Oil & Gas

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Former GMD NNPC Joseph Dawha dead

Joseph Thlama Dawha, former Group Managing Director, GMD of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,  is dead. Dawha replaced  Andrew Yakubu as GMD...

48m barrels of Nigerian crude “abandoned’’ in China, whistleblower’s  5 per cent compensation, an elaborate hoax, scam

    A snow job by some international crude oil fraudsters which has triggered a controversial request for the payment of 5 per...

Post-Covid-19 Oil Industry: Nigeria, Uganda, Others Mull Regional Integration

  Africa’s oil producing countries can develop their technological capacities by learning from Nigeria if regional integration is embraced as a survival strategy...

$1.05bn Withdrawal: Report totally baseless, untrue – NLNG

The Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has reacted to a media gaffe over alleged withdrawal of $1.05 billion from the company’s  dividend account by the...

Kyari to PPMC Board : Sustain energy sufficiency in Nigeria

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has urged the newly reconstituted Board of the Petroleum...

NNPC boosts power sector with 19 percent gas supply increase 

  In a bid to boost the nation’s power generation, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it has increased daily natural gas...

Seven personnel lost to NPDC Crude oil explosion, says NNPC

  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced that seven personnel lost their lives in an explosion at Gbetiokun, OML 40, operated...

The Day In Pictures: Sanwo-Olu receives security vehicles donated by NNPC, SNEPC

        Security vehicles donated by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) to the...

NNPC announces top management shake-up, …says new executive appointments, redeployments ‘ll reposition it for greater efficiency

      As part of efforts to strengthen and reposition NNPC for greater efficiency, transparency and profitability in line with the “Next...

NNPC Chief Operating Officer Ewubare Resigns for “family reasons”

  Roland Ewubare, chief operating officer of joint ventures and business development at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has submitted a letter...

Covid-19 and the oil price slump in Africa: which countries will fare better?

  In Africa, the twin challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent drop in oil prices are affecting countries in different ways: net...

PPPRA announced new petrol pump price band of between N140.80 and N143.80

    The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has announced a new price band of N140.80 to N143.80 per litre for petrol...

NNPC hits 218.37bn cubic feet of natural gas in March, records trading deficit of ₦9.53bn 

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it produced 218.37 billion Cubic Feet (BCF) of natural gas in March 2020, out of which 33.45BCF...

Sylva inaugurates governing board of NNPC

    The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has called for harmonious working relationship among members of the Board of...

COVID-19: African Petroleum Producers Organization headquarters moved from Abuja to Congo

    The headquarters of the Ministerial Council of African Petroleum Producers’ Organization, (APPO) has been temporarily relocated from Abuja, Nigeria to the...

NEITI hails NNPC’s policy to publish its audited accounts

  The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has described as laudable, the decision of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to make...