The Visionary Mind of a Business Genius.

DR. OKEY ANUEYIAGU – CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF BROWN BROMMEL LTD.

The Visionary Mind of a Business Genius.              

 A Ph.D. graduate of Fordham University, New York with emphasis in Economics and Political Science, Okey Anueyiagu was born in Kano, Nigeria. He first went to the prestigious University of Nigeria, NSUKKA, where he obtained a Bachelor of Sciences degree with honours, before proceeding to the University of Rochester, New York and Fordham University, also in New York.

A University teacher, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, an activist, art collector and a humanist, Dr. Okey Anueyiagu has distinguished himself in various endeavours of life. He has for over three decades promoted various ventures in Oil and Gas, Agriculture, Telecommunications, Construction, Manufacturing and Industry.

As the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Brown Brommel Limited, Dr. Okey Anueyiagu steers the company to maintain global strategic alliance networks and international partnerships that contribute to project planning and execution. Brown Brommel Limited recently signed a Joint Venture Agreement with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to build a 100,000 Bpd Refinery in Warri Delta State, Nigeria. This is the first Joint Venture for the establishment of Refineries by NNPC since it was established over 4 decades ago.

NNPC as the largest business entity and investor in Nigeria is amongst the foremost National Oil Companies in the world. The corporation is entirely owned by the Federal Government of Nigeria and manages Nigerian upstream, mid-stream, and downstream petroleum sector. The objective of the Joint Venture between NNPC and Brown Brommel Limited for the establishment of the refinery in Warri is to achieve increased domestication of crude oil refining on a fast track, towards meeting the nation petroleum products demand for the country. The goal is for an upsurge in the refining capacity of NNPC.

Dr. Okey Anueyiagu recognizes the dire-need for the establishment of more refineries in Nigeria and the enormous challenge of being selected to partner with NNPC to achieve the overall objective of this laudable venture. He has assembled a group of reputable and competent oil industry operators, to ensure effective technical and operational performance. This properly structured and organized approach will bring about high capacity utilization of facilities and optimum production when completed.

Various implementation committees including the steering and technical committee have been inaugurated and work has stated on the preliminary stages, the technical team has undertaken a facility tour of Warri Refinery to access the available land earmarked by NNPC for the refinery and to evaluate the utilities to be shared by both refineries.

KPMG, an internationally acclaimed advisory and consultancy firm was engaged by Brown Brommel to produce a complete business and financial plan. Also as part of the progress in executing this project in accordance to the timeline, Brown Brommel has engaged international Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) Companies around the globe and is in partnership with various companies in the industry including Oil Serve, Mocoh, Total, Mercurial, Shoreline, Essar, LR Group, Dignia, Parsons Brinckerhoff, UOP (Honeywell), Union Maritime, Amal Group, Netco, Worldwide Energy, Enviremed, Galil Engineering Group, Global Petroleum Exploration (GPX), Israeli Aerospace Industry (I.A.I) and many others in the actualization of this landmark project.

Dr. Okey’s brilliant entrepreneurial, and visionary strategic mind and his vast experience and wide international contacts in these areas in the oil and gas sector and other business enterprises, are largely responsible for the monumental success being recorded in these projects, particularly in the establishment of the Brown Brommel Refineries in Warri, Nigeria.