Mr Emeka Okwuosa, the Chief Execultive Officer, Oilserve Nigeria Limited, would on Nov. 29 deliver a lecture on impact of infrastructure development in Nigeria.
This was contained in a statement issues by Dr Ngozi Anyaegbu, the company’s media consultant, which was made available to newsmen in Lagos.
According to the statement, Okwuosa who is the guest lecturer for the 48th convocation of University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) will deliver a lecture titled “Infrastructural Development; A Key to Economic Growth and Development in Nigeria.
The lecture will commence at 9.30am in the Princess Alexandria Auditorium and Unity Hall.
Okwuosa believes in building capacity of young engineers to provide adequate manpower to service the industry in the country as well as export them abroad to other countries in West and East Africa.
Okwuosa strongly thinks that developing indigenous capacity in petroleum industry in Nigeria, in particular, and Africa in general, will establish a self sustaining and effective technological base that guarantees serious and sustainable economic growth in Nigeria.
“Services we export are services that we have developed. From engineering to construction to maintenance of facilities to power generation to gas to power systems. And it cuts across West and East Africa. And we will continue to develop that as we move on,” Okwuosa said.
Described as a seasoned engineer, administrator, entrepreneur and a visionary leader, Okwuosa, a 1982 graduate of Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Ile-Ife, Ife, Osun State, Nigeria, has vast experience in maintenance and operations, teaching, wireline logging and interpretation, seismic acquisition, processing and interpretation, pipeline engineering, procurement and construction, EPC, project management, drilling and drilling services. Some of these activities span across Europe, North Africa, West Africa, Gulf of Guinea/Central Africa and Indonesia.
Apart from Oilserv, which has wide ranging activities in the Niger Delta and across Nigeria with ISI9001:2008 certification, Okwuosa owns FRAZIMEX Limited, an integrated Oil and Gas engineering, drilling, exploration and production and asset ownership company which has ISO 9001:2008 certification and subsidiaries such as FRAZIMEX Energy Services Ltd; the first indigenous company to own and operate Swamp Drilling rigs in Nigeria. The company which had a three-year partnership with Transocean Inc (the largest drilling company in the world), ended up acquiring two swamp drilling rigs from Transocean, viz.: Searex-VI and Searex-XII. There is also FRAZIMEX Engineering Ltd which is an engineering design company that works closely with Oilserv Ltd in EPC activities. FRAZIMEX Engineering has developed several Nigerian engineers in design of pipelines and facilities and currently executes several jobs in the field. FRAZIMEX Sierra Leone Limited owns and operates Block SL3, offshore in Sierra Leone.
Okwuosa’s varied experience is not limited to the oil and gas industry. He started his career as a management trainee (engineering) with the Nigerian Breweries Limited before joining Schlumberger Energy Services as a field engineer, a year after.
He worked with Schlumberger as an international staff in different parts of the world, namely Europe (Pau, France), North Africa (Libya), West Africa (Mauritania, Senegal, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana), Gulf of Guinea/Central Africa (Nigeria, Benin Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo and Angola) and Indonesia.
He held various positions in Schlumberger as base manager, equipment/tool test coordinator and technical manager. Okwuosa belongs to many international professional bodies such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, Society of Professional Well Log Analysts, SPWLA, Professional Pipeline Association of Nigeria, PLAN.
For all his dedication to duty, Okwuosa has won a number of awards including Award of Excellence by the Physics Department of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in 2006., USAAfrica International Oil & Gas Leadership Award, Best of Africa 2013, Keyman Award of Excellence by Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, ECCIMA, in February 2014, among others.
Married with three children, Okwuosa, who is a Knight of St. Christopher, KSC, of the Anglican Communion
