Professor Dr. Godwin J. Igwe is a Member of the Board of Geyser LNG Limited. He is a Nigeria LNG (NLNG) Limited’s Chair of Gas Processing Engineering and a World Bank McNamara Fellow (Rtd.), where he demonstrated outstanding scholarship in petroleum products research in the United States of America (USA). Igwe is also an Alexander-von-Humboldt outstanding International Scholar.
Professor Igwe, who hails from Omoku, Rivers State, Nigeria, worked for over a decade, with one of the premier Chemical and Petrochemical Multinational Corporations in the world (E.I. DuPont, and Continental Oil Corporation, Conoco Inc.), and served variously as Senior Staff Engineer, Senior Research Engineer, and Senior Information Scientist.
He is President and CEO, Technology Transfers, Inc., Newark, Delaware, USA and was Director, NNPC and Flopetrol. He was founding Membership Chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Nigeria Section and he is listed in Marquis “Who is Who” in Science and Engineering, and “Who is Who” in America. Igwe has been Co-Chair, Oil & Gas Energy Working Group, CAETS (International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences).
Professor Igwe is an inventor of three (3) United States Patents on Process and Environmental Technology. Igwe developed Low Emission Alternative Fuel Processes at Conoco, USA and also invented environmental/polymeric processes at DuPont, USA. He is a peer-reviewer/panelist at the Chemical Engineering Processes Session at US Department of Energy (DOE) and US National Science Foundation (NSF), respectively. He consulted for Core Laboratories at Western Atlas International, Houston, Texas. USA as well as attended numerous top management, industrial, and research trainings, where ethics and disciplined professional attitude to work is number one priority.
Professor Igwe earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom. He earlier earned a Dipl.-Ing. Degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Kiel, Germany, and an M.Phil in Chemical Engineering from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Igwe variously participated in Technology Leadership Training Courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Texas, Lamar University, Colorado School of Mines, University of Oklahoma, and DuPont/Conoco Management Units. He is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE) #76983 in the State of Texas (#76983) as well as a Registered Engineer with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) (COREN No.: R.2976).
Professor Igwe is an author of three (3) chemical engineering books on Liquid, Gas and Dust Filtration (John Wiley 1987), Surface Structure of Gas Filters (John Wiley 1988), Powder Tech. and Multiphase Systems (Simon Schuster 1991) and over 50 technical, peer-reviewed journal and conference publications. He has taught chemical engineering processes at various Universities, including Rivers State University of Science and Technology, University of Port Harcourt, and Prairie View A&M Texas, USA.
He was appointed Professor at the Department of Petroleum and Gas Engineering at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria and was also appointed the Pioneer Director of the Centre for Gas, Refining & Petrochemical Engineering (CGRP) of the Institute of Petroleum Studies (IPS), University of Port Harcourt. He successfully organized the first, second, third and fourth International Conferences on Petroleum Refining & Petrochemicals (including modular refineries) (August 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. His passion for modular refineries in Nigeria is legendary, because he passionately drove and advocated the innovative idea of modular refineries as a value-adding solution to fuel scarcity, competitiveness, economic and national security, and unemployment.
He was appointed Asst. Professor, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas where he taught courses in Engineering Materials, Unit Operations-Separation Processes, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat, Mass, and Momentum Transfers. He was appointed a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Benin, Nigeria. Igwe is an elected Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering, and an elected Director of the Fuels & Petrochemicals Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is an elected Director of the Environmental Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers,
Igwe is a peer-reviewer of the Journal of Environmental Progress; the Journal of Hazardous Materials; the American Institute of Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standards; and the International Association for Hydrogen Energy. He is on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Filtration & Separation and was nominated for the DuPont Engineering Excellence Award. He was awarded Federal Government of Nigeria Scholarship leading to award of Ph.D at University of Bradford, England.
