United Nations envoy, Ms Damilola Ogunbiyi, says efforts by the global community to contain the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are threatened by electricity supply challenges in developing countries. Ogunbiyi, who is the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, gave the warning in an article published by Thompson Reuters Foundation News. The…
The Association of Distributors and Transporters of Petroleum Products (ADTOP) has commended the Federal Government for ensuring steady supply of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) to members of the association to enhance its operations in the lockdown. The association said the Federal Government through the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Pipeline and Product Marketing Company…
The Federal Government says it is meeting with relevant government agencies to support the activities of artisanal local refinery operators in the country. Sen. Ita Enang, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, said this in a resolution passed after a meeting he had with the management of key line agencies…
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Malam Mele Kyari, says Nigeria would no longer pay subsidy on petrol with the ongoing global oil price decline. Kyari disclosed this in a statement signed by NNPC spokesman, Dr Kennie Obateru, in Abuja on Monday. The NNPC boss said this while he featured…
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva says Nigeria will take positions that will favour its economic forecast at the up coming OPEC+meeting . Sylva gave the assurance in a statement he signed in Abuja, on Monday. “As Minister of State for Petroleum, I will continue to monitor the impact of COVID-19…
Major and Independent petroleum marketers in Abia have yet to adjust to the new pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise called petrol, in line with the Federal Government’s directive. The Federal government had last Tuesday announced a new pump price of N123.5 per liter from N125 per liter. However, barely one week after the…
…Market Fundamentals to Determine Petrol Price As part of its contribution to build a robust healthcare for Nigeria, the Oil and Gas Industry has expressed its readiness to embark on the construction of, at least, two hospitals and a world class diagnostics center in each of the geopolitical zones in the Country, in addition to…
The global chemical sector should prepare for an extended downturn along with lower-for-longer oil prices, both of which will have big implications for profitability and investments. “It’s very possible that Q3 could have negative GDP as well [as Q2], and then the question is how big is the bounce back towards the end of the…
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has confirmed that the sale of its white products between December 2018 and December 2019 by its subsidiary, the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) amounted to 21.861 billion litres, with petrol accounting for 98.41%. Since the disengagement of private importers of petroleum products into Nigeria, the NNPC has been the sole…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has dismissed insinuation of mass outbreak of Corona virus infection in a facility managed by the national oil company. This followed the reported COVID-19 infected individual at an apartment in the facility in Garki, Abuja last weekend. Explaining the circumstances of the incidence, the national oil company said it…
