Ag. Managing Director
Segun Ogunwumi has over 35 years of upstream oil and gas industry experience, 23 of which were spent with Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) including 4 years of cross posting to Shell in the Netherlands. Between 1985 and 2006, he led various Geophysics, Economics, Planning and Portfolio Management teams in Shell Nigeria and Netherlands. In 2006, he was seconded to the DPR from Shell where he acted as Special Adviser to the Director of Petroleum Resources between 2006 and 2008. He left Shell and joined Sahara Energy Field Limited in 2008.
Between 2008 and 2014 as General Manager Commercial, he successfully led the team that negotiated the acquisition of equity interest in various oil blocks in Nigeria (including IOC divested assets), Ghana & Cote D’Ivoire. During this period, he also led negotiations with several Government and Independent Oil companies in Nigeria, Ghana, Sudan, Kurdistan, Pakistan and Angola for block acquisitions and bid rounds. He was appointed Managing Director of Asharami Energy Limited (a Sahara E&P company) in 2015, a position he held till January 2016.
Segun joined Gasco Marine Nigeria Limited at the end of 2016 as Deputy Managing Director & Director Gas Solutions, tasked with building a portfolio of CNG, LPG and LNG solutions for local industries.
In his role as Director of Gas solutions, he led Gasco Marine’s project team that constructed the company’s new CNG Compression plant at Abeokuta between 2018 and 2019. He was responsible for the entire process from engineering design to manufacturing, construction, installation and commissioning of the plant. Segun has a B.SC in Applied Geophysics from the University of Ife (currently Obafemi Awolowo University) and has attended several professional and safety courses during his career with Shell. He is married with children and is a member of the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) and Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS)