Axxela Achieves another Historic Safety Milestone of 7 Million Man-Hours without Lost Time Injury Axxela Limited, sub-Saharan Africa’s fast-growing gas and power company, has announced the achievement of a landmark safety milestone of seven million man-hours without any Lost Time Injury (LTI) across its business operations. This laudable accomplishment was recorded earlier this week. The…
Ambassador of Rwanda and Middle East Energy Announce Launch of the African Energy Expo to service Pan-African Energy Sectors The African Suite at the 2023 Middle East Energy Exhibition and Conference in Dubai played host to the soft launch of the maiden edition of the African Energy Expo. Scheduled for Feb 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda,…
These Allegations are Spurious, Vindictive Reaction to Board’s Enforcement of Corporate Governance Standards – Seplat Energy … Seplat Energy Board unanimously passes a vote of confidence in Mr. Brown as the CEO. Seplat Energy Plc reports that on March 9, 2023, it was served with court processes and ex-parte Interim Order of the Hon Justice…
TotalEnergies’ Egina Wins 15th IPTC Excellence in Project Award Egina, Nigeria’s flagship ultra-deep offshore field operated by TotalEnergies has continued to attract more laurels. The project was declared winner of the Excellence in Project Integration prize at the 15th International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC) in Bangkok, Thailand held recently. “Congrats to us all. It’s indeed…
NCDMB Partners Bank of Industry to Boost Local Manufacturing of Oil and Gas Equipment The Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has entered partnership with the Bank of Industry (BoI) with a view to increasing Nigeria’s current capacity of 10% for manufacturing oil and gas components, equipment and machinery. The partnership was confirmed by the…
S&P Downgrades South Africa’s Outlook as Power Crisis Weighs S&P Global in a recent report downgraded its outlook on South Africa to “stable” from “positive”, citing infrastructure constraints and a severe power crisis. South Africa’s economy contracted more than expected in the last quarter of 2022, as an escalation in rolling power cuts contributed to…
Blackout Hits Abuja as AEDC Rations Electricity The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) covering Federal Capital Territory, Nasarawa, Niger and Kogi States, disclosed in a notice to its customers that it would begin to ration electricity. The Disco blamed the decision to ration electricity across its franchise on insufficient power allocation. AEDC said, “We would…
Shell: Britain is Less Attractive than the U.S. For Energy Investment The UK is less attractive than the United States for energy investment, due to the high windfall taxes on energy producers in Britain and the lack of incentives for clean energy investments similar in scale to the American provisions to boost green energy, Shell’s…
NCDMB Emerges Best MDA in Efficiency, Transparency The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has emerged as top performer in business efficiency and transparency in Federal Government’s ranking of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) for the year 2022. This latest result is reminiscent of the Board’s 81.46 per cent score in Ease of Doing…
Seplat Refutes Racism Allegation Against its CEO, Roger Brown Seplat Energy has refuted racism allegation against its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Roger Brown. Some workers of the company, through a petition to the Ministry of Interior, had reportedly accused Brown of racism, favouring foreign workers and discriminating against Nigerian employees. In a letter dated March…
