Nigeria Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition (NOG)

Engr Simbi Wabote

Executive Secretary

Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board (NCDMB)

Engr. Simbi K. Wabote was appointed as the Executive Secretary Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) by President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) on the 29^th of September 2016. Prior to his appointment he was an Executive Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Nigeria Limited and the General Manager Business and Government Relations for Shell Companies in Nigeria (SCiN).

Engr. Wabote joined Shell in September 1991 as an Oil and gas Engineer after a short stint with the Banking industry in Nigeria.

Prior to taking up his role as an Executive Director of Shell, he had served Shell in various senior positions within and outside the country in Engineering, Contracting & Procurement, External Affairs and Community Affairs Directorates. As Head of Civil engineering in Shell Eastern Division, he was responsible for major key civil engineering projects for the company, including the Shell Osubi airport in Warri Delta State Nigeria. He served as the National Assembly Relations Adviser to Shell and was the General Manager, Local Content Development, of Shell Exploration Production Company in Nigeria (SEPCiN). He was responsible for the development of Royal Dutch Shell’s local content strategy and framework and supervised Shell Local Content implementation across several countries including Nigeria, Gabon, Brunei, Oman, Kazakhstan, Australia, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan, USA and new frontier countries for Shell.

Simbi holds an MSc from Leeds Metropolitan University, Graduate of Civil Engineering from Rivers State University of Science and Technology Port Harcourt and a graduate of INSEAD group leadership programme. He is also a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and a COREN Registered engineer and a member Institute of Civil Engineers London.

As the Executive Secretary, NCDMB his new assignment is to steer strategic National programs being implemented by the Board to build capacity and domicile industry activities within Nigeria. He is expected to bring his global experience to bear in re-engineering the Board’s business processes to achieve maximum impact on Nigerian Content development.

Yusuf Usman

Chief Operating Officer - Gas & Power

NNPC

Mustapha Yakubu

Chief Operating Officer – Refining

NNPC

Lorenzo Fiorillo

Chairman & Managing Director

Eni Companies in Nigeria (NAOC, AENR & NAE)

Mike Sangster

Managing Director & Chief Executive

Total Upstream Companies in Nigeria

Adewale Tinubu

Group Chief Executive

Oando PLC

Victor Okoronkwo

Managing Director

AITEO Eastern E&P Co. Ltd

Paul McGrath

Chairman & Managing Director

Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited

Paul McGrath is Chairman/Managing Director of ExxonMobil’s two upstream affiliates, Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) and Esso Exploration & Production Nigeria Limited (EEPNL).

Prior to his appointment as Chairman/Managing Director in March 2017, he was Project Execution Manager for ExxonMobil Development Company in Houston.

He has over 30 years oil and gas industry experience, beginning as a process supervisor working offshore operations on Brent Delta, UK North Sea. He Joined ExxonMobil in 1999, and has held various technical and managerial assignments covering deepwater platforms, subsea and onshore oil and gas facilities.

Paul holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Strathclyde University in Glasgow. He is also a member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Jeff Ewing

Chairman & Managing Director

Chevron Nigeria Limited

Mr. Jeff Ewing became the Chairman and Managing Director for the Nigeria Mid-Africa Strategic Business Unit for Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Company (CALAEP) in January 2017. He is based in Lagos, Nigeria and is responsible for Chevron’s  businesses in Nigeria and West Africa.

Mr. Ewing received his Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1986. He joined Chevron in 1985, working as a Drilling Representative in Louisiana, Democratic Republic of Congo and United Kingdom.  Since then, Jeff has held numerous technical and management upstream positions of increasing responsibility in different locations; including Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Kuwait, Scotland, the United States of America, Venezuela and Nigeria.

He is member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and he currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND).

Ebiaho Emafo

Managing Director

Eroton E&P

Taofik Adegbite

Chief Executive Officer

Marine Platforms

Taofik Adegbite as the Chief Executive Officer of Marine Platforms is charged with overall responsibility of its strategy formulation, performance monitoring and continuous improvement. Prior to his assumption of the role of Chief Executive Officer, he was the Director of Strategy and Business Development of the company.

He holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Computer Science from the University of Ibadan and attended the London School of Economics for a certificate course in Strategy & Organization Management as well as Harvard Business School OPM 44. He has undergone various leadership trainings such as Institute Of Directors (IOD) Advanced Company Direction Program.

Taofik started his career with Agricultural Project Monitoring & Evaluation Unit, (World Bank Project). He later proceeded to the UK where he bagged his Cisco certification and worked on contract with NHS (Hammersmith Hospital) as IT Engineer.

He is married to Chioma with children.