Ayo Kilani is currently an ‘Independent Consultant’ on Valves & Mechanical Static Equipment for the Oil & Gas industry in Nigeria and recently retired from Nigeria LNG Limited as the Corporate Engineering Manager. 

He has over 35 years industry experience and occupied other safety critical positions of Head Mechanical Static discipline, Area Maintenance Superintendent (LNG Trains), Senior Engineer, Design Office (Mechanical / Civil) and Mechanical Engineer NLNG Plus Project at Nigeria LNG Limited.

He was the Mechanical Static SME / Site Technical Authority at NLNG, where he led his team to develop the first risk based Valve Maintenance Strategy that resulted in cost savings and plant reliability improvement. Ayo has been a steering committee member since 2018 and had the privilege of being the Steering Committee chairman for the 2022 Valve World Conference.