DR. EMMANUEL O EGBOGAH, P.Eng. OON

Posted on Monday, December 7, 2009 at 6:54pm.

Dr. Emmanuel Egbogah has over 35 years of diversified geological and petroleum engineering experience in consulting, teaching, research & development, and project planning, implementation and management in Canada, The United States, Europe, Africa, The Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.

He is an internationally recognized authority in the fields of petroleum policy and strategy, improved/enhanced oil recovery, stimulation procedures and multidisciplinary team approach to field development planning and reservoir management.

Dr Egbogah is founder and Executive Chairman of Emerald Energy Resources Limited, the operator of continental shelf block OPL 229, Niger Delta, Nigeria.

He is currently serving as Special Adviser on Petroleum Matters to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He is also the Executive Vice President & Director, Training and Technology Transfer, VRMT International Inc, Houston, Chairman, Pipeline Integrity Nigeria Limited and O & G Technologies Limited, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Previously, he was Vice President, International Production for Niko Resources Limited, an international E&P company in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Previously, Dr Egbogah served for eight years as Technical Advisor and Techology custodian for PETRONAS, the national oil company of Malaysia where he was responsible for strategic planning and expansion program leading to the company’s E&P establishment in over 25 countries around the world.

He served for five years as Enhanced Oil Recovery Advisor for the Libyan  National Oil Corporation, Tripoli, where he was responsible for the Reservoir Management of 159 reservoirs containing about 40 billion barrels of oil reserves.

He was responsible for the planning and supervision of EOR programs in 34 Libyan reservoirs.

A former Petroleum Engineering  Manager & EOR Specialist for Amerigo International in Calgary and Houston, Dr Egbogah was previously Senior Consultant and Vice President Engineering for Applied Geo-science and Technology (AGAT) Consultants Ltd. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where he directed a multi-million dollar, multi-client study on Reservoir Sensitivity and Completion Procedures Project on behalf of 53 multinational and 10 independent oil companies, issuing a 2200-page report of the same to its subscribers.

Dr Egbogah started his oil and gas industry career in Canada with Phillips Petroleum Canada (Pacific Petroleum) Ltd in 1973. He is a distinguished presenter of petroleum industry short course, workshops and seminars in field development, reservoir management, including applied petroleum geology, petroleum reservoir engineering, enhanced oil recovery, and strategic planning for many international oil corporations and organizations.

He was the pioneer and founding petroleum engineering lecturer at the Institute of Applied Science and Technology, (later to be known as the Faculty of Technology), the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Dr Egbogah is also member of Petroleum Society of CIM (Canada), American Society for Engineering Education, International Society for Rock Mechanics, and the New York Academy of Sciences. He is a registered professional engineer of the province of Alberta, Canada. He is listed in the world’s Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and is the life Patron of the African- Caribbean Network for Science & Technology, United Kingdom.

Dr Egbogah is the recipient of the Society of Petroleum Engineer’s 1998 Asia Pacific Regional Service Award (Jakarta, Indonesia, April 20, 1999) in recognition of his continuing and outstanding commitment of personal effort and time for technology transfer throughout the Asia Pacific Region.

He also received the 1999 SPE Nigeria Council Millenium Award (August 5, Abuja, Nigeria) in recognition of his active and dedicated service to the Society of Petroleum Engineers in the 20th Century.

He is a Member of the 15-person African Oil Policy Initiative Group, AOPIG, the policy strategy think tank that produced the White Paper “African Oil: A Priority for U.S. National Security and African Development” which forms the new American oil policy predicated on West African Oil.

He is a recipient of the Nigeria 2006 National Honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger, OON for significant contribution for the Nation’s development.

A distinguished member of the National Commission on Science & Technology.  Dr Egbogah is the current Director, Africa Region for the Society of Petroleum Engineers International, a member of the 27-member  Board of Directors, the highest decision-making body of the 71,000 member global society of Oil & Gas Industry.

A truly accomplished man, Dr. Egbogah is at the forefront of policy development for the Oil and Gas Sector of Africa’s biggest oil producer.