Jorg Kohnert

Jorg Kohnert was born in Germany and graduated from the Technical University Clausthal with an BSc in Engineering and an MSc Petroleum Engineering.

Upon earning his degrees, Jorg embarked on his career within the German coal mining industry, before joining Shell International. He worked for 23 years across Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, starting off as a Drilling Engineer and culminating as the General Manager/Chairman of Shell in Cameroon. Following his Shell career, Jorg worked as Managing Director of Addax, Gabon, General Manager in Glencore, Cameroon and President/Chief Operating Officer of Green Gas Limited, China and latterly as Chief Operation Officer and Managing Director in Nigeria for Levene Energy (a young start-up) and Nigerdock – a shipyard and oilfield fabrication yard.

Having worked in Syria, the UK, the Sultanate of Oman, the Netherlands, China, the US, Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon and visited countries like Iran, Kenya, Indonesia, South Africa, and Botswana he has first hand experience of the challenges a young business or an individual faces in different cultural environments.

In his most recent role, Jorg worked as Business Development Executive with an environmental services provider, covering conventional and renewable energy companies on projects conducting EIAs and biodiversity baselines in sensitive environmental habitats.

Relevant experience of oil and gas operations include on/offshore work in NL, offshore experience UK in SNS, CNS and NNS. Drilling and production, floaters, jack-ups and fixed installations. Gas production experience – onshore China, oil production experience – onshore, waxy crude in Africa. Marine supply base design/construction and operations.

Jorg retired from full-time work in November 2023 and joined a couple of NGOs working on important issues for the Northeast of Scotland.