Shell Nigerian Exploration Production Company Appoints Elohor Aiboni as its first female executive

Shell Nigerian Exploration Production Company (SNEPCO), for the first time has appointed a woman as its Managing Director, according to a reliable source close to the company, on Sunday. The rumors about the appointment were also confirmed by one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s aides, Lauretta Onochie, via Twitter.

“Shell Nigeria Exploration Production Company has appointed Eloho Aiboni, as its first-ever female Managing Director/Chief Executive,” Ononchie wrote in a tweet. “’We believe every woman can do more when she recognizes her innate potentials, capabilities – Elohor Aiboni.’”

Aiboni formerly served as the company’s first Bonga Asset Operations Manager. With over a decade experience in the Oil and Gas sector, she has worked across several divisions of the sector, including Project to Asset Handover, Operations of Oil and Gas facilities with HSE, cross-functional units, cross-discipline, and multi-operating unit exposure.

About Shell Exploration and Production Company

SNEPCO is an oil and gas company that pioneered deep-water oil & gas exploration and production at the Bonga field, in Nigeria. Since the output began in 2005, it has increased Nigeria’s oil capacity by 10%. Today, nearly one-third of the country’s deep-water production comes from Bonga field and Erha field.

The oil & gas company was founded by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group in 1963, as the Shell D’Archy, the first Shell company in Nigeria. Two years later, the company was granted Exploration license to search for oil throughout Nigeria. In January 1956, Shell D’Arcy successfully drilled its first well at Oloibiri, and by April 1956, the company officially changed its name to Shell BP Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited.