The company may adopt the family driven Moni Pulo management model
By Sully Manope
Martin Trachsel will be leaving SAPETRO, the Nigerian independent, at the end of September 2014.
He will be briefly succeeded by Dan Oguche, who retired from the company in 2013, but is currently a consultant in the system. Mr. Oguche is designated “Acting Managing Director”.
Trachsel took the helm of SAPETRO in September 2009, after five years as Vice President for Shell in the Middle East-Gulf. He “has presided over a period of significant expansion”, notes Daisy Danjuma, the company’s Executive Vice Chairman, who signed the notice of Mr. Trachsel’s leaving. “Notable amongst his many achievements were driving the Seme Field redevelopment programme to the point where we can expect to achieve First Oil early next year and the acquisition of sizeable exploration acreage in the Mozambique Channel and the Central African Republic”, she says.
SAPETRO, which lifts 10,000 Barrels of oil a day, is shopping for a Chief Operating Officer, who will focus on technical issues. Mrs Daisy Danjuma, wife of retired General Theophilus Danjuma, 76, the company’s founder and chairman, may ultimately become the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, just as Mrs Seinye Lulu-Briggs is Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Moni Pulo, another Nigerian independent. Mrs. Lulu-Briggs is the wife of the 82 year old O.B. Lulu-Briggs, Moni Pulo’s founder and chairman. Two children of General Danjuma, apart from him and his wife, are on the board of the eight man board of directors, which has now become a seven man board, with the exit of Mr. Trachsel
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with trax, you were never pumped he was pitnhicg, but most days, you were in the game, and sometimes, he could really throw a gem.You felt good about the game with him on the mound.Is there a sabermetric for pitches made in tough situations? Maybe that would account for some of his effectiveness.Whateer it was, once he returned from his demotion, he was effective, effective, effective.He knew what he was and what he had to get out of his limited stuff to succeed.And his face was great.I nominate it to go on the fifty greatest met game faces list, right behind Alphonso.