Engr. Chichi Emenike

Engr. Chichi Emenike

January 22, 2025 | Evelin Szőke

Engr. Chichi Emenike has over twenty six (26) years experience in the Oil and Gas Industry spanning across the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors. She holds a Bachelors in Engineering and an MBA in Oil & Gas Management from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen plus is a Fellow of Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), a certified member with the Council for The Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN) and a founding member Women In Energy Network (WIEN).
She started her early career in the Nigerian Oil & Gas industry as a Project Engineer with Exxon Mobil Nigeria in 1999 and is currently on OML42 in Nigeria in Neconde Energy Limited as the Acting Managing Director as well as the Gas Asset Manager where she is responsible for consolidating and increasing the Asset’s current production of Gas and Crude with a focus on workovers, drilling campaigns and facility uptime with KPOs of value optimization for growth and profitability. She was one of the key leads on the team which secured and signed a Finance, Technical and Services Agreement (FTSA) on OML42 in 2022 which will have investments and injection of financing into the development of the Asset over a fifteen (15) year period.
On the other hand with the Asset’s keen focus on Gas, she is also responsible for driving the company’s Gas business and positioning Neconde as a lead player for developing Gas supply in with the company’s strategic mandate. One of her core focus is around unlocking the Asset’s potential of over 3.8tcf of Gas reserves for increased value optimization for growth and profitability.
Apart from being involved in several technical projects along different parts of the value chain of the industry, she has been engaged in several Corporate Social Responsibility Projects, advocating inclusion and diversity and its relevance to business sustainability as well as serving on different Not-for profit organizations and NGOs. These include but are limited to limited to the Nigerian Gas Association (NGA) (Study Chair of its Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Group), Women in Energy Network (WIEN) as Vice President, Upstream, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and others. She remains committed to actively creating opportunities especially for women in Oil and Gas projects whilst also providing Commercial, Technical and Financial advice for women who are seeking to actively participate in the Upstream Oil & Gas industry.