THE Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) says it hopes for a peaceful resolution of all issues to enable it resume safe operations of its (OML-25) Belema oil and gas facility. Mr Igo Weli, SPDC General Manager, External Relations, said this on Tuesday via an email to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by Mr Michael…
Eland Oil & Gas has announced that regulatory approval has been obtained for the Gbetiokun Field Development Plan (‘FDP’) from Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources. The FDP caters for the drilling of an additional five oil production wells during phase 1 of the development, followed by the drilling of a further six oil production wells and a single…
The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has commended the judgement of the Federal High Court in the case involving Seadrill Mobile Unit Nigeria Limited and the Federal Ministry of Transportation (FMOT), which affirmed NIMASA right to collect fees from drilling operations. NIMASA was later joined as a necessary…
Nigerian state oil firm NNPC issued award letters on Monday for highly sought-after contracts to exchange crude oil for imported fuel, oil industry sources told Reuters. A total of 15 groupings, with at least 34 companies in total, received award letters, four sources with knowledge of the deals said. The award letters were circulated on…
French major TOTAL and the Danish oil service company Welltec have jointly announced the first deployment of a cementless completion. Building on the experience gained through the continuous deployment of the Welltec® Annular Barrier (WAB®) in the Moho North Albian field which was awarded the first quarter of 2017, TOTAL E&P Congo says it has pushed…
French major TOTAL will be returning, within the next one year, for further exploration and appraisal of the prospects in South Africa’s Block 11B/12B offshore South Africa, where it discovered large gas condensate pools in January 2019. The Paris headquartered company has secured the Deepsea Stavanger for a multi-well drilling programme, beginning with the spud of the…
Its East African foray is turning into cash in the bank for Niger Delta Petroleum Resources NDPR, the Nigerian independent. And the money is coming from the unlikeliest of places. “If there was any place elsewhere in Africa where we could access opportunities and quickly develop those opportunities into the same kind of portfolios that…
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Monday lifted the sanctions melted on a downstream marketing company, Petrocam Trading Nig. Ltd., for violating the agency’s rules and regulations. Mr Ahmed Shakur, the acting Director of DPR told newsmen in Lagos that the company committed an infraction against the agency in one of its gas plants…
Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc’s planned $700m Assa North /Ohaji South (ANOH) gas and condensate field project, at completion, is expected to contribute significantly in addressing Nigeria’s deficit in thermal power delivery. This project straddles OML 53 (seplat 40 per cent working interest and operator) and OML 21 (Shell JV). In a presentation titled ‘Stability,…
Professor Umar Danbatta, executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, bags award of excellence for attaining 2018 target on broadband penetration in the country THE Nigerian Society of Engineers, NSE, Kano branch, has honoured Professor Umar Danbatta, executive vice chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, with an award of excellence in recognition of the commission’s attainment…