Tony Emegere, Superintendent, Policy, Government and Public Affairs (PGPA) delivering a welcome address on behalf of Esimaje Brikinn, G.M, PGPA of Chevron. THE NNPC/Chevron Joint Venture has donated a mobile X-ray machine to Koko General Hospital in Delta State. This is yet another significant contribution to Medicare in Nigeria by the Joint Venture. The handover…
Fenix International, a company of ENGIE, offering Solar Home Systems across Africa has appointed co-founder and current COO Brian Warshawsky to the role of CEO KAMPALA, Uganda, July 19, 2019/ — Brian Warshawsky, co-founder and current COO of Fenix to succeed the current CEO, Lyndsay Handler. Jit Bhattacharya, CTO and Chris Bagnall, Group Marketing Director, step…
A small-scale Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant has signed the country’s first binding supply agreement with China, ahead of much larger deals expected to be finalised with operators of bigger new terminals. Privately-owned FortisBC agreed with China’s Top Speed Energy Corp to supply 53,000 tonnes from its Tilbury facility in British Columbia as of…
A small oil transport firm accused of pumping toxic chemicals into Russia’s crude pipeline network that then polluted oil exports to Europe received daily documents from Russian state pipeline monopoly Transneft giving its oil deliveries a clean bill of health. The documents seen by Reuters certified the oil deliveries from March 30 to April 19,…
Officials from Eni sought to convince a witness, a former Eni manager, to withdraw some statements he made during investigations into a Nigerian corruption case involving the Italian oil group, a court heard on Wednesday. Prosecutor Fabio De Pasquale made the comment in a trial hearing into the case, during a legal debate over a…
Oil prices on Wednesday regained little ground lost in the previous session, weighed down by industry data suggesting U.S. crude inventories fell less than expected. Brent crude futures gained 64 cents to $64.99 a barrel by 1357 GMT. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were up 34 cents at $57.96 a barrel. Both benchmarks shed more…
The head of Italian oil group Eni has sued a former legal adviser to the company for defamation after excerpts of the lawyer’s written testimony relating to a Nigerian corruption case were published in several newspapers on Wednesday.Eni said Chief Executive Claudio Descalzi had taken the legal action after newspapers quoted from the testimony, which…
The people of Ogoni in Rivers State have thrown its weight behind the 23months occupation of Belema Flow Station and Gas Plant in OML 25, which is operated by the SPDC/NNPC JV in Kula, Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of the state. The people of OML25 host communities since August 2017, have continued to lay a…
The Managing Director of Nigeria LNG Limited, NLNG, Mr. Tony Attah, says the upcoming NLNG Train 7 project will, at the peak of construction, employ over 10,000 personnel on site in Bonny Island and that more than 80 percent of this number will be Nigerians. Attah, who spoke at the recent Nigerian Oil and Gas…
Abuja — Nigeria earned N3.922 trillion from the export of crude oil and derivatives of petroleum in the first quarter of 2019, according to data obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS. In its Foreign Trade Statistics for the first quarter of 2019, the NBS noted that petroleum products export accounted for 86.48 per cent…