Professor Kevin Igwilo has both oil field and classroom experience. He has produced over 73 scientific papers in archival journals (Most of them are scopus index), 1 International University textbook on drilling fluids published in Germany by Lambert, 4 patented inventions in the area of drilling fluids. He is a member of Society of Petroleum Engineers and duly registered by the Council for the Regulation of Engineers in Nigeria (COREN). He holds a B.Eng, M.Eng and Ph.D in Petroleum Engineering (Drilling Option). He is also a very seasoned oil field Petroleum Engineer, Mud Engineer per excellence, with over 25years experience that borders around drilling of oil and gas wells, spans across all aspects of Drilling fluids, Completion fluids, Cementing, Mud logging, Petroleum Chemistry and Wellhead operations. He had worked in Nigerian offshore and deepwater operations, Ghanaian deepwater operations, Jubilee field, Guinea deepwater offshore for oil and gas exploration, Qatar offshore (Persian Gulf), UK offshore (South of the North Sea). He was Head of Department of Petroleum Engineering at Federal University of Technology, Owerri and during his tenure secured both NUC and COREN accreditation for the department.