+ Targets For Bayo, Immediate goals Tinubu set for the man that replaced Mele Kyari
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday announced the appointment of Bashir Bayo Ojulari as the new Group Chief Executive Officer for the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd).
The appointment, which took effect immediately led to the sack of Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari.
Platforms Africa presents 10 quick facts to know about Engineer Bayo Ojulari
1. Ojulari, the new NNPC Limited Group CEO, hails from Kwara State.
2. Until his new appointment, He was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Renaissance Africa Energy Company. His Renaissance recently led a consortium of indigenous energy firms in the landmark acquisition of the entire equity holding in the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), worth $2.4 billion.
3. Ojulari is also an alumnus of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
4. The graduate of Mechanical Engineering who led the Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) team for the Bonga FPSO, is now the second GCEO of NNPC Ltd in history.
5. He worked for Elf Aquitaine as the first Nigerian process engineer to begin a stellar career in the oil sector.
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6. From Elf, he joined Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd in 1991 as an associate production technologist, where he rose to become the Managing Director of Shell’s deep water assets.
6. Apart from working in Nigeria, he worked in Europe and the Middle East in different capacities as a petroleum process and production engineer, strategic planner, field developer, and asset manager.
8. In 2015, he became the managing director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO).
9. During his career, he was chairman and member of the board of trustees of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE Nigerian Council).
10. Ojulari, also a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, is married with kids.
Targets For Bayo
President Tinubu has also handed out an immediate action plan to the new board: to conduct a strategic portfolio review of NNPC-operated and Joint Venture Assets to ensure alignment with value maximisation objectives.
Since 2023, the Tinubu administration has implemented oil sector reforms to attract investment. Last year, NNPC reported $17 billion in new investments within the sector. The administration now envisions increasing the investment to $30 billion by 2027 and $60 billion by 2030.
The Tinubu administration targets raising oil production to two million barrels daily by 2027 and three million daily by 2030. Concurrently, the government wants gas production jacked to 8 billion cubic feet daily by 2027 and 10 billion cubic feet by 2030.
Furthermore, President Tinubu expects the new board to elevate NNPC’s share of crude oil refining output to 200,000 barrels by 2027 and reach 500,000 by 2030.
The new board chairman, Ahmadu Musa Kida, is from Borno State. He is an alumnus of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he received a degree in civil engineering in 1984. He also obtained a postgraduate diploma in petroleum engineering from the Institut Francaise du Petrol (IFP) in Paris
He started his career in the oil industry at Elf Petroleum Nigeria and later joined Total Exploration and Production as a trainee engineer in 1985.
Musa became Total Nigeria’s Deputy Managing Director of Deep Water Services in 2015. Last year, he became an Independent Non-Executive Director at Pan Ocean-Newcross Group.
Apart from his oil industry career, Ahmadu Musa Kida is a former basketballer and the president of the Nigerian Basketball Federation (NBBF) board.
President Tinubu thanked the old board members for their dedicated service to NNPC Limited, particularly their efforts in rehabilitating the old Port Harcourt and Warri refineries, which enabled them to resume petroleum product production after prolonged shutdowns. He wished them well in their future endeavours.
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