Month: September 2018

LPG For the second quarter of 2018 alone, 165.71 million litres of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) were imported into the country, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). April recorded the highest volumes of LPG (otherwise called cooking gas) Read More

nigerstar7 NigerStar7, a frontline operator in the services section of the oil and gas industry has officially renamed and launched its newly acquired vessel (NigerStar7 Adaba), valued at N7.2billion, to boost capability in the maritime segment of the oil and Read More

Simbi Kesiye Wabote. PHOTO:SweetCrudeRepors • As NCDMB rues $380 billion loss to lack of capacity As part of efforts to to develop the capacity of Nigeria-owned companies and contractors to activately participate in the oil and gas industry, the Nigeria Read More

Power Meter The management of Ibadan Distribution Company has dragged the University College Hospital, Ibadan (UCH), to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) arbitration panel over N217 million accumulated debt.The company at the NERC panel sitting in Ibadan said it Read More

Court For alleged willful destruction of property valued at N120 million, a 45 years old land grabber, Emeka John Onugha has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate Court sitting in Igbosere. The suspect was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Folashade Botoku Read More

The OrderPaper Advocacy Initiative (OAI) has stressed the need for the government to consciously seek the development of the oil and gas sector through reforms, given the critical nature of the sector to the economy. This, it said, informed its Read More

[FILE PHOTO] The first of a two-phase initiative is an On-line Assessment, in respect of which Environment Minister of State, Ibrahim Usman Jibril, officially launched recently. Nigeria has formally joined the global conversation to check progress and seeks to increase Read More

Distribution companies (Discos) The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), says it is working on alternative energy sources to boost power supply in the country.Its Chairman, Prof. James Momoh made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria Read More

Okoroafor Bank-Anthony Okoroafor is the Chairman of the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), and Chief Executive Officer of CB Geophysical Solutions Limited. In this interview with STANLEY OPARA, he assessed the country’s oil and gas sector and stressed a Read More

Owing to the fact that the vast majority of extractable mineral reserves in the country are yet untapped, a senior geologist, Benjamin Ukwuteyinor, has called for reforms in the sector. He said geological and geophysical data on solid minerals in Read More