Louis Vonan Innocent TANOE has been in the oil industry since 1997, starting in the operations departments of shell cote d’Ivoire, after 12 years in Cote d’Ivoire’s urban transportation company as engineering and technical managerIn shell he worked for 10 years, in operation, supply and distribution activities, in west and Central Africa, covering countries, such as Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Senegal and Gambia, Togo and Benin

He played a significant role in shell oil product Africa’s distribution operation audit review. In 2007, joined MRS group in Nigeria, on august 2007 as the managing director of MRS oil & gas co limited before his successful secondment to chevron oil Nigeria plc. As the managing director in 2009. From June 2010 to December 2011, he has overseen the marketing and corporate activities of MRS affiliates in West and Central Africa as chief operating officer and lead all business development projects of MRS in Guinea Conakry, Senegal, and Togo. In 2014, He joined the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company ltd in Ghana, as Petroleum advisor to the Managing Director, and in addition in 2015, as Acting Commercial Director at Tema Oil Refinery.

He has a broad range of performance and achievements recognitions: from Shell where in JUNE 2005, as Shell Oil Product Africa Leadership, Accountability, Teamwork Award Winner for his Contribution to 2005's outstanding Shell West Region and Shell Trading’s results, to MRS where In 9 months, he raised the net income after tax from NG 162.4 million up to 1,4 billion and restored Chevron Aviation business by recovering 90% of the international aviation customers, to Bost, were he received an Exceptional Leadership Award in December 2015: for Conception, organization and implementation of the framework leading to the restoration of the Ghana National Strategic Security Stocks by BOST, and positioning BOST to supply other West African countries, like Mali, Burkina, Niger, Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria.

He created the Commercial and trading department of BOST, contributed to the turn-over of usd 1.2 b and in TOR structured and managed the supply of 8 millions bbl of crude oil on clean open account transaction. He joined briefly SENTUO Oil refinery as Executive Director Marketing and Sales where he set up all the marketing, compliance and operation department, and conceive the Sentuo Fuels Systems. Louis Vonan Innocent TANOE is a high result driven and safety-oriented leader, with a proven competence and expertise in structuring and managing from end to end, Oil & Gas Downstream business activities. He is a mechanical Engineer of Ecole Spéciale de Mécanique et d’Electricité ,ESME SUDRIA , Paris and an Engineer of French Petroleum Institute..