Nigeria Energy Archives — Page 2 of 3

December 10, 2021 No Responses

Sylva At Global Energy Forum, Insists PIA Will Enhance Energy Growth In Nigeria

Minister of State, Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva has declared that the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA} will enhance energy growth and sustainability in Nigeria. Speaking as a participant at a ministerial roundtable, at the World Petroleum Congress (WPC), in Houston Texas,...

November 25, 2021 No Responses

NLC Rejects Planned Petrol Price Increase

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the Federal Government to consider options to help the country embrace developmental governance and accountable leadership while rejecting the planned petroleum price increase. NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wa...

November 13, 2021 No Responses

Seplat Energy Director Resigns

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com — Citing personal reasons, an Independent Non-Executive Director (INED) of Seplat Energy Plc, Mr. Xavier Rolet, KBE, has stepped down from the Board of the company with effect from November 11, 2021. The...

November 3, 2021 No Responses

NLNG Explains Agenda To Boost LPG Domestic Market Supplies

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com As part of measures to crash rising price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas(LPG) also identified as cooking gas, the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) has resolved to cut its LPG exports and...

November 3, 2021 No Responses

Shell To Expand Natural Gas Market, Sales In Nigeria

By ebosele@hotmail.com — Global energy company, Shell, has announced a new business line in Nigeria to expand natural gas marketing and sales as part of measures to meet the rapidly growing energy needs of wholesale customers and pr...

October 31, 2021 No Responses

NLNG Announces Onyemelukwe-Onuobia Winner Of $100,000 Literature Prize

Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia has emerged winner of the $100,000 NLNG Literature Prize for 2021 with her novel, the Son of the House. Chairman, Advisory Board, the Nigeria Prize for Literature & Literary Criticism, Prof Akachi Ad...

October 15, 2021 No Responses

Shell-Led Consortium Secures Contract For Hydrogen Storage Project

The United State Department of Energy (DOE), on Thursday announced the award of contract to a consortium of companies led by oil major Royal Dutch Shell PLC to demonstrate that a large-scale liquid hydrogen storag...

October 10, 2021 No Responses

NUPENG Begins Strike On Monday

The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) says its Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) will commence strike on Monday over the deplorable state of the nation’s highways and other issues. Mr Tayo Aboyeji, the South-West Zonal Chairman ...

September 22, 2021 No Responses

NLNG Explains Cooking Gas Shortage

The Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) on Tuesday said marketers were unable to offtake the full 450,000MTPA of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) allocated to the Nigerian market by the company due to various factors. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...

September 14, 2021 No Responses

Attah Hands Over NLNG Key To Mshelbila

In his farewell remarks, Engr. Attah said, “I thank the staff and our partners who helped achieve our set goals. It was a collective success. I would like to see the five years as foundational. Earlier, the ambition of the...

August 12, 2021 No Responses

Shell To Pay $111m Compensation To Nigerian Community

Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay the Nigerian community $111m (£80m) over an oil spill more than 50 years ago. A spokesman said the payment would mark the “full and final settlement” to the Ejama-Ebubu community over a spill...

August 9, 2021 No Responses

How To Access N250b Gas Intervention Fund, By Ministry

Investors must meet seven criteria to access the N250 billion intervention fund for gas value chain businesses. Senior Technical Assistant to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, on gas and development, Ms Brenda Ataga list...

August 5, 2021 No Responses

NLNG Explains CSR Initiative, Gas Resources Development

The Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has so far spent about $200m on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes as part of measures to help build the nation. Speaking on Wednesday in Lagos at the 2021 Society of Petroleum Engineers ...

July 25, 2021 No Responses

Oriental Energy Appoints Mustafa Indimi New Managing Director

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com — Mustafa Indimi has been appointed the new Managing Director of Oriental Energy Resources Limited, a leading indigenous oil exploration and production company in Nigeria. Mustafa takes over from M...