Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company (AEEPCO), operator of the NNPC/Aiteo Joint Venture on OML 29, has appointed Mr. Ewariezi Useh as its Chief Operations Officer.
Useh is expected to provide overall technical guidance tool and gas exploration, production development, health, safety, security, and environmental activities of the group’s upstream business.
He replaces the erstwhile Chief Operations Officer, Emmanuel Ukegbu, who retired from the company.
Useh assumed the position with a wealth of expertise spanning over 26 years from various areas of the oil and gas industry. His experience ranges from oil and commodities trading-crude oil, derivatives and refined products, supply and distribution, petroleum retailing, shipping, jetty and terminal operations, depot and project management, amongst others.
He joined Aiteo Group in 2013 and until this appointment, served as the Group Managing Director, Aiteo Downstream overseeing the entire downstream business of the group and responsible for the effective running of the downstream companies including Aiteo Energy Resources Limited and Avidor Oil & Gas Company.
Ewariezi Useh
Prior to joining the Aiteo Group, Useh was General Manager, Operations, African Petroleum Plc, now Ardova Plc up until 2010, where he pushed the operations and growth of the company nationwide by strategically enhancing its growth and performance in the petroleum retail sector.
Useh is a graduate of Chemical Engineering from the University of Benin. He holds an MBA from the IESE Business School, University of Nevarra, Barcelona; Spain. He also trained at the College of Petroleum Studies, Oxford; IESE Business School Barcelona, Wharton Business School, Pennsylvania USA amongst others.
He is an alumnus of the Lagos Business School; a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers, the Energy Institute, London and also a registered member of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).