Oil workers present position paper on contract staffing
by Victor AHIUMA-YOUNG WORKERS in the nation’s petroleum industry, in a bid to address the proliferation of contract and service employment in sector which they perceived as unfair labour practices and potentials for industrial unrest, have presented a position paper on how it should be addressed to avoid a disruption of the industrial peace. At […]
No quick fixes for power sector – FG
by Oscarline ONWUEMENYI Perhaps in a bid to avoid the mistakes of the past, the Minister of state for power, Arc. Nuhu Somo Wya has stated that the present administration of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan would not declare an emergency for the power sector, even though it was committed to a complete rehabilitation of the […]
Beaufort green light for Shell
Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell has been granted a long-awaited federal air-quality permit the company needs to conduct exploratory drilling this year in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea, government officials said. As earlier reported by Upstream, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the permit to Shell to cover air pollutants emitted from the drill ship and fleet of […]
Petrochemical Company (KRPC), in Kaduna
Oscarline ONWUEMENYI He noted that the on-going NNPC Transformation includes the consolidation of the Corporation’s trading outfits and capacity building for direct marketing by NNPC of the Federation’s cargoes. Barkindo explained that the Federal Government created NPDC in 1988 and awarded it premium oil blocks with the intention making the parent company-NNPC a major oil […]
NETCo moves to operate offshore Nigeria
National Engineering and Technical Company (NETCo) is Nigeria’s first national engineering company and is wholly owned by the state-run NNPC, with the sole aim of developing in-country oil and gas engineering capability. Yemie Adeoye of Sweetcrude cornered Mr. Kenneth Ejuoneatse, the Managing Director of the company on the sidelines of the Offshore West Africa conference […]
Nigeria’s oil industry tendering process goes online
Hector IGBIKIOWUBO In perhaps what may pass as a revolution of sorts the conventional bid tendering processes for jobs within the Nigerian oil and gas industry has formally gone online, leaving behind an analogue era noted for poor transparency, accountability and a lengthy contracting cycle. The Nigerian Senate has also committed to timely passage of […]
