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Houston, Texas
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 Elsevier Journal of Petroleum Science.
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.
Izu Ariwodo
Lead Petrophysicist
Izu has 28+ years of oil and gas experience. Worked on several technical and management positions for Shell oil corporation and Saudi Aramco on oil and gas projects in Africa, North & South America and the Middle East. His expertise includes petrophysical well planning, evaluation and delivery for both conventional (onshore & offshore) and unconventional plays, clastics, carbonates and diatomites, core data planning, acquisition and evaluation, saturation height modelling, reservoir surveillance tools for effective WRFM, AVO, EOR candidate screening, quantitative seismic interpretation and integration with petrophysics, borehole image processing & interpretation, and Integrated field development planning. He is a member of SPE, Houston chapter.
Mona Kalu
Lead Geoscientist
Mona has 21+ years of experience in the petroleum industry. Her experience covers Exploration and Development Geoscience with expertise in basin modeling, prospect maturation, reservoir characterization, 3D modeling, reserves and resources estimation, integrated field development and execution, well and reservoir management. She has extensive experience in both onshore and Deepwater resource plays. Her geographical experience includes Nigeria (Niger Delta), Malaysia (North Malay Basin, Sabah Inboard and deep waters) Equatorial Guinea (Ceiba and Okume Complex) and Ghana (Cape three points) She is a member of AAPG and SPE, Houston chapter.
Boniface Igboalisi
Lead Reservoir Engineer
Bonny has 18+ years of experience in the petroleum industry. His expertise is in reserves and resources estimation, numerical simulation, integrated field studies, technical due diligence and data science & analytics. He has extensive experience in both conventional (onshore and deepwater) and unconventional (shale gas, tight oil and heavy oil) resource plays. His geographical experience includes Nigeria (Niger Delta) and USA (Bakersfield, Louisiana, Texas and deepwater Gulf of Mexico). He is a member of SPE, Houston chapter.
Kesiena Doghor
Reservoir Engineer
Kes has 9+ years experience in the oil and gas industry. His expertise includes – Reservoir Simulation, Reservoir Surveillance, Integrated Field studies, Reservoir management and Production operations. His geopgraphic experience includes – the US (Permian) and Nigeria (Niger Delta). He is a member of SPE, Houston chapter.
Jim Davis
Geoscientis
Jim has more than 30 years of geoscience experience in oil and gas exploration, development and production. He has worked domestically and internationally in a number of geologic settings / plays including Rocky Mountain Overthrust, Powder River Basin, California – heavy oil, deepwater Gulf of Mexico, deepwater turbidite systems – offshore Nigeria, unconventional exploration – Latin America as well as onshore conventional rank wildcat exploration. His expertise includes prospect generation and maturation, 3-D Seismic interpretation, seismic facies analysis, reservoir characterization, well planning, well and reservoir management, and drilling and completion operations.
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