A new modular fire field and emergency response training centre built by Tolmann Allied Services Limited has been commissioned by the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engineer Simbi Wabote. Located in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the facility can provide practical demonstrations of offshore safety trainings such as Helideck Emergency Response Team…
A solar microgrid demonstration project that has been developed and tested over a period of 16 months has successfully delivered electricity to a community in South Africa. On Friday, South Africa’s state-owned utility, Eskom, launched its ground-breaking pilot solar-powered microgrid at Wilhelmina Farm, Ficksburg in the Free State. The microgrid demonstration plant, which was completed…
By Nick Cunningham The decision by the United States to grant waivers to eight countries, allowing them to continue to import oil from Iran, has helped ease the tension in the oil market. No longer are oil traders talking about $100 oil. Iran’s oil exports stood at 1.7 million barrels per day in October and…
United States High Commission Consul General John Bray has said an estimated $1.3billion American businesses in Nigeria are currently under threat. The threats, according to him, are coming from instability in exchange rate, policy inconsistency, poor electricity, dearth of infrastructure, regulatory and security issues. Bray spoke in Lagos at the 2018 International Investment Conference with…
THERE are indications that the inability of the country’s refineries to meet domestic demand for petroleum products may have affected the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), projected annual revenue savings of $1 billion. Accordingly, the Corporation hopes that in 2020 it would copy the measures taken to realize the savings of around $1 billion seen…
