- President Bola Tinubu has appointed Bayo Ojulari as the new GCEO of the NNPC, following the sacking of Mele Kyari
- Ojulari, who hailed from Kwara state, is a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in Kaduna state
- Other facts you need to know about the newly appointed chairman of Nigeria’s oil firm have been compiled
Here are facts about Bayo Ojulari, who President Bola Tinubu appointed as the new NNPC GCEO
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- The new NNPC Limited GCEO hailed from Kwara, a north-central state.
- He is a graduate of Mechanical Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
- Before his appointment, Ojulari was working as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Renaissance Africa Energy Company. The firm 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 began his career in the oil sector with Elf Aquitaine as the first Nigerian process engineer. He then joined Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd in 1991 as an associate production technologist and rose to the position of the managing director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO).
- The presidency explained that Ojulari has also worked in Europe and the Middle East in different capacities as a petroleum process and production engineer, strategic planner, field developer, and asset manager.
- The new NNPC boss had also served as the chairman and member of the board of trustees of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE Nigerian Council) and a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers.
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