Mordi chukwunonso Esther The Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi has proposed strategic initiatives in strengthening collaboration with the research, technology and innovation division of Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) The DG, who led members of NITDA management team to NNPC, said This would help achieve a sustainable digital economy in…
The Lagos State Government has partnered with MASTERMINDER Oil & Gas Limited, an accredited Lagos State Safety Commission’s Safety Consultant, targeted at finding lasting solution to frequent truck accidents in Lagos and its environs. In a statement obtained by Majorwaves Energy Reports, Managing Director, MASTERMINDER Oil & Gas Limited, Mr. Ademola Ademoroti, stated: “Due to…
Mordi chukwunonso Esther Valiant Energy Services West Africa Limited, an offshore drilling company, says it has paid full severance benefits to its laid-off oil workers. In 2020, the company had sacked 39 employees under the aegis of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), following the global downturn in the oil industry occasioned…
Mordi chukwunonso Esther The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has increased gas supply for power generation by 149milllion standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd). In its latest monthly operations report, the Corporation said it supplied 640mmscfd of gas to gas-fired power plants in January last year to generate 2,683MW, but increased the supply of gas…
Mordi chukwunonso Esther The Managing Director of Total E&P, Mr. Mike Sangster, has disclosed that the company’s $500 million Ikike project will see first oil before the end of this year. Sangster revealed this during a visit to the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, at the Nigerian…
Daniel Terungwa Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has commissioned the newly acquired Multi-Funtional Clasroom Simulator at the Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN), Oron. This was even as the transportation minister mulls upgrade of the maritime academy from a monotechnic to University due to the recent infrastructure and maritime equipment purchased by the current management of…
Daniel Terungwa Trade unionists in San Francisco, in the United States, recently staged a peaceful demonstration at the Chinese consulate calling for the reinstatement of branch executive members of the Mineworkers’ Union of Namibia (MUN) at Rössing Uranium. The branch executive committee members were fired last September for alleged gross negligence, bringing the company into…
Daniel Terungwa Mozambique must secure an area of at least 25 km from the gas project on the Afungi peninsula, Total Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Pouyanne, confirmed this. Total’s agreement with the government is that the government must guarantee security in that 25 km perimeter cordon and that must be done before staff resumes work. …
Oil prices hovered near 13-month highs on Tuesday, supported by a cold snap that shut wells in the biggest U.S. producing state Texas, although gains were capped by a wage deal in Norway that averted supply disruptions in Europe. The global rollout of coronavirus vaccinations, fuelling expectations of a recovery in the global economy and…
By Ikenna Omeje Following the appointment of a former Nigerian Minister of Finance as well as former Managing Director of the World Bank, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as the new Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) says it is looking forward to enhancing relationship with WTO. The OPEC…