PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Ogbarode Napoleon Ogbon is a Petroleum Engineer, an MWD Directional Drilling Specialist, and an Oil and Gas Training Consultant with 35 years of rewarding national and international experience. He studied petroleum engineering in the United States at Louisiana State University(LSU) and University of Louisiana (UL) for his BSc and MSc degrees respectively.

He started his career in the oil and gas industry as an MWD engineer with Teleco Oilfield Services where he earned vast experience in directional drilling, MWD data acquisition and analysis from the Gulf of Mexico in the USA, the North Sea(Aberdeen), Mediterranean (Syracuse – Italy), the Gulf of Guinea (Gabon, Cameroon & Nigeria).

He is an oil gas training specialist and manpower developer. He trained Shell directional drilling engineers to excel in their Round I and II exams in Hague. He trained and developed graduates engineers at the Shell Intensive Training Programme to hit the ground and run in the oil field in Nigeria. He coordinated the Nexus/Nigerian National Petroleum Company graduate engineers Foundation Training Programme that produced engineers that exhibited more rate of field knowledge and skill acquisition than the company has ever experienced. He lectures petroleum engineering courses in the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Nigeria He designs and facilitates any course or/and training programme to fill in any knowledge, skill and competency gap in any petroleum establishment. He has authored several training manuals in directional drilling, drilling engineering, oil and gas processing, natural gas processing, transmission and unit operations. He has wide and deep knowledge on all aspects of the oil and gas industry and has the ability to help people to learn at every level, from company directors or expert industrialists, through graduates to new-starts.

SKILLS

Design and facilitate any course to fill in any knowledge, skill or/and competence gap

Design and coordinate any training programme to develop workforce to bridge competence gap

Manage and motivate people to achieve desired objectives

Research to provide company need analysis; and implementation of results to revamp facilities for improved productivity

Measurement While Drilling data acquisition and analysis

Microsoft Office

PERSONAL INFORMATION

i.Surname: OGBON

ii.First Name: Ogbarode

iii.Other Names: Napoleon

iv.Address: 1611 Humbolt Drive, Allen. TX 75002

v.Email Address: acws1s@r.postjobfree.com

vi.Phone: 651-***-****; 651-***-****; 972-***-****

vii.Date of Birth: 15th October, 1950

viii.Sex: Male

ix.Marital Status: Married with Children

WORK HISTORY

05/2013 - date

Lecturer

Federal University of Petroleum Resources - Effurun, Nigeria

Design training manual for Petroleum engineering courses.

Lectures Natural Gas Processing & Unit Operations, Natural Gas Engineering, Drilling Engineering and Basic Petroleum Engineering.

Coached graduating senior students to win the SPE-Africa region PetroBowl and represented the region in the just concluded 2015 SPE-ATCE in Houston.

Supervise Final year students engineering projects.

Chosen by the University College of Technology Board to design the compulsory Petroleum Engineering Course(PNG 419) for all engineering students

Chosen to design Petroleum engineering courses for the University Training Consultancy Services

Member of the FUPRE Technology Solutions committee

04/2012 - 04/2013

Training Programme Coordinator

Nexus-Alliance/Nigerian National Petroleum Company - Lagos, Nigeria

Coordinated both administrative and academic activities of NNPC-Nexus Alliance Foundation Skill Training Programme(FSTP) for Engineers at Edjeba Learning Village, Warri

Reporting directly to Programme Manager in the UK and NNPC GLD at Abuja

Participated in the FSTP Programme curriculum design

Initiated the Study Group Mentoring Scheme that reinforced trainees; get them involve in active discussion and problem-solving sessions; established trainees spirit of teamwork; improve performance of the weak-links of the group; and increased overall knowledge base and performance of the trainees

Design, Develop and Author Training Manuals for Natural Gas Processing and Transmission, Fundamentals of Petroleum Engineering and Oil and Gas Overview(for Technicians)

Facilitate the above courses.

04/1996 - 04/2010

Consultant Lecturer

Shell Intensive Training Programme(SITP) Shell Petroleum Development Company - Warri, Nigeria

Coached SPDC Well Engineering Department Drilling Engineers in Directional Drilling and Casing Design for their Round One and Round Two Examinations in the Hague that produces 100% passes in 2006

Design, Develop and Author Training Manuals at the SPDC Graduate Special Intensive Training Programme(SITP). Courses include: Oil & Gas Processing, Natural Gas Processing/LNG Production, and Production Technology.

Provided trainees with technical knowledge, skills, confidence and motivation to make them hit the ground and run in the various oil and gas facilities operations

01/2002 - 06/2002

Consultant

Robert Gordon University

Research for the Need Analysis for the upgrade of the Petroleum Laboratory, Production workshop, the flow station facilities and the drilling rig at the Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun. Project was initiated by the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF)

My recommendations gave rise to the provision of DRILLSIM Conventional Drilling & Well Control

Simulators; the refurbishment of the production laboratory and workshop bring them to API standard

WORK HISTORY

01/1989 – 04/1996

CEO/Managing Consultant

Pidev Nigeria Limited - Warri, Nigeria

Formulates Operational Policies Manage equipment and workforce for day to day operations of the company Design Manpower Development Programmes and Courses for Oilfield personnel and company training/manpower development programmes.

08/1981 - 10/1988

Field Service Engineer, Field Service Engineering Supervisor and Base Operations Supervisor

Teleco Oilfield Services Inc. - Broussard, LA; Port Gentil, Gabon; Duala, Cameroon; Aberdeen, Scotland, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Started with Teleco as a field service engineer at Broussard, LA and rose to the position of base operations supervisor at Port Harcourt in Nigeria. Served as senior service engineer in Port Gentil Gabon and Aberdeen, Scotland and as operations supervisor in Duala, Cameroon and Syracuse, Italy.

Responsibilities include

Operation of Teleco MDW tools for the acquisition, analysis and production of data for the drilling and steering of directional and horizontal wells

Running the Teleco tools for Formation evaluation data acquisition, analysis and production for the drilling of directional and horizontal wells

Base operations activities involving engineers and equipment scheduling/logistics, supervising equipment/facilities maintenance, sourcing for jobs from IOC's and operators, handling of base accounting/finances and reporting directly to Aberdeen the Teleco Africa/Europe headquarters

The on the job research on “Effects of Drill String Rotating Torque on MWD Data Acquisition and Transmission” may have assisted Teleco R&D and manufacturing units to come up with later tools with downhole drilling torque dampers and measurement devices.

EDUCATION

1964

Primary School Leaving Certificate(PSLC):

CMS Primary School - Ophori-Olomu, Delta State.

General Knowledge (Arithmetic, English, General Science and Religious Knowledge)

1972

West African School Certificate (WASC) High School Leaving Certificate

Urhobo College, Effurun - Nigeria

Mathematics, English Language, English Literature, Geography, Agricultural Science,

Physics, Chemistry and Biology

1978

BSc. Petroleum Engineering

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. - USA

1981

MSc. Petroleum Engineering

University of Southwestern, Lafayette. USA

PROFESSIONAL BODY MEMBERSHIP

Society of Petroleum Engineers

HUBBIES

Football, Jogging, Lawn Tennis and Swimming. The Searching for and Sharing of Knowledge and Truth

PUBLICATIONS

i.The Global Oil and Gas Industry and the Nigerian Ecosystem Environment

– Ogbarode N. Ogbon; Sylvester Okotie.

Awaiting publication by Elsevier

ii.Evaluation of Akpet GT 9 Gas Condensate Reservoir Performance - Technical Paper

- Ogbon O. N. & Okotie Sylvester

iii.Introduction to Offshore Technology – Book -- Ogbon O. N. & Okotie Sylvester

Depatrment of Petroleum Engineering. FUPRE

iv.Introduction to Petroleum Industry -Book-Dr. Peter Akpoturi ; Ogbarode N. Ogbon; Sylvester Okotie

Depatrment of Petroleum Engineering. FUPRE

v.Natural Gas Engineering Handbook – Dr. Peter Akpoturi ; Ogbarode N. Ogbon; Sylvester Okotie

Depatrment of Petroleum Engineering. FUPRE – in progress

vi.Oil and Gas Processing Training Manual at SITP - O. N. Ogbon

vii.Natural Gas Processing and Transmission Training Manual at SITP - O. N. Ogbon

viii.Basic Petroleum Technology Training Manual at SITP - O. N. Ogbon i

ix.Basic Petroleum Engineering Training Manual at SITP - O. N. Ogbon

x.Petroleum Production Technology Training Manual at SITP - O. N. Ogbon - Prof. Chi Ikoku - Dr. Alla Whabala

xi.Effect of Residual Oil Saturation On Enhanced Oil Recovery: Graduate Research Paper Submitted to Petroleum Engineering Department, University of Southwester Louisiana USA

xii.Effects of Drill String Rotating Torque on MWD Data Acquisition and Transmission: On the job Research Paper Presented to the Teleco Oilfield Inc. Training Department - Aberdeen

xiii.Wells Emergency Command, Control and Competence (WE3C) - Wells Professional Source Book in Shell - O. N. Ogbon(Contributed Technical Topics) - Prof. Ray Torrese; - Dr. John Lee; - Dr. Charles Ayoka; and - M.P.O.Mukoro

xiv.Oil Industry Overview Manual (© 2009) Training Manual at MFSTP - O. N. Ogbon

xv.Natural Gas Processing and Transmission Operations -2015 Dubai - O. N. Ogbon (Training manual for Nigerian Gas Company Operators) & Prof. Antony Wyatt

xvi.Practical Directional Drilling - O. N. Ogbon - in progress

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