By SEBASTINE OBASI Filling stations in the country would no longer spend so much money on generating sets and diesel to power their pumps, as Nigeria’s first solar-powered filling station has been installed for Total Nigeria Plc. The 77.8kw roof top project pioneered by Emel Advanced Power Solution Ltd (EAPS), part of the Emel Group, […]

Marginal fields’ operators in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector have continued to show their lack of capacity to fully contribute significantly to the country’s crude output, as seven out of the 29 operators accounted for only 2.56 per cent of the nation’s crude production in January 2014.

Few months back, the nature of implementation of the International Ships and Ports Facilities Security, ISPS code was a big worry for the nation’s maritime industry especially with regard to security at the ports and other marine facilities.

NIGER Delta ex-militants, also known as ex-agitators, under the Phase Three Amnesty have threatened to halt oil production in the region. This followed a call made by some delegates at the National Conference during a debate on the derivation formula for oil producing states in the Niger Delta region.

Emeka Okwuosa, an engineer, is the Executive Chairman of the Oilserv Group, two oil services companies, and one of the pioneers of indigenisation in the Nigeria’s oil and gas industry. He spoke to journalists in Houston Texas on a number of industry issues including local content development and the Group’s role in the scheme of […]

Thirty young Bayelsans living with disabilities had cause to celebrate last week when they were presented with certificates of merit and start up packs by the management of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).

Managing Director of Boaf Insurance Brokers, Mr. Olumide Fatogun, has asked underwriters in the insurance industry to do a lot of reinsurance in special risk business if they wished to play big in the oil and gas sector.

Japanese steelmakers , which yesterday reported foreign imports at a nine-year high for April, are weighing action to stem the flow of steel from abroad, risking heightened tensions with trading partners South Korea and China.

Despite accounting for about 70 per cent of Nigeria’s revenue, the oil and gas sector was the least employer of labour in Nigeria in 2013, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics has revealed.

Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in Bonny Island, Rivers State, have announced the kicked off of two-year ship building training programme at the NLNG-owned Bonny Vocational Centre (BVC).

Caverton Offshore Support Group, a provider of marine, aviation and logistics services to local and international oil and gas companies in Nigeria, has won a two-year contract extension with Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited.

PORT HARCOURT: THE Minister of Environment, Mrs Lawrencia Laraba-Mallam, has inaugurated working groups in the Niger Delta to evolve solution to tackle degradation of the ecosystem in the region.

Iron ore capped a sixth monthly drop in the longest losing run on record as rising supplies from Australia and Brazil spur a global glut. Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. (FMG) said there could be further losses, with a risk prices may retreat to the lowest level since 2009.

Organised labour has moved against the new electricity tariff that commenced June 1, 2014, describing the hike as anti-people and anti-labour.

It is mind-blowing to see a country such as Nigeria wallowing in abject poverty and having a comatose industrial sector due to inadequate attention and political will to transform the abundant minerals and metals endowed by God across the country.