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NEW EXECUTIVES

CHAMPIONING THE

GAS REVOLUTION &

ENERGY TRANSITION

Humphrey Onyeukwu
Group Head, Legal,
Oilserv Group.

M t Our New Oilserv signposts the African renaissance, as a company resolutely focused on accelerating

the energy transition and I feel so honored to join the team, to contribute my quota towards
EXECUTIVES achieving our overarching corporate objective of becoming the African champion for the gas
revolution and energy transition with Excellence in Execution.

Talking a bit about me, I was born and raised in the city of Aba although my education and
career have taken me on a crisscrossing journey across other parts of Nigeria and the world.
I studied Law at the iconic and prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka (I am sure the Lions
and Lionesses in here know this) and then the Nigeria Law School, Lagos for my B.L degree.
In furtherance of my educational pursuits, I also obtained a postgraduate degree, LL.M in
Petroleum Taxation and Finance from the University of Dundee, Scotland UK.

am blessed with four boys (Adrian, Sean, Xavier, at the Nairobi office, in Kenya. I left Deloitte in 2008
and Bryan) and a delectable wife, Obianuju, a for my Master’s program at the Centre for Energy,
Petroleum Engineer. The boys and I, fondly call Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP),
her the ‘King of Boys’ (KOB) because she is the University of Dundee, and returned to Nigeria in 2010
only girl amongst us, and we always have fun to join Oando PLC as Legal Advisor for its upstream
running rings around her in the house. She does her subsidiary, Oando Energy Services (OES).
best, to keep up with our mischief and most recently,
she has been obsessed with dousing my desire to I transitioned to Alliance Law Firm in 2013 as
climb Kilimanjaro Mountain (the highest mountain in the Head, Oil and Gas Practice and eventually
Africa) which I have fixed as one of my 2023 goals. berthed at Transcorp PLC, where I had oversight
responsibility for the legal and commercial
My career started off in 2004 at Detail Solicitors LP functions of the Group’s energy portfolio spanning
in Lagos and so also my interest in the Oil and Gas three thermal power plants – Ughelli Power Plant
industry developed at this time because most of (900MW), Afam Power Plant (726MW) and Afam
my clients then were major players in the industry. Three Fast Power (240MW), two oil blocks, OML
Thereafter, l joined Deloitte & Touche, covering the 17 and OPL 281 and an exploratory venture in a
West and Central African region, and had a brief stint solar hybrid mini-grid plant.

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