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Investor Memo: The Quiet Fortune — How Benin-Born Oil Veteran Samuel Dossou-Aworet Built a $1.4 Billion Stake in Seplat and Aradel

An 81-year-old Benin-born engineer who ran Gabon's oil for 13 years quietly holds ~$1.4 billion of Nigerian oil shares — Seplat and Aradel — through Petrolin vehicles almost no one tracks. Samuel Dossou-Aworet, and the rare edge of the operator who became an owner.

,   and  Mfonobong Nsehe
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Investor Memo: The Quiet Fortune — How Benin-Born Oil Veteran Samuel Dossou-Aworet Built a $1.4 Billion Stake in Seplat and Aradel

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