EditorBayo Ojulari, the new NNPC Limited Group CEO, hails from Kwara State.
Until his new appointment, he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Renaissance Africa Energy Company.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelRenaissance recently led a consortium of indigenous energy firms in the landmark acquisition of the entire equity holding in the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), worth $2.4 billion.
Ojulari is an alumnus of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
He worked for Elf Aquitaine as the first Nigerian process engineer to begin a stellar career in the oil sector.
From Elf, he joined Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd in 1991 as an associate production technologist.
Apart from working in Nigeria, he worked in Europe and the Middle East in different capacities as a petroleum process and production engineer, strategic planner, field developer, and asset manager.
In 2015, he became the managing director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO).
He was chairman and member of the board of trustees of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE Nigerian Council).
He is also a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers.
