BABAJIDE A AGUNBIADE
PH.D., FNSE

Director & Industrial Engineer

National Oilwell Varco

Texas, USA

Engr. (Dr.) Babajide Agunbiade is an Industrial Engineer with over 20 years of experience in the offshore industry. He started his Engineering career in Nigeria with Industrial Measurement & Control Limited, Lagos, Nigeria upon graduation with a combined honors degree in Industrial and Production Engineering from the University of Ibadan in 1996. Dr. Agunbiade continued his career at General Electric Houston, Texas, where he was Principal Engineer for the $4billion Duke Energy Edwardsport IGCC (Integrated Gasification in Combined Cycle) project that built the first-ever IGCC plant in Edwardsport, Indiana. The gasification process involves converting coal and other carbon-based feedstock with carbon capture and sequestration into syngas used in a combustion turbine to generate electricity. At General Electric, Dr. Agunbiade strived to work the hardest being the youngest in the company and black. He did not set any boundaries, limitations or excuses regardless of race. He went after what he wanted no matter the challenge.

 

An accomplished Engineer, Dr. Agunbiade attended the Edison Advanced Engineering Development Program (EEDP) in Crotonville, N.Y., and gained a master's degree in Systems Engineering. He is G.E green and black belt certified. He holds a master's degree in organizational management and an MBA from the prestigious American Intercontinental University (AIU) in Houston, Texas, as well as a Ph.D. in leadership and Business from Higher Place Christian University (HPCU) Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. He is also a Ph.D. scholar in Environmental policy at Texas Southern University. He has attended several training courses in both Nigeria and overseas in Subsea Production Systems, Business Development, Oil & Gas Contract Negotiation, etc.

He is a member of the following professional bodies: The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria (COREN), Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE), Society of Underwater Technology (SUT), and the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE).

 

As an ardent scholar, he has written and presented several technical papers at both local and international fora.  Some of his papers are: Product-Mix Problem: A case of a Paper Manufacturing Industry; System dynamics applied to engineering management: a survey, assessment, and directions for future research; Leadership in Multi-Leadership Business Organizations: Where are we Faltering? Ph.D. Dissertation; and Impact of gas flaring on air quality: A Review. Ph.D. Research work, Texas Southern University - Department of Urban Planning & Environmental Policy.

 

Engr. (Dr.) Agunbiade is currently a Director at National Oilwell Varco, the world's largest Oil and Gas equipment manufacturing company headquartered in Houston, Texas, with 600 locations in 5 continents worldwide. In that role, he has been involved at a significant level in virtually all the shallow to deepwater projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Gulf of Mexico and has completed over 2billion USD offshore production projects over the last decade. He is a Philanthropist, businessman, prolific Investor, energy consultant, and subject matter expert in Subsea Production Systems. Dr. Agunbiade has attended and presented papers at several Conferences, Seminars, and Workshops worldwide. 

 

He is the founder of Jide Agunbiade foundation, MGS LLC. The foundation tackles various community projects that fall under education, career mentoring, water sanitization, and faith-based projects. Under the education wing, the foundation has established a teacher’s welfare fund, school infrastructural development and academic scholarships to aid students in need. Dr. Agunbiade uses his foundation to encourage young black students to pursue careers in STEM as financial stability motivation.

 

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