With 48 years experience working in the oil and gas and industrial sectors across six continents in multicultural environments, and managing multicultural employees with over 10 of those years spent in Nigeria and Africa, the Chief Operating Officer of Blue Seal Energy Group, Lloyd Robertson, truly understands the marketplace, client’s needs, the business drivers and how to be successful. In this exclusive interaction with Peter Uzoho, Robertson shares his experiences, the company’s investment in Nigeria as well as future plans. Excerpts:
Blue Seal Energy Group is into the manufacturing of chemical products that serve the oil and gas and other industrial sectors. How has the experience been working in Nigeria and leading this company as the Chief Operating Officer?
Well, it’s interesting because I have substantial previous experience in Nigeria. This is not my first experience. My first experience in Nigeria was as district manager in Warri in 1988 for Baker Hughes. And then I left, because Baker Hughes was going through a merger and acquisition, and they hadn’t decided how they were going to structure the the company. I left and went to Papua New Guinea for two years, seconded to Chevron, and then they asked me to come back in 1990 as the technical manager for all of Nigeria, and I was in Port Harcourt for four years.
