SHELL BEGINS DISTRIBUTION OF $1M RELIEF MATERIALS TO SUPPORT FLOOD VICTIMS IN THE NIGER DELTA LEADING energy company and key stakeholder in the Niger Delta, Shell, has called on other players in the region to join in the efforts to provide relief materials for people impacted by the recent flood disaster and work together towards helping these victims restore their…
NLNG begins commissioning of completed university teaching hospital projects in 12 states to boost healthcare delivery Nigeria LNG (NLNG) Limited today began the commissioning of Phase 1 projects in its multi-billion-naira Hospital Support Programme (NLNG HSP) with the opening of a maternity centre at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH), Gwagwalada. The Company will…
SNEPCo’s Bonga FPSO completes 2022 Turnaround Maintenance (TAM) Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo) is pleased to announce that the 2022 Turnaround Maintenance (TAM) of the Bonga floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) has been completed. The 225kbopd capacity FPSO was shut down on October 18, 2022 to carry out statutory inspections, recertifications and other critical asset…
Schneider Electric Defines Physical Infrastructure Solutions for Edge Computing High-bandwidth content, Internet of Things aggregation and latency-sensitive applications cited as drivers of edge computing growth Schneider Electric, a global leader in energy management and automation, today announced its strategy and capabilities for supporting enterprises, cloud and services providers looking to deploy compute resources at “the…
Finnish Government Report Reveals Lithium and Cobalt Supplies Insufficient Progress on the energy transition might be threatened as a new report by the Finnish government revealed that the world does not have enough Lithium and Cobalt to replace all batteries every 10 years. The 1,000-page report undertaken for a government agency in Finland by Associate…
Africa Suffers Climate Injustice as Global Warming Intensifies – AXIAN boss The Chief Executive Officer of AXIAN Group, Hassanein Hiridjee has said wealthy countries must do more to assist Africa in reducing the harmful effects of climate change and providing climate justice to the continent. AXIAN is a pan-African group operating across five core areas including…
South Africa gets €400m Renewable Energy Boost as EIB, DBSA Pen New Deal The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Development Bank of South Africa have formally agreed to a €400m facility to be supplied by the EIB for private sector renewable energy investment across South Africa. Africa’s most industrious economy is currently experiencing its greatest electrical…
IRENA, Partners to Decarbonise Industrial Value Chains Twenty-eight organisations and knowledge partners in a coalition, the Alliance for Industry Decarbonisation, have made further progress in their aim to decarbonise industrial value chains and speed up the world’s energy transition goals in conformity with the Paris Agreement. Industrial emissions form 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions…
EIB Drives Telecoms Connectivity for 2.5m Congolese The impact investing arm of the European Union, European Investment Bank (EIB) , has announced a US$10 million quasi-equity investment to transform digital connectivity in Eastern DR Congo to be delivered by Bandwidth and Cloud Services Group (BCS). The region, with a population of over 2.5 million, would…
FG Confirms Optimal Fuel Supply for Yuletide as Production Hits 1.5mbpd The Federal Government through the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has announced that there is sufficient supply of petroleum products, about 2.1 billion litres for a total of 34 days. This is just as the Minister of Petroleum, Mr Timipre Sylva…