Tag: Oil and Gas

Group backs sale of NNPC
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Experts frown as NNPCL appoints expatriate subsidiary head

Experts and operators have raised concerns and frowned on the appointment of Jean-Marc Cordier to lead the oil trading arm of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. The Punch reported that the appointment of Cordier to lead NNPC Trading Ltd, a subsidiary of NNPCL, was announced in a statement released in Abuja by the company’s […]

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Ex-Shell CEO’s pay package hits £9.7m – Report

The former CEO of the oil giant, Shell, Ben van Beurden, received a total pay package of £9.7 million in 2022, a report has revealed. According to Shell’s annual report and accounts accessed by BBC, the Dutchman received a total remuneration of £6.3 million in 2021. This means there was over £3 million increase in […]

EXXONMOBIL-REFINERY
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ExxonMobil to complete sale of shallow water assets soon

Energy leader, ExxonMobil, said it is hopeful to sell its shallow water oil production assets to Seplat Energy soon upon approval from the Nigerian government. This was disclosed in a statement by the President of Global Upstream, Liam Mallon, issued to Reuters. According to Nairametrics, the statement was made ahead of the CERAWeek Energy Conference […]

Tight security as Buhari visits Maiduguri for power plant inauguration
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Tight security as Buhari visits Maiduguri for power plant inauguration

Security measures have been beefed up at the Maiduguri Emergency Power Plant project site in Borno ahead of its inauguration by President Muhammadu Buhari. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the president will officially open the 50-Megawatt gas-fired power plant on Thursday. It was developed by the federal government in partnership with the Borno […]

PTI to be revamped before Buhari regime ends - Committee
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PTI to be revamped before Buhari regime ends – Committee

In order to train and create local technologies that will operate the oil and gas industry before the current Buhari administration leaves office, the Petroleum Training Institute’s training facility in Effurun, Delta State, may be restructured. The Punch reported that on Monday, the PTI Repositioning Committee paid a working visit to the Institute to assess […]

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NIMASA’s deep blue project to remove Nigeria from high rate attack nations

The Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, has said that the reassurances that the deep blue project for which the federal government procured air, land and water assets for maritime security has made the industry safer and removed Nigeria from the list of countries with high incidence of attacks. […]

NNPCL, Daewoo sign $740.6m deal for KRPC rehabilitation
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NNPCL, Daewoo sign $740.6m deal for KRPC rehabilitation

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited yesterday, signed with Daewoo Engineering & Construction Nigeria Limited a $740.6m deal for Kaduna Refinery & Petrochemical Company Limited to be rehabilitated. LEADERSHIP News reported that the contract is a follow up to the memorandum of understanding for the rehabilitation of the refinery that NNPC and Daewoo Group of South Korea […]

Gas consumption to decline over Russia, Ukraine war - Report
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Gas flares to be commercialised by 139 investors – FG

Bisola David     The Federal Government announced on Thursday that a total of 139 investors have expressed interest in profiting from the 48 flare sites located across the nation’s gas flares.   According to The Punch, this information was presented during the Nigerian Gas Flare Commercialization Programme Bidders Conference and Investors Forum in 2022, which […]

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Eni signs $8bn gas deal with Libya

Oluwanifemi Ojo   The chief executive of Italian energy company Claudio Descalzi, said on Saturday that Italian energy company and Libya’s National Oil Corporation have a gas production deal of $8 billion.   The National Oil Corporation in Libya, announced on Wednesday January 25 that it had reached a deal of $8-billion with ENI, Italian […]

Buhari unveils SDG financing framework
Oil and Gas

Buhari launches Pinnacle’s $1bn terminal at LFTZ

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (ret’d) inaugurated the Pinnacle Oil and Gas FZE Terminal in Lekki Free Trade Zone of Lagos on Saturday saying the operations of the facility would ease congestion at the Apapa Port area. The President, in a video recording of the inauguration ceremony, said this new facility would reduce cost […]

How Kaduna spent N181.6bn 2022 budget nine months - Report
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Why FG should privatise oil, gas sector – El-Rufai

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, said the federal government has failed in the oil and gas and should hands-off the sector for revitalisation. El-Rufai decried the government’s failure in the oil and gas sector when he appeared on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday when speaking on the seventh edition of KadInvest According to El-Rufai, […]