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Exxonmobil News Edition 1 2016 A publication of ExxonMobil Subsidiaries in Nigeria ISSN 1597-0442 EDITION 1, 2016 News Erha North 2 delivered ahead of schedule • NGSA Launches Seven New Geological Survey Maps • ExxonMobil affiliates send off Emmanuel Kachikwu EDITOR’S NOTE CONTENTS ExxonMobil News ear 2016 is here… ISSN: 1597 0442 warts and all, and your YExxonMobil News is back Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria re-designed and refocused! Limited Mobil Oil Nigeria Plc Welcome to what promises Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited to be an ‘interesting’ year of Edition 1, 2016 challenges and opportunities, with ExxonMobil News poised Chairman/Managing Director, EEPNL to facilitate the internal dialogue & MPN and Lead Country Manager Nolan A. O’Neal as we undertake this journey, by INDUSTRY & GOVERNEMENT bringing you ‘news you can use’ RELATIONS Chairman/Managing Director, MON and sign-posting our key mile- ExxonMobil Adetunji A. Oyebanji COVER stones, activities and achieve- affiliates send Erha North 2 18 Director, Lubricants & Specialties, MON ments, as we all collectively off Emmanuel Delivered ahead of A. J. MacNaughton battle the odds. 16 Kachikwu schedule General Manager, Public & In the ‘new improved’ EM News, Akwa Ibom Police Government Affairs we have taken your comments, Paul C. Arinze observations and criticisms into 19 Commissioner consideration to develop a truly Visits QIT Editors interactive, visual-appealing and Ogechukwu Udeagha, Akin Fatunke inward focused magazine. Keep Editorial Team the comments coming! Adeyemi Fakayejo, Ozemoya Okordion, Ernest Omo-Ojo, Mfon Abia, Patrick So, what have we got for you in Utomi this edition? To rein in the New Year, we are chronicling a few Cover/Concept/Graphic Designs of the major developments in Taiwo Ogunbiyi 2015. NEWS Registered Office Mobil House, 1, Lekki Expressway, ExxonMobil Leading the way is the report on P.M.B. 12054, Victoria Island, Lagos. one of our signature achieve- 3 Invests N3 Billion ments in 2015 - the Erha North in Geoscience COMMUNITY RELATIONS Published by Public & Government Phase 2 start-up, completed Education in Power Forward Affairs Department for Employees of ExxonMobil subsidiaries in Nigeria. with zero LTI and $400 million Nigeria 20 turns 2 under budget! All correspondence to Mobil Announces The Editor, Public & Government Also in this edition are other 5 increased profit for BRT Play Host Affairs Department, Mobil Producing interesting highlights including Quarter 3 to Joint Military Nigeria Unlimited, Mobil House, 1, Lekki the retirement party held in hon- 22 Taskforce Expressway, P.M.B. 12054, Victoria our of Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, NGSA Launches Island, Lagos. Tel: 01-2801100. www. Commanding immediate past Executive Vice- Seven New exxonmobil.com.ng Chair & General Counsel of Exx- 6 Officer Geological Survey All rights reserved. No part of this onMobil companies in Nigeria; Maps publication may be reproduced or the LCM’s visit to His Excellency transmitted, in any form or by any President Muhammadu Buhari; Memories of OIMIS means, electronic, mechanical, stories on our UPP, UAP and 8 Assessment photocopying, recording or otherwise, VGP programmes; and a host of or stored in any retrieval system of any other interesting stories. ExxonMobil nature, without the written permission of 9 Launches Varsity the editors. We invite you to take a few Lecture Series minutes to read and give us your feedback. ExxonMobil Women Launch Warm regards. 10 We want to hear University from you. Outreach on STEM If you have any news, PEOPLE views, feedback or photos Oge SAFETY, HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT Reward and that you wish to share, Udeagha Ebola Virus Disease 23 Recognition for kindly contact the Editor, Safety Excellence c/o ernest.omo-ojo@ 12 Awareness Day exxonmobil.com 2015 Photos will be published as space permits 2 ExxonMobilExxonMobil NewsNews NEWS ExxonMobil Invests N3 Billion In Geoscience Education In Nigeria General Manager, Public and Government Affairs, Paul Arinze, presenting Geoscience equipment to Federal University of Technology, Akure, represented by Professor Tunde Arayela, while the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC), Pro- fessor Julius Okojie; Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education, Dr. MacJohn Nwaobiala and General Manager, Operations Technical Geoscience, Mike Udoh, watch. xxonMobil Nigeria, through its sub- Mobil, along with its production partners, has Technology, Akure, University of Ilorin, and sidiary, Esso Exploration & Production invested over N3 Billion into Geosciences Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria Limited (EEPNL) in production education in Nigerian universities and will Effurun, were each presented with Logitech sharing contract with the Nigerian continue to invest more in the future towards thin section making machines, 300 mosquito ENational Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), ensuring that Nigerian Geosciences can nets, 24 digital cameras and a cheque for has invested over N3 Billion into Geosciences stand on equal footing with some of the N5.77 million to pay for students’ logistics Education in Nigerian universities. best universities in terms of the quality of the and lecturers’ field allowances during the instruction and practical knowledge”. geological field trips. The General Manager, Operations & Techni- cal Geoscience, Mr. Michael Udoh, said this at He said ExxonMobil had a long term commit- “To date, we have committed over N900 the presentation of Geosciences equipment ment to improving the quality of education, million to the UPP programme”, Mr. Udoh and financial support to six universities under “not just in the Geosciences, but in the area said, “and our long term goal is to ensure EEPNL’s University Partnering Programme of Science, Technology, Engineering & Math- that every public university in Nigeria offering (UPP) at the Head Office of the Nigerian Uni- ematics (STEM) education”, adding that “we Geosciences benefits from the programme versities Commission in Abuja June 12, 2015. have spent over N5 billion in undergraduate towards improving the quality of their stud- scholarships and annually commit substantial ies”. These investments demonstrate ExxonMobil’s sums to awarding 13 post-graduate scholar- commitment to ensuring that the quality of A total of 14 universities have benefitted from ships to deserving young Nigerians to some Geosciences education in Nigerian universi- the UPP Programme so far, with universities of the leading universities in the world”. ties compares to that of some of the leading under the programme required to prepare institutions in the world. At the UPP Presentation ceremony, six maps of the areas in their proximity for review universities- Akwa Ibom State University, and publication by the Nigerian Geological “Through our University Partnering Pro- Mkpat-Enin, Anambra State University, Survey Agency (NGSA). So far, 12 maps gramme (UPP) and University Assistance Ulli, University of Jos, Federal University of produced through fieldwork under the UPP Programme (UAP),” Mr. Udoh said, “Exxon- ExxonMobilExxonMobil NewsNews 3 NEWS The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Dr. MacJohn Nwaobiala presenting Geoscience equipment Education, Dr. Macjohn Nwaobiala, speaking at the to Akwa Ibom State University, represented by Dr. Clement 2015 EEPNL UPP Presentation ceremony in Abuja Bassey, Head of Department of Geology, at the event The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Universities Dr. MacJohn Nwaobiala making the presentation to Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, presenting Geoscience Anambra State University, Ulli, represented by Prof. equipment to Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Gordian Chuks Obi of ANSU Geology Department at Effurun, represented by its Vice Chancellor, Prof. Akii Ibha- the 2015 EEPNL UPP Event dode, at the 2015 EEPNL UPP Presentation ceremony Mr. Ahmed Abdulahi of NAPIMS, presenting Geoscience Mr. Ahmed Abdulahi of NAPIMS, presenting Geoscience equipment to University of Ilorin, represented Prof. I.A. equipment to University of Ilorin, represented Prof. I.A. Adimule, Dean of Physical Sciences at the 2015 EEPNL Adimule, Dean of Physical Sciences at the 2015 EEPNL UPP Presentaion ceremony UPP Presentaion ceremony programme has been published by the port for the Geosciences, noting that the through its social investment programmes NGSA, 4 are under review while another equipment donated would further improve portrays the organization as a responsible 6 are currently being drafted for review by the quality of the programme in Nigerian firm that fulfills its corporate social responsi- NGSA by the universities that have benefitted universities, adding that “happy days are here bilities and that “sustainable university edu- from UPP. again for Nigerian universities”. cation in Nigeria is a collective responsibility of the government and the private sector as The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian The Permanent Secretary in the Federal demonstrated by EEPNL and its production Universities Commission, Professor Julius A. Ministry of Education, Dr. Macjohn Nwaobia- partners”. Okojie, commended ExxonMobil’s sup- la, said ExxonMobil’s support for Geosciences 4 ExxonMobilExxonMobil NewsNews Mobil Oil announces increased profit for Quarter 3 obil Oil Nigeria (MON) re- Adamson who stood-in for Alastair Mac- ethical business and partner of choice in the corded a Profit After Tax (PAT) Naughton, Executive Director, Lubes, gave downstream business in Nigeria. of N3.65 billon for Quarter 3, detailed stewardship of MON business for
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