehydration project.

In Sudan, he worked as an accountant, coordinating the accounting, financial reporting, cash management of three separate projects — an oil field, an oil pipeline and a refinery project, and then acted as finance manager for the refinery expansion project.

Everywhere he goes, Luo brings his considerable financial skills, great enthusiasm for the project — or projects — at hand and a desire to work with the team. In Calgary, he’s pleased to have colleagues from around the world who work every bit as hard as he does.

After living and working in South America, Central Asia and Africa, Luo is happy to be working with PetroChina Canada and living in the “Wild West.” He and his wife are enjoying exploring the young and energetic city that is their new home.

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Judy Mah

Vice President Corporate Development

Over her long career in oil and gas, Judy Mah has seen many changes and been gratified to see a growing emphasis across the industry toward producing energy more responsibly — maximizing safety for workers and stakeholders and minimizing impacts to the environment.

On any given day, Judy Mah, Vice President Corporate Development, is never sure what she might learn at work. She loves that she gets to work with people from all over the world who bring different perspectives and different cultural nuances to the table.

Not only is she learning about different cultures — from Russian to Sudanese to Venezuelan — Mah’s learning how people who have worked in different countries perceive various business situations. She and her colleagues make sure to listen hard, collaborate well and reach a common understanding toward PetroChina Canada's corporate goal: helping to supply the world with energy.

Mah has more than 25 years of experience working in the energy industry in Canada with global major and mid-sized E&P companies. She developed her commercial, financial planning and analytical skills in a wide variety of finance, accounting and business-related roles. Mah has worked in strategy, corporate planning and financial and economic valuations at Gulf Canada, ConocoPhilips, Burlington Resources and Enerplus Corporation.

Over her long career in oil and gas, Mah has seen many changes and been gratified to see a growing emphasis across the industry toward producing energy more responsibly — maximizing safety for workers and stakeholders and minimizing impacts to the environment.

Mah and her team at PetroChina Canada are helping spread the word about responsible development to everyday consumers of energy. She joined PetroChina Canada as the director of Strategy & Corporate Planning in 2013 and was subsequently appointed to vice president, Corporate Development in late 2014. In her current role with PetroChina Canada, Mah is responsible for Corporate Planning, Commercial/Business Development, Regulatory & Stakeholder Affairs and Corporate Communications.

She graduated from NAIT’s Business Administration (Accounting) program in Edmonton and received her Bachelor of Commerce in Finance (Honours) at the University of Saskatchewan.

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Heather Scott

General Manager Oilsands

As PetroChina Canada’s general manager of Oilsands Assets, Heather Scott is responsible for developing the company’s largest resource base while respecting safety, the environment, stakeholders and business performance.

When Heather Scott started working in oil and gas engineering in the 1980s, she heard more than once that women didn’t belong in the field.

But she didn’t listen.

Instead, she went on to build a successful 30-year career and spent a lot of time helping younger women — and men — grow in the field.

As PetroChina Canada’s general manager of Oilsands Assets, Scott is responsible for developing the company’s largest resource base while respecting safety, the environment, stakeholders and business performance.

She came to the company after decades working with Petro-Canada, where she started right out of school as an Engineer-in-Training. Over the years, she worked in technical reservoir engineering roles for Western Canada fields as well as business-oriented roles in Natural Gas Marketing and Corporate Strategy and Planning.

Scott was general manager of a number of divisions including Western Canada Productions Operations and Engineering, Technology and Land. After Petro-Canada merged with Suncor, she worked in Unconventional Gas Operations and the MacKay River and Firebag InSitu Asset Team.

All along the way she found mentors who challenged her and helped her grow as an engineer, something she gets a real kick out of doing with her younger colleagues. Scott is involved in many organizations that encourage girls to pursue careers in science. She’s given presentations at schools, chaired committees and helped organized more than a few events to promote women in engineering.

Scott is registered as a Professional Engineer with APEGA, works with the Canadian Heavy Oil Association and sits on the Canadian Association Petroleum Producers’ Oilsands Executive Policy Group.

She attended John Abbott CEGEP (college) in Montreal and moved to Ontario to attend the University of Waterloo. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science degree majoring in chemical engineering and a lifetime of experiences she’s happy to share in order to advance individual engineers and the profession as a whole.

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Junhong Wei

Corporate Secretary

Junhong Wei moved to Calgary from Venezuela, where he had spent 14 years in progressively more senior legal positions for China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).

At first, Junhong Wei was more than a little taken aback by the long, cold Canadian winter, but he wasn’t surprised at the workload waiting for him when he arrived in Calgary to become the corporate secretary and director of Legal for PetroChina Canada in late 2015.

Wei moved to Calgary from Venezuela, where he had spent 14 years in progressively more senior legal positions for China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). His first role in South America, in 2000, was as counsel for CNPC’s first oil project in Venezuela. In 2004, he became legal advisor for a joint venture between CNPC and the Venezuelan state oil company.

He went back to China National Oil & Gas Exploration and Development Corporation’s (CNODC) office in Beijing for a brief period of time in 2008 and 2009 to be deputy manager for the legal department. After that role in China he returned to Venezuela to manage the legal department at CNPC America Limited from 2010 to 2015.

Now that he’s settled in Calgary, Wei is adjusting to the colder climate and looking forward to learning everything he can about Canada’s history, culture and, of course, its legal system. He’s already familiar with Canadian law, as over the course of his 25 years with CNPC, Wei has been called upon to help with the negotiations for Canadian oil sands assets transactions.

Wei chose to study law because of its importance for society, and he wanted to work in the business world. He enjoys reading law books and pouring over analyses in order to reach the right conclusion.

He received a Bachelor of Laws from the North-West Political and Law University in China in 1991. He attended a six-month training program at Houston University’s law school before getting his masters in law from Peking University, China.

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