Although it is the concensus in the Niger Delta that oil producing states are cursed for reason that they are exploited negligently and devastated for little or no gain, it is for the political class a hiding place, the grand excuse for building personal empires at the expense of their people.

PORT HARCOURT: CHEVRON has enjoined its host communities to adhere to the principles of GMOU gone into, noting that it would enhance its success.

Advances in E&P technology, new deep-water discoveries combined with the global increase in demand for oil & gas products has led to much of the world’s aging offshore infrastructure including platforms & pipelines to still be in operation.

The managements of Niger Delta Power Holding Company of Nigeria, NDPHCN, has warned that erring contractors currently executing the National Integrated Power Projects, NIPP, across the country risk possible sanctions.

At the recent centinarry celebrations of the Howard University Department of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences, in Washington DC, USA Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, who was honoured with a distinguished award on Government and Public Management, had the opportunity of telling the international community of ongoing reforms in the Nigerian economy, and in particular, instituting more transparency in the country’s oil nd gas sector. Excerpts as captured by Clara Nwachukwu