Oil & Gas Archives — Page 11 of 21

February 12, 2018 No Responses

NSCDC Arrest Petrol Station Manager over Alleged Products Diversion

A petrol station manager has been arrested by the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps for diverting 26,000 litres of petrol from New Nyanya to another location in Akwanga, Nasarawa State. According to an official of the NSCDC, Yusuf O....

February 8, 2018 No Responses

NNPC to tackle fuel scarcity with two Cargoes per day in February

In a bid to keep the country wet with petrol and eradicate the fuel queues that have resurfaced in some cities, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has programmed to bring in two cargoes of petrol per day for the...

February 8, 2018 No Responses

NLNG presents $200,000 to 2017 Literature, Science Prizes winners

Nigeria LNG (NLNG) Limited, on Wednesday at a Public Presentation in Lagos, formally presented The Nigeria Prize for Literature and The Nigeria Prize for Science, which come with a cash prize of $100,000 each, to four winning entries that emerged...

February 5, 2018 No Responses

Total to sell 25% stake to Qatar Petroleum

French oil and gas group, Total, has agreed to sell a 25 per cent stake in the Exploration Block 11B/12B, offshore South Africa, to Qatar Petroleum, in a deal which Total said would strengthen its ties with the Qatari group....

February 1, 2018 No Responses

NNPC seeks PPP arrangement for pipelines

Dr Maikanti Baru, Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Wednesday said its subsidiary companies would partner with the private sector to build more pipelines across the country. Baru said this in Abuja in a statement by th...

January 25, 2018 No Responses

NNPC Boss Laments Cross-Border Petrol Smuggling

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Wednesday raised alarm over the sustained nefarious activities of some cross-border fuel smuggling syndicates and hoarders which have so far impeded efforts by the Corporation to sanitize the fuel supply an...

January 24, 2018 No Responses

Oando: Shareholders fault Sanusi’s intervention

The reported intervention of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi in the face-off between Oando Plc and one of its aggrieved shareholders cannot stop a forensic audit planned by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Oando Shareholders Solidarity Gro...

January 17, 2018 No Responses

Indigenous shipowners may get nod to lift crude

Shipowners and other stakeholders in the maritime sector are on the verge of getting the desired change in trade terms from Free On Board (FOB) to Cost Insurance and Freight (CIF) which would enable them to begin to lift Nigeria...

January 17, 2018 No Responses

Edo to partner Sahara Energy on power, gas

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has explained that the state was developing a new tripartite arrangement involving the oil companies, the state government and host communities to ensure that Corporate Social Responsibility programmes achieve the desire...

January 11, 2018 No Responses

Edo, SINOPEC sign 5,500bpd Modular Refinery deal

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Governor Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday in China, expanded the portfolio of foreign investments in the state following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Chinese consortium for a 5,500 barrel per...

January 9, 2018 No Responses

NNPC restores Escravos-Lagos pipeline, resumes gas supply

The Escravos-Lagos Pipeline (ELP) which came down last week as a result of a fire incident has been restored and gas supply to customers on the line including power generating companies resumed. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which disclose...

January 5, 2018 No Responses

Baru: FG lost 148,533 million litres of PMS to diversion

The Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, on Thursday disclosed that the nation lost about 148,533000 million litres of fuel to diversion during the December fuel crisis in Nigeria. Speaking at an investiga...

January 4, 2018 No Responses

‘Oando’s forensic audit to commence this month’

There is no going back on the forensic audit of Oando Plc, the Acting Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr. Abdul Zubair, has said. Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, Zubair said the...

December 28, 2017 No Responses

Abuja motorists get more free fuel as NNPC, DPR, seal stations

Some motorists in Abuja on Wednesday got more free petrol as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) sealed more stations. The team had sealed the Khalif Civic Centre and Investment Limited at Kubwa,.....