Mr Dipo Ashafa

Oladipo (Dipo) Ashafa is an energy management professional with about two decades of Upstream and Midstream experience across multiple regions. He currently the Vice President of Operations and Asset Management at Chappal Energies.

His career includes pivotal roles at Shell, where he led Petroleum Engineering, Hydrocarbon Maturation, and Planning and Performance management teams across Shell Nigerian assets (SPDC and SNEPCo). He also held multiple global Asset Management portfolio roles in the Hague, such as the Strategic Business Advisor and Global Digital Business Opportunity Manager, Planning & Performance Manager for Shell Nigeria Deepwater. Most recently, he was the Asset Development and Subsurface Manager for Shell Development Petroleum Company’s Western & Shallow Water Asset, actively working to sustain and grow ~100kbopd oil and ~100mmscf gas production from 20 land, swamp, and Shallow water fields.

He began his career as a Reservoir Engineer in 2006, working for Enable Midstream Partners, operating two depleted dry gas reservoir storage fields in the Southwestern Oklahoma region. Since then, Dipo has worked as a Drilling and Completions Engineer for Mobil Production Nigeria and as the pioneer staff Reservoir Engineer for First Exploration and Petroleum Development Company before joining Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in 2013.

He is an alumnus of The University of Oklahoma (BSc Petroleum Engineering) and Heriot-Watt University (MSc Petroleum Engineering) and the current Board Chairperson for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Lagos Section.