October 06, 2022
Nigeria: Petrol Queues Return to Abuja As Marketers Run Out of Stock
PETROL queues have returned to filling stations in Abuja after barely three months of relative calm."Checks around the city yesterday, showed that most stations were out of stock… Read more »
Nigeria: Pipeline Contract - Oil Bandits Deploy New Tactics to Evade Arrest
Crude oil bunkerers in Niger Delta have invented a new ploy of cutting down trees in the swampy terrains, which they used to cordon off the creeks to prevent operatives of the… Read more »
October 05, 2022
Nigeria: NNPCL Grows Profit By 134 Percent to N674bn
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, yesterday, declared a profit after tax of N674 billion for the 2021 financial year, a growth of 134.8 per cent compared to… Read more »
September 29, 2022
Nigeria: Pipeline Security - Shun Inflammatory Comments Against Tompolo, Egbesu Priest Warns
EGBESU Priest, Apostle Bodmas Kemepadei, has called on the immediate past President of National Association of Itsekiri Graduates and Leader, Edema Oritsetimeyin, to be wary of… Read more »
September 26, 2022
Nigeria: 'Buhari's Govt Looking Away From Real Oil Thieves'
As revenue generation from oil sector dwindles, a nonprofit organization, One Love Foundation, OLF, has rejected military's denial in oil theft allegations, stressing that the… Read more »
September 23, 2022
Nigeria: PIA to Unlock Investments in Nigeria's Oil, Gas Sector - Sylva
The Minister of State Petroleum Resources Chief Timipre Sylva, has said that the desire to surmount the challenges bedeviling the oil and gas sector led to the enactment of the… Read more »
Nigeria: NNPC, U.S. Corporation, Exim Bank Seal Gas Deal
THE Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd has opened talks with the United States Finance Corporation and Exim Bank to seek financing for its multi-billion-dollar gas projects. Read more »
September 20, 2022
Nigeria: N3.4 Trillion Can Only Subsidize 66.7 Million Litres of PMs - NNPCL GMD, Kyari
The Group Managing Director, GMD of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, Mr. Mele Kyari, said yesterday that N3.4 trillion could only subsidize 66.7 million… Read more »
Nigeria: Mystery of Nigerian Crude Oil Theft
Autolycus in Ancient Greek mythology achieved fame and notoriety for being a successful robber and trickster whom no one could catch. He was a source of trouble for the king and… Read more »
September 19, 2022
Nigeria: Nigerians Won't Experience Petrol Scarcity in December - NNPC
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) says the country will not experience petrol scarcity in December and beyond, as it has made adequate arrangements for supply. Read more »
September 16, 2022
Nigeria: Shell Moves to Resume Trans Niger Pipeline Test
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) is planning to resume the testing of its main trunkline, the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP). Read more »
Nigeria: Are the New NNPC Ltd and PIA Not Sources for Crisis?
Reading through one of my respected columnists, Dr. Reuben Abati's article on: "The New NNPC", published on July 19, 2022, I shudder to note that there is, indeed, nothing new… Read more »
September 13, 2022
Nigeria: Again, Senate Meets Security Chiefs, Seeks Prosecution of Arrested Terrorists, Oil Thieves
THE Senate has again engaged service chiefs to find lasting solution to the problem of insecurity in the country. Read more »
September 05, 2022
Nigeria: It's Shameful Nigeria Still Imports Fuel - Obaseki
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has decried Nigeria's continued importation of petroleum products despite being one of the largest producers of crude oil in the world. Read more »
Nigeria: Daily Fuel Supply Remains 68m Litres, NNPC Insists
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC Limited, has offered to submit itself for forensic audit of fuel supply and subsidy management, insisting that daily fuel supply… Read more »
September 04, 2022
Nigeria: NNPC Ready for Forensic Audit of Fuel Supply
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) has offered to submit itself for forensic audit of fuel supply and subsidy management, insisting that daily fuel supply… Read more »
September 02, 2022
Nigeria: Subsidy - Why Release 98m Litres of PMs Instead of 60, Customs CG, Ali Queries NNPC
The Controller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col Hameed Ali, retd, has queried why the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, would allow the release of… Read more »
August 31, 2022
Nigeria: Navy Disagrees With Petroleum Ministry, Others Over Quantity of Stolen Oil
The Nigerian Navy has said it was impossible to have up to 200,000 barrels of crude oil stolen and ferried through Nigeria's waters. This is contrary to the position of the… Read more »
August 26, 2022
Nigeria: Pipeline Surveillance - Militants Threaten Govt, Sylva, NNPC Over Tompolo, Others' Contracts
Some masked militants, who claimed to be from Rivers and Bayelsa states, have threatened the Federal Government, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, and… Read more »
August 24, 2022
Nigeria: Local Content - How Nigerian Engineers Built 20,000bpd Oil Drilling Platform With Local Materials
Nigeria's quest to become a productive nation exporting local innovation across the world received a big push weekend when a joint venture between the Nigerian Petroleum Company… Read more »
August 16, 2022
Nigeria: Group Plans Trans S/East Gas Pipeline
An international group of investors, Zenith Environmental and Social Protection Network (ZESPRONET), has said plans are underway for a Trans South-Eastern Gas Pipeline to provide… Read more »
August 09, 2022
Nigeria: Status Quo Remains in Share Sale By Exxonmobil to Seplat Energy - NUPRC
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) jas affirmed that status quo remains in respect to ExxonMobil/Seplat Energy share acquisition. Read more »
August 08, 2022
Nigeria: Dwindling Revenue - NESG to Govt, Take Decisive Action On Leakages, Crude Oil Theft, Others
As Nigerians find themselves in the limbo as government revenue generation dwindles amidst daunting economic and insecurity challenges, the Nigeria Economic Summit Group, NESG,… Read more »
August 04, 2022
Nigeria: Oil Theft - How Nigeria's Output Drops 12.5 Percent in 6 Months
... Over N25bn Stolen Crude Recovered, 85 Suspects Arrested Through NNPC's Partnership With Navy Read more »
August 03, 2022
Nigeria: Insecurity - Buhari Squandered Goodwill of Nigerians - Kokori
Former General Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Frank Kokori, yesterday,… Read more »