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The Rector of Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron, Joshua Okpo, is dead.

Mr. Okpo died Tuesday in Abuja, where he had travelled to for an official business of the academy.

A source at the academy told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr. Okpo was expected to beat the National Assembly on Tuesday morning to discuss the academy’s budget with lawmakers.

The source said when staff of the academy waited at the National Assembly complex for the rector and didnot see or hear from him for several hours, they drove to his residence in Abuja, where they found him dead in his room.

The cause of death was not yet known.Mr. Okpo’s body was said to have been deposited in the mortuary at the National Hospital, Abuja.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/194846-rector-of-maritime-academy-of-nigeria-is-dead.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

®man united was here in the UCL 2015/2016 season!!!!

When Madrid don see awuff like this body go dey sweet dem...Smh!!!

Please who is watching it on mobdro?Which of the channels?

wachakuta:
We need death sentence in nigeria

Like seriously!!!

dabriggs:
Sorry for the delay.

I said I was going to reply. I keep my word.

So you have a Physics background. THE PROSPECTS ARE ACTUALLY BETTER THAN ONE MIGHT THINK. A lot of the calculations are based on physical parameters and the behavior of physical parameters in relation to reservoir fluids and reservoir characteristics. Also is the area of interrelationship between oil producing assets and their interaction with the environment. There are many other aspect where your prospects also lie.

Thinking to myself, I wonder which area you specialized on. Did you have any specialization or area of focus in school. You will have to Channel your skills and specializations into some key areas through further training. That is not to say your knowledge of Physics if extensive will not suffice. I have seen people with lesser qualifications in this industry. With Physics you can work both in Oil Producing (the Mobils, Chevrons, Shells, NAEs, NAOCs, Totals, Pan Oceans, AFREN/AMNI if they still exist, SAHARA etc.) and Oil Servicing Companies e.g. the drilling and completion companies. I am sure of the following areas based on my over 10 years experience in this industry.

Some areas I have know you will be of good use are the following:

OIL PRODUCING COMPANIES (IOCS & LOCAL)

1. Asset Integrity/Safety Engineering:
You will focus basically on asset integrity and functional safety. Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Serviceability and Safety. Your knowledge in Non Destructive Testing will come in here. You will most likely monitor the work of contractors and participate in NDT activities. If you are skilled in Long Range NDT especially for Pipelines, then this is good too. I went to the US for this knowledge and the use of intrinsic safe amphibious robots for API Tank shell and bottom plate inspection. Yes these tanks will be in service and yet you do your API 653 test.

2. Facilities Management:
You will be involved in facilities design, structural strength, design load calculations etc. With extensive application of knowledge in Materials Sciences, Metallurgy. Management of offshore/nearshore/swamp/onshore facilities. Ensuring design life and operational life objectives are met. Management of the structures. Working with HSE to organize and execute testing, inspections, repairs, corrosion combat/campaigns, etc. The facilities cut across SUBSEA (well heads, manifolds, risers, flow-lines) and SURFACE (FPSOs, Production Platforms-Manned and Unmanned, vessels, pipelines, export buoys, mooring chains both for spread and turret moored facilities, etc.)

3. Field Development:
a. Exploration where electromagnetic and other seismic techniques are used to find oil and gas, especially in more difficult environments and reservoirs conditions/characteristics. There is a lot of Petrophysical and Geophysical Activities involved in exploration and production and in reservoir modelling. They are involved in Field Development and are a part of the field development team.
b. Reservoir modelling and Development especially as a geophysicist/ petrophysicists.

While there are core Geophysics courses in Universities, you can also channel yourself towards this area by specialized training. You can do an MSc. in Petrophysics if you have the time and money. I did this a lot. My brother I have read so many books even into Gas Engineering and how to Safety Manage and Engineer these facilities. I did not wait for any course. I bought books, especially books with real life applications and calculations and examples. APPLIED BOOKS.

4. Research and Development:
These guys are guys who develop new skills in the laboratory and try them out on the field. Unfortunately The Oil companies in Nigeria hardly have these teams in their Nigerian subsidiaries. Another thing is that most IOCs do not bother about this aspect. They let servicing companies like Schlumberger do the research and development and apply these on the field.

OIL SERVICING COMPANIES
You are well qualified also to work with servicing both local and international companies like Schlumberger, Halliburton and Bake Hughes etc. that are involved in drilling, completion and well servicing works. There are a lot of exercises including wireline petrophysics, Geophysical Well Log Analyses (GWLA), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and many other new methods. Note, a lot of these servicing companies are also involved in exploration and seismic activities. Here you will play a great role especially in interpreting seismic data recorded during seismic exploration.

FOCUS/NEEDS ASSESSMENT
I will give my opinion here, but I want you to go look at job openings for Physicists/Geophysicists in the oil and gas industry. Look at what is expected of them and channel your courses, reading and areas of interest towards these skills and areas.

1.There are a lot of Geophysical Software
2. Petrophysical Software
3. Well log interpretation training
4. There are new emerging technologies and skills for well data gathering and analyses that you can also research on.
5. If you want to tow the line of HSE or make it complementary then you can do stuff on CP, AIMS/RBI, etc.


Sorry for the long delay once again.

Thanks!!! Well said.No. 1&2 is very OK for me. I can now see that in other to achieve this,a lot of financial commitment is involved. Hmm!!!

guysis:
@dabriggs,How can somebody from a physics background and NDT break into the industry?Like what are the prospects?

Bro please I'm still looking up to this answer. Thanks

@dabriggs,How can somebody from a physics background and NDT break into the industry?Like what are the prospects?

dabriggs:
Ehen, I don come back. I am back

Sorry for the late reply. I am completing my program here and there are just a lot of things to do related to graduation and convocation.
You studied Civil Engineering. That is good. Let me start by saying this:

Generally the business can informally be split into two 2.

1. There are Oil Producing Companies which are either International Oil Companies (IOCs e.g. Shell, Chevron, Mobil, Total) OR Indigenous/Local Oil Companies (Pan Ocean, Moni Pulo, Conoil,).

2. There are Oil Servicing Companies (OSCs) and these offer a very long list of services from rudimentary supplies to highly specialized technical services to the IOCs. The IOCs do not have all the skills and some of these services are required maybe once in 3 or 5 years. It is cheaper and better to outsource such to servicing companies. In the past they used to be many international servicing companies. But now, the Nigerian local content laws have made most of these international servicing companies merge with local companies or ''indegenize''. International servicing companies include Technip, SUBSEA 7, Baker Hughes, Fugro, Schlum., NALCO, etc. Some of these companies might claim to be local. But believe me there is a foreign company pulling the strings from overseas. Local servicing companies include Makon, Tenoil, AOS Orwell, Clairgold, etc.

So why this long digression? You have a choice to work with any of the two groups. Within the core oil producing companies as a Civil Engineer, I will see you in:

1. Facilities or
2. Safety Engineering

Facilities guys manage the structures offshore or on land. They are involved in design, maintenance and management of the design life of oil producing and exporting assets. Within Safety Engineering you will be involved in asset integrity management and risk based inspection. Usually you will work closely with the Facilities guys on matters life design life extension, fatigue, corrosion control and corrosion prevention and protection, ageing and obsolescence, etc. The facilities will include stuff like FPSO Hull, mooring chains, SBM/SPM export buoy, pipes, vessels, risers.

With regards to servicing companies, you could work with the drilling and well completion companies, the design companies for facility designs.Pipeline construction, a host of technical issues related to civil /Structural works, platform construction, detailed Engineering for Civil/ Structural works as per Project specifications and applicable International codes and standards, subsea soil foundation and stability tests, technical review of design documents and method statements etc.

The courses will depend on which area you are interested in. Are you concerned with Design? Asset Integrity? Life Extension? Courses on STAAD Pro, some specialized training of fire resistant and blast resistant structures, training on Cathodic and Corrosion Protection, UTM and Non Destructive Testing (NDT) Systems and training on to be conversant with international codes and standards will also be good. ASTM, ASCE/ANSI, API, etc. With regards to loss prevention and asset integrity management you can Try PHAST, SAFETI, IFS, SYNERGI, VisualAIM etc.

You can also check the web to see where your discipline is heading and where to focus on developing yourself.

Loving all your expert inputs on this thread.I can see you know your onions and a no push over in this industry.Despite coming from the safety arm,your firm grasp of other areas of expertise all around the industry is amazing. I dey follow you closely.Kudos Bro!!!

Bollinger:
I have almost shouted myself hoarse about this issue on NL. Most just hear "5k" and they lose all sense of reasoning. It can never work. Not with the infrastructure on ground. All they will do if they implement it, is create another avenue for looting funds. Want another head cracker? How will the government sustain it? Nobody is asking that question. The govt can't even pay salaries for God's sake. In America, when you are born, or become a citizen/resident, you are issued a number which follows you till the day you die. This number is relevant from going to school to buying a car. It identifies you to pretty much everything you do in life. So, if the government wanted to help the unemployed, all they need to do is pull up your number and it will tell if you have a job or not. Too easy. Say you are looking for a job, the first thing that is asked of you is your number which the company will input into their system which the government can access at anytime. It makes everyone's life so much easier. Until Nigeria implements something like this, all talk of social welfare should be put in the back burner. The govt does not even know how many unemployed live on a street and they want to track the whole country. Well, good luck with that.

In other words they have failed before the programme commences.SMH for this administration!

bestower:
What a damsel! Waoh,what is going to be the hope of this young lady in the family? Has she been married legally to this man before his death? Is she leaving with the 2nd wife nd children?oh no, madam olivia u re on ur own.lemme ask, am i first to comment.....i feel nothing and i got nothing been first to comment...so y d bustlin nd hustlin...craps.

If you ask me na who I go ask?

I love the French intelligent gathering network.How I wish my country would take a cue from this?

adjoviomole:
Mods anybody dat types end time again. Abeg make una dash d person end time ban

It is not a small something o!!!!

Bia Vanguard and co.!!! you guys must tender an apology to Nigerians for misinformation.

SMH!!!

JoshRDWM:
Web directories are great too...

What do you use that for?

jammeyboy:
I won 3houd.com but i am not sure if it is a good domain to register or not.
Whats ur pick on this domain people

IMO,Bro that domain has no PR,the Alexa ranking is too high.Even the name with a numeral infront looks somehow .ItsNot advisable to buy.I stand to be corrected by the gurus in the house.
#selah

9niceguy:
Cute baby..... What's that rising beneath that nigga Trouser? That thing long o

Boil ni

djkellyu:
How a stolen / missing phone can be tracked

http://www.learnerstools.com/2015/11/how-stolen-phone-can-be-tracked.html?m=0

That stuff doesn't work!!!
#selah

rusher14:
I'm tired of all this ethnic play.

Even if, and I'm not saying it's so, must you echo what you believe is their thoughts?

Aren't you guys tired?

Business and profit doesn't follow ethnicity but the money path.

For the lure of lucre brothers kill brothers and mothers have sold their own children into slavery.

My opinion about the business is that, it probably wasn't even illegal but one might say the structure may not have been in the best interest of the nation and it did not encourage competition.

This Tribal e-fight is getting out of hand by the day.I pray it doesn't breakdown the servers of this platform.

Buhari:Amaechi

Amaechi:Baba

Buhari:Abeg I no wan hear say that mono rail project u run leave for pH dem no complete am oo

Amaechi: Chai!!!I don die.Come collect this post sef I no want again.

Amaechi please you'll do well to use your good offices while working in conjunction with nyesom to ensure that the port Harcourt mono rail project is completed.

U did all these and you posed for a shot?

*pukes*What a life!