Full Name Kofi Amoa-Abban Alma mater Mfantispim | Nationality Ghanaian Years active 2000–present | |
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Born December 30, 1982 (age 34) ( 1982-12-30 ) Enyan Abaasa. Title Chief Executive Officer of RigWorld Board member of RigWorld International Services | ||
Kofi Amoa-Abban(born 30 Dec 1982) is a Ghanaian Oil and Gas entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder and CEO of Rigworld Group, an oil services business with operations across West Africa.
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Early life
Kofi Amoa-Abban was born in Tema, Ghana, the son of Kofi Amoa-Abban a Director at Textile company TTL, and Letitia Amoa-Abban a retail entrepreneur. Kofi Amoa-Abban was educated at Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast, Ghana. Kofi Amoa-Abban graduated from the University of Ghana with a degree in Psychology and pursues a master's degree at Oslo University, where his interest in the oil industry was piqued following his native Ghana’s discovery of oil in 2007.
Managing career
In 2011, Kofi Amoa-Abban started Rigworld from a small office in Osu, Accra providing recruitment services to the burgeoning oil and gas industry in Ghana. Prior to that, he had served as a drill crew member with Atwood Hunter responsible for the TEAK1, TEAK 2, and Banda Wells. In July 2015 Kofi Amoa-Abban co-founded PressureTech, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rigworld International Services, which offers engineering solutions to Oil and Gas companies in Ghana and beyond.
Awards
In February 2016, Kofi Amoa-Abban received an honorary doctorate from two universities, the Commonwealth University and the London Graduate School. In the same year Kofi Amoa-Abban received the "Extraordinary Entrepreneur" award from the Tema Excellence Awards Foundation.