{"id":10383,"date":"2017-02-13T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T11:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10383"},"modified":"2017-12-12T19:31:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T18:31:58","slug":"dike-dr-emmanuel-francis-chukwudebelu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/dike-dr-emmanuel-francis-chukwudebelu\/","title":{"rendered":"DIKE, Dr. Emmanuel Francis Chukwudebelu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> B.Sc, D,PhiI, geologist, bom May 19, 1944, Ihiala, Anambra State; married, has two sons; Education: St John&#8217;s Primary School, Onitsha, Anambra State, 1950-57, St Patrick&#8217;s College, Asaba, Delta State, 1958-62, Government College, Afikpo, Ebonyi State, 1963-64, Imperial College, London University, UK, 1965-68, University of Oxford, UK, 1969-72; Career: Ap pointed Applied Geochemist, Imperial Col lege, London, UK, 1968-69; Geophysical Engineer, Geophysical Service International Limited, Croydon, England, 1969; Consult ant Geologist (Petroleum), ShellUK Limited, London, 1972-73; Consultant Geologist (Pe troleum), Shell UK Limited, London, 1972- 73; Consulting Geologist and Head, Africa Section, Exploration Consultants Limited, Newswatch WHO&#8217;S WHO Bucks, UK, 1973-76; Director, Dr. E Dike and Associates and Integrated Exploration Consultants, Stanmore, UK, 1976-79: Con sultant Geologist, Superior Oil Group of Companies (USA, UK, Canada), 1976-79, Consultant Geologist, Shell Exploration and Production, London, 1978-79; Exploration Supervisor, Trinidad Tesoro Petroleum Com pany Limited, Santa Flora, Trinidad, West Indies, 1979-81; Managing Director and Chief Executive, Integrated Exploration Con sultants, Harrow, UK, 1981 -82; appointed As sociateProfessorof AppliedGeologyand Co ordinator,Geology Programme, Federal Uni versity ofTechnology (now Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, since 1982; ap pointed professor of geology, 1995; mem ber, University Governing Council, 1990-97; member, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 1969-84; member, Petro leum Exploration Society, Great Britain, 1973-82; member, International Association or Sedimentologists, 1974- 85; member, American Association of Petroleum Geolo gists, since 1975; fellow, Geological Society of London, since 1973; member, Geological Society ofTrinidad and Tobago; member, Pa- Ieontological Association; member Interna tional Association ofRock Mechanics; Chair man, Public Relations Committee, Rotary Club of Bauchi, since 1987; Traditional Titles: Nze of Ihiala;NnanyelugoAmaifeke- Orlu; Publications: Hydrocarbon Prospects ofEnglishChanneland Western Approaches Basins, Maidstone, England, P,W, Design and Reprographics, 1974; Hydrocarbon Pros pects ofWest AfricanCoastal Basinsfrom the Cameroonsto the Cape ofSouth Africa, Vol, 1: Cameroon, EquatorialGuinea, Gabon and Congo Basins, Maidstone, P,W, Design, 1975; Hydrocarbon Prospects of West Afri can Coastal Basins, Vol 2: Angola, Namibia &#8211; South Africa Basins, Maidstone, P,W, De sign, 1975; plus many articles in international learned journals; Hobbies: table and lawn tennis, squash, golf; Official Address: Ge ology Programme,AbubakarTafawaBalewa University, PMB 0248, Bauchi; Telephone: 077-23500, extension 331; Home: Block 30. (YELWA) Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Univer sity, Yelwa, Bauchi, Bauchi State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10383","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10383"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}