With decades of Global experience across the value chain in the oil & gas, and energy industry, Dr. Oppong is currently the CEO/ Industrial Coordinator of the Chamber of Oil Marketing Companies (COMAC), Ghana. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at Ghana Technology University College, a Coventry University Campus in Africa; and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He is an E&P Committee Member of the International Gas Union (IGU), and also the Africa Regional Director of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and a serving Board Director of SPE International.
Dr. Oppong is an experienced Oil and Gas Business Analyst with solid technical and commercial knowledge in oil and gas field development planning and portfolio management. He is heavily involved in the day-to-day interpretation of value creation potential for oil and gas businesses. His strengths include being diligent, innovative, and technology-driven. Dr. Oppong holds a Ph.D. and a Post Doctorate Degree in International Oil and Gas Management - Finance and Economics from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, a Diploma in Earth Geoscience from Stanford University, USA, a Master’s (with honors) in Petroleum Engineering from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, a Masters Exchange Program in Arctic Development from Norwegian University of Nordland, a Bachelor’s degree in Materials (Industrial) Science and Engineering from K.N.U.S.T., Ghana, and a Diploma in Project Management from Institute of Commercial Management, UK.

Dr. Oppong has played an active role in Ghana’s Energy Sector Recovery Program; a program that gave birth to the Cash Waterfall Mechanism, Natural Gas Clearinghouse, and P4R. He worked tirelessly to ensure that the objectives of these programs were holistically achieved. Dr. Oppong equally sat on Ghana’s National Energy Transition Technical Committee, where he contributed to writing policy documents to address Ghana’s energy transition roadmap. He also played a dynamic role in the review of Ghana’s Gas Master Plan (GMP) and Natural Gas Pricing Policy (NGPP). Furthermore, Dr. Oppong played a salient role in the determination of the Weighted Cost of Delivered Gas Prices (WCODG) in Ghana’s Energy Sector, while he sat on national committees of Gas Price Negotiations with Upstream Players, and accordingly Gas Sales Agreements.

Prior to joining Ghana National Gas Company in 2020, Dr. Oppong had worked on several oil and gas fields and projects, including North Busachi Fields in Kazakhstan, Independence Field in Cote d’Ivoire, Djata Fields in Ghana, and West Quarna2 Gas Field in Iraq. He also consulted for the Croatian Government on the Croatian LNG Project as a Project Economist.
Dr. Oppong has lectured in several universities across Europe, Canada, and Australia, and has been a conference panelist at numerous Conferences across the globe in the past seven years.
His immense contribution to international conferences cannot be overlooked as he has made presentations under ATCE 2016, UAE; IPTC 2016, Thailand; OTC 2016, Canada; WPC 2017, Turkey; PC.LCC 2018, 2021 & 2022, Ghana; EMW 2018 and 2019, Poland; AOG 2019, South Africa; WPC-YP Summit 2019, Russia; ASEC 2020, Croatia; SAIPEC 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024, Nigeria; GES 2022, Canada; NAICE YPW 2022, Nigeria; GH-BICE 2022, Ghana; WGC 2022, South Korea; GhipCon 2022, Ghana; ALNGW 2023, Tanzania; NIEC 2023, Namibia; NAICE 2023, Nigeria; WPC 2023, Canada; ATCE 2024, USA; FEC 2024, Ghana; NAICE 2024, Nigeria; AEW 2024, South Africa, among others, with numerous published papers and articles. He is also the author of three books. As of June 2022, Dr. Oppong had over 500 citations in articles, thesis, and books.

It is worth mentioning that Dr. Riverson has won several international awards, medals, and recognitions: the most recent being the recognition by “Gurus and Prospects” Magazine – GAP, as one of the “TOP 10 Energy Thought Leaders in Africa and Diaspora”; and his induction into the SPE International Century Club as a lifetime Society member. Other awards in previous years include: 2023 SPE Regional Management Award, 2022 “Rising Star” – Ghana Energy Awards; 2022 SPE Regional Distinguished Service Award; 2020 SPE Regional Young Member Outstanding Service Award; and 2020 Presidential Millennium Excellence Award, Oil and Gas – Youth Category. Dr. Oppong won the best PhD. Research (Globally) in 2016 in Poland at the East Meets West SPE Conference.