Eng. Abayomi Bamidele

Engr. Abayomi Bamidele was appointed the Director, Project Certification & Authorization on May 1, 2023. He is saddled with the responsibility of overseeing the certification and authorization processes for oil and gas projects, with a focus on ensuring compliance with Nigerian Content requirements. Prior to the appointment as Director, he served as the General Manager Strategy, Special Projects and Transformation as well as the Special Technical Adviser to the Executive Secretary. He was also responsible for managing the highly successful Nigerian Content 10-Year Strategic Roadmap and driving the Board’s Commercial Venture initiatives.

He joined the services of NCDMB in 2017, first on leave of absence from Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), and in September 2020, he became a full-time staff of the Board.

He had worked in the manufacturing and oil and gas industries for over 25 years. In his early career years, Mr. Bamidele led the Maintenance Department of a steel manufacturing company in Aba, Abia State, between 1995 and 1998, with responsibility for the repair and maintenance of heavy-duty metal forming/pressing equipment, wire drawing machines, machine tools, power generators, air compressors, and so on. He was praised for his abilities to maintain the production machines and equipment running. He headed the team in charge of fabricating machine components utilizing metal forming methods such as welding, turning, milling, shaping, heat treatment, and so on.

After completing a training program in 1998, he joined Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in 1999. He worked with Shell in a variety of capacities both inside and outside the nation, including jobs in commissioning, operations, maintenance, process engineering, project engineering, and business and government relations. He was part of the project team responsible for delivery of various domestic gas projects in the western Niger Delta including 1-year assignment in London on engineering design/reviews and tender packaging.

For five years (2009–2014), he was assigned to Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) in Southeast Asia, where he oversaw the completion of numerous projects, including the upgrade and expansion of oil production facilities at four different locations, the installation of a 15 km RTP pipeline, and the time-sensitive connection of wells for water injection and oil production. Additionally, he oversaw the Quick Response (SWAT) squad, the Field Engineering teams for brownfield modifications, and the WRFM Projects for BSP onshore Assets, which included 6 flow stations, 1 gas gathering/processing facility, 1 oil terminal, and 1 refinery.

He was transferred to Shell’s Business & Government Relations department in 2014 and in that role he oversaw a group of Business Advisers in the JV Business Relations who were tasked with obtaining partners’ consent for budgets, cost performance recovery, and contracts. His contributions to JV governance, business correspondence, change management, business communication, problems and risk management, and team development are widely known.

Engr. Abayomi Bamidele graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1994 and is married with children.