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Solomon Inikori
Managing Director/CEO
Dr. Inikori (Solomon) has 30 years oil and gas industry experience. He worked in several technical and management positions for Shell International E&P (SIEP), USA and Allied Energy/ Statoil/BP Alliance (Nigeria). His expertise is in Resource Evaluation and Reserves Auditing, Project Management, Drilling/Completions/Well Intervention, Production Operations, Reservoir Characterization, Integrated Reservoir Simulation Studies and Field Development Planning.
He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE), and Nigerian Gas Association (NGA). He is also a Technical Reviewer for the SPE Reservoir Engineering Journal and ElsevierJournal of Petroleum Science.
Olubusola Ogunbanwo
Asset Development/ Business Analysis
Engr. Ogunbanwo has about 29 years of industry experience. He is a seasoned Reservoir Engineer with outstanding accomplishments in Field development. In his career, he had served as Head Asset Development for Seplat Petroleum Development Company in Nigeria from December 2010, after 20 years with Shell International E&P where he held the positions of Principal Reservoir Engineer and Production Forecasting Lead for the Africa region from 2008. His career in Shell includes assignments in Nigeria, Netherlands, Oman, and the United States of America as Senior Reservoir Engineer and Project Manager from 1990 to 2008. Before joining Shell, he worked with the Nigerian Breweries Plc in 1987 as Mechanical Engineer and rose to the position of Technical Purchasing Manager in 1990.
Benjamin Osaigbovo
Project Manager
Benjamin has over 33 years oil and gas industry experience. Prior to joining IFDC in 2018, he spent a total of 31 years working for Shell Exploration and Production Companies in Nigeria, the Netherlands and the United States where he held various technical and leadership positions in Wellsite Operations, Reservoir Engineering and Front-End Project Management. His area of expertise include Drilling/ Completion/Workover Operations, Reservoir Surveillance and Management, Integrated Reservoir Modeling, Asset Development/ Portfolio Management, Deepwater Exploration/Appraisal/Development studies and Front End Project Management. He has a passion for teaching and mentoring young technical professionals and leaders and is the charter president of Sea Shell Toastmasters club 03796969 of Toastmasters International, Lagos Nigeria.
Ir Niyi Beecroft
FNSChE – Chairman of the Board
Niyi is a seasoned Chemical Engineer with over 35 years’ experience. His experience spans both academia and industry in Nigeria and in the Netherlands. Niyi taught Process Engineering, Process Modelling, Simulation and Control for 17years at the Chemical Engineering Department of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
He left Zaria as Associate Professor in 1993 and, since 1996, has worked in the Oil, Gas, Water and Power Industries as a Marketing Executive for MORPOL Engineering Services Limited.
His main product lines have been Plant and Process Automation Equipment and Systems as well as Turbo-machinery. He was involved in the equipment procurement and delivery for TEPENG’s Amenam-Kpono/AKOGEP; XOM’s EAGG; TOTAL’s AKPO, USAN and the OFON Field Developments, a total value in excess of US$500m.
Niyi is on the Board of Reagents (Member of Council) of Covenant University, Ota, a young but emergent leading Nigerian University. He also sits on the board of Air Separation Nigeria Limited, manufacturers and sellers of oxygen and an assorted range of industrial gases and hospital oxygen dispensing equipment. He is a long-standing Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers (NSChE), its pioneer Executive Secretary and the first Managing Director of the Society’s fully owned commercial arm, NICHEM Ventures Limited.
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