With the passing of the Nigerian Content Act on the 22nd of April 2010 the primary persons concerned in the Niger Delta may not be in the full picture of what good luck, fortune and divine favour has been bestowed upon them.

Tendeka has successfully completed the first installation of an optical reservoir monitoring system in an offshore platform well for a major operator in West Africa.

Murphy Oil brought a third production well online on the Azurite oil field. Production levels will be gradually increased during the next two weeks in order to reach a planned stable rate. A second injection well is currently being drilled, with a further three producers and one injector to be drilled and completed in 2010. The Azurite field is located on the Mer Profonde Sud Block, offshore Republic of the Congo.

BG dives in off Tanzania: UK player BG Group has been given the go-ahead to farm in to blocks 1, 3 and 4 off southern Tanzania.

Shell to complete project in Niger Delta:Shell to complete project in Niger Delta

NNPC undermined – 5 GMDs in 3 years : THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has witnessed the appointment and replacement of 5 Group Managing Directors (GMDs) to superintend its affairs in less than 3 years, undermining the corporation’s policy focus and direction and by extension that of the country’s oil and gas industry.

Sweet crude gathered that the latest change at the NNPC which saw the replacement of Mallam Shehu Ladan as GMD barely one month after his appointment with Mr. Austen Oniwon may have sealed any hope of commitment to spending on the part of the international oil companies.

In continuation of activities marking the 54th Anniversary of the Nigerian Navy, its medical department yesterday offered free medical services to indigenes of Damangaza village in FCT with simultaneous free treatments also offered to people in Markudi, Benue State, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and Lagos State.

A LEADING member of the Labour and Civil Society Coalition, LASCO, the Democratic Socialist Movement, DSM, has called on leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, not to accept anything less than N52,200 as minimum wage for Nigerian workers. Reason: The past 11 years of democracy have benefitted all, but Nigerian workers.

Football lovers across the globe are waiting with bated breath the release of the final 23-man England squad for the World Cup holding in South Africa this month.

A group, Otunba Alao Akala Solidarity Integrity Supporters, OASIS, has said it is targeting millions of voters for the re-election bid of the Governor of Oyo State, Otunba Christopher Alao-Akala ahead 2011 general election. This was stated by the initiator/grand patron of the group, Dr Oladejo Akanni at its inauguration in Ogbomoso which drew coordinators from the 33 local government areas of the state.