Indegenous oil and gas firm, Seplat said it had activated an emergency investigative team to the Okpe and Sapele Delta state. In a statement, the firm said it recently received a complaint from five households at Okpe and Sapele in Delta State, indicating the presence of hydrocarbons in their respectiveRead More

CSR: Total JV commissions model secondary school, Otu-Jeremi, Delta state Borne out of the need to mitigate the gaps in qualitative and technical education, maternal and child health, access to clean water, and women & youth empowerment, French oil giant, Total Upstream and Joint Venture partners have commissioned a newlyRead More

In celebration of the United Nations, UN 75th anniversary, Oando PLC is joining over 1,250 business leaders from more than 100 countries, to pledge support for the inclusive multilateralism statement for Renewed Global Cooperation.   Oando as the only indigenous Nigerian oil and gas company alongside other signatories to theRead More

In order to achieve the target of reducing the cost of oil production in Nigeria on a sustainable basis, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC says indigenous companies operating in the nation’s oil and gas sector must upscale their capacity for global competitiveness.   The Group Managing Director of NNPC,Read More

Abuja — Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang, Wednesday, accused state governors of misapplying the 13 per cent Derivation fund to the detriment of oil and gas producing communities and the development of the Niger Delta.   Enang stated that as a resultRead More

Nigeria’s oil industry regulator, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), has declared that it remitted $1.03billion to Federation Account from oil and gas royalties and legacy debts.   The DPR, which said this in a statement made available to Platforms Africa, quoted its Director, Sarki Auwalu, to have said thatRead More

The federal government has assured private investors in the National Gas Expansion Programme, NGEP of sanctity of contract, saying it would not “change game midway”.   While speaking on NTA’s ‘Good Morning Nigeria’ on Tuesday, Engr. Justice O. Derefaka, Technical Adviser on Gas Business & Policy Implementation to the MinisterRead More

  Shell-funded impact investment company All On is pleased to announce a $1.5m investment in Auxano Solar Nigeria Limited to scale its operations over the next five years. “This investment would guarantee the expansion of Auxano’s solar panel assembly capacity by over 50 percent and is a great win forRead More

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva will lead a host of other high level speakers and panellists at this year’s International Energy Health Safety and Environment (IEHSE) Summit. The event, with the theme: Collaborating for an Energy Safe Nigeria will hold virtually from 12noon to 3pmRead More

  …As Reps Assures of Speedy Passage of PIB   The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, has said that the absence of a stable fiscal environment is inhibiting the growth of the Nigerian petroleum industry, especially the upstream sector.   Mallam Kyari,Read More