Nigerian Emerges OPEC Board Of Governors’ Chairman

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has appointed a Nigerian, Mr Ademola Adeyemi-Bero, as Chairman of its Board of Governors for the year 2025.

The appointment was one a major highlight of the organiation’s 189^th Ordinary meeting of the organization held by video conference.

Adeyemi-Bero is Nigeria’s representative on the august band his appointed happened under the Chairmanship of its President, HE Marcel Abeke, Minister of Petroleum of the Gabonese Republic and Head of its Delegation .

The Conference also elected Eng. Mohsen Paknejad, Minister of Petroleum of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as President of the OPEC Conference for one year, effective 1 January 2025, and r Hayan Abdulghani Abdulzahra Alsawad, Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs and Minister of Oil of the Republic of Iraq, as Alternate President for the same period.

The conference also expressed its utmost appreciation to the outgoing President of the OPEC Conference, HE Marcel Abeke, Minister of Petroleum of the Gabonese Republic, for what it described as “his exemplary leadership in 2024.

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A release from the organisation said the conference received an update on the 9th OPEC International Seminar, scheduled for 9-10 July 2025 in Vienna, Austria, noting that the Seminar had become a truly global platform for discussing the challenges, as well as opportunities, facing the oil and energy industries.

“The Conference resolved that its next Ordinary Meeting will convene on 28 May 2025 and noted that September 2025 will mark the 65th Anniversary since the Organization’s founding in Baghdad in 1960 and the 60th Anniversary since the OPEC Secretariat was moved to Vienna, Austria.

According to the release, the conference also thanked those who held key positions before the new change of guard, for their service.

These included that Eng. Javad Owji of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Dr. Imad Mohammad Al-Atiqi of Kuwait and Eng. Pedro Tellechea of Venezuela -for their contributions to OPEC.

The Eagle background checks show that Ademola Adeyemi-Bero is an accomplished Petroleum Industry professional whose career sojourn has surpassed three decades.

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Managing Director of FIRST Exploration & Petroleum Development Company Limited, he had previously worked with British Gas Exploration and Production Company Nigeria as President/Managing Director; and Shell, where he occupied several significant roles in several countries.