IKECHUKWU ODIGIDAWU is the Managing Director/Operations Manager of GIFAIT INTERNATIONAL LIMITED has over 20years experience in the oil and gas industry; he holds 1st degree in Chemical Engineering and several courses in Project Management Technology Federal University of Technology(FUTO), and Rig management, operation and maintenance, plug and Abandonment in the USA by Stewart and Stevenson and MechTech. He started his career with NAOC (ENI) as project engineer involved in ELF/SPDC/NAOC JV Samabri-Biseni Field Development Project were he got experience in contractors selection and project execution (Survey, EIA, Reclamation, Civil, Drilling and Production Installations). He has over 19years experience in Well Engineering Working as eld engineer grew to Rig/Project Manager. As a consultant, he procured and effectively operated conventional rigs and hydraulic Snubbing/Workover units, carried out Workover of over 150 wells in Nigeria, Ghana, Benin Republic and Congo Brazzaville on land, swamp and shallow offshore for the oil and gas majors and marginal eld operators.
He has outstanding performance working in conjucntion with Boots & Coots and BPC/ISS USA on critical well control projects with SPDC and TOTAL.
Oilfeld Facilities and process engineering expert. Innovative entrepreneur and project management consultant. Veteran of many oileld facilities and process engineering projects in Nigeria.
Alex is an SME (Subject Matter Expert) on key construction and allied codes (ASME, API, AWS, BS, IEE). Both hands on and supervisory experience on a wide variety of oileld facilities construction projects (platform construction and installation, platform modication, upgrade & repairs), installation of fowstations, Flowlines and pipelines.
Construction, testing and commissioning of gas plants. knowledge level of and support for electrical power installation works and systems, instrumentation and controls. Managed several projects, personally responsible for budget dimension>$50M. Alex brings to the any project more than a quater of a century experience in projects.