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...Research shows this USS 40 barrel of crude, after refining, is worth close to USS2,500” Oladunni Owo President, WEOG
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ladunni Owo is the author of the award-winning book: “BlackGold Refinery Business Made Easy-The Ultimate Guide To Making Big Money in Oil and Gas Refining’’. She is the president of Women in Energy, Oil and Gas (WEOG) Nigeria, a founding member of the Diversity Sectorial Working Group of the Nigerian Content Consultative Forum (NCCF), and belongs to a host of international women networks. Owo is an experienced business executive, management consultant and an oil and gas expert with over 2 decades of professional experience and expertise spanning the entire energy value chain working at several management roles across the downstream, midstream and 36
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upstream sectors of the industry. She is currently the CEO and Principal consultant at BlackGold Authorities and Advisory Consult, an organisation focused on providing management consultancy, capacity building and advisory services for the oil and Gas Industry. Being a Woman in STEM, she graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in Pure and Applied Mathematics, a MBA in Operational Research (OR) and a DBA in view. Excerpts of her interview with Jerome Onoja: You authored a book on refineries in Nigeria. What informed it? Yes, I did, but it is not specifically
for Nigeria, it is actually for all oil producing nations of the world. The title of the book is “BlackGold Refinery Business Made Easy-The Ultimate Guide to Making Big Money in Oil and Gas Refining’’. The book was written to solve the problem of refining, close the knowledge gap in refining, encourage producing nations to refine their oil, make the best of the God-given resource and stop treating it as a typical buy and sell commodity. I wrote the book so that the knowledge can be dispersed everywhere and people can learn and take action. I joined the oil and gas industry in the year 1995, as an undergraduate intern. It was those days when Nigerian University system was so
