Chris Ogiemwonyi's educational qualification speaks
volume, he got his WASCE certificate in 1969, in 1974 he became a B.SC holder
in Applied Physics, Post Graduate Diploma in Petroleum Engineering in 1976,
became a Doctor of Engineering Ph.D (Honoris Causa) in 2008 and also got the
Doctor of Science Ph.D (Honoris Causa) in 2008.
Chris Ogiemwonyi began his career as a Petroleum
Engineer II in 1975 with the Conservation Department and in February, in 1977
Ogiemwonyi was seconded to SPDC (Shell Petroleum Development Company) Warri.
This secondment was enriched by a four and half month Advance Petroleum
Engineering Programme in SPDC Training Centre in the Hague, Netherlands.
In 1982, Chris Ogiemwonyi resumed work at the
Exploration & Exploitation (E&E) Division of NNPC and in 1985 he was
transferred to the National Reserves Evaluation as a Project Leader. While in
office as a project leader, Ogiemwonyi coordinated all efforts in Dallas, USA
in establishing a strong data Base for the Oil and gas Industry.
In 1988, he was moved back to the Exploration Division
of the Exploration& Exploitation (E&E) as Head, Petroleum Engineering
Department Company to nurture the newly created Petroleum Engineering
Department.
In 1988, Chris Ogiemwonyi became the project leader
(Petroleum Engineer) of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) in
Benin City. The NPDC, incorporated in 1988 had as its main objective the
mission to compete as an indigenous Oil and Gas producing Company. NPDC was
assigned four acreages including OML – 65 containing Abura Field then producing
at 980 bopd.
Ogiemwonyi championed the takeover of NPDC and he kept
an up-to-date reserves position of the company.
He was the field project leader in Abuja as his
company had the major takeover asset from defunct TENNECO. Ogiemwonyi raised
the production level from 980 bopd to over 4,000 bopd in 1990. In 1992, he
served as Oredo Field Project Leader which was a Greenfield project that
involved KELT ENERGY,UK and IP CONSTRUCTION, Calgary. The project was an
engineering, procurement, construction as well as operations of 10,000 bopd
early production facility which has now being expanded to process 30mmscf/d.
Ogiemwonyi also served as Oziengbe field Leader. This
is another 10,000 bopd EPC facility at Oziengbe field.
In the year 1999, Chris Ogiemwonyi was promoted to the
post of the General Manager, operations and was moved to National Petroleum
Investments Management Services (NAPIMS) to oversee the Operations Division. He
also championed several projects as a general manager most especially the Local
content initiative of the Federal Government, due to the hardworking service;
Ogiemwonyi got appointed as the Group General Manager NAPIMS in 2001.
While serving as the Group General Manager NAPIMS,
Ogiemwonyi supervised the whole industry including the Joint Ventures (JV) and
the Production Sharing Companies (PSCs).
During his days in NAPIMS, Ogiemwonyi served as
Chairman, Nigeria OTC Committee between 2003 and 2004. Notably, he also
championed and surpervised several key projects which includes the EA field,
Erha field, Bonga field, Agbami field amongst others.
During his term, NAPIMS achieved zero cash call
arrears by October, 2003. As GGM NAPIMS, the Oil Industry was encouraged on
joint utilization of assets such as offshore swamp rigs.
In November, 2003, Ogiemwonyi was re-assigned to NPDC
as Managing Director[5] and his expertise helped in increasing NPDC production
from 20,000 bopd to 70,000bopd. He served as chairman, Project Monitoring
Committee (PMC) of Okono/Okpho Development Project, a strategic alliance
between NPDC and Agip Energy Limited (AENR). He also served as Chairman, PMC of
OMLs 64 and 66 Project, another strategic alliance between NPDC and SINOPEC of
China.
Ogiemwonyi was again re-assigned to National Gas
Company Limited as Managing Director[6] in March, 2005. He was determined to to
increase gas supply to major customers like; PHCN, SNG, GSLINK, WAPCO, SHAGAMU,
and EWEKORO, NOTORE FERTILIZER PH,OBAJANA CEMENT COMPANY etc NGC is
coordinating 130mmscf/d gas supply (WAGP – West Africa gas Supply Project) to
Benin, Togo, Ghana and hopefully to Ivory Coast.
TSGP – Trans- Sahara Gas Project, the 2 billion scf/d
supply from Nigeria through Algeria to Europe was another portfolio under his
supervision as NGC’s helmsman.
In September, 2007, Ogiemwonyi became the Group
Executive Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC,
Exploration & Production Directorate).[7]
While he served as GED Exploration and Production,
Engr. Chris Ogiemwonyi was in charge of seven NNPC Companies and Subsidiaries
which included National Petroleum Investment Management Services NAPIMS),
Nigerian Gas Company (NGC), LNG & Power Division, Integrated Data Services
Limited (IDSL), Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) Crude Oil,
Marketing Division and Local Content Division.
Ogiemwonyi is currently the President of Energy and
Engineering Technology Consulting Group, a position he has occupied since May
2011.[8]
Engr. Chris Ogiemwonyi served as the President, Energy
Strategy Centre, Abuja, an Energy and
Consulting Group between September 2009 through April 2010.
Finally.....
A man who is a leader of the pack is what Edo state
deserve NOW and the shoes fit him!
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