WHO IS WHO IN CORPORATE NIGERIA: AUSTIN O. AVURU, THE OIL MAN

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WHO’S WHO IN CORPORATE NIGERIA

AUSTIN OJUNEKWU AVURU

CURRENT POSITION: Co-founder and CEO, Seplat Petroleum Development Company.

PAST POSITIONS: Managing Director, Platform Petroleum | Technical Manager, Allied Energy Resources | Reservoir Engineer, NNPC.Austin-Avuru

EXPERTISE: Oil and Gas | Strategy & Management | Leadership

EDUCATION: BSc. Geology, University of Nigeria Nsukka | Post-graduate Diploma, Petroleum Engineering, University of Ibadan.

JarusHub One-Line Description

The Geologist

JarusHub’s Remarks

Avuru joined NNPC immediately he completed his degree in Geology in Nsukka in 1980, and was there for 12 years before joining Allied Energy, and later co-founding Seplat, arguably the most successful indigenous oil and gas company in Nigeria.  Like many of his peers that graduated from UI, UNN, UNILAG, OAU, ABU with degrees in engineering and Geology around the time oil and gas industry in Nigeria was bourgeoning, he rose through the ranks to become an oil company founder today. By the way, he is one of teh few Nigerian executives with no foreign degree.

 

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