A United States of American trade delegation to Nigeria has pledged support for the on_going transformation project of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

ITALY-based, Eni said it is currently implementing multiple strategies for the development of gas in Nigeria, through its local unit, the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC.

The U.S. Export and Import (Ex-Im) Bank says it is ready to provide credit facility to investors wishing to take part in Nigeria’s multi billion-dollar power sector privatisation pla

The Federal Government said available electricity output now stands at 4,000MW, blaming poor infrastructure for the inability of government to evacuate the total electricity generation put at 6,000MW.
Minister of Science and Technology, Prof Mohammed Abubakar, made this known yesterday at the summit on energy and sustainable economic growth organised by the Energy Commission of Nigeria, ECN.

SIEMENS Energy sector division has received two major orders from Thailand for the supply of industrial gas turbines SGT-800.

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke has assured the people of Bayelsa State that the plan by the Federal Government to establish one of its three proposed refineries in the state would help boost the development of the state.

Shell Petroleum Development Company has raised alarm over the spate of vandalization of its pipelines in the Niger Delta region, to the effect that 22 spills of pipeline vandalism has been recorded between January and February this year.

PRESIDENTIAL Task force on Power, PTFP, has inaugurated a National Steering Committee on Demand Side Management to implement “the Nigerian Energy Efficiency Programme,” aimed at devising strategies for reducing cases of wasteful and inefficient consumption of electricity in the country.

Yenagoa – Armed pirates Thursday evening terrorized passenger boats on the Nembe Creek in the Bayelsa East senatorial district dispossessing them of their cash and other valuables.

After about five months of frenzied negotiations and last minute detailed presentations, the International Board of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has endorsed Nigeria’s management of Extractive Industries Revenue as an EITI Compliant Country. The decision was announced last week in Paris, France at the 5th global conference of the EITI holding at the French capital.

The Minister of Petroleum Resources Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has called for greater indigenous private sector participation in the downstream activities of the oil and gas industry so as to accelerate the attainment of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s aspiration for the sector.

Yenagoa – No fewer than 130 students from host communities in Sagbama and Ekeremor local government areas of Bayelsa in secondary and tertiary institutions were yesterday awarded scholarships under the Global Memorandum of Understanding entered between their communities and the Anglo Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).