By Oke Peter The world’s largest power generation event, POWER-GEN International has announced its 2017 edition of annual conference, the event holds between December 5-7, 2017, in Las Vegas, NV at the Las Vegas Convention Center Central Halls. POWER-GEN International is the industry leader in providing comprehensive coverage of the trends, technologies and issues facing…
By Oke Peter The Federal Government has promised that by the end of this year, it will start conducting deoxyribonucleic acid fingerprinting of the country’s crude oil in order to identify theft and apprehend criminals. The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, made this known during the inauguration of an ultra-modern Bio-Resources Laboratory…
By Oke PeterThe Executive Director of Sahara Group, Mr Tonye Cole, has said the industrialisation of Africa in the next decade must be owned and led by Africans with key support from the private sector as well as regional and multilateral organisations. Citing the need for a robust “digital infrastructure,” Cole advised African leaders to…
By Oke Peter Chevron U.S.A. Inc. has announced a contribution of $1 million from Chevron and the Chevron Global Community Fund to assist with efforts to recover from the damage done by Hurricane Irma. “Chevron makes every effort to support the communities where we operate, particularly in times of need,” said Dale Walsh, president of…
By Oke Peter The management of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) has apologized to its esteemed customers, over current power outage being experienced by Iludun, Kasmo, Fiwasaye, Oluode/Kolawole, Owode/Igbona, Surulere/Oke Ayo/Sabo, Atelewo/Plantation, Arikalamu, Akintokun, Ifesowapo, Ife Olu, Asoje, Mosadoluwa, Isokan and Kelebe communities in Osogbo and Ikirun under the Oluode 11KV and Ipetu Ile 11KV…
By Oke Peter Sokoto State governor, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has appealed to the Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to activate oil and gas exploration campaign in the Sokoto Inland Sedimentary Basin with a view to establishing the volume and value of hydrocarbon deposits there. Governor Tambuwal, who led a high powered…
By Oke Peter The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will accelerate local capacity development in all its operations within the nation’s Oil and Gas industry. NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, disclosed this while delivering a keynote address during an occasion to mark the Egina Manifold Sail Away celebration in Port Harcourt recently. In…
By Oke Peter In its resolve to proffer a workable solution to the persistent power problems in African nations in the 21st century, EnergyNet Limited has taken it upon itself to bear the responsibility of making positive impacts in the power sector by organising relevant summits across the world to draw stakeholders’ attention to the…
Rahul Kitchlu is the Senior Energy Specialist at the World Bank. He is currently working on the energy portfolio in Ethiopia and co-author of the ‘Linking up: Public-Private Partnerships in Power Transmission in Africa’. In this interview with Energy Worth, he bares his mind on the recent World Bank report launched at the Africa Energy…
By Oke Peter A leading pan-African multilateral development finance institution and project developer, Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), is set to provide a US$28 million subordinated loan facility for the development of Topic SA’s (Topic) Halk El Menzel offshore oil concession block (The Helm Project) in Northern Tunisia. The Subordinated Loan Note has a 30-month tenor…
