DAVID Obatolu turns 30 next summer, two years after landing a role managing the ­Aberdeen affiliate of Dutch-registered engineer IRM Systems and three years after founding his own company, Pulse Consulting & Engineering, to tap the ­lucrative Nigerian pipeline repair market.

Now a 25% partner in both ventures, he aims to double west African inspection, repair & maintenance (IRM) turnover to $1 million in 2017 — “once the market settles down.”

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