Resume/CV of Principal Partner

Dozie Okonkwo
Professional Experience

Principal Partner, Kudoz Consulting. Leidschendam, The Netherlands. Sept 2003 – To-date

Responsibility:
Setting up a Consultancy whose objective is to serve the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry,
particularly in the area of front-end work – integrated studies and activities involving
specialists in the areas of subsurface engineering, well engineering, surface facilities
engineering, operations engineering, marketplace assessments, economics, etc – prior to their
final decision to invest in their hydrocarbon reserves development

The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria's Undeveloped Black Oil and Condensate-rich Gas Reserves. Rijswijk, The Netherlands. 2002-2003.
Development Manager.

Responsibility:
Driven by License Expiry concerns, the principal partner took on the challenge of finding a rational, focused and timely manner to accomplish an integrated development of the as yet undeveloped liquid hydrocarbon reserves of one of the oil majors in the Niger Delta region.

The study conducted by the principal partner captured 90% of the reserves in 25% of the reservoirs, and its proposals included:

The proposals provide a basis for moving each of the 30+ Projects of different magnitudes to FID in a rapid and coherent manner so as maximize the reserves recovery prior to the License Expiry date of well below 20 years.

SPDC’s Condensate-rich Gas Project, Rijswijk, The Netherlands. 1999 - 2001.
Development Manager

Responsibility:
The task was to develop a condensate & liquefied petroleum gas business for SPDC and her joint venture (JV) partners that not only scaled Shell Group's economics hurdles, but ranked high enough in Shell’s E&P projects portfolio to be supported by the Group. The focus was on 60+ multi-reservoir fields located mainly in the Eastern portion of SPDC's Niger Delta concessions in Nigeria, with condensate initially in place (CIIP) of a few billion barrels.

• Developed proposals that established the foundation for a very attractive LPGs/condensate business for the SPDC joint venture partners and the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas company (NLNG).
  
  The resulting business investments were in the following range:
  
  • A US $1.2 billion investment in the “base scheme”, involving two fields and dedicated field, transportation, process, storage and export facilities, and on which incremental developments from other fields could ride.
  • A US $185 million scheme that would require only a limited investment – a single field, no gas injection facilities, but with C5+ spiked into the Bonny Light crude oil stream and the C4- injected into the NLNG gas supply pipeline.
    

• Worked with an integrated team of petroleum engineers, well engineers, surface facilities engineers, operations and external relations staff and an economist. Also included were NLNG staff and their technical advisers, Shell Group marketing staff in Singapore and London, ABB in The Hague and Granherne in London, as well as some of the key US companies in the NGLs business (Dynegy, Enterprise, etc) at Mont Belvieu, close to Houston.

SPDC's Shallow Water Offshore Fields (with EA Field as the first), Rijswijk, The Netherlands. 1997 – 1999.
Development Manager.

Responsibility:
EA Field was discovered in 1965 in some 13-27m of water (and the nearby Eja Field in 1968), but both remained undeveloped for over 30 years despite the drilling of 23 exploration/ appraisal wells in both fields. The task was to get the fields to scale the FID hurdle in the nearest future.

• Brought the development to FID by September 1999, despite a reduction in the oil price screening value from $16/bbl to $14/bbl as a result of the 1998 oil prices collapse.
• Business investment as a result of this project:
  
  • US $1.1 billion, with UTC going down from just under $7/bbl in the first quarter of 1998 to just below $4/bbl by FID date.
    
• Worked with an integrated team of petroleum engineers, well engineers, surface facilities engineers, operations and external relations staff and an economist. Also included were the old “Shell Tankers” staff in London, ABB in Sutton, London and SBM in Monaco, as well as peer interactions with Shell staff in Rijswijk and Expro, Aberdeen.
• Project Highlights:
  
  • Increase in EA field ultimate recovery (UR) from 174 mmbl (when the last team to work on the field development concluded the exercise in 1996) to 325 mmbl at FID date.
  • Shell Expro, Aberdeen, assessed the entire system availability, from the wellhead to the FPSO export hoses, to be 96%. (95% is the normally accepted maximum system availability for such developments).
  • Of 48 wells to be drilled, 5 were designed to Level 6 multilaterals (SPDC was yet to drill her first Level 6 multilateral by then).
  • To minimize the number of conductors (and drilling platform size/number), 16 wells were designed to be “shared conductor” wells, the first such approach by any company in Nigeria.
  • The work laid the foundation for the first alternatively funded (AF) upstream oil and gas development in Nigeria.
  • For the local environmental conditions, the 1.4 million barrel FPSO to be built by Samsung of South Korea is designed to be moored with a Soft Yoke, complete with 360-degree weather-vaning capability, to a mooring platform with pigging facilities. All well testing will be carried out remotely at the drilling platforms, via fibre-optic cable borne signals, from the FPSO control room 4 to 6 kilometres away.

    The field has since been developed and by mid 2003, was producing at over 100,000 bbl/d of oil, and still rising.

Source: "The Shell (Nigeria) Bulletin" of August 2003. (Refer to the article on page 26 of the downloadable report)

SPDC's Western Division, Warri, Nigeria 1993 – 1997.
Manager for Community Affairs, Safety, Health, Environment and Security (CASHES).

Responsibility:
SPDC's licence to operate was closely linked to her management of community relations, the environment, security and road and water transport safety. This was because her activities in these areas brought her into direct, and sometimes abrasive, contact with the public. The challenge was to weld the disparate unit of 'CASHES' into some sensible and cohesive organisation.

• Developed the concept of "Community Self-Help" Projects, whereby host communities were paid for organising themselves to execute their own chosen infrastructural projects.
• Pioneered a Community Development approach, which resulted in cooperative community ventures between Shell and five communities by September 1997.

SPDC's Western Division, Warri, Nigeria. 1987 – 1992.
Operations Manager

Responsibility:
The management of 1,300 operations staff (operations included production and maintenance, drilling, procurement, land/water/rotary wing transport, safety and environment).

• Oversaw increase in drilling rigs at SPDC's western division from 3 in the late '80s to 7 by the beginning of the '90s, and increase in oil production from around 300,000bbl/d to just over 500,000 bbl/d of "Forcados Blend".

Shell International Petroleum Maatschappij (SIPM), The Hague, The Netherlands. 1985 - 1987
Liaison Engineer

Responsibility:
Acting as the liaison between the engineering organisations in the Shell companies in the Far East/Australasia and SIPM in The Hague.

• Guided and assisted the engineering organisations in preparation and presentation of their proposals (“Data Book”) to the center at The Hague.
• Supported the addressing of engineering problems of those organisations from The Hague.

SPDC's Eastern Division, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. 1983 – 1985.
Chief Engineer

Responsibility:
Dealing with the pressures imposed by the fall in oil prices and the internal re-structuring of SPDC's engineering organisation.

• Handled the internal devolution of SPDC’s engineering organisation to one of the two operating divisions.
• Successfully dealt with the challenge of executing the same engineering activities with fewer resources due to the oil price collapse.

SPDC, Lagos, Nigeria. 1982.
Head of Engineering Liaison between SPDC & NAPIMS (NNPC).

Responsibility:
Liaising between SPDC and NAPIMS, an arm of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). NAPIMS represents the joint venture interests of the Nigerian government in the oil industry.

• Oversaw the resolution of conflict and stalemate between SPDC and NAPIMS in the area of engineering contract approvals.

SPDC's Western Division, Warri, Nigeria. 1979 - 1981
Head of Oil and Gas Engineering Facilities Construction

Responsibility:
All the oil and gas engineering construction activities, including repairs and modifications, in SPDC's Western Division.

SPDC, Lagos, Nigeria. 1978 - 1979
Gas Economics Engineer

Responsibility:
To contribute to the effort to get Bonny LNG off the ground.

• Member of two man team that built the economics model to underpin the Gas Sales and Purchase Agreement between the upstream companies and Bonny LNG.
• Work was accepted by SPDC and Shell Gas, London, and was included in the Gazette (legislation) of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

SPDC, Nigeria. 1970 - 1977
From Trainee to Senior Project Engineer

Responsibility:
Work here covered the planning, design, procurement, contracting and execution of all aspects of oil and gas engineering projects in the Niger Delta. These included both old and new facilities that needed repairs/modifications (major and minor) on land, swamp and tank farms, and in shallow water offshore, including the offshore export facilities.

Education
B.Tech (Hons), Mech. Engineering, Loughborough Univ. of Tech., Loughborough, UK.
Various technical and management courses, including a spell at IMD, Lausanne. 1996. Diploma in Public Relations, London. 1997.

Affiliations
Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers
Elected M.I.Mech.E; C.Eng., Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, July, 1975.
Registered with Council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria, COREN. 1975.