Sunday, January 22, 2012

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: The Lagos Oil Club Q & A with Tonye Cole, CEO Sahara Group

Our Guest Speaker for the FEBRUARY Edition of The Lagos Oil Club Q+A Sessions is Mr. Tonye Cole, Managing Director/CEO, Sahara Group.

Tonye Cole co-founded the Sahara Group in 1996 and within a decade, has led the Sahara Group from a company whose core business at the time was oil trading to become established as one of Nigeria’s leading Oil and Gas Company with business activities that span through the entire energy value chain. 

The company also has a growing portfolio, which includes
upstream assets comprising nine blocks including one deep-water block in Ghana and is deeply involved in developing the domestic gas infrastructure. 

An alumnus of the University of Lagos and Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil and an honours graduate in Architecture, Tonye Cole worked as an architect for a frontline Brazilian architectural firm, Grupo Quartro SA between 1990 and 1992. He returned to Nigeria in 1993 and spearheaded his architectural practice to which he successfully executed several multimillion dollar World Bank and ADB sponsored contracts.

He started out in 1996 with his friends, Tope Shonubi and Ade Odunsi to co-found Sahara Energy Resources Limited as an oil and gas company whose core business at the time was the trading of excess fuel oil from the Port Harcourt and Warri Refineries. Today, Sahara has grown to become a multinational company of repute with business offices spanning various continents, and business interests in areas like real estate, oil & gas upstream, midstream and downstream, bunkering, engineering services etc.

Tonye Cole will be speaking on 'The Changing Dynamics of Nigeria's Downstream Petroleum Sector'

Date: Monday, 27th February 2012

Time: 5.30pm for 6.00pm Start

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

Please confirm your participation by email: info@thelagosoilclub.com or by calling Humphrey Onyeukwu +234 816 284 7921; Feso Bright +234 816 987 0190; Osahon Akaroh +234 816 375 7371 

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