Reports have shown that approximately seven million prepaid electricity meters in South Africa need to be reset before November 2024, as the system that runs the credit tokens will run out of numbers at this time and all existing meters will stop accepting credit tokens. The South African metering standards industry body, Standard Transfer Specification…
Total has pledged its support to create the United Nations Road Safety Trust Fund. As a founding member, Total will contribute $1 million to this prevention fund. Total’s pledge, under the scope of Total Foundation, is a contribution to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal which aims to halve the number of global deaths…
By Oke Peter The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Wednesday, accused oil marketers of using the name and logo of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to cheat the public at the NNPC fillings stations by under-dispensing Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol. According to the DPR, such marketers must be cautioned by the…
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has commissioned a 60MVAR Capacitor Bank at the Apo 132/33Kv substation to improve quality and voltage of electricity supply to consumers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported. The Minster of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, said at the commissioning…
The Japanese Government, on Thursday, pledged commitment to further support Nigeria to develop power projects in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported. The Japanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Sadanobu Kusaoke, announced this at the commissioning of a 60MVAR Capacitor Bank at the Apo 132/33KV sub-station designed to improve electricity voltage in…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has written to the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to express its worries about the Gas Sales Agreement (GSA) the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) signed with a private gas firm, Accugas Limited for the supply of gas to its 562 megawatts (MW) Calabar power plant, and which…
MCEDD, the premier deepwater conference, continued on Tuesday afternoon and into today in Milan, Italy, with a timely mid-day keynote examination of the future of ultra-deep offshore activity, accompanied by a full slate of technical presentations on a variety of technical subjects. Following lunch on Tuesday, Total’s V.P. for Deepwater, Benoît Ludot, delivered a very…
The South Korean government said the country’s coal-fired power generation hit a new high in 2017, helped by three thermal power plants that came online with combined generation capacity of 5.3 GW. The country also suspended operations at 11 of its 24 nuclear reactors, which meant coal generation supplied an even higher percentage of South…
By Oke Peter At least Eight out of the 27 power plants in Nigeria were shut down on April 9, due to gas, line and frequency management constraints, data from the Power Generation Report by the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, has shown. For instance, the Trans Amadi Gas Turbine (GT) 1 and 2…
Exxon Mobil Corporation has announced that the size of the natural gas resource at the P’nyang field in Papua New Guinea has increased to 4.36 trillion cubic feet of gas, an 84 percent increase from a previous assessment completed in 2012. The increase supports a potential significant expansion of operations in the country. The independent…
