EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Q & A with Austin Avuru

Our guest speaker for the NOVEMBER edition of The Lagos Oil Club Q+A session is Augustine Ojunekwu Avuru. Austine Avuru is an outstanding Professional with over 30 years of wide-ranging experience in the Oil and Gas Industry. He began his distinguished career with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) where he spent twelve years holding various responsibilities as Wellsite Geologist, Production Seismologist and Reservoir Engineer. From NNPC, he joined Allied Energy Resources, a pioneer indigenous deepwater Operator, where he worked for the next ten years as Exploration Manager and Technical Manager.

In 2002, Austin assembled an impressive array of industry professionals to establish Platform Petroleum Limited and became Pioneer Managing Director until 2010 when he left to become the Pioneer Managing Director of SEPLAT. Austin is a versatile professional and has served the industry in various capacities. He was Technical Coordinator for the 1991 review of the industry MOU, Member, Ministerial Committee on the restructuring of the DPR (Jan. 1999) and Call-Out Consultant to the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (2000 - 2003). He was an invited speaker on Oil and Gas Policy at the Shell Workshop for selected committees of the National Assembly (1999); invited speaker at the Nigerian Investment Forum at the OTC, Houston Texas, May 2002; invited speaker at Nigerian Oil and Gas Summit Houston Texas, December 2001. He is co-Author of “Nigerian Petroleum Business, A Handbook” and author of “Politics, Economics & the Nigerian Petroleum Industry”.

Austin is a notable champion of Local Content Development in the upstream sector of the Nigerian Petroleum Industry. He led the extensive campaign for indigenous E & P participation from 1996 to 2000, and, as a member of the National Committee on Local Content Development, chaired the technical subcommittee that drafted the policy blueprint that has now transformed into the Nigerian Content Act of 2010. Mr. Avuru’s brilliance has earned him several academic recognitions and awards. He holds a B.Sc Geology degree of University of Nigeria, Nsukka; a Post Graduate Diploma in Petroleum Engineering from University of Ibadan. He is a Fellow and Past President of the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE).

Mr. Avuru will be speaking on Challenges of Nigerian Independents: Beyond 2011. 

Date: Monday, 21st November 2011

Time: 5.30pm for 6.00pm start 

Venue: Daisy Management Centre, 8 Idowu Martins Street (Near Mega Plaza), Victoria Island, Lagos

For Guest list please send an e-mail to: info@thelagosoilclub.com. 

Or by calling Humphrey Onyeukwu, +234 816 284 7921; Feso Bright +234 816 987 0190
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