Meet Omatsola Ogbe, ex-Chevron top official picked to head NCDMB

Felix Omatsola Ogbe has assumed office as the executive secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB).

Ogbe was appointed last week by President Bola Tinubu to replace Simbi Kesiye Wabote, who had served for seven and half years in office.

The NCDMB said in a statement on Thursday that its new head honcho held his first official meeting with the directors and management of the board.

He hails from Warri South in Delta State and is a vastly experienced oil and gas engineer and holds separate Masters Degrees in Civil Engineering and Construction Management, according to the statement.

He has over 37 years of experience in core oil and gas operations in Nigeria and local content operations, notably onshore and offshore, LNG, water drilling, treatment and storage facilities, civil, building and dredging engineering, and other construction.

His experiences were garnered in Nigeria, across Africa, Busan, South Korea and USA, where he worked in the conceptions, engineering designs, project and construction management to commissioning phases of projects. 

His work experiences include Chevron Corporation, where he held top positions in Nigeria and overseas, before he retired voluntarily in June 2014, to go into private business.  

While at Chevron Nigeria Limited, he served as Construction Services Group Superintendent (Escravos-Warri) and was responsible for in-house construction services requirements to support the Company Operations. 

He equally served as Offshore Projects Manager, where he was responsible for all the Engineering designs, Planning and execution of Maintenance works and installation of new facilities to support productions in Chevron Nigeria Limited offshore locations. 

Other assignments he held in Chevron included Construction Manager (Lagos & Escravos-Warri), Escravos Gas Project (EGP-3B), where he was responsible for the fabrication and installation of various sizes of pipelines/flowlines in offshore and onshore locations in the Niger Delta. 

In his early years, he served as Construction Superintendent responsible for Engineering Designs and Construction requirements, and also worked as the Cost Control Engineer and was responsible for all Facility Engineering Division Projects’ cost controls, budgeting and cashcalls. 

Ogbe is a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Council of Registered Engineers, and American Institute of Civil Engineers, and is married with children.