Saudi Aramco has appointed Mohammed Al Qahtani as acting senior vice president for upstream operations until the end of December 2015, the company said in a Twitter post on Sunday.
The role of senior VP was previously occupied by Amin al-Nasser who was recently named permanent chief executive of the Saudi oil giant after serving as acting CEO for five months. Â
It remains unclear who would take the post of senior vice president after December.
Qahtani has held various positions at the state oil giant, including those with responsibility for petroleum engineering; his last post was vice-president for corporate planning, accoridng to Reuters.
