Nigeria Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition (NOG)

Jens-Petter Kjemprud

Norwegian Ambassador to Nigeria

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.

Saidu A. Mohammed

Chief Operating Officer – Gas & Power

NNPC

Engr. Saidu A. Mohammed is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Gas & Power Directorate of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He is a graduate of Chemical Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, and a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers. He served as the President of the Nigerian Gas Association from 2012 to 2014.

In his over 35 years practice in the industry, he has contributed immensely to the development of the Nigerian gas sector including the development and commercialization of Natural Gas, Design and Construction of gas infrastructure and supply systems.

In the course of his career, he has held various technical and management positions, some of which are as follows:

• Managing Director
  • Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) Limited;
  • Nigerian Gas Company (NGC);
• Board Member, Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP);
• Board Chairman
  • Green Gas Limited (a JV company between NIPCO and NGC);
  • NLNG Ship Management Services Limited (NSML) – till date;
  • NNPC Retail Limited – till date;
• Director
  • West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAGPCo) – till date;
  • West African Gas Limited (WAGL) – till date;

Engineer Mohammed is an avid golf player.

Engr. Henry Ikemefuna Obih

Chief Operating Officer - Downstream

NNPC

Engr. Henry Ikemefuna C. Obih, a graduate of B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from University of Nigeria, Nsukka and an MBA in Finance from the University of Bradford, UK was appointed Group Executive Director/Chief Operating Officer, Downstream, NNPC on 1^st April 2016. Prior to this appointment, he had been an Executive Director of Operations at Mobil Oil Nigeria Plc from July, 2008 and its Executive Director, Retail from 2013 until he was appointed to head NNPC's Downstream businesses. He joined Mobil Oil Nigeria from the U.K. in 1994 as a Project Engineer on the $30million Mobil Oil Nigeria manufacturing and terminal automation projects. Engr. Obih became Lubes Plant Manager in 1995 and was appointed Manager, Petroleum Jelly Plant in 1995. He subsequently held the positions of Manager, Aviation & Marine and Area Operations Manager (Nigeria & Ghana) before proceeding on a foreign assignment in 2000, to Belgium as Financial & Business Planning Analyst for Fuels Marketing, Africa & Middle East supporting Mobil Corporation's businesses in 41 countries in the Africa-Middle East region. 

While in ExxonMobil (EM), among several projects, Engr. Obih led the Africa Terminal Optimization Project which evaluated the portfolio of assets owned by EM in Africa and restructured the portfolio supported by an investment plan which increased annual income from the owned terminals by over $5M, a 20% increase ...in addition to his regional responsibilities, he was also part of the Global team that implemented Activity Based Costing (ABC) and Cost to Serve, two global programs aimed at achieving pacesetter cost levels for the Corporation, a critical factor for achieving Operational Excellence. Engr. Obih was a member of the Project team that delivered on time and within budget, the $154million asset upgrade project of MON's Real Estate assets.

He has had a diverse and cross-functional career spanning over 30 years in the Downstream sector of the Oil & Gas industry with 22 of those years in Mobil, involving assignments in Project Management, Lubricants & Specialties, Manufacturing, Quality Systems Management, Business & Strategic Planning, Marketing & Operations. 

As GED/COO, Downstream, NNPC, he is currently leading the rehabilitation and restoration of the NNPC Pipelines, Terminals, Retail stations and Depot assets. In addition, he is responsible for coordinating the NNPC Downstream Strategic Business Units to achieve efficient Management of the Corporation’s fuels supply and distribution assets for a hitch-free supply chain.

Engr. Obih received B. Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Nigeria Nsukka in 1986 and an MBA from Management Centre University of Bradford UK in 1993. He is an Alumnus of INSEAD France and has also completed the Advanced Management Programme from Lagos Business School. He is also a member of various international and Nigerian Professional Bodies including Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Council for the Regulation of Engineering (COREN) and a Fellow of Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FNIMechE)