ENVIRONMENT

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has kicked against the reported series of bunkering activities ongoing in the country. It noted that such actions by some persons sabotaging the nation’s natural resources had led to the economic hardship being experienced in Nigerian. The group condemned a situation where a petroleum tanker was arrested for carrying illegally refined products ...

Ahead of the World Clean-up day, TotalEnergies has embarked on a CSR initiative to celebrate the global event. The organisation took its first campaign to Mokola and Bodija Market in Ibadan, Oyo State. Addressing participants at the opening ceremony, the Managing Director of TotalEnergies Marketing Nigeria Plc, Dr Samba Seye said, “more than ever before, there is heightened need for ...

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has inaugurated some projects executed by the Federal Government, under the oil and gas sector, intervention, for the North East region, in Yola, Adamawa State. Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, accompanied, the petroleum minister, to commission the projects. The projects included, the, radiology complex at Modibbo Adama Teaching Hospital, Yola; ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited and it’s subsidiaries to step in and fix section 4 of the East-West Road. The portion of the road is from Eleme roundabout to Onne Junction, through the tax credit scheme. Buhari made the remarks at the opening ceremony of a meeting of the 5th National Council on ...

Management of the North South Power Station (NSP) on Wednesday cautioned communities around the Shiroro Hydro-Electric Power Plant in Niger of impending flooding. Vice-Chairman of NSP, Olubumi Peters, issued the warning at the 2022 NSP stakeholders flood sensitisation and awareness forum in Minna. Represented by Abdullahi Hassan, Consultant on Corporate Social Responsibility to NSP, Peters said the forum aimed at ...

The August 24 leak from Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) facilities at Peremabiri community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has been traced to equipment failure. The Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) to the incident site on September 5th and 6th, concluded that the oil spill in the area was caused by equipment failure. A field ...

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, would be leading top policy makers and leading personalities in the Nigerian oil and gas industry to brainstorm on Nigeria’s green energy transition at the 60th Anniversary Dinner of the Oil Producers’ Trade Section (OPTS), an upstream segment of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI). OPTS in a statement issued yesterday, said ...

Sangama Community in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State has raised alarm over gas leak from a facility recently divested by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited (NPDC). Youth Leader of the Community, Iyalla John-Jumbo said in an interview on Thursday, September 8, 2022 in Bonny, Rivers State that the gas leak, which ...

Asteven Group has secured and signed MoU for $500Million financing with a Green Investment Company in Portugal towards funding Solar Power station in Nigeria and other African Countries. This notice is issued only to elicit Expression of Interest from parties interested in the project with feasibility studies and PPA’s for Solar Power Station up to 100MW with proven track record ...

………by Jenifer Dike……Low carbon energy and climate change have dominated the ongoing gas talkshop in Italy. Industry participants such as senior ministers and global business leaders in the gas industry have taken the issues of climate change and securing low-carbon energy supplies to be the hot topics of their discussions. As the conference runs into a second day focus is ...