Shell Nigeria Gas, SNG has supplied gas to 90 industries in order to reduce gas flaring and enhance industrialisation in Nigeria.

INDICATIONS emerged yesterday that the development of local content had been boosted in the nation’s oil and gas industry following the provision of loans worth N472 billion by Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, SPDC, to indigenous contractors.
The loans were provided under the Shell Contractor Support Fund, set up by Shell companies in Nigeria to help vendors and suppliers in the oil and gas industry secure funds at reduced interest rates, relaxed collateral requirements and quicker processing time.
Also, Shell companies in Nigeria awarded contracts worth over N230 billion to Nigerian contractors in 2017, representing 94 per cent of the total contracts that year.

THERE are indications that the legal tussle surrounding Nigeria’s oil blocks – OPL 245 – will shift to Nigeria today as the federal high court, Lagos is scheduled to hear a case filed by the Human Environmental Development Agenda, HEDA.

AS part of its social responsibilty, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company of Nigeria Limited, SNEPCo, has built an ultra-modern laboratory to Aggery Memorial (Model) College, Arochukwu, which was founded by the famous educationist, the late Alvan Ikoku.

In spite of security concerns in the Niger Delta, Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, will later this year kick-start its expenditure plans on oil and gas projects worth $15 billion.

IN a report indicating a worsened operational environment in Nigeria’s upstream oil sector, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the parent company of Shell Company in Nigeria, said crude oil theft from its pipeline networks in Nigeria rose by 50 percent to 9,000 barrels of oil a day (b/d) in 2017, from about 6,000b/d in 2016.

Royal Dutch Shell paid a total of $4,322,742,582 (about N1.5 trillion) to the Federal Government in 2017, according to its annual payments report.

Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) has filed a criminal complaint against a former employee over suspected bribes in the sale of a Nigerian onshore oilfield in 2011, shedding more light on the company’s activities in the oil-rich West African country.

THERE are strong indications that stakeholders – Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited, NLNG, National Petroleum Investment Management Services, NAPIMS, Shell, Total and Agip – have made progress targeted at taking the Final Investment Decision, FID, on the nation’s $10 billion LNG trains seven and eight project.

Shell Western Supply   and Trading Limited, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell and Guaranty Trust Bank have granted a $270 million loan to Amni International Petroleum Development Company Limited.