Nkiru studied at the University of Lagos as a graduate of History & French. She has over 15 years of corporate work experience gained in finance, administration and IT. She’s worked for Virgin Group of Companies in TV production, an Israeli company called Tesco Software Systems where she was Instrumental as a hard and software testing consultant in the United Kingdom. She also took on sensitive software consulting roles on projects with Camelot Interactive, British Broadcasting Corporation, Tesco Online Shopping portal development, Cable & Wireless, RS Components, and in Banking & Finance sectors for mover 10yrs before deciding to switch careers to Law. She is involved in several advisory roles mainly in company legal and financial compliance, ethics, and good corporate governance in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.

Nkiru also studied Law at BPP University London and still continues her work in training for the advocacy of Immigrants in the U.K. She is also the Company Secretary for SINOK Companies UK and a shareholder and director for SINOK Exploration and Production Limited, Nigeria.

Sir Amechi has over 35years oil and gas industry experience in HSE, partners and government relations in Royal Dutch Shell and other independents. He joined Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) in mid-eighties and have worked in various spheres of the Oil and Gas Industry as Head and Manager of various departments including Health Safety and Environment (HSE), Business Relations, etc., in both SPDC and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Co. Ltd. (SNEPCO) a Deep Water company in Nigeria and elsewhere in the Shell group, assuring compliance with business governance, value creation/addition, improved relationships with Partners/Stakeholders and Government.

He acted as Principal Consultant to Aiteo Eastern E&P Co., since 2015 and provided specialized services to emerging independent Oil and Gas industry with value and brand protection for investments whilst maintaining good image.

He has a large and demonstrable expertise and competence in various key HSE skills and discipline as well as managing Ventures Relations and Government interfaces with significant value to the overall business. He is very experienced with good understanding of oil and gas business in both onshore and offshore operating environment with appropriate certification and permits to enable on-site work execution at short notice. Sir Onianwa is technically sound with high quality work delivery, strong negotiating skills with admirable skills in people management/relationship in oil and gas commercial deals. A Fellow of ABC‐Harvard Business School, Boston MA; Royal Society for LifeSavers London; Nigerian Environmental Society (FNES); and Occupational Safety and Health Association (FOSHA).

Tony is a Mechanical Engineer, with 30 year’s post-graduation experience and duly registered with COREN and NSE. Most of my experience has been in the Oil and Gas sector, with the first 6 years in the Downstream and subsequent years in the Upstream of the sector.  Tony’s downstream experience had me working with a Castrol authorized blender of Castrol lubricants, Eterna Oil and Gas, in the Lagos, Port Harcourt and Warri offices, as a Lubricant Engineer. I handled the customers with the very large portfolios, like Wilbros Nigeria Limited, Eleme Petrochemicals, Port Harcourt Refinery, within the South -South region, and Ajaokuta Steel Rolling Mill in the North Central region.

Tony migrated to the upstream sector in 1996, self-employed with partners at Paragon Supplies and Trading Company with a huge portfolio of OEM representations including companies like Elsag Bailey, Steadfast Engineering etc. and some clients like SPDC (Shell) and Mobil under Master purchase agreements. This went on till I moved investments to another support services company InterGlobal Procurement Engineering Services Ltd (IGPES) as Executive Director in charge of Projects and Engineering.

With my partners, we grew IGPES Ltd from a total strength of 6 to a permanent staff number of 52, with as much as 200 as project casual staffers. IGPES Ltd started off as a procurement company providing procurement services to SPDC, Mobil, AGIP, ELF, the refineries etc. to an OEM representative in Nigeria to Hanover Inc. providing local labor (Engineers, Safety officers, Procurement officers etc.) and services (logistics, Local procurement, Security etc.). Further growth saw us become local content partners to Hanover, during which time we jointly delivered two key projects for SPDC that were economy boosters. One of the projects boosted crude oil production by 11,000bpd through Gas lifting and the second boosted crude oil production by as much as 9,000bpd through gas re-injection into a dying reservoir. Both projects delivered months early and bonus paid us by SPDC. On each of the two projects, one at Otumara with SPDC West and the other at OGUTA 2 with SPDC East, we in team with our partners, Hanover, provided over 12 years of Operations and Maintenance services as both plants were leased from our partners by SPDC.

At the third stage IGPES became an Oil and Gas construction partner to Hanover (Now Exterran). Under this relationship we delivered a key project at Gbaran Ubie in Bayelsa state for SPDC and Nigeria. IGPES built an 80mmscfd gas plant designed to receive gas from nominated wells, clean the gas to specification and send to the Gbaran Ubie IPP as feed stock. The operations of this plant didn’t come to fruition at the planned time of commissioning because the IPP plant was not ready to receive gas.

IGPES had other projects and business activities going on including with clients like, NPDC, Total, AGIP, Addax, Refineries etc. In areas like Procurement, Service provision, Body shopping etc. We had other key partnerships including with front-end engineering companies like IMPaC out of Germany, with whom we executed some key engineering projects, under Call-off contracts with the IOCs. I was the team lead on behalf of my partners and company on all these projects with field and office responsibilities. I also have been in management positions since 1995.

Dipo has about 40 years’ experience as a geophysical professional with Field operation working in Seismic Survey as a Seismologist/Observer with a Seismic Acquisition Company, United Geophysical Nig. Ltd in 1981. He later joined Nigerian Agip Oil Company in 1983 working in Geology and Geophysics with Field Supervisory work of NAOC’s Geophysical Contractors acquiring seismic data on behalf of the Company. This Field took him to many localities in the Niger Delta Communities in Nigeria. During this phase, he was involved in the drilling of at least three of his generated Prospects namely Nimbe South-1, Sengana River-1 and Ajaketon-1.

In January 1992, he left the Company to join the Indigenous train with one of the very first then, International Petro-Energy, Concessionaire of the OPL 229 and 204. As the Exploration Manager, he was responsible for adding value to the Concessions by generating quality Prospects and Leads of which one of them, The Curlew Channel Prospect was drilled as Idege wildcat, successful well. Dipo, became a full blown Oil & Gas Independent Consultant from 1995 consulting for several Companies.

He setup a Geoscience Training academy in 1998 in a desire to contribute something back to the profession which made him. As a result Dipo was honoured with the Contribution To Society Award by the American Biographical Society few years later.

He worked as the Representative of Petroconsultants SA/IHS Energy in Nigeria. In the Year 2000, his consulting outfit, Charter Tech Limited signed a collaborative Agreement with EOGAS Petroleum & Geosciences, which allowed the parties to work together on several Field E&P Evaluation Studies. EOGAS eventually wound down her operations to metamorphose into Zobeten Petroleum Nig. Ltd with a subsidiary in Ghana. The collaboration eventually took the Group to Ghana, where Zobeten Petroleum Ghana Ltd applied for Acreage and was successful.  Ditto Charter Tech Ltd has had business working relationship with the likes of Jones-Tech International, the erstwhile Project Management Consultant to Bayelsa Oil Company’s Atala Field Development programme and Geoscience Ireland, a Dublin based Group with interest in solid minerals exploration and exploitation in Nigeria.

Between 2005 and 2009, Dipo was Consultant to Moni Pulo Limited, a Port-Harcourt based E& P Company. Apart from training their Geoscientists in Exploration Geophysics and Seismic Interpretation in-house, he took full charge of the 3D Seismic Survey Project management of Moni Pulo’s OPL 231 and OML 114 Transition zone/Shallow Marine 3D Seismic Survey starting from 3D Design and Parameters Evaluation, preparation of Invitation to Tender Documents and pre-Crew mobilization planning.   Dipo brings an extensive experience in Geology and Geophysics and well operations to the Sinok team. His expertise is vital to bringing fields being applied for into production.

Evi is a Petroleum Geologist by background with about 20years spent in the Oil and Gas industry. He had his BSc. In Geology from the Delta State University and his MSc. Degree in Petroleum Geology from the University of Port Harcourt respectively. He is a seasoned geologist with experience working on clastic and carbonate reservoirs. In 2001, he started his industry career with the Saipem Group of companies, where he spent 5 years and pioneered the Nigerian Content Development Unit and in collaboration with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the National Investment and Management Services (NAPIMS) developed local content policies and built capacity in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry.

In 2006, he then joined Conoil Producing Limited an Exploration and Production Indigenous company, as a Geoscientist where he worked in the Exploration and Production business unit developing onshore, swamp, shallow- offshore and deep offshore -related oil and gas acreages, within the Niger Delta basin and Joint Development Zone (JDZ) respectively. In 2007, he then moved to Ankorpointe Integrated Limited as a Senior Geoscientist, where he was part of the team providing high -level technology geological and geophysical services to operators like Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Nigerian Agip Oil Corporation (NAOC), Nigerian Agip Exploration (NAE) and Addax Petroleum Limited within the oil and gas industry.

In 2008, he moved to Mart Energy Canadian Resources/Midwestern Joint Venture as a Senior Geologist and was responsible for managing the Exploration and Development operations in the company’s oil mining lease where he helped the organization in making significant and economic discoveries from the Umusadege marginal field. In 2009, he later joined Newcross Petroleum Limited an Indigenous company where he spent over a period of 5yrs and pioneered the Exploration business unit and led the company to discovery of its first commercial oil and gas fields in the Niger Delta basin. He has also acted as a Petroleum Consultant to various organizations in the oil and gas industry including the Knowledge Academy UK, where he provided professional trainings in Production Sharing Contracts, Unitization of oil and gas acreages and Joint Operating Agreements for government representatives from Barbados. He brings to the team leadership, management, excellent communication, project management and strong inter-personal skills. He is a member of the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationist (NAPE), European Association of Geoscientist and Engineers (EAGE), and a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, United Kingdom.

Jude is a chartered Mechanical Engineer (CEng), with a Master of Science (MSc) in Energy & Petroleum Economics, member of the Council of Engineering United Kingdom and member Association of Project Management United Kingdom (APM). He is well recognised as a professional authority in Project Management, Engineering, Construction and Installation in the Oil and Gas sector, with experience spanning over 27 years of complete project life-cycle in various capacities, in the major oil & gas regions of the world (Africa, Europe and the Middle East).

In Nigeria, West Africa with various oil and gas companies (OES, ABB Soimi SpA, IGPES Ltd and LEE Engineering) as Construction Manager and technical lead Engineer, serviced facilities and asset management long term contracts for Shell E&P West Nigeria as follows;  Early Production facility lease Project Gbaran-Ubie (SPDC EAST); Rehabilitation of Bonny Terminal Emulsion Treatment Plant (SPDC EAST); Rehabilitation of vandalized HANOVER gas compression Facility (SPDC EAST); Cawthorne Channel LNG Project Nigeria (SPDC EAST); Oguta Lease Compressors and maintenance Services project (SPDC – EAST); Otumara Gaslift compression Facility lease project (SPDC WEST); Rehabilitation / Upgrade of Sapele West Gas Plant (SPDC WEST); Additional fuel gas facility project, Bony terminal (SPDC EAST); 4nos. Flow stations Environmental upgrade for northern swamp engineering department (SPDC WEST) ; Water heat exchanger installations with fabrication and installation of interconnecting spools for Utorogu Gas Facility (SPDC WEST); Total rehabilitation of glycol reboiler unit-1 of Utorogu gas plant (SPDC WEST); Facility and Assets Integrity management Project: 56nos onshore and offshore Oil Flow stations, gas plants, oil pipeline and manifolds maintenance (HP/LP Pressure & Surge Vessel maintenance, IRM works & Pipeline Pigging) in the Delta region (SPDC West). In the United Kingdom (North Sea), with ConSave Engineering Services, Subsea 7, Flexlife (seconded to Apache and Eon Rugras) and Ocean Installer as a Lead Consultant Engineer in Subsea installation engineering (SURF) and IRM works for SHELL, TOTAL, CONOCO PHILIPS, FAIRFIELD E&P Companies in the North Sea and Africa. These includes considerable offshore experience in Project Management, Commercial proposals/budgeting, Engineering, Construction Management and Lead installation Engineering role on board various DSVs, Pipe lay and CSV vessels for the installations of rigid and flexible flow lines, rigid spools, flexible jumpers, umbilical lay and hang-up, Midline/SSIV Structures, IRM and subsea intervention works. Developing technical solutions for subsea installations, commercial technical tendering, scheduling, Equipment & Resource loading, execution method statement and developing Onshore/Subsea installation procedures. Presently in the Middle East since 2015, as Senior Project Engineer as a Lead and Subject Matter Expert for Greenfield and Brownfield Projects.

Mr Erhunwmunsee has over 24years post graduate experience and been involved in a lot of project work in the area of engineering design, construction, methods and installation, start-up and commissioning of civil/structural, piping, mechanical, pipeline works etc., from bid preparation, contract administration and supervision.  Also in QHSE, HUC and systems turnover. Strong technical and generalist engineering skills. Diverse experience in onshore/offshore projects that includes modification and upgrades to existing and new platforms, plant facilities and subsea installations. Electrical Power plant and Transmission Lines. Project executed includes; Fischer Tropsch Wax Expansion Project (FTWAX): Sasol, South Africa, MOBIL PRODUCING NIGERIA UNLIMTED; – ETIM ASASA DEVELOPMENT PROJECT CHEVRON TEXACO, ANGOLA;-TAKULA PIPELINES PROJECT, CABINDA.

S.P.D.C. WESTERN DIVISION; -FORCADOS – YORKI INTEGRATED PROJECT ONSHORE/OFFSHORE EPC project for gas gathering and Compressor facilities including Upgrade of Existing Facilities HANOVER ENERGY/ GLOBAL GAS AND REFINING LTD, NIGERIA: -CAWTHRONE CHANNEL II CRYOGENIC PLANT INSTALLATION PROJECT

Samuel Asekhauno is an experienced geologist with 10yrs strong geochemistry bias with focus on production efficiency within oil reservoir. He worked for BP in Sunbury in their production enhancement division where his geochemistry knowledge, as well as skill, was instrumental in increasing production in BP fields from 35% to 55% by implementing various techniques/ models.

He holds an MSc in Petroleum Geochemistry from Newcastle University. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, a member of EAGE and IEMA.

Felix Omokaro is an experienced petroleum Engineer with over 30 years of oil and gas industry experience in the performance of petrophysical engineering studies, implementation of reservoir development and project management. Has worked with major E&P companies and a leading service company in various locations including Nigeria, Italy, Libya, Brunei and Saudi Arabia, in different capacities. He has worked in Schlumbger, Shell and Aramco and was a key member of the Shell Nigeria Onshore team responsible for many discoveries in the Niger Delta.

Felix understands the complex Niger Delta reservoirs, especially those with low resistivity pay and his experience comes handy in unlocking missed opportunities in a mature basin like the Niger Delta. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Benin Nigeria. A member of the following professional bodies: Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), Registered member of Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE).