Oil & Gas Archives — Page 19 of 21

January 5, 2017 No Responses

Sahara Energy, 38 others get NNPC crude lifting contract

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Thursday named Sahara Energy, Oando, MRS and 36 others as successful bidders of its 2007/2018 crude oil term contract, effective January 1, 2017. According to NNPC, the 39 successful bidders comprised 18 Nigerian...

December 24, 2016 No Responses

Again, Total Nigeria is recipient of Solar Grant

In 2015, Total Nigeria Plc was the recipient of a solar grant awarded by the Solar Nigeria Programme, an initiative of the UK’s Department for International Development. Total Nigeria has been able to deliver exceptionally on Awango by Total’s...

December 19, 2016 No Responses

NUPENG begins warning strike January 9

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) is to embark on three-day warning strike onJanuary 9, 2017 over alleged maltreatment of members. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the South-West chairman of the...

December 15, 2016 No Responses

Chevron cancels $1.9B FPSO order

Chevron North Sea Limited has canceled its order for a Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) unit at South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries. The shipbuilding contract, signed in April 2013, was valued at KRW 2.157 trillion (around USD 1.85 billion)...

December 14, 2016 No Responses

NLNG completes $12m USP scheme, commissions UNIMAID engineering laboratory

Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has completed one of its flagship Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes, the University Support Programme (USP), with the commissioning of the sixth $2 million engineering laboratory at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID...

December 6, 2016 No Responses

Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, others ban ‘dirty fuels’ from Europe

(BBC) Five countries in West Africa have decided to stop importing “dirty fuels” from Europe, the UN Environment Programme says. A recent report revealed that European companies were exploiting weak regulations in West Africa to export fuels with h...

November 25, 2016 No Responses

224 firms bid for crude lifting contracts

Not less than 224 local and foreign firms have submitted bids for the purchase and sale of Nigeria’s crude oil. Speaking at the opening ceremony for the sale and purchase of the crude oil grades in Abuja, the Group Managing...

November 21, 2016 No Responses

NNPC, Shell, Access Bank, First Bank, others sign $2.2b contract deal

As part of measures to facilitate access to finance for Nigerian suppliers in the oil and gas sector, Shell with the backing of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has signed $2.2b Memoranda of Understanding with eight Nigerian banks under...

November 18, 2016 No Responses

Kachikwu canvasses early repairs of refineries

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu has called for the prompt rehabilitation of the nation’s refineries as part of measures to prevent them from being sold as scrap. Speaking on Thursday at a stakeholders’...

November 15, 2016 No Responses

NUPENG faults restructuring agenda for NNPC, DPR, PPPRA

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has advised the Federal Government to desist from its reported plans to scrap the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Petroleum Product Pricing ...

November 15, 2016 No Responses

NNPC redeploys staff, appoints new spokesperson

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced the appointment and redeployment of top management staff across board. According to Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Maikanti Baru, the changes were informed by the desire to cons...