ENERGY WOMAN
“The golden formula is that you make your own luck; start by always being prepared for opportunities” - Effiom
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ocial media recently went abuzz when news broke out that a Nigerian female geologist, Mrs Oghogho Effiom has been elected as the African Regional Director of the Society For Petroleum Engineers - SPE International, which makes her the voice of Africa on the SPE table globally. Oghogho has about 20 years of technical experience in the Upstream oil and gas businesses with assignments in Nigeria and the United States covering offshore drilling operations, reserves estimation, field development and execution. Her current role involves project maturation, risk management, technical integration, and stakeholder management. She is a senior production geologist,
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a 4D seismic interpretation subject matter expert and a front end development project manager, currently working with Shell Companies in Nigeria leading projects in both deep water and shallow offshore. She was the 2020 chair of the SPE Lagos Section, winning the 2020 Presidential Award for the section. In 2019, she received the SPE African Regional Service Award. She served as chair of the 2018 Nigerian Annual International Conference and Exhibition, and the 2016 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition Soft Skills Workshop on Strategic Planning. Oghogho holds a master’s degree in asset integrity management from Robert Gordon University in
Aberdeen and a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Benin in Nigeria. She is happily married to Joseph and has two teenage sons. In what is seen as a generational take over from her predecessor and a massive win for the African region and also women in STEM – being the first woman to serve in this capacity; Oghogho brings with her a wealth of technical expertise, having distinguished herself on many leadership fronts locally, regionally and globally. In this interview with Majorwaves Energy Report’s Editor, MARGARET NONGO-OKOJOKWU, she sheds more light on her role, her vision for the SPE Women In Energy as well as other issues of National interest. Excerpts.
