Houston, Texas | August 14, 2026

Kolestar Solutions & Logistics Group LLC is continuing to build the foundation of its Energy Solutions portfolio with the development of a multidisciplinary leadership and technical team designed to support complex upstream oil and gas operations.

Following the launch of Kolestar Energy Solutions, with an initial strategic focus on Nigeria’s upstream oil and gas industry and a long-term vision for international growth, the company has been deliberately assembling professionals whose combined expertise spans the technical, operational, commercial, and governance disciplines required for effective energy project delivery.

Rather than building capability around a single technical specialty, Kolestar is developing an integrated model that brings together project leadership, drilling performance and engineering, geoscience and petrophysics, HSEQ and risk assurance, commercial and legal expertise, business development, well logging integrity, and technical resource solutions.

This multidisciplinary approach reflects a core belief at Kolestar: complex energy projects achieve better outcomes when technical disciplines operate as an integrated team rather than in isolation.

Building Capability Around the Well Delivery Lifecycle

Successful upstream project delivery requires more than drilling a well. It demands alignment between subsurface understanding, engineering design, operational execution, safety and risk management, commercial discipline, technical assurance, and effective project governance.

Kolestar’s developing Energy Solutions leadership structure has been intentionally designed around these interconnected requirements.

The team brings together professionals with extensive experience across Nigeria, North America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and other international operating environments. Collectively, their backgrounds encompass major oilfield service organizations, indigenous service companies, multinational operations, consulting, corporate law, business development, and technical resource management.

This breadth of experience strengthens Kolestar’s ability to approach upstream challenges from multiple perspectives while maintaining a common focus on safe execution, operational efficiency, technical quality, and measurable results.

From Subsurface Insight to Operational Execution

Within the technical organization, Kolestar is developing capability across several critical areas of the upstream value chain.

Geoscience and petrophysics expertise supports reservoir understanding, formation evaluation, field development planning, well placement, geosteering, and multidisciplinary asset optimization.

Drilling performance and engineering capability provides experience across directional and horizontal drilling, rotary steerable systems, MWD/LWD operations, well planning, BHA design, hydraulics, trajectory optimization, remote operations, and complex field execution.

Well logging integrity and technical resource expertise adds another important dimension by supporting formation-evaluation quality, well-service delivery, technical personnel requirements, and the effective deployment of specialized resources.

Together, these disciplines strengthen the connection between subsurface objectives and wellsite execution.

HSEQ, Risk and Operational Assurance

Kolestar recognizes that operational performance cannot be separated from safety, environmental stewardship, regulatory compliance, and risk governance.

The Energy Solutions leadership structure therefore incorporates dedicated HSEQ and assurance expertise to help ensure that safety and risk considerations are integrated into project planning and execution from the outset.

The objective is not simply compliance, but the development of an operating culture where risk awareness, accountability, continuous improvement, and operational resilience support every stage of project delivery.

Commercial Discipline and Strategic Partnerships

Technical capability alone does not create successful projects.

Complex upstream programs also require sound commercial structures, carefully negotiated agreements, regulatory awareness, effective stakeholder engagement, and partnerships built around clearly aligned objectives.

Kolestar’s commercial and strategic leadership capability brings together experience in business development, legal and commercial advisory, market development, contract negotiation, regulatory compliance, risk management, and strategic partnership development.

This provides an important bridge between technical opportunity and commercially sustainable execution.

Integrated Leadership. Focused on Results.

At the center of the Energy Solutions model is integrated project leadership, the ability to connect technical specialists, commercial stakeholders, service providers, contractors, and client organizations around clearly defined project objectives.

Kolestar’s approach emphasizes disciplined project management, transparent communication, accountability, performance measurement, and practical problem solving.

“Our objective is not simply to assemble experienced professionals. We are building a multidisciplinary team whose expertise can be integrated around the needs of each project. The strength of Kolestar Energy Solutions will ultimately be measured by our ability to convert experience into execution and execution into measurable value for our clients.”

— Dr. Lawal Gbagba, DSc (h.c.), Founder & CEO

The company intends to continue developing its project-delivery organization progressively, expanding specialist capabilities as opportunities and project requirements evolve.

This approach allows Kolestar to maintain a focused leadership structure while assembling the appropriate engineering, operational, supervisory, project-controls, procurement, logistics, and specialist resources required for individual projects.

Nigeria as a Foundation. Global Capability as the Vision.

Nigeria remains the initial focus of Kolestar Energy Solutions as the country’s upstream sector continues to create opportunities for indigenous operators, international partners, service companies, and technical specialists to contribute to the development and optimization of strategically important assets.

Kolestar believes that the next generation of successful upstream partnerships will increasingly depend on integration, technical competence, disciplined execution, strong governance, and trusted collaboration.

By building its Energy Solutions organization around those principles, the company is positioning itself to support operators seeking improved project delivery, greater operational efficiency, reduced execution risk, and sustainable long-term asset performance.

While the journey begins with a strong focus on Nigeria, Kolestar’s ambition remains broader.

Multidisciplinary expertise. Integrated leadership. Focused on results.

That is the foundation upon which Kolestar Energy Solutions intends to build from Nigeria, across Africa, and ultimately into the global energy marketplace.