JARUSHUB:
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Many thanks.

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Angelfrost:


You can be sure over 80% of Nairalanders are not ever gonna read all that!!!

Great piece and write up! Wrong forum!!!

RioCarputo:

most of them have lost hope, believe, and being discouraged as well . so they are less concerned about articles like this.

SEYIKP:
I pity that his friend, that trivialized the job advert. The mentality still exists among Nigerians till today. That they have chosen those that they wanted to employed.

DDexter99:
Nice one. It was inspiring.
To think that no connection, no job.... At some point it got into my mentality....
Thanks for this.

Angelinastto:
80% of the commenters didn't read the write-up

JARUSHUB:
With the decline in price of crude oil and accelerated shift to renewables, what is your advice to aspiring or current students of petroleum engineering or similar fields in Nigeria?

We are yet to fully evaluate the impact of Covid on crude oil and global energy demand in terms of whether it will further accelerate the shift to renewables faster than 2070 window for which we previously still foresaw crude oil playing a major role within the energy system. However, crude oil is not disappearing anytime soon as the world still needs lots of energy especially in developing countries for electricity, transport and for petrochemicals.

So current students of Petroleum Engineers or similar fields need not be hurrying out quickly as there is still a career over the next 50-years. Also, most of the knowledge and skills in the oil industry are transferable to renewables industry (e.g. offshore wind) and many of the oil companies are investing significantly in alternative energies and would deploy their talents across.

As an oil and gas executive, how do you relax?

This is one of the holy grail challenges in the modern world.

When I started work in the industry in 1993, once you closed from work daily or on Friday, you had all your time till the next day or throughout the weekend, uninterrupted, as no one could reach you except you were on duty and had the duty walkie-talkie. Under such, it was then easy to unwind, with family and friends and for example go to the beach (Abraka resort in those days), to sporting activities or to social events.

However, the world today, with 24-hours interconnectivity via internet and telephones is a different world. The span of Executives is also now much wider, as for example, as a Global functional VP in Shell, I had responsibilities across 40 countries in different continents and time zones, leading to a 24-hour working window.

This makes relaxing a challenge in modern day but it remains important as without relaxing, an Executive will easily burn out. One thing I learnt to do was to spread out my annual leave, so that every two months I could take at least take a week off work to relax and importantly spend time with family travelling together as a family to unwind and get to know different places, far and near. A key during such travels is to avoid being drawn into emails and phone calls with work and thus important to fully delegate during one’s absence.

I also like reading in my spare time (currently reading “The Outsiders – Eight Unconventional CEOs and their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William Thorndike” and “The Idea in you, how to find it, build it and change your life by Amor and Pellew”). I am also writing my memoir, which would hopefully be published next year.

Many thanks.

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Heathrow44:
Please and please o!! Occupying public office doesn't make u a CEO, so go and open ur own fricking business and don't use public funds to do that or u serve many years for embezzlement in kpirikpiri correction centre!
See this op calling him a CEO ,his nothing but a manager ! This isn't his business, his business d is to make sure this national assets is used for all ! Socialism and communism!

JARUSHUB:


This one doesn't know what CEO means.

But investopedia can help you

What Is Chief Executive Officer (CEO)?

A chief executive officer (CEO) is the highest-ranking executive in a company, whose primary responsibilities include making major corporate decisions, managing the overall operations and resources of a company, acting as the main point of communication between the board of directors (the board) and corporate operations and being the public face of the company. A CEO is elected by the board and its shareholders.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/ceo.asp

Heathrow44:




Mr. Man Public office service doesn't use the name CEO, manager, MD or director is the name used when talking of those serving public interests! Don't try t be or follow educated illiterates, they re no good, use! use ur dictionary okay?! Even ur investopedia defines CEO as public face of a company which is usually his not a public office, get ur facts right

ruggedtimi:
Reading articles on biographies of Top oil and gas C.E.O's motivates me alot to do more. My dream is to sit on the board of a major petroleum company

Heathrow44:
Please and please o!! Occupying public office doesn't make u a CEO, so go and open ur own fricking business and don't use public funds to do that or u serve many years for embezzlement in kpirikpiri correction centre!
See this op calling him a CEO ,his nothing but a manager ! This isn't his business, his business d is to make sure this national assets is used for all ! Socialism and communism!

Heathrow44:




Mr. Man Public office service doesn't use the name CEO, manager, MD or director is the name used when talking of those serving public interests! Don't try t be or follow educated illiterates, they re no good, use! use ur dictionary okay?! Even ur investopedia defines CEO as public face of a company which is usually his not a public office, get ur facts right

JARUSHUB:
You spent the first 3 post-university years as a teacher in a public secondary school, getting job in Shell after being a teacher must have been a big leap for you. How was the recruitment process? How did you get the job?

I taught at Bishop Smith College in Ilorin and loved teaching which I found fulfilling especially seeing the growth and development of young people. However, the salary wasn’t great and had I not been living in my father’s apartment, rent-free and being fed at home, I would not have been able to make ends meet especially as I had also enrolled for an MBA degree at the University of Ilorin.

As soon as I completed the Masters’ program, I resigned from the teaching job and headed to Lagos to seek greener pastures. I visited several places that posted adverts for job in front of their buildings and searched for vacancies in daily newspapers. Friends and family sent me information on other job advertisements they became aware of. I applied for lots (hundreds) of vacancies and attended many interviews.

In December 1991, I was traveling back to Ilorin for Christmas with a colleague from MBA school. At the motor park, I bought a copy of Guardian newspaper and read the vacancies section. There was an advert by Shell to recruit graduates of various disciplines as trainees. I showed my friend, suggesting we apply, but he scorned it and said such companies reserved jobs for children of the high and mighty influential people, not for children of civil servants and teachers, like us. I told him we had nothing to lose in applying. When we arrived Ilorin, I wrote my application and asked him if he had done same so we could post our applications together. He laughed and was adamant that he didn’t have time to waste on such things.

We returned to Lagos after the holiday and months later, I received a response from Shell, inviting me to attend a test at their Port Harcourt office. I would go on to attend interviews on three separate occasions there and each time I showed the invitation to my friend he would laugh it off saying. “They are just using your likes to complete the number and give some credibility to the process, but they already have in mind those they would employ”.

The interviews were professional, thorough and included expatriates on the panel and after a year of interviews and medical test, I received my employment letter early 1993. When my friend saw it, he felt sad he let himself down and possibly lost an employment opportunity.

The whole experience reminds me of Vince Lombardi Jr who said “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will and perseverance”

djon78:



I believe oil has done it's final cause.
Anybody still looking at oil is wasting his time.

I read one recent report last week
All the rich gulf oil states are having terrible economic strain as of recent. From Saudi Arabia to Kuwait to UAE.
Serious budget deficit
Deep economic woes facing them.

Saudi Arabia has moved there vision 2030 about diverting from oil dependency to 2020.
There reserve of $440 billion will go bust in one year's time if oil price remain at its current price because they spend $45 billion monthly to support there budget


Technologies is the future
Oil is already gone