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By Emem Idio Suspected militants have reportedly set ablaze oil pipelines belonging to Nigeria Agip Oil Company in Egbematoru Community of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The attacks it was learnt is not unconnected with the battle to control and influence the surveillance contracts being handled by a security company known as
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By Davies Iheamnachor Rivers State University, RSU, has urged the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, to use the gas flared within their premises to give constant and efficient electricity to the institution. The Vice-Chancellor of RSU, Prof. Nlerum Okogbule, and the Dean, Faculty of Engineering of the university, Prof. Chris Ahiakwo, made the call yesterday
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The Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) on Thursday said the Nov. 20 explosion at its oil field in Bayelsa would adversely impact crude export to the tune of 30,000 barrels daily. The incident has put the cumulative production shut-in at 180,000 at the field pending when the breached pipelines are fixed. The News Agency of
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Explosions have damaged oil and gas facilities belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria and the Nigerian Agip Oil Company around Ikarama in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the blasts may have resulted from attacks on the oil facilities by unknown persons on Monday. A youth
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By Tordue Salem – Abuja The House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Upstream has invited the Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Mele Kyari, heads of Nigeria Agip Oil Company and OANDO over allegations of N13billion owed to Decoon Engineering Company and allegations of involvement in contracts’ fraud. The companies are
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By Davies Iheamnachor PORT HARCOURT: There is disagreement in Aggah community, Ebgema Clan in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, between the Paramount ruler of the community and flood-affected individuals in the area over Nigeria Agip Oil Company’s, NAOC’s, contract. Some residents of the area, who have experienced annul flooding for 50 years, have
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By Michael Eboh Gas flaring by some oil and gas companies operating in Nigeria, cost the country $25.66 million, an equivalent of N9.24 billion, in one month, as they flared 7.33 billion standard cubic feet, SCF, of gas in the month of May, according to data obtained Monday, from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
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By Ochuko Akuopha, Oleh Hundreds of Indigenes of Oleh community, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, have besieged the premises of the Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC, in the area, protesting against their alleged neglect by the multinational oil company. The protesters who were drawn from the Adoke, Egbedemi, Ovuorien, Eraro, Ebave, Oko, Olulu/Atedezi,
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By Dirisu Yakubu, Abuja Youths in Bayelsa, sympathetic to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has warned Agip, an oil company to stop interfering in the November 16 governorship election in Bayelsa State. This is even as the youths called on the federal government to call the company to order. The youths, under the auspices of
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Nigeria Agip Oil Company(NAOC), an affiliate of Italian oil giant, Eni, says it has discovered a significant quantity of gas and condensate in the Obiafu-Obrikom fields in Oil Mining Lease, (OML) 61, onshore Niger Delta.
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