Abdollah was born in 1969 in Iran. He graduated in petroleum engineering. He has more than 28 years of industry expertise in the Middle East, amongst others as Senior Petroleum Engineer at National Oil Companies and course lecturer for Petroleum Engineering at universities in the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa. Furthermore, he is leading international workshops and master classes and has presented numerous papers as expert speaker at international conferences throughout the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa. He is author of numerous articles published in international journals covering the wider range of gas production, exploration, and processing in great depth.