Statoil ASA and its respective partners have reported the post ponement of the development of both the Johan Castberg and Snorre 2040 field projects to cut costs.

The U.S. has so much crude that it is running out of places to put it, and that could drive oil and gasoline prices even lower in the coming months.

The Federal Government has expressed grave concerns over the sustained vandalism of gas pipelines, noting that the incidents have constrained gas supply to power plants and held generation at less than 4,500 megawatts, MW. The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, who stated this while speaking at an event in Abuja, regretted that once the power generation was approaching 5,000MW, the vandals struck and brought it down to about 3,000MW

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has issued two on-grid licences to KVK Power Nigeria PVT Limited, and Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria, ASCON Plc to generate 590 megawatts, MW, of electricity from solar and gas respectively. The Commission in a statement issued last week in Abuja, explained that KVT Power would be located in Yabo, Sokoto State, adding that the firm had met the requirements for the granting of 50MW on-grid generation licence with no objection received from the general public to its application.

THE current economic impact of global downtrend in the prices of oil that is already taking its toll on key sectors of the Nigerian economy may not have adverse effect on the country’s Egina oil platform project valued at $3.8 billion. The project was awarded by Total E&P Nigeria to Samsung Heavy Industries, with a mandate to integrate a Floating Production Storage and Offloading, FPSO platform at the LADOL base in Lagos, as the local content partner.