Engr. Awoseyin, a BP scholar, graduated with a First-Class (Hons) degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Greenwich, London in 1977 and a Ph.D., with specialisation in fluid mechanics from the Pacific Western University, Louisiana in 1994.

Dr Awoseyin’s engineering career of over 45 years encompasses project management, engineering, operations, and business process integration in the petroleum industry, in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the Middle East.

His contribution to the profession started when he was a member of the 3-man team that designed British Petroleum’s 250km ethylene pipeline and landing facilities from the BP Refinery in Grangemouth (Scotland) to Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) at Teesside. His work on that project inspired his first professional publication “Pressure-Temperature Relationship in Buried Pipelines” published in the “Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers” (IMechE, UK) in 1985.  

In his 24-year career at Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), he was at various times discipline head for Pipeline Engineering and Project Management, Chief Engineer for an area that accounted for oil production of 250,000 b/d, and Area Production Manager for an area that accounted for 150,000 b/d oil.

As Corporate Production and Maintenance Systems Manager, he was responsible for production and maintenance processes and standards, and professional development of over 2,000 production and maintenance personnel. During his work on flow assurance in pipelines, he developed a new correlation for compressibility factor for hydrocarbon gases, and an algorithm that emulated Baker’s two-phase flow regimes chart. His paper “Program Integrates Pressure Loss for Single and 2-Phase Pipelines” which encapsulated these correlations was published in the Oil and Gas Journal (Pennwell Publishing, USA) in June 1986.

A self-taught software developer, he developed his flow assurance work into an award-winning software named “RAFFLO” which SPDC used for pipeline planning and design for 13 years and which he later developed into an online commercial application “RAFFLOLIVE” (www.rafflolive.com).

He owns the United States trademark “RAFFLO.” He is a Process Master in the context of Business Process Reengineering, and he led SPDC’s business process integration through the implementation of SAP (ERP system) at a time when SPDC was the largest Shell E&P operating company in the world. Later as General Manager of Gas Development for Shell Nigeria, he was the Decision Executive for all domestic gas development projects and the Business Opportunities Manager for all gas export projects. He led the formulation of SPDC’s technical standards and procedures and oversaw skills and career development planning for engineering, projects, and operations personnel. He served as an industry representative on the Engineering Faculty Board of the University of Benin where he promoted alignment of the engineering curriculum with industry. On invitation, he participated in development of the engineering curricula for the Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun.

He is currently on the Governing Council of Thomas Adewumi University, Oko in Kwara State, Nigeria. As pioneer Chief Engineering and Technology Officer for Oando PLC Group, he led the development and embedding of world-class processes and standards for opportunities maturation, project development and execution especially for the upstream oil and gas division. To support personnel time accounting in consultancy he developed an online time-writing application, called “RAFTIME” (www.raftime.com).

He owns the United States trademark “RAFTIME.” He also holds a Nigerian patent for a computer-based visitors’ access management system named “VX-ACCESS” which Victoria Garden City (VGC) – an estate of over 10,000 residents in Lagos adopted. As Technical Secretary of the Mechanical Division of the NSE he wrote the first edition of the NSE document “Guideline for Professional Development of Engineers” (1989).

As a member of the NSE Technical and Publications Committee for 10 years, he wrote the first edition of the NSE’s “Technical Transactions: Instructions for Authors” (2006). His paper “Nigerian Gas and Power Infrastructure” which he presented at the Nigerian Oil and Gas Summit in February 2009, offers a novel solution to Nigeria’s power deficit. Years later, it was a reference in the manifesto of some presidential aspirants in Nigeria.

He is an alumnus of the Executive Development Programmes of both IMD (Lausanne) and Wharton Business School (University of Pennsylvania). He has been a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE) since 2012 and of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (FNSE) since 2005. He chairs IMechE membership professional review interviews in Nigeria, for prospective corporate Members and Fellows.

He is founder and Chief Executive of Danite Limited (www.danite.net) – a company that offers engineering, technology, and Board-level consultancy services to the petroleum industry.