By Udeme Akpan, Energy Editor

Olakunle Williams is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tetracore Energy Group, a leading energy solution provider with a natural gas portfolio (Piped and Virtual solutions) exceeding 75 million standard cubic feet per day, MMScfd in volumes for industrial use and energizing over 300 megawatts, MW of power generation in Nigeria. Under the leadership of Olakunle, Tetracore’s commitment to excellence has earned it numerous recognitions from reputable organizations.

In 2022, the Nigeria Gas Association presented Tetracore with the Nigeria Domestic Gas Ambassador Award, acknowledging its strong commitment to deepening domestic gas utilization in Nigeria. In 2023, Tetracore was named the Innovative Gas Company of the Year by the Nigeria Gas Investment Forum, in recognition of its pioneering contributions to the industry. Under his visionary leadership, the company constantly strives to unlock value across the energy value chain, delivering innovative and customized energy solutions to partners while adapting global best practices and standards in line with its ISO 9001:2015 QMS Certification. One of its most recent accomplishments is the Collaboration with Dangote Cement, a subsidiary of the Dangote Group of Companies, to supply Auto Compressed Natural Gas (Auto- CNG) for its logistics operations.

The collaboration marks a significant step forward in achieving the goals of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Presidential CNG Initiative (Pi-CNG). Under the agreement, Tetracore will supply up to an impressive 400,000 SCM per day within the next year, meeting growing demand from Dangote’s extensive logistics fleet and other Auto CNG users across the country. With over 15 years of extensive experience across the Energy (Natural Gas and Power) value chain, Olakunle has made significant contributions to the industry. His professional journey includes working as a Consultant on the Energy desk at Deloitte Nigeria and serving as a leading Commercial Advisor at the Nigerian Gas Company Limited. He was also part of the initial team of its affiliate, the Nigerian Gas Marketing Company Limited.

Olakunle holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Bradford School of Management (UK), a Project Management Professional, a Chartered Management Accountant, a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultant, and a member of several professional bodies including the International Bar Association (IBA), Chartered Institute of Taxation (CITN) and the Institute of Arbitrators (UK). It was in recognition of his various accomplishments that he won the Energy Personality Leadership Prize for African Leadership Excellence in 2021.

The African Energy Chamber also recognized him as one of the 25 Energy personalities to watch in 2022. In 2023, Olakunle was recognized as Nigeria’s 50 Most Inspiring and Definitive Top CEOs by Guardian Nigeria’s Annual CEO Series. Also, in 2024, he was named Nigeria’s Energy Champion at the 2024’s Nigeria Oil & Gas Outlook, presented by the African Energy Series.

Recently Olakunle was decorated with a Professional Doctorate and Corporate Leadership Excellence Recognition Award 2024 from the Chartered Institute of Public Resources Management and Politics (Ghana). He was also elected to the Association of Local Distributors of Gas (ALDG) governing board in Nigeria in recognition of his contributions.

These and other considerations culminated in the emergence of Williams as the Vanguard Energy Icon 2024. He has also led the company in winning several awards including the most recent award by Business Day for “Innovative Sustainable Energy Provider of the Year under the sectoral awards category at the 2024 edition of the Nigerian Business Leadership Awards (NBLA).

Tetracore is an integrated energy company with a growing gas and power portfolio that supports energy access, industrialization, and local content development within Africa’s biggest economy, and a growing footprint across Africa. Tetracore deploys small-scale gas and power technologies that are better adapted to address the challenges of an economy like Nigeria.

The company has significantly grown its Natural Gas portfolio in line with Nigeria’s ‘Decade of Gas’ initiative, the country’s Energy Transition Plan (ETP), and its commitment to reach Net Zero by 2060. The company focuses on projects that have a deep impact on industrialization and energy access in Africa. It notably has a long-term contract to supply up to 40MMscf/d of gas to the Rongtai Industrial Park in Edo State and 60 MMscf/d of natural gas to NDPHC (Niger Delta Power Holding Company) to support 34% of electricity generation to the Nigerian grid. It recently operationalized it CNG Facility with Phase 2 of its expansion plans already in motion to scale the facility from a 3.1




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