About Oando

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Uche Dimiri CEO, Oando Energy Services

Prior to joining Oando in 2007, he served as the World Wide Directional Drilling Training Manager of Schlumberger D&M, England, and was responsible for implementing strategic directions for World Wide Directional Drilling Training.

Uche has about 20 years of oil and gas industry experience, spanning engineering, measurements and logging, drilling, directional drilling training and development, accounts management, operations and sales, and marketing with Schlumberger. He commenced his career with Schlumberger, Nigeria where he was, at various times, the Field Engineer, Drilling Engineer Directional Driller and Cell Manager responsible for all services at the well site from 1988 to 1995. In 1995, he served as a Field Service Manager and Location Manager in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria.

Between 1998 and 2000, he served as a Product Champion, Rotary Steerable Systems at Schlumberger D&M Headquarters in Houston, USA and moved to Schlumberger, Paris in 2000, where he worked as the Training Development and Staffing Manager. From 2003 to 2004 Mr. Dimiri served as the Operations Manager for North West Africa and was based in Equatorial Guinea.

In 2004, Mr. Dimiri moved back to Nigeria with the Oil Field Services unit of Schlumberger as the GeoMarket Accounts Manager and in Shell, Oil Field Services Manager in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria, where he provided account management for all services to Shell, [Nigeria]. He then served as the Marketing Manager for the Nigeria GeoMarket from 2004 to 2006.

Mr. Dimiri obtained a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, in 1983, where he was a ChevronTexaco Scholar. In 1987, he obtained a Master's degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.