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Shell Boost Support for Women in Energy, Appoints Elohor
Aiboni as First Female MD for SNEPCO
Shell, a British-Dutch multinational
oil and gas, has announced the
appointment of Mrs Elohor Aiboni,
as its first Managing Director (MD) of its
Nigeria deep-water business, Shell Nigeria
Exploration and Production Company
Limited (SNEPCO).
By Genevieve Aningo
Mr Bamidele Odugbesan, the Media
Relations Manager, Shell Petroleum
Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC),
made this known in a statement, made
known to Oil and Gas Republic.
The development is coming on the heels of
t h e o i l a n d g a s f i r m ’s r e c e n t
announcement that it was divesting from
its onshore and shallow waters operations
to concentrate on deep offshore business.
Odugbesan said that Elohor was the first
female to lead the Shell exploration
company in the more than six decades of
Shell’s operations in Nigeria.
She succeeds Bayo Ojulari, who retired on
July 31, after five years as SNEPCo’s MD,
having served the Shell group for more
than 30 years.
Until her new appointment, Aiboni was the
Bonga Asset Manager responsible for
overseeing end-to-end production
delivery for Nigeria’s pioneer deep-water
Floating Production, Storage and
Offloading (FPSO) vessel, Bonga, which
had produced over 900 million barrels of
oil since the beginning of its operations in
2005.
in production operations; project and asset
management; operations readiness and
assurance.
“She was at a time the Business Adviser to the
Executive Vice President for Shell Sub-Saharan
Africa, and had also managed third-party
interface across several Shell assets in Nigeria
and Kazakhstan.
“Prior to her role as Bonga Asset Manager,
Elohor led production delivery for shallow
offshore as Asset Manager for Sea Eagle FPSO in
Nigeria’s Niger Delta.
“Elohor holds a master’s degree in Integrated
Environmental Management from the
MANAGING DIRECTOR
SHELL NIGERIA EXPLORATION
AND PRODUCTION
COMPANY (SNEPCO)
University of Bath, UK, and a bachelor’s degree in
Chemical Engineering from the University of Benin,
Nigeria.
“She is passionate about developing talent and
leads a diverse team that strives to simplify work
processes and pursue continuous improvements.
“Her leadership of the Bonga team had seen the
asset receive numerous awards, including the CEO
HSSE Awards, Upstream Impact Award, and the
Asset of the Year Runner up in 2019, in the Shell
Group,” Odugbesan said.
Her interests include watching football, lawn tennis,
listening to soothing music and travelling.
“Elohor’s appointment is a product of
diligence, competence and commitment
to the Shell ideals and core values, amidst
our strong focus on diversity and inclusion.
“We take pride in our intention of being
one of the most diverse and inclusive
organisations in the world, and focus on
further improving inclusion and
representation in critical areas, including
gender,” the statement quoted Marno de
Jong, Shell’s Senior Vice President for
Nigeria as saying.
Odugbesan also said that Elohor now joins
over 300 women in senior leadership
positions in the Shell Group, representing
more than 31 per cent of the company’s
executive positions.
“Her 19-year career in Shell has seen her
move from a field engineer to several roles
SAIPEC Women in Energy Programme Drives
Africa's Gender Equality
T
he Sub-Saharan Africa International Petroleum
Exhibition and Conference, SAIPEC, Women in
Energy Programme are pushing for gender
equality in the African energy, oil, gas industry.
SAIPEC is the region's largest oil and gas event, hosted
by the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria.
The event features over 80 industry leaders and global
experts on an insightful programme which was held
alongside the sold-out exhibition with over 111
companies showcasing their products and services and
generating meetings with thousands of invested
industry professionals.
According to the report, women in energy represents a
minimal role in the African energy, oil, gas industry,
accounting for just 21% of the overall workforce in the
sector.
In a report, World Economic Forum (WEF)
highlighted that women continue to remain
underrepresented among STEM graduates, where
the global gender gap stands at 47% with 30% of
male students graduating from STEM subjects in
contrast to only 16% of female students.
SAIPEC 2022 aims to harness these challenges and
position women at the forefront of the Sub-Saharan
Africa energy development agenda. SAIPEC will be
bringing together industry speakers from both the
government and private sector and will drive
discussion on increasing women’s participation by
pointing out the major issues surrounding gender
equality.
SAIPEC’s Women in Industry provides a unique
platform for some of the finest minds of the oil and
gas industry to convene and connect and put
forward solutions towards building a diverse and
inclusive oil and gas industry.
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