Medical Subcommittee
We are pleased to announce the creation of a new adhoc Medical Subcommittee in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and need to create structure aroiund the vaccine roll out for the industry.
To provide some context around the creation of the Subcommittee, OPTS formed an ad hoc Medical Subcommittee during the Ebola crisis to support the Government’s efforts in managing the crisis and another one was formed in 2020 to support the provision of infrastructure, medical and logistic support, in partnership with NNPC to manage the pandemic.
With the roll out of the COVID19 vaccines, this ad hoc standing Subcommittee would provide support for the process of vaccinating all the upstream oil and gas workers.
The newly created OPTS Medical Subcommittee is led by Dr Effiem.j.Abbah of Exxonmobil.
Changes in Subcommittee Leadership
We are pleased to announce the following recent Subcommittee appointments:
Giovanni Aquilina as the new Exploraton/DWOG Subcommittee lead.
- Funmilola Olaifa as the new Tax Subcommittee lead. She takes over from Dapo Otunla(Shell)
- Dr Effiem Abbah as the new Medical Subcommittee lead.
OPTS Secretariat wishes to thank the departing leads for their support and leadership. We wish the new leads success in their roles.
Subcommittee Lead profile feature
To commemorate International Women’s month, create awareness, and acknowledge the professionals in our Subcommittees for the great job they are doing, our lead feature is the Gas Subcommittee Lead, Yemi Famori.
1. Introduce yourself and tell us about your journey to OPTS
I joined Shell in 2001 and have my career in the Upstream working in both Deep Water and Onshore. I started out as a production engineer and well engineer in the Gulf of Mexico, then made my way into Shell’s US Shales business ultimately becoming the Operations Engineering Manager for the Permian Asset. Most recently I was the Business Advisor to Shell’s Upstream Director based out of The Hague. I joined the SPDC Commercial organization in 2018 as the Gas Portfolio Manager where I’m responsible for driving the gas strategy and creating a credible and profitable domestic gas market in Nigeria and sustaining/growing the profitable export market. I hold B.SC. in Chemical engineering and a M.B.A. in Management.
2. Introduce your Subcommittee and its importance within the industry
The Gas Subcommittee aims to proactively anticipate emerging gas subjects in order to engage and actively advocate to protect industry interests.
3. What has been most rewarding about your role?
The opportunity to pull together a diverse group of OPTS member companies to align around unified positions on various issues, thus enabling advocacy in one voice.
4. What is most challenging about your role?
Ensuring we get active participation and involvement from the broad spectrum of member companies.
5. Tell us about your major accomplishments as the Subcommittee lead
It’s still early days and lots of work to do.
6. Share something about yourself that nobody in your Subcommittee knows about you.
I started out as a Dental student before deciding to change career path.
7. How do you keep a healthy work/life balance?
I enjoy time with my husband and two kids. I also try to exercise three times a week (“try’’ being the operative word).
8. What is your philosophy on life?
I believe anything worth doing is worth doing well. I work hard on the things I can control and try to influence the things I can’t but ultimately trust that God has a higher purpose for me.