Mr Michael Nii Armah Aryeetey is the Manager for Exploration & Appraisal, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC). Prior to his appointment to this position, he was the Chief Operating Officer for the GNPC Exploration & Production Company Ltd (EXPLORCO), a subsidiary of GNPC. Mr Aryeetey has worked for the GNPC for almost 18 years.
Prior to that he has spent several years working as Teaching Assistant at UG, and a mineral explorationist with gold exploration companies in Ghana. In the last seventeen years, his work at GNPC has cut across oil geological and geophysical studies of offshore blocks, block promotion, License Negotiations and appraisal, development, and production operations.
Mr. Aryeetey has served on various Committees established by GNPC, Ministry of Energy and the Government of Ghana because of his knowledge of the Upstream Industry in Ghana. He has presented Technical Papers and featured on expert panel discussions in Ghana and at international conferences across the world (USA, UK, France, South Africa, UK, Italy, Nigeria, Morocco, etc.).
Mr. Aryeetey holds a bachelor’s degree in Geology from the University of Ghana, a Master of Science degree in Petroleum Geoscience from the NTNU, Norway and an Executive MBA in Project Management from the University of Ghana Business School. He is a Part-time lecturer for the Graduate Program at the Earth Science Department of the University of Ghana.