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At Eastlake, we have assembled the best in-class professionals who share the Eastlake Vision
and are leading the lines for stakeholder satisfaction

Engr. Ugochukwu Ivan Orakwelu, FNSE

President & Group CEO - Eastlake Group

Engr. Ugochukwu Ivan Orakwelu, FNSE

President & Group CEO - Eastlake Group

Ugochukwu is an Engineering and Commercial professional with extensive experience in project management (diagnosis, design, execution, and evaluation), asset management, production operations, and operations management, successfully managing multi-disciplinary teams and multi-service projects.

Before creating Eastlake Exploration & Production Limited, He managed the production enhancement and cost optimization for most International Oil companies and Independents in Nigeria while in Schlumberger limited. He worked in various facets of the industry both locally and internationally close to 20 years.

Ugochukwu holds a master’s degree in Energy and Petroleum Economics and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. He has attended several technical and management programs in Nigeria, France, USA, and the Middle East in areas of Sales, Leadership, Quality Management, Operations Management, and Resource Optimization. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and a board member of several companies at group level.

Ugochukwu is a Fellow of Nigerian Society of Engineer (FNSE) and also a certified engineer of the council for the regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN )

Mr. Micheal Ben Andino

Group Managing Director - Eastlake Group

Mr. Micheal Ben Andino

Group Managing Director - Eastlake Group

Michael have over 35 years’ experience in the Petroleum Industry as a Petroleum Engineer working predominantly in Drilling Engineering, covering land, swamp, shallow and deep-water operations.

I have worked extensively in pipeline and facilities construction aspects of the industry. I have multi-corporate experience, having worked with the Nigerian National Petroleum Development Co. Limited, a subsidiary of the NNPC, Mobil Producing Nigeria (Now ExxonMobil) and Conoil Producing Limited.

Furthermore, I have experience in Crude Oil Production and Gas Injection Operations working as a Production Technician immediately after my graduation, during my one-year NYSC. My experience in pipeline and facilities construction includes supervision of pipeline and facilities construction in OML 59 and OML 103 for Conoil Producing in 1998 through 2006. I am highly self-driven, motivated, adaptable, focused and keen to excel for a result oriented performance and overall corporate and growth.

Mr. Chinedu Anagonye

Chief Operating Officer - Eastlake Exploration and Production Limited / Managing Director - Eastlake Energy Solutions Limited

Mr. Chinedu Anagonye

Chief Operating Officer - Eastlake Exploration and Production Limited / Managing Director - Eastlake Energy Solutions Limited

Chinedu is an experienced oil and gas professional with over fifteen years of drilling and completions experience in the Oil & Gas Industry.

He has succeeded severally in drilling rigs start-ups and managed several oil & gas wells drilling and completions. He directly managed multi-million dollar equipment and projects and hundreds of personnel on several well drilling campaigns.

Chinedu was also actively involved in the successful tendering and contracting of onshore and deepwater drilling units and projects in Nigeria. Chinedu earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and a Certificate in Oil & Gas Technologies from GE Oil & Gas Univ., Florence, Italy.

He has won various exceptional individual and team excellence awards in Performance and HSE.

Dr. Mike Ogunleye

Chief Technical Officer - Eastlake Exploration and Production Limited

Dr. Mike Ogunleye

Chief Technical Officer - Eastlake Exploration and Production Limited

Dr. Michael (Mike) Ogunleye is a dedicated, goal-oriented leader with experience leading global energy exploration, development, and production operation teams, who supports his team, removes obstacles, provides opportunities, and nourishes development.

My diverse experience allows me to quickly connect with colleagues and partners, gaining a deeper understanding of them, their roles, and their important pain points, all of which are essential in creating trusting relationships. As part of your team, I will ensure that you achieve maximum stakeholder value.

That means an increased bottom line, employee engagement will increase, and your efficiency is going to grow. I do this by maximizing our human resources because I care enough to bring out the best in others to produce excellence.

Experienced and dynamic Executive/Professional with an MSc. in Petroleum Geosciences and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Organizational Change with more than 30 years of proven exploration and brownfield redevelopment/management experience as well as an in-depth ability to mentor and coach young professionals and reports.

A tenacious leader with a breadth of experience in startups to multinational and consulting companies, which contributes to bottom-line growth through analytical thinking and innovation. Mike experience spans operated and non-operated ventures in Marketed fields, Marginal fields, Production sharing contracts (PSC), and Joint Venture (JV) agreements, gaining experiences from working in reputable organizations such as First Tribute Resources, Lekoil, OandO, Shell Nigeria, Petroleum Development Oman [PDO], Shell International, and Mobil.

Mr. Louis Ononiwu

Chief Financial Officer – Eastlake Group

Mr. Louis Ononiwu

Chief Financial Officer – Eastlake Group

Louis is a highly motivated and qualified Finance Director with over 11 years of experience in senior executive positions within the Oil & Gas sector. With extensive experience in financial controls, improving operational efficiency and focus on strategic growth opportunities through collaboration, he has delivered results across functions and the overall business unit. Implemented strong internal control and compliance monitoring environment to curtail foreign exchange exposure, manage account receivable, restructure activities to save cost and improve profitability.

With a career spanning over 30 years in audit and finance roles, Louis has worked with D N Offor & Co and Halliburton Services in Nigeria, Angola, Tanzania and Mozambique.

He grew progressively through the system to become Executive Finance Director in Halliburton Nigeria in 2015. Louis holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting, an MBA, and membership of several professional bodies.

Engr. Kalu Nwosu

Petroleum Advisory – Eastlake Exploration and Production Limited

Engr. Kalu Nwosu

Petroleum Advisory – Eastlake Exploration and Production Limited

Nwosu is a seasoned oil and gas professional spanning over 44 years of experience in the petroleum industry working in the DPR (now NUPRC), Shell International, and some National Oil Companies. He has been Consulting as an Oil & Gas Business Development and actively participating in Consortiums seeking to invest in investing in the Oil & Gas industry.

In the nearly 30 years in the Shell Group, Nwosu has acquired deep knowledge and excellent understanding of various aspects of the oil and gas business through a variety of Management roles in Operations and Well Engineering; Asset Reference Planning; Assets Field Development and Production Operations and Joint Venture Management – these experiences across local and international Shell entities, as well as the different oil and gas terrains – onshore and offshore. Post the Shell Group after early retirement, he has managed the setting up and leading a Marginal Field Company to first oil as Managing Director; set-up and managed a 4-rig Drilling Company as Managing Director; provided oil and gas Consultancy to Marginal Field aspirants and to IOCs oil and gas divestment bidders as Technical, Strategy and Commercial adviser. He has also provided Consultancy in Organisation re-engineering and setting up of new Oil and Gas businesses.

He has a sound understanding of the Nigerian oil and gas business environment. He has a built strong network in the oil and gas industry both locally and internationally, especially with the Nigerian Government Regulatory and Investment Management parastatals (DPR now NUPRC, NNPC, NPDC, NAPIMS etc.) and even local Community who are now key stakeholders in the industry.

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