…as Association calls for improved information dissemination from Corporation   As a way to further contribute their quota to national development, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has advised energy correspondents to practice developmental journalism as against sensational reporting. The advice was given by the Group General Manager, Group PublicRead More

The Director of Petroleum Resources, Sarki Auwalu has been elected as a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers, NSChE at the 2020 virtual conference of the society which took place on Saturday. The award, according to the society is in recognition of a thoroughbred professional who has continuedRead More

The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR received the sum of N6.66bn from the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC for the month of September 2020. The Department received the allocation as cost of revenue collections for the month. The FAAC had disbursed the sum of N682.06bn to the three tiers ofRead More

  Last week, the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) commended the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its Group Managing Director, Malam Mele Kyari, for executing oil exploration in the Benue Trough and Chad Basin despite the Coronavirus pandemic. The President of NAPE, Mr. Alex Tarka, who relayed theRead 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

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

Following the deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry with attendant increase in pump prices of petroleum products, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has said alternative energy sources, especially Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) stations will be built across the country. In March this year, theRead More