Oil & Gas Archives — Page 17 of 21

May 1, 2017 No Responses

Total teams up with Pavilion Energy on LNG bunkering

Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions and Pavilion Gas signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on LNG bunkering cooperation in Singapore, on the sidelines of GASTECH 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. Under the MOU, Pavilion Gas, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pavilion Energy, will...

April 20, 2017 No Responses

How to spur industrial, economic transformation in Nigeria through gas, by Attah, NLNG MD

By Moses Ebosele – The expansion of NLNG’s Bonny Island Plant with Trains 7 and 8 could be a catalyst to unleashing the country’s gas potentials, Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer, Tony Attah has said. Speaking in Lagos...

April 13, 2017 No Responses

NNPC to commercialise communication network

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced plan to commercialise some of its critical Information Communications & Technology (ICT) infrastructure in line with its bid to re-focus the Corporation as a commercially viable entity. The G...

April 12, 2017 No Responses

NLNG MD joins NESG Board

Nigeria LNG Limited Managing Director and Chief Executive, Mr Tony Attah, has been appointed to the Board of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG). NESG is a leading private sector Think-Tank and Policy Advocacy Group committed to the development...

April 12, 2017 No Responses

NUPENG tasks FG on local govt autonomy

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has called on the Federal Government to facilitate autonomy to the 774 local governments in the country, “so that they can operate fully without any hindrance”. According to the union,...

April 10, 2017 No Responses

Ban heavy fuel oil in Arctic Waters, EU Parliament tells IMO

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called on the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to ban the highly polluting marine fuel heavy fuel oil (HFO) from use in Arctic waters. Transport & Environment informed that the full European Parliamen...

April 7, 2017 No Responses

Niger Delta States indicate interest in community-based modular refineries

As implementation efforts on President Muhammadu Buhari’s new vision for oil-producing communities in the Niger Delta region progress, states in the region are beginning to indicate interest in working with the Federal Government and the Private Sector to de...

April 5, 2017 No Responses

Recover $22b, N316b from NNPC, NEITI tells FG

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has urged the Federal Government to recover $22b, N316b from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Presenting it report to Journalists on Tuesday in Abuja, Executive Secretary of N...

April 4, 2017 No Responses

Shell to fuel world’s 1st LNG-Powered Aframax Tankers

Russia’s SCF Group (Sovcomflot) has signed an agreement with Shell Western LNG B.V. (Shell) for the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to fuel the first Aframax crude oil tankers in the world to be powered by LNG. Under the...

March 27, 2017 No Responses

$184m crude swap under-deliveries: Taleveras makes $17m commitment

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has pledged to provide members of the public with up-to-date information on the ongoing effort by the Corporation to sanitize the record books through reconciliation of the transactions executed during the def...

March 14, 2017 No Responses

Don’t amend NLNG Act, NNPC boss tells National Assembly

Recent move by the National Assembly to amend the NLNG Act had dampened the optimism of investors, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru has said. The NNPC boss also urged the National Assembly...

March 9, 2017 No Responses

‘NLNG, Nigerian success story in management, technical competence’

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited as a shinning example of the Nigerian success story in management and technical competence. The Minister stated this on Bonny Island,...

March 8, 2017 No Responses

Sustain reforms at NNPC, expert tells Baru

The Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru, has been enjoyed to sustain ongoing reforms despite stiff opposition in some quarters. Since his assumption of office, Baru has undertaken far reaching measures de...

March 7, 2017 No Responses

Firm unveils $500M Oil exploration campaign

Oranto Petroleum is to invest $500 million to develop South Sudan’s Block B3, indicating a comprehensive exploration campaign. The Ministry of Petroleum and Oranto Petroleum Company, South Sudan signed the exploration and production sharing agreement for the...