Suleiman Al Abbas

Suleiman Al Abbas (Arabic: سليمان العباس) is a Syrian engineer and politician who was the minister of petroleum and mineral resources in the period 2013–2016.

Abbas holds a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering, which he received from the Romanian University of Ploieşti in 1982.

[1] He also obtained certificates in oil well control and contract arbitration from the Arab Engineers Federation.

[1] Abbas served as director of Al Jibseh oil fields in 1997.

Abbas has been in the list of financial sanctions imposed by the United Kingdom against Syria since 2014 due to his alleged role in the repression of the Syrians during the civil war.