Irvine Obot

Deputy Director / Environmental Management/ Lead Geologist at NOSDRA

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

About

Experienced environmental specialist with demonstrated history of working in the Environmental Services Industry, skilled in ArcGIS, Environmental Compliance, Water Quality, Soil and Groundwater remediation, Environmental Impact Assessment. Strong geoscientist professional with a Post Graduate Diploma in Geographic Information Systems and first degree in Geology from the University of Nigeria

Experience

  • NOSDRA (Full-time · 6 yrs 5 mos)
    • Deputy Director/Environmental Management/ Lead Geologist
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

    • Assistant Director/ Environmental Management/ Lead Geologist
      Feb 2020 - Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • NOSDRA (5 yrs 7 mos)
    • Chief Environmental Scientist
      Jan 2016 - Dec 2018 · 3 yrs

      - Review of technical data for close-out certification of remediation/ clean-up/decommission sites.;- QCed oil fingerprinting data for determination of spill to source correlation and identification of mystery spills;- Served as Secretary of the Adhoc- Commitee on Centre of Excellence and Integrated Contaminated Soil Management Centre for the Ogoni clean-up project in Nigeria which is being implemented by the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP).;-Reviewed Oil Spill Contingency Plans (OSCPs) of some Operating Companies; - Review of the Remediation Action Plan of impacted sites with Tier-1 and Tier-2 assessments. Validated/ recommended candidate sites for application of specific remediation methodologies.; - Conduct subsurface investigations, data evaluation, technical report writing and QA/QC.;- Acted as Incident Commander NOSDRA, in a coordinated Command role with a leading IOC in Nigeria with global presence, to test their Incident Command System (ICS). Reviewed/ agreed on incident priorities, limitations and constraints, and developed objectives. Reviewed parameters for incident response and granted approval for Operations intervention in line with strategic command objectives.

    • Assistant Chief Environmental Scientist
      Jun 2013 - Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      -Team Lead on various environmental post impact assessment assignments. - Review of laboratory reports on site assessment, post- clean up inspection, and remediation. - Supervised and provided mentor-ship to field scientists under my Team in various work-scope including oil-spill assessment,clean-up monitoring, site remediation e.t.c.

  • Principal Environmental Scientist at National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency(NOSDRA)
    Apr 2009 - Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    - Participated in environmental field assessments, facility inspections( Petroleum upstream and downstream). - Participated in oil spill drill activation and evaluation for several oil operating companies. - Conducted oilspill trajectory plotting and slick volume estimation. - Carried out geological site characterization for the subsurface based on lithology logs for pollution plume visualization in oil impacted sites. - Provided overall guidance to the Field Technical crew to achieve the targets set for the office.

  • Project Manager at Vimi and Sons Company
    Jan 2004 - Feb 2008 · 4 yrs 2 mos

    Managed and executed various projects including water well drilling and completion, building construction and contract sourcing.

  • Consultant Wellsite Geologist at Nsekon Ventures
    Jul 2001 - Jun 2002 · 1 yr

    Correlation of well records