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| Engr. (Dr.) Chris Ogiemwonyi |
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chieftain and aspirant of the 2020 guber-national election in Edo State under
the auspices of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Chris Ogiemwonyi has
been conferred with the revered Topflyers Award for
excellence in public office, 2019/2020.
The Editor in Chief, Topflyers Magazine,
Mr. Yahaya Musa, noted that the title was being conferred on Dr. Ogiemwonyi for
his excellent works, accountability, reliability and transparency in public
offices.
Dr. Ogiemwonyi thanked
the management of Topflyers Magazine for finding him worthy and avowed that he
will continue to be transparent in all his public works and if voted in as Edo
State governor irrespective of the height of corruption in public offices.
ABOUT
DR. CHRIS OGIEMWONYI
Engr. (Dr.) Christopher Aigbovbiosa Ogiemwonyi (born 21 March 1951) is a Doctor Of Science, Ph.D (HONORIS CAUSA)—Ambrose
Alli University, Ekpoma and Doctor Of Engineering, Ph.D (HONORIS
CAUSA)—Igbinedion University, Okada. He began his career as Petroleum Engineer
11 in 1975 with the conservation department. In February, 1997 it was seconded by
SPDCC (Shell Development Petroleum Company) Warri. Between 1978 through 1982,
he worked in various departments of the Petroleum Resources Ministry including
the then newly created Gas Department.
Between 1982 and 1988, he worked in the
Exploration and Exploitation Division of NNPC and in 1985, he was transferred
to the National Reserves Evaluation Project as a Project Leader, coordinated
all efforts in Dallas, USA in establishing a stronger base for the oil and gas
industry.
However, in 1988, he was moved back to
the exploitation division, of the Exploration and Exploitation (E&E) as
Head Petroleum Engineering Department Company to nurture the newly created
Petroleum and Engineering Department. He also kept an up-to-date reserves
position of Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), Benin City between
1988-1999. He served as the Abura Field
Project Leader, a takeover asset from defunct TENNECO.
In 1992, he served as Oredo Field
Project Leader and also as Oziengbe Field Leader. In 1999, he was promoted to
General Manager, and moved to National Petroleum Investment Management Services
(NAPIMS) to oversee the operations Division. He midwifed various projects and
concepts especially the Local Content Initiative of the Federal Government.
While in NAPIMS, he served as chairman,
Nigeria OTC Committee for 2002 and 2003. Between 1999-2003, he midwifed key
projects including EA field, Erha field, Bonga field, Agbami field amongst
others. Engr. Ogiemwonyi is well noted for his achievements while in NAPIMS
being referred to as “Mr. Local content”.
Furthermore, in November 2003, he was
assigned to NPDC as Managing Director and his efforts showed quickly in
increasing NPDC production from 20, 000 bopd to 70, 000 bopd. He served as
chairman, Project Monitoring Committee (PMC) of Okono/Okpho Development
project. He also served as Chairman, PMC of OMLs 64 and 66 project.
In March 2005, he was reassigned to
Nigerian Gas Company Limited as Managing Director. His focus was to increase
gas supply to major customers like PHCN, SNG, GASLINK, WAPCO, SHAGAMU and
EWEKORO, NOTORE Fertilizer PH, OBAJAN CEMENT COMPANY, etc.
As Group Executive Director (GED)
Exploration and Production, Engr. Ogiemwonyi was in charge of seven NNPC
companies and subsidiaries which included National Petroleum Investment
Management Services (NAPIMS), Nigeria Gas Company (NGC), LNG & Power
Division, Integrated Data Services Limited (IDSL), Nigerian Petroleum
Development Company (NPDC), Crude Oil Marketing Division and Local Content
Division.
He worked for the Federal Ministry of
Works, Abuja 2010-2011 and greatly encouraged private sector participation
through Public Private Partnership (PPP) as well as re-introduction of Tolling
Policy in 2010. Engr. Ogiemwonyi is also the president/CEO Energy and
Engineering Consulting Limited (EETC) Abuja, 2011 till date.
He served as the board of PHCN, former
council member of PTI Warri and Chairman of N-gas. He was also a former
Director NETCODIETSMANN, One-time Board member of Nigermed, served as member
presidential committee on IPP development, served as a member of NNPC
Coorporate Board and Chairman of Hyson/Calson JV. He was also a member of the
presidential committee on Accelerated Expansion of Electricity Infrastructure.
Chris Ogiemwonyi belongs to many
professional bodies including the Society of Petroleum Engineers, a fellow of
the Nigerian Society of Petroleum Engineers, a fellow of the Nigerian Society
of Engineers and former president of the Nigerian Gas Association.
He is also a recipient of the Justice of
Peace (JP) by Edo State Government and Kwame Nkrumah Leadership Award, Patron
to several bodies including NANS—National Association of Nigerian Students,
ACNPN—Association of Community Newspaper Publishers of Nigeria, etc.
Engr. Ogiemwonyi is married and blessed
with children. He was an aspirant during the Edo State Gubernational Election
in 2016. He contested under the All Progressive Party (APC) and he is still contesting
for the 2020 race with a conviction of winning.
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