NERC Launches Charter to Improve Service Delivery to Power Consumers

NERC Launches Charter to Improve Service Delivery to Power Consumers

NERC Launches Charter to Improve Service Delivery to Power Consumers The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has unveiled a charter aimed at improving services in the power sector for the benefit of the power consuming public. The unveiling of the charter in collaboration with Service Compact, SERVICOM, took place in Abuja and is expected to…

IYC Slams Oil Multinationals for Alleged Neglect of Host Communities

IYC Slams Oil Multinationals for Alleged Neglect of Host Communities

IYC Slams Oil Multinationals for Alleged Neglect of Host Communities The umbrella body of Ijaw youths, the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide has raised the alarm over an alleged ongoing deprivation and oppression of host communities in Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa States by some International Oil Companies (IOCs). National spokesman for IYC, Comrade Ebilade Ekerefe,…

Only NNPCL Can Purchase Dangote Petrol, Say Oil Marketers

IPMAN wants CBN’s Gas Expansion Fund for Cars, Keke, Trucks

IPMAN wants CBN’s Gas Expansion Fund for Cars, Keke, Trucks IPMAN has written to the Federal Ministry of Finance to ask that the CBN release funds meant for the gas expansion programme, to power cars, kekes, and trucks belonging to Nigerians. The Association says it is ready to deploy natural gas dispensers to 30,000 filling…

Texas Senate Votes to Add More Natural Gas Capacity to Fix Grid Issues

Texas Senate Votes to Add More Natural Gas Capacity to Fix Grid Issues

Texas Senate Votes to Add More Natural Gas Capacity to Fix Grid Issues The Texas Senate voted this week to add more natural gas-fired capacity to the state grid to add more reliable power to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and make it ready to meet demand in any circumstances. Since Winter Storm…

Oil Spills: Expert Tasks Operators on Pipeline Integrity

Oil Spills: Expert Tasks Operators on Pipeline Integrity

Oil Spills: Expert Tasks Operators on Pipeline Integrity As a way of curbing incessant well blowouts and equipment failure as well as the concomitant environmental damages in the Niger Delta region, an expert has charged oil operators to lookout for the integrity of their oil and gas facilities. In the last 18 months both Aiteo…

Use Fuel Subsidy’s $800m Palliative For Healthcare, Education – Dagogo

Use Fuel Subsidy’s $800m Palliative For Healthcare, Education – Dagogo

Use Fuel Subsidy’s $800m Palliative For Healthcare, Education – Dagogo A Member of the House of Representatives from Rivers State, Hon. Farah Dagogo, has tasked the Federal Government to jettison the planned $800 million cash transfers to about 50 million Nigerians that would serve as cushion for fuel subsidy removal. The Minister of Finance, Budget…

NNPC Ltd. Makes Senior Management Changes

NNPC says it will be vindicated over allegation of N20bn Payment to Ghost Consultants

NNPC says it will be vindicated over allegation of N20bn Payment to Ghost Consultants The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd has assured that the investigation by the House of Representatives into the alleged payment of N20bn to so-called ghost consultants will exonerate the National Oil Company. It said this in a statement issued and…

Energy Security: Is the World Aligning with OPEC?

Energy Security: Is the World Aligning with OPEC?

Energy Security: Is the World Aligning with OPEC? By Ikenna Omeje The Organisation of the Petroleum Countries (OPEC), before now,  has been a lone voice against energy transition without fossil fuels.  OPEC has been advocating for a multilateral approach to net-zero, noting that with the increasing global population, fossil fuels have a place in energy…

Bonga, Nigeria’s first deep-water exploration and production vessel hit a 1-billion-barrel oil export mark.

Bonga, Nigeria’s first deep-water exploration and production vessel hit a 1-billion-barrel oil export mark.

Bonga, Nigeria’s first deep-water exploration and production vessel, on Monday, February 13, 2023, hit a 1-billion-barrel oil export mark. By Ikenna Omeje This milestone comes three months after a major turnaround maintenance (TAM) of the facility was completed ahead of schedule, according to a statement by the Media Relations Manager, Abimbola Essien-Nelson. The Managing Director, Shell…

Seplat Energy’s Transition Priorities Excite Global Stakeholders

Court Vacates the Interim Court Orders against Seplat Energy CEO

Court Vacates the Interim Court Orders against Seplat Energy CEO Seplat Energy has announced that, the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, vacated the ex parte Interim Orders against Seplat, its CEO and its Board Chairman, including the orders that restrained the Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Roger Brown from participating in the running of the…