Oil and Gas

Maikanti Baru the immediate pastGroup Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has said the organisation’s financial books were clean and open to scrutiny. Speaking at a valedictory session in his honour in Abuja, he stated that ...

Stakeholders comprising oil and gas experts, civil society organisations and Niger Delta leaders have sought immediate action on crude theft, stating that the country had lost $12 billion to the menace. They accused security agencies, politicians and host communities of ...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Ibadan, Oyo State, has shut down 17 illegal Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) roadside retailers and issued warning to nine filling plants, in the second quarter of 2019. The Operations Controller of Ibadan Field ...

Immediate past Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, has said the organisation’s financial books were clean and open to scrutiny. Speaking at a valedictory session in his honour in Abuja, he stated that ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has been charged by the Action Democratic Party (ADP) to revisit the subsidy regime on petroleum products in the larger interest of the country. Sani Yabaji, the National Chairman, who spoke at the party’s 16thNational Working Committee ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has named Mele Kolo Kyari as new Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He replaces Dr. Maikanti Baru who clocks 60 years next month. A geologist as well as Group General Manager, ...

Stability in the Niger Delta region and other factors have pushed Nigeria’s crude oil production to 2.3 million barrel per day (bpd) from last year’s 2.1 million bpd figure, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has disclosed. Speaking during a ...

The Social Development Integrated Centre (SocialAction) has advocated independence of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) from government and Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), if the Ogoni cleanup must be actualised. It argued that government’s and Shell’s interference in the ...

Experts have charged members of the public to reduce air pollution by using Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and avoid using biomass fuels, which pollute the air. Speaking at the commemoration of this year’s World Environment Day with the theme: Beat ...

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC/ JV) has concluded its five-day health outreach programme tagged Community Care Programme. It held the programme in five communities in the Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of the state, disclosing that it had ...