OUR TEAM

Meet the experts behind our company

The Outflow Petroleum Insights team commits to act with integrity and professionalism in our engagements with our staff, customers, suppliers and stakeholders. We work to uphold a strong brand that can be trusted with helping petroleum companies prosper.

Zwelakhe Mabece 

Founder and Managing Director

Zwelakhe Mabece is a Management Accounting, Strategy and Financial Reporting professional with 17 years’ experience in the Sub Saharan Africa Petroleum industry. Throughout his career in corporate he gained experience solving problems with executive teams and has led high profile strategic projects reaching across the fuels value chain including retail, supply & logistics and functions. He has served on various governance boards and contributed to the development of people in their careers.
 
After a successful career in corporate, Zwelakhe decided to share his passion for the petroleum industry as well as his ability to connect financial expertise, commercial awareness and operational knowledge to advance other individuals and companies. Over the years, he has developed effective communication and engagement techniques to promote cooperation that drives completion of projects. These enabled him to grow a strong network of associates and leaders in the Southern Africa region from which he gained business partners. Zwelakhe wishes to be a catalyst for transformation and contribute to the industry’s growth.

OPI Team

OPI team members share the same values as the founder, and are comprised of:
We also have a network of independent subject matter experts whose services we employ to meet client requirements for various projects. 

Industry Experience

OPI has a diverse team of professionals with a collective 30 years of industry experience covering the petroleum sector, management consulting, research and statistics. 

Professionalism

We have our clients and stakeholders interest at the core of our values and strive to foster a professional environment central to the company’s culture, and the way it is managed.

Integrity

Our code of conduct sets out how the business of the company is conducted in accordance with principles of good governance, reflecting values, ethics and standards expected of all staff.

Team Development

We have just completed an Introduction to Competition Law training for our team in the office and on Microsoft Teams.

This part of our on-going capability development as we grow to assist petroleum industry leaders with strategic and complex projects. Whilst we believe we have been on the right side of the law in the general sense, we do recognise the need for us to build capacity with complementary areas of the law to our principal focus area: the petroleum and energy sector.

What was special with this training is that it was passionately delivered by Songezo Mabece who is Legal Counsel - Mergers and Acquisitions at the Competition Commission of South Africa.

Songezo Mabece is an accomplished lawyer, guest lecturer, public speaker, radio-show host (SA FM - The View Point) and a humanitarian. He holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in International Trade Law from Stellenbosch University, has completed an executive development course from the IEDC Bled School of Management in Slovenia, a certificate in competition law from the University of Cape Town, and a Master of Laws (LLM) in Government procurement law from the George Washington University in the USA.

His concluding message was competition law is not an obstacle to the performance of Outflow Petroleum Insights. We need to promote a culture of compliance with the Competition Act and be aware of potential conduct that could contravene the Competition Act. Most importantly, all industry players should approach the Commission when uncertain.

We are grateful for this exchange and are well placed to contribute more to our industry.