The new group managing director and CEO of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited is Bashir Ojulari. He has many years of varied experience in the oil and gas sector as a mechanical engineer. In 1989, he graduated from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria.
Born on March 20, 1966, Ojulari is a native of Nigeria’s Kwara State. While serving as the chief operating officer and executive vice president of Renaissance Africa Energy Company, he pushed for the purchase of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC).
Ojulari was one time at the Elf Aquitaine and Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), where he worked in Nigeria, Europe, and the Middle East in various capacities. He later became the managing director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) in 2015.
Ojulari is a seasoned Nigerian engineer with expertise in petroleum, process, and production engineering. He began his career as the first Nigerian process engineer at Elf Aquitaine before joining Shell Petroleum Development Company in 1991 as an associate production technologist.
A fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE Nigeria Council) from 1998 to 1999.
Throughout his career, he has held managerial roles in Europe and the Middle East, specializing in petroleum engineering, process engineering, production engineering, and health and safety.
Ojulari was named general manager of Deepwater and managing director of SNEPCo in November 2015.
In addition, he was a member of the Shell Petroleum Development Company board, where he oversaw the technical integration of development, well and project engineering, and onshore and offshore petroleum engineering.
