Indigenous oil and gas conglomerate, Energia Limited said current production from its Emuebendo oil well, located on Oil Mining Lease, OML 56 in Kwale, Delta State, is now about 1,800 barrels of oil equivalent per day, bpd.

Although the well is capable of producing up to 2,500bpd, but the company said it is restricting output to 1,800bpd because it is producing only from one well and with a small storage facility.

A coalition of civil society organizations in the country has condemned the non- passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, by the outgoing National Assembly before the expiration of their tenure last week.

MAY 29 Presidential inauguration came and went, and the 6th session of the National Assembly also ended, but the long awaited Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, never got the approval of the legislators or President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s accent, as promised.

With $7.6bn, about N1.15tn spent on importing an estimated 8.1million metric tons (MT) of petroleum products from around the world in the last eleven months, including non-oil producing countries, even in Africa like the troubled Cóte D’Ivoire, and Togo, Nigeria remains very far from energy sufficiency.

One of the GSM oerators in the country, Globacom, in partnership with Hewlett_Packard, HP, last week, unveiled an innovative offer that would enable millions of Nigerians to own to-end internet-equipped netbooks.

WORKERS in nation’s petroleum industry, have given conditions under which companies operating in the country’s oil and gas industry should be allowed operate within the ambit of local content Act recently signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan. Under the umbrella of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN and its Nigerian […]

Renowned university don and environmentalist, Prof Godini Darah yesterday said the pain caused by the over fifty years of neglect inflicted on the people of the Niger Delta is such that no amnesty programme could heal.

Yenagoa- For almost one week, the women of Koroama community in the Gbarain Kingdom laid siege to the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) facility in their community disrupting operations.

AS Nigeria is busy tinkering on the creation of a distinct Maritime Security Agency to provide the much needed security for its maritime, oil and gas installation and businesses, neighbouring and equally oil rich Equatorial Guinea has awarded a whopping $250Million contract to provide coastal surveillance for that country’s equally vast aquatic resources.

Peter and Paul Cole are two young brothers that have transverse the Nigerian maritime industry for fourteen years.

In this interview with Godwin Oritse of Sweet crude, the shipping experts opined that the maritime industry is bedeviled by so many problems one of which is the issue of pilferage a menace they say has created a very bad image for the country before the international shipping community.

NIPCO plc, an indigenous downstream company has pledged to sustain its campaign on the economic and environmental benefits of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) usage as cooking gas to the Nigerian populace.

Barites: Barites occur in Nigeria as vein infilling materials associated with lead-zinc lodes and veins in the both Pre Cambrian basement and Cretaceous sedimentary rocks of the lower and middle Benue valley. The mineral commonly occurs as white, reddish brown and clear varieties with specific gravity varying between 3.5 and 4.4. The width of the […]

Yemie Adeoye and Luka Binniyat Most watchers of Nigerian hydrocarbon sector are surprised that the PTDF, could ever shake-off its robe of blistering financial scandal amidst high-wire political intrigues few years back. The peace at the PTDF today has generated curiosity for Sweet crude, as we try to find out what has been happening at […]

Biyi Sangowawa, an Engineer and Deputy Managing Director of Rockson Engineering company limited, a wholly owned Nigerian company notable for massive construction of huge power plants and currently handling a sizeable number of projects to boost the country’s power generation capacity. The company recently handed over the first phase of the 130 Megawatts Trans-Amadi Power plant to the Rivers state government in a ceremony that had the President and Commander-in Chief in attendance. Sweetcrude’s Yemie Adeoye spoke with this seasoned professional on the sidelines of the handover ceremony in Port-Harcourt, South South, Nigeria on the challenges faced in delivering such a viable project in a volatile region, as well as efforts at completing the 1074 Mw Alaoji power plant in the South eastern part of the country, which according to him is also due for hand over in a couple of months.

ORGANISED Labour in the nation’s electricity industry, under the umbrella of Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, has pledged the commitment of members towards improving significantly, the power infrastructure in generation, transmission, distribution with the aim of improving the power supply situation in the country.