About Oando

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Uche Dimiri MD/CEO, Oando Energy Services

Uche is a graduate of the University of Lagos, where he was a ChevronTexaco Scholar. He also has a Masters in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Port Harcourt.

Prior to joining Oando, Uche was the World Wide Drilling Training Manager, Schlumberger D&M, England, with responsibility for implementing strategic directions for World Wide Directional Drilling Training.

Uche has close to 20 years industry experience in the Oil & Gas, with notable experiences in Measurements and Logging while Drilling, Directional Drilling Training and Development, Accounts Management, Operations and Sales and Marketing, all with Schlumberger.

His working career began in the Schlumberger Nigeria Office, where he was at various times, the Field Engineer, Drilling Engineer Directional Driller, and later, Cell Manager responsible for all services at the well site from 1988-1995.

In 1995, he was a Field Service Manager/Location Manager in Warri and later became a Product Champion, Rotary Steerable Systems at Schlumberger D&M Headquarters in Houston, USA before moving to the Paris Office as the Training Development and Staffing Manager.

Uche came back to Nigeria with the Oil Field Services unit of Schlumberger as the GeoMarket Accounts Manager, Shell and Oil Field Services Manager, Warri, where he provided account management for all services to Shell. He was later the Operations Manager, North West Africa based in Equatorial Guinea and the Sales and Marketing Manager, Nigeria GeoMarket.