Total E&P Nigeria Appoints New Deputy Managing Director

Total E&P Nigeria Limited (TEPNG), an affiliate of Total SE, a French multinational integrated oil and gas firm, has appointed Victor Bandele as Deputy Managing Director. He succeeds Ahmadu-Kida Musa, who, after 35 years of career service, retired from the company.

Bandele was the executive director in charge of the company’s Port Harcourt / JV District, where he supervised the operations of three major technical divisions and two support agencies within the district, prior to the approval of his current role.

A fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Victor Bandele joined the company in 1993 as a trainee reservoir engineer and was actively involved in many onshore and subsurface subfield field management and construction activities, including some of the company’s non-operated assets, until 2004 when he became the geosciences and reservoir engineering (GSR) team leader for the OML 99 offshore assets.

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He has also held prominent roles in Nigeria and overseas activities, ventures, and management, including serving as GSR Manager for Akpo Field, the first Deepwater exploration project implemented in Nigeria by Total.

He served within the JV District as Executive General Manager, GSR & Assets Management and worked as a petroleum architect in the growth studies entity at the headquarters of Total in Paris.

In 2015, Victor Bandele returned to the Nigerian subsidiary as executive general manager, special duties, JV District, and was subsequently appointed as executive director, JV District, to Total E&P Nigeria Ltd’s board of directors.