Nigeria - Billy Agha.

Yar'Adua on Jan. 13, 2009 put Billy Agha, a geologist and former NNPC executive, at the head of DPR to oversee its dissolution and its replacement by the NPI under himself. Chukwueke had become head of DPR in 2005, succeeding Macauley Ofurhie, who clashed with some of his superiors over that year's E&P licencing round.

Apart from regulating the petroleum sector and overseeing the country's upstream licencing rounds, Agha's NPI monitors the country's E&P, exports and downstream operations.

In late 2004 managers at the DPR, including monitors responsible for clearing crude oil exports from the country's eight terminals and oil products imports, went on strike in protest against their management's failure to implement agreements (see down8NigrwhoAug20-07).

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