Leste Aihevba

CTO Asharami Energy Limited (Sahara Upstream)

Role
Chief Technical Officer at Sahara Group
Location
Houston, TX, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Leste Aihevba

Leste is a front line Petroleum Engineering Leader with over 30 years experience in the E&P industry, committed to designing, managing and operating safe, efficient and cost effective wells and facilities with completions that maximize recovery, and facilities that are reliable and available, reduce need for intervention, reduce operating costs, and comply with legislation and good oilfield practices. Experience spans onshore (land and swamp) and offshore (Platforms and FPSO); Sandstone, Turbidite, Carbonate and Tight reservoirs; sweet and sour crudes; all types of wells - producers and injectors, in vertical, deviated, horizontal, multilateral and smart well configurations. He is a specialist at management and rejuvenation of declining fields and strategic cost leadership in working with wells in mature fields, well reviews, WRM, reservoir management and well intervention, Current interests are managing asset and well integrity, process safety and operability risks.Specialties: Digital Transformation, Well design and installation, completion and material selection; sand control; primary and secondary recovery processes – multiphase flow, flow assurance, water shut off, water flood, Artificial lift with ESP and Gas lift; problem well identification, intervention and work-over; Economic evaluation and strategic cost leadership. I also have experience in coaching and mentoring staff, acquisition and implementation of new technology and managing change.

Experience

  1. Chief Technical Officer

    Sahara Group

    Jan 2024 — Present · Lagos Island, NG

    Managing Sustainable Technical and Operational growth and profitability across all green and brown fields of Sahara Group Oil and Gas Assets covering OML-148, OML-11, OML-18, and OPL-228, PPL-260, PPL-270, PPL-271. Responsibility spans safe, responsible and economical robust acquisitions, development, production and operations.

Education

  • Colorado Technical University

    MBA, Business Administration

    2004 — 2006

  • California Southern University

    Doctor of Business Administration - In view, Organizational Effectiveness and Leadership Development

    2011 — 2018

  • University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria

    B.Sc. (First Class Honors), Applied Chemistry

    1980 — 1984

  • Immaculate conception college, Benin City, Nigeria

    GCE-OL (Distinction), Sciences, Liberal arts and Mathematics

Skills

  • Production Technology
  • Fpso
  • Pipelines
  • Stimulation
  • Upstream
  • Gas
  • Offshore
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Hazop
  • Reservoir Management
  • Reserves
  • Onshore
  • Engineering
  • Completions
  • Oil
  • Product Optimization
  • Subsea Engineering
  • Petrochemical
  • Completion
  • Oil & Gas Industry
  • Natural Gas
  • Logging
  • Offshore Drilling
  • Reservoir Engineering
  • Production Optimization
  • Oil & Gas
  • Drilling
  • Formation Evaluation
  • Field Development
  • Onshore Operations
  • Oil/Gas
  • Artificial Lift
  • Well Intervention
  • Flow Assurance
  • Team Leadership
  • Operations Management
  • Downstream Oil & Gas
  • Energy Industry
  • Energy
  • Oilfield

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