Summary
Airul Hafneh is a senior commercial executive with 15+ years in Oil & Gas who now leads Crude Oil Marketing at Brunei Shell Petroleum, transforming underperforming units into high-performing teams and elevating Brunei’s presence in regional markets. He has negotiated and closed multi-billion dollar deals across the energy value chain, spanning asset commercialization, gas contracts, and supply agreements, and regularly leads multifunctional teams on complex commercial and fiscal issues. With hands-on roots as a reservoir and drilling engineer, he combines technical reservoir insight with commercial strategy to stretch value from late-life assets and new business development. A recognised mentor within Shell’s Value Academy, he develops future commercial leaders and drives capability building across Brunei’s energy sector. Notably, his career blends field-level operational experience with high-stakes commercial deal leadership, enabling pragmatic, technically informed commercial decisions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
English, Malay