Interviews

Dr. Ibilola Amao, a member of several professional and decision making bodies both home and abroad such as the Lagos Chamber of Commerce, Nigeria Society of Engineers, a member of the Governing Council, Energy Institute, UK is the CEO of…

Damilola Owolabi calls the shots at Dreg Waters Petroleum. A business-inclined mind from years stretching back to her University days, she shares in this interview with Orient Energy Review (OER) her humble beginnings when she incorporated…

OER: Let’s congratulate you again on your assumption of office as President of the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists. What are you bringing to the table differently from your predecessors? Mr.…

South Africa’s sole onshore natural gas project Tetra4 owner Renergen has just secured $17m of government funding. Chief Operating Officer Nick Mitchell will reveal more about this landmark project at the Oil & Gas Africa Conference in…

Governments’ interference in state owned companies in many countries have always led to investors’ apprehension and mistrust leading either to collapse or the inefficient running of the companies involved. This situation is especially…

Lagos State Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Olawale Oluwo in this interview with Orient Energy Review is optimistic that Ibile Oil and Gas Corporation owned by the state government, has come into the oil and gas industry at…

OER: How would you rate the local content policy in Nigeria? How far have we gone and what do we need to do to make it better?  I think we have done very well as a country. Like I said in my speech, I went round this country inspecting…

How has OGTAN helped in boosting local content in the petroleum industry in Nigeria? In terms of entrepreneurship and gaining access to jobs, we have done quite a lot. Also don’t forget the fact that most of the IOC’s including Shell now…

OER: May we meet you madam? Allanah: My name is Sonye Allanah. I started in the civil service actually. I was headhunted by Total when I was already a senior officer because they wanted to start a government relations unit. They needed…

Can you tell us briefly about Global Pipeline Service Limited (GPPS) and its critical success factor? Global Process and Pipeline Service Ltd (GPPS) was formed in 2002 but commenced operation 2010 as a specialist company built on…

The Subsea environment is a rare terrain for a Nigerian company. Please tell us how the journey towards domiciliation of subsea technology has been for you? It has been an exciting and very revealing journey.  We started off…

As the champion of Local Content in Nigeria, how far do you think Nigeria has gone on the policy since you initiated the Bill?  Well, the whole Act is about compliance and sustaining local capacity. But between 2010 and now, I am not…

Can you tell us briefly about the numerous prospects from the massive 67 kilometres gas transmission pipeline that is close to completion right now? The pipeline in question is what is termed OB3 (Obiafun, Obrikom to Oben)gas…

Sir, what do you have to say about opportunities in the Nigerian oil and gas sector? What is important as we see some of these developments is realizing really how much opportunities lie in this country that have been wasted. I…

(GPPS: A Local content success story)  Engr. Obidike Nelkon Uzu CEO, Global Process & Pipeline Services Limited (GPPS), has more than 26year’s oil field experience in drilling operation (Sedco Forex), production technology (SPDC) and…

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) sector, Senator Kabiru Marafa, has stated in an interview at the 16th Nigeria Oil and Gas conference in Abuja, that the Senate had given its nod to the total deregulation of the…

Mrs. Celestina Osin, is the Regional Public Relations Officer, Transmission Company of Nigeria –TCN. In this interview with the Editor at the recently held Power Nigeria Conference in Lagos, she speaks about effort of the TCN to ensure…

Ernest Baynes is a young entrepreneur and founder of Baynes Transformers Technology, a company positioned as a quality conscious and cost effective supplier of new transformers, combined with the skills to support the market with an…

Mr. Austin Avuru, co-founder of Seplat, was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 1 May 2010. He obtained a Geology degree from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1980 and a post-graduate diploma in Petroleum Engineering from the…

Noelle A. Long is the Project Manager and Regional Representative of CORE PA Global, an initiative established to increase the visibility of a 53-county footprint of Pennsylvania, USA to international and domestic investors. In this…