Chairman and Chief Executive of Austin Avuru Holdings Limited

Mr Avuru is a specialist per excellence with a vast experience in the oil and gas industry that has spanned more than 40 years. He is an erudite scholar and paper presenter on topical issues in the oil and gas industry and a major proponent of the local content initiative in the upstream sector. He has many publications to his credit among which are, “Politics, Economics and the Nigerian Petroleum Industry”, My Entrepreneurship Journey, and a co-author of “Nigerian Petroleum Business- A handbook.”

Mr. Avuru has many publications in the local and international journals of repute.

He has a B.Sc. (HONS) Geology, UNN, 1980 and has a Postgraduate Diploma (Petroleum Engineering), 1992. He is a Fellow Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (FNAPE).

He has ca. 42 Years cumulative Oil & Gas Industry experience, 12 Years as Geologist/Reservoir Engineering in NNPC, 10 Years with Allied Energy Resources (Nig.) Ltd. (Retired as General Manager, Technical), 8 years as founding Managing Director of Platform Petroleum Limited, 10 years as the Managing Director/CEO of Seplat and 2 years as Executive Chairman of AA Holdings Limited.

Mr Austin Avuru is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive of Austin Avuru Holdings Limited.

Mr Avuru is a specialist per excellence with a vast experience in the oil and gas industry that has spanned for more than 40 years.

He is an erudite scholar and paper presenter on topical issues in the oil and gas industry and a major proponent of the local content initiative in the upstream sector.

He has many publications to his credit among which are, “Politics, Economics and the Nigerian Petroleum Industry”,

Mr. Avuru has many publications in the local and international journals of repute.

He is a Fellow Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (FNAPE).

He has 42 Years cumulative Oil & Gas Industry experience, 12 Years as Geologist/Reservoir Engineering in NNPC, 10 Years with Allied Energy Resources (Nig.) Ltd., 8 years as founding Managing Director of Platform Petroleum Limited, 10 years as the Managing Director/CEO of Seplat and 2 years as Executive Chairman of AA Holdings Limited.

Mr Austin Avuru is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive of Austin Avuru Holdings Limited.