Osayande Igiehon, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Heirs Energies, emphasizes in this interview, energy sufficiency is a key concern. In this exclusive conversation, the seasoned energy sector executive takes us through the company’s vision and its role in addressing energy issues in the country and the wider African continent. He also shares insights into key trends shaping the sector. Interviewer: As CEO of Heirs Energies, what are your vision and key strategies, drawing from your nearly three decades of experience in the energy sector? Mr. Igiehon: Our ambition is clearly to be one of the top five Nigerian independents that emerge as international oil companies pull out of the upstream. However, our focus is not only upstream. We are also trying to build an integrated energy company and business with a strong footing in midstream and a strong integration with power. Beyond Heirs Energies, Heirs Holdings has an integrated energy play, which is driven, on the one hand, by our growth in the upstream and midstream sectors and, on the other hand, by power through our investments in Transcorp. So, interlinkage from hydrocarbons to power will also be a key piece of our future. Given my 30 years in the industry, I’m building and leading Heirs Energies to be a very strong, definitive, and differentiated company in the marketplace. There are three key elements that underpin our approach to building Heirs Energies. This approach has seen the company grow from zero to acquiring an asset with no capability and no track record in 2021 to being recognized within three years as one of the leading Nigerian independent companies with a lot of promise. The first thing is that we have tried to build a different, value-driven company. Everything we are doing is driven by value, and it quite significantly differentiates us from the activity-driven approach predominant in the industry.