Chief Operating Officer
With over 30 years in the upstream oil and gas industry, Segun joined Gasco Marine Nigeria Limited at the end of 2016 as Director Gas Solutions, tasked with building a portfolio of CNG, LPG and LNG solutions for local industries.
Segun has had a vibrant portfolio of experience both locally and internationally in the industry . For 23 years he led various geophysics, economics, planning and portfolio management teams in Shell Nigeria and The Netherlands. In 2006, he was seconded to the Department of Petroleum Resources from Shell where he acted as Special Adviser to the Director of Petroleum Resources between 2006 and 2008.
In 2008, he joined Sahara Energy as General Manager Commercial, where he successfully led the team that negotiated the acquisition of equity interest in various assets in West Africa (including IOC divested assets), Ghana & Côte D’Ivoire. He also led negotiations with several Governments and Independent Oil companies in Sudan, Kurdistan, Pakistan and Angola for block acquisitions and bid rounds. In 2015, he was appointed Managing Director of Asharami Energy Limited ( A Sahara E&P company). Segun has a B.SC in Applied Geophysics from the University of Ife (currently Obafemi Awolowo University) and is a member of the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) and Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS).