Heirs Energies, Renaissance Africa collaborate to drive Nigeria’s oil and gas devt
Heirs Energies Limited and Renaissance Africa Energy Company have expressed mutual commitment to strategic collaboration following a high-level courtesy visit by Osa Igiehon, CEO of Heirs Energies, to Renaissance's leadership team, led by the Managing Director, Tony Attah.
‘Subsidy removal will kill informal sector’
INFORMAL sector workers in the country have warned that the removal of subsidy on petroleum products would kill the sector, while declaring the 2012 budget proposal by the Federal Government as anti- people.
Bonga oil spill: Senate c’ttee okay with clean up
Chairman Senate Committee on Environment, Senator Bukola Saraki has expressed satisfaction on the prompt and effective way Shell responded on the Bonga oil spill.
PTDF stresses local talents development
The Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund PTDF, Mallam Muttaqua Rabe Darma, has announced plans to expand its home-grown avenues for developing talents for the nation’s oil and gas industry, even as the Fund aims to end its popular Overseas Scholarship Scheme, OSS, by the year 2013.
Bonga oil spill: 50% oil dissipated
Up to 50 percent of the leaked oil from the deepwater Bonga Floating Production Storge and Offloading Vessel, FPSO, has already dissipated due to natural dispersion and evaporation, according to the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo.
NCDMB seeks $191bn spend retention by 2020
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, said it is working on strategies whereby up to 65 percent or $191billion of the oil and gas industry spend is retained in country by 2020.
FG, Lagos to establish 700MW power barges
The Federal and Lagos State governments are collaborating on the establishment of a 700 Mega Watt, mw power barges in various parts of the state to provide emergency power solutions within the next one year.
‘We will survive subsidy removal’
A few Nigerians spoke about their preparation for the removal of petroleum subsidy and how the change will affect their lifestyle.
PTDF stresses local talents development
The Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund PTDF, Mallam Muttaqua Rabe Darma, has announced plans to expand its home-grown avenues for developing talents for the nation’s oil and gas industry, even as the Fund aims to end its popular Overseas Scholarship Scheme, OSS, by the year 2013.
Metering: NERC inaugurates committee to check consumer exploitation
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has inaugurated a committee that will investigate corrupt, exploitative and illegal practices through inadequate or poor metering by staff of the electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs.
Violence against contractors hampers electrification goal – Nnaji
The Federal Government has vowed to by pass any community whose interferences have retarded the pace of work in electrification programme throughout the country.
