Vincent Ebuh

Vincent Ebuh

Vincent Ebuh is one of Nigeria’s most impactful and award-winning Chief Executive Officers. He is a pioneer in indigenous oil and gas services and Africa’s foremost champion of local content.

Vincent Ebuh is the Executive Chairman/CEO of Petrolog Group, an International Oil Service Company providing Drilling, Surface Logging, Geophysical Exploration, Subsea Diving, Subsea Pipe Laying, Engineering Design, and Project Management Services. He is also the Executive Chairman/CEO of George Stevens Resources Houston-Texas, Global Oceon Engineers Nigeria Limited, and Petrolog De Venezuela, where he manages daily operations and over 600 employees.

A Petroleum Engineering Consultant with over 35 years of experience in the oil and gas sector, Vincent Ebuh has trained more than 2,000 Nigerian engineers over the past three decades including logging over 2,500 oil wells globally.

Vincent Ebuh received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s in Business Administration from Century University, California. He completed a Diploma in Industrial Relations from the University of Ibadan Nigeria (1974), a Certificate in Business Management from the University of Colorado (1982), Advanced Management Program at Stanford University (1993), Harvard Graduate School of Business (OPM) (1998), Strategic Leadership Program at Oxford University-England (2000), and Georgetown University Leadership Program 2014 amongst others.

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An advocate of Local Content Development in Nigeria and Africa, Vincent Ebuh has published several works on petroleum development including “Nigerian Entrepreneurs in the Oil and Gas Industry; Problems, Challenges and Prospects”, presented on the occasion of the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists’ Technical Meeting” and also “Solutions to the Issue of Perennial Shortages of Petroleum Products in Nigeria” presented to the Deputy President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Senate Committee on Oil and Gas.

Vincent Ebuh is a Member of the British Institute of Management, Nigerian Institute of Management, the Entrepreneurship Institute of Houston-Texas; President, Nigeria-Venezuela Chamber of Commerce; Fellow, the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM); Fellow/Honorary Lifetime Member, Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists; Life Alumnus, Stanford Business School U.S.A; Alumnus, Oxford University England; Alumnus, Harvard Graduate School of Business U.S.A and Georgetown University, U.S.A.

In recognition of his works, Vincent Ebuh has received an Honorary Doctorate in Management from the Commonwealth University of Belize in 2011, The Lion of Africa Award for his outstanding private sector leadership in Africa, in 2011, Lifetime Achievement Award in the Oil and Gas Industry by the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) in 2014 and the Oil Industry Achievement Award by PETAN as the pioneer of Indigenous Oil and Gas Services Company in Nigeria.

We celebrate Vincent Ebuh for being the first Nigerian to start an oil and gas business in the 1980s and the first Nigerian to acquire a brand new, Nigerian-owned DSV Subsea Saturation diving vessel, believed to be the largest of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa.

More about his work on www.petrologgroup.com.