Nigeria’s Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), has said it would leverage existing in-country capacity available at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB), to address the challenges of research in the nation’s oil sector. Speaking at a meeting organised for members of the National Board of Trustees (NBT) for…
Darren Woods, ExxonMobil chairman and chief executive officer, presented $50,000 to Family Compass today to further the organization’s goals of ending child abuse and neglect. The grant marks the 13th annual ExxonMobil Chairman’s Gift given during the holidays to benefit and highlight a deserving nonprofit organization in North Texas. “Every child in our community should…
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board has identified the types of vessels that local operators in the shipping business should purchase that can guarantee good business and return on investment. The Executive Secretary, NCDMB, Simbi Wabote, stated this in Lagos on Tuesday, during the Shipowners Association of Nigeria’s annual workshop and dinner.Speaking at the…
Fifteen game-changing initiatives in fourteen countries were honoured as winners of the United Nations Climate Action Award at a special ceremony at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 24) in Katowice, Poland, on Monday. “These activities shine a light on scalable climate action around the world,” said Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change….
Today, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 24) in Poland, 15 international organisations jointly announced a commitment to make their operations climate neutral. The organizations will measure their greenhouse gas emissions, reduce them as much as possible and compensate the currently unavoidable ones with credible carbon credits. Representing over two million tons of…
By Tsvetana Paraskova The commissioning of a mega refinery and petrochemical complex worth US$44 billion and involving Saudi Aramco and ADNOC has been pushed out by two years to 2025, a top executive at the Indian consortium part of the project told Reuters on Tuesday. Ratnagiri Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd (RPPL), the joint venture company…
The Total E & P Nigeria Limited (TEPNG) recently sponsored quiz, spelling and comprehension competition for over 1,000 primary five and six pupils as well as students at the junior secondary school level, in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State. The essence of the competition was to awaken and encourage the pupils and…
By Haley Zaremba Solar energy is no longer a cutting-edge technology. The public is well-acquainted with the sight of solar panels dotting the rooftops of their cities, and the sight is only becoming more common as the years go by. But while it’s not obvious to the average layperson, solar energy in in fact evolving…
By Haley Zaremba On Tuesday, just days after president Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in Mexico, the Mexican government announced that it would be suspending a scheduled auction of long-term, clean-energy contracts. The new administration under leftist president López Obrador, who won the presidency in a landslide election back in July, will keep the…
Damilola Shittu – Abuja The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria has suspended its earlier directive to shut down depots nationwide and has given the Federal Government a five-day grace to pay part of the outstanding debt which it owed the marketers. DAPPMAN had declared on Sunday that it would from midnight of…
