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Team

Carent’s vision is to build a world class oil and gas business in Africa.

Leading Technical & Commercial Professionals

Carent Energy's founders consists of a group of leading technical and commercial professionals with extensive international experience in the upstream oil sector in Europe, Africa and the Middle Eastern regions.

Dr Carim Akintunde

Managing Director

Stacey Kivel

legal advisor

Iyior Abumere

Geoscience & BD
Director

Celine Loader

Corporate Strategy & Business Improvement

Alex Crombie​

Commercial Director​

Ofure Obomighie

Finance Manager

Charles Okafor

Engineering Director

Managing Director

Dr Carim Akintunde

Dr Carim Akintunde was appointed Director of Geoscience, NAE, Eni Nigeria in 2015 where he managed all subsurface activities, PSC’s and new projects for 3 companies (NAOC, NAE & AENR). Prior to this, he managed ENI’s involvement in deep offshore operations and coordinated NAE’s technical activities across the entire value chain, ensuring compliance with approved budget, policies and procedures. Dr Akintunde has also worked as Corporate Upstream business division manager managing Eni’s upstream business and Managed Opportunities in new projects and co-ordinate/follow up ongoing development projects and production operations. He holds a BSc and MSc. in Geology from the University of Ibadan and a PHD in Technology management from University of Ife, Nigeria.

Legal Advisor

Stacey Kivel

A commercially orientated upstream oil and gas lawyer with extended experience advising on the acquisition and divestiture of exploration / production assets and on M&A deals as well as overseeing legal and commercial transactions of oil operators and service companies in Africa. Stacey is currently a partner at McCarthy Denning. Furthermore, Stacey is an FCA regulated financial advisor and has additional legal and commercial experience in the acquisition of mining rights, litigation funding, corporate finance, lending, enforcement and intellectual property licensing in the entertainment industry. Below is one of many Stacey’s accomplishments,

Business Development /
Director

Iyior Abumere

Iyior Abumere is the Business Development and Geoscience Manager at Carent Oil and Gas with a wealth of experience in geology, geophysics and petroleum economics. Iyior has assumed several high-profile positions such as Senior Project Manager at Talisman-Sinopec delivering a multimillion-pound subsea tie back well and providing subsurface inputs to the $500million Tartan redevelopment, Senior Geologist on Shell’s flagship project in Nigeria and as Development Geologist Project Leader at PA Resources in charge of PA’s North Sea, North Africa and West African Assets. He led efforts in the appraisal, development and management of BP’s largest subsea assets – PSVM and Greater Plutonio. As Project Director at ZAIL, he supervised a technical team in delivering a billion-dollar field development plan for a cross block development offshore Angola.

Corporate Strategy & Business Improvement

Celine Loader

Celine Loader is a Business & Brand strategist with over 25years’ experience from a variety of organizations, including a blue-chip multinational. She has worked in diverse sectors: Technology (with software giant Microsoft UK, Africa and Middle East); Banking (with United Bank for Africa, First Bank of Nigeria and the Regulator, Central Bank of Nigeria, as Director of Marketing and Communications); Media (as founding Executive Director of ASPIRE Media Ltd, UK); Oil & Gas (as Board Advisor in SEPLAT Petroleum Development Co.). She has won many recognitions, including the European Federation of Black Women Business Owners Excellence Award, Guardians of the Nation International Role Model Award, Fellow of the Institute of Brand Managers, and the maiden Microsoft UK Finance and Admin Measure of Excellence (FAME) Award. She holds a Masters degree in Development Economics from the University of Reading, UK

Commercial Director​

Alex Crombie

Alex specializes in equity capital markets, private equity, start-ups, and venture investing. He advises high-potential businesses on scaling up and connecting private capital to exciting opportunities. ​ Through Mode Ventures, Alex has built a portfolio of 20+ businesses, primarily in Europe and the US, by investing early and actively following their progress.​ Leveraging his operational, executive, and board-level experience, Alex focuses on growth, strategy, and raising capital. He has developed strong connections with private investors, family offices, and corporates. Fluent in Spanish and French.​ Alex holds a top-tier MBA and has lived and worked internationally.​

Finance Manager

Ofure Obomighie

Ofure Obomighie has over 18 years of solid Accounting and tax experience having worked in leading multi-national Oil & Gas and manufacturing companies. She led the team at Accenture that changed the processes and systems for the National oil company in Nigeria (NNPC) and negotiated large contracts with the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) contract team and won contracts worth billions of naira for Invesys Systems Nigeria Limited. As Chief Financial Officer she produced the valuation documents and strategic financial projections for Dealdey Limited that won the company $10m investments from Swedish investors. She is a qualified accountant with CIMA, has an AAT qualification, B.sc Degree in Economics & MBA from Warwick university.

Engineering Director

Charles Okafor

Engineering Manager and Director at Carent Oil, ex-employee of Shell Nigeria, Schlumberger, ENI & Sonatrach Algeria. 20 years plus of operational reservoir & production engineering experience. A brilliant track record of unlocking the potential of hydrocarbon fields.

  • Onshore Oil Fields: 2nd & 3rd largest oil field in the world; -Burgan field of Kuwait, Rumaila field in Iraq
  • Africa: Algeria- (ENI/Sonatrach) Blocks 401a/402a, Nigeria- Niger Delta, Nigeria- SPDC Cawthorne Channel assets
  • Onshore Gas Condensate Fields:(BG/ENI) Kazakhstan- Karachaganak Gas Condensate Field identified once as the largest Gas
  • Offshore UK North Sea: Peik Gas Field, Cambo Oil Field, Bentley Heavy Oil
  • Offshore Brazil Deep water: Repsol- Albacora-Leste Oil Field
  • Msc in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.  Author of a few technical publications