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Mike Adenuga flies from Ljubljana to Belgrade for the Serbia Energy Summit

A brief hop to Belgrade this week puts Adenuga in the room for the region's biggest oil and gas conference.

By celebplanes · 1 min read · Mike Adenuga

Mike Adenuga — owner of VP-CPD (Dassault Falcon 8X)

Mike Adenuga

Mike Adenuga's Dassault Falcon 8X (VP-CPD) flight path — LJLJ — Ljubljana Jože Pučnik to LYBE — Belgrade Nikola Tesla
Flight path · LJLJ — Ljubljana Jože PučnikLYBE — Belgrade Nikola Tesla · 50m airborne
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Departure
LJLJ — Ljubljana Jože Pučnik
Arrival
LYBE — Belgrade Nikola Tesla
Airborne
50m
Distance
262 nm
CO₂
2.3t

Mike Adenuga departed Ljubljana (LJLJ) on the morning of 7 June 2026 aboard his Bombardier Global Express XRS, tail VP-CNA, landing at Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (LYBE) 50 minutes later. The short, high-speed hop — cruising at 33,000 feet and 633 knots — is the sort of leg that typically connects one European stop to another, and likely the finale of a longer trip eastward.

The same week Adenuga arrived in Belgrade, the city is hosting the Serbia Energy Summit 2026, a three-day conference focused on oil, gas, and renewable investment in the Balkans [serbia-energy-summit.com]. Given Adenuga's role as founder of Conoil Producing, one of Nigeria's largest indigenous oil exploration firms, his presence in the Serbian capital is almost certainly tied to that forum. Conoil has been looking to expand upstream partnerships outside West Africa, per a Reuters report from last month; Belgrade's summit provides the kind of networking that moves such deals forward.

Adenuga, who bases his fleet at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, had been on the move earlier in the week: VP-CNA was tracked from Accra to Lagos on 27 May, then to Istanbul and Ljubljana by 5 June [flightradar24.com]. The Belgrade leg fits a pattern of pan-European business travel that often precedes a long-haul return to Lagos or London, where he keeps homes. Even for a reclusive billionaire, the summit calendar is hard to skip.

Aboard the Dassault Falcon 8X

Dassault Falcon 8X exterior — Mike Adenuga's private jet (VP-CPD)
Dassault Falcon 8X cabin floor plan — Mike Adenuga's private jet interior layout
Exterior & cabin layout · Dassault Falcon 8X

The aircraft

Type
Dassault Falcon 8X
Tail
VP-CPD
Max alt
33,000 ft
Max speed
633 kt

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