The management of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Monday approved the appointment of Ian Udoh as the new Managing Director for the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) and Paul Obelley as the MD of the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC).
The NNPC made this announcement in a statement by its acting Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division, Fidel Pepple.
Mr Pepple said the NNPC also promoted some staff while others were re-deployed.
Those promoted according to the NNPC spokesman include Farouk Ahmed, formerly Executive Director, Commercial in the Pipelines And Products Marketing Company (PPMC) now the Managing Director of the Nigeria-Daewoo Shipping (NIDAS); Samuel Babatunde, formerly Executive Director Operations of the Warri Refinery, now Project Director Olokola Liquefied Natural Gas Project.
Also promoted are Abdullahi Dandume, formerly Executive Director Operations, Nigerian Engineering and Technical Company (NETCO), now Managing Director NETCO and Aliyu Sambo, who was General Manager, M&P, now Group General Manager, Accounts.
Aholu Beks was also promoted as Group General Manager Information Technology Division from his previous position as head of Information Services Department.
Edwin Bako, Medical; Sylvester Idemudia, Greenfield Refineries and Okhes Jonathan, Power, were also promoted as Group General Managers.
Others are Benjamin Obaigbena, Research and Development and Dan Efebo, Human Resources.
Those re-deployed include Gabidon Meheux, former Senior Technical Assistant to the Minister of Petroleum Resources, now Managing Director, NNPC Services and Chris Osarrunwese, former Group General Manager, Human Resources, now Group General Manager, Downstream Business Development.
Bayo Ibirogba, former Group General Manager, Greenfield Refineries, now takes charge of engineering in the same capacity.
The NNPC spokesman said all the appointments took immediate effect.
