Energy Archives — Page 42 of 60

May 17, 2018 No Responses

National Assembly Increases Oil Price Benchmark To $51

The National Assembly on Wednesday passed the Appropriation Bill into law.The estimated expenditure proposed by the President Muhammadu Buhari six months ago was also raised to N9,120,334,988,225, an increase of N508 billion. Senate Appropriation Committee Chairman Danjuma Goje explained that...

May 17, 2018 No Responses

Shell Nigeria Increases Domestic Gas Distribution Capacity By 150%

Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG) Limited has increased its domestic gas distribution capacity by 150% over the last six months. The increase in capacity will enable the company to distribute more than 100 million standard cubic feet of gas per day...

May 14, 2018 No Responses

Kyari Appointed Nigeria’s OPEC Representative

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says its Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division, Mallam Mele Kyari has been appointed Nigeria’s National Representative to the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The NNPC sa...

May 14, 2018 No Responses

NNPC Boosts Gas Supply To Power Sector By 88.89%

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) increased the supply of gas to the power sector by 88.89 per cent between January 2017 and January 2018. A press statement by the NNPC Spokesman, Mr Ndu Ughamadu, in Abuja on Sunday, said...

May 8, 2018 No Responses

LNG Gets More Acceptance In Central America

Central America and the Caribbean are taking an ever-growing role in the Panama Canal’s trade of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) amid increasing interest in the environmentally friendly and cost-efficient cargo to meet their energy needs. Peru and Trinidad and ...

May 2, 2018 No Responses

LNG Floating Terminal Inaugurated

Indian’s first floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal was inaugurated on May 1 by the country’s gas company H-Energy, a unit of Hiranandani Group. Eni’s floating storage re-gasification unit (FSRU) GDF SUEZ Cape Ann was hired for the job in 2017....

April 30, 2018 No Responses

LNG Bunkering Hub Underway For Shipping Firms

In the light of efforts to decarbonise maritime transport, the Japanese government expects LNG to become a significant fuel for shipping and is positioning Japan as a hub for ships to bunker LNG. A new report by the International Transport...

April 26, 2018 No Responses

LNG Takes Centre Stage As Shipowners Weigh Future Marine Fuel options

With less than two years before the sulphur cap comes into force, LNG is looking more plausible as the marine fuel of the 21st century, according to shipping consultancy Drewry. Many shipowners are still weighing up the dilemma of how...

April 24, 2018 No Responses

Gas Leak Kills Two on Board COSCO Bulker

Two crewmen died and another one sustained injuries in an incident caused by a gas leak aboard Feng Hui Hai near India’s Navlakhi Port on April 22. The 63,300 dwt bulker, loaded with coal, was en route from Indonesia to...

April 21, 2018 No Responses

Report: LNG Tanker Violates Safety Rules

The 2017-built LNG tanker Boris Vilkitsky, owned by Dynagas Holdings, violated a number of safety rules by entering the Northern Sea Route (NSR) with deficiencies, World Maritime News has indicated. Namely, the 96,958 dwt ice class tanker, which trans...

April 16, 2018 No Responses

Oando Shareholders Seek Adeosun’s Sack Over Alleged Interference

Shareholders of Oando Plc, at the weekend urged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun over alleged “unwholesome interference” in the nation’s capital market and “for unnecessarily meddling” with the...

April 14, 2018 No Responses

NNPC to Support Local Investors on Advancement of Technology

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru, has said that the corporation was committed to supporting local investors towards growing the engineering profession, even as he noted that this would in turn...

April 11, 2018 No Responses

Oando Shareholders Accuse SEC of Shielding Probe

Shareholders of Oando Plc, on Tuesday, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to intervene in the crisis rocking the company. Under the aegis of Proactive Shareholders Association of Nigeria (PROSAN), Trusted Shareholders A...

April 8, 2018 No Responses

160 Firms Bid For NNPC Valuation, Land Acquisition Services Contract

Not less than 160 firms of professional estate surveyors and valuers participated in the bid to provide the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) with valuation and land acquisition services. This was disclosed by the Group General Manager (GGM), S...