Maersk Drilling announces four-year contract with Tullow Ghana

Maersk Drilling has been awarded a four year contract for the deepwater drillship Maersk Venturer by Tullow Ghana Ltd.The contract, which was signed December 2017, is expected to commence in February 2018 and covers development drilling on the Jubilee and TEN fields offshore Ghana.Maersk Venturer is currently in transit for the job offshore Ghana thereby further strengthening Maersk…

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Nationwide blackout persists as national grid collapses twice in 24 hours

By Energy Worth The nationwide blackout continued Wednesday after efforts by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to restore electricity failed, following a second system collapse of transmission network at exactly 14.19 hours. According to TCN, the second system failure occurred when the Odukpani-Ikot Ekpene 330kV transmission line tripped, cutting off electricity generation and transmission…

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NNPC GMD orders review of Escravos to Lagos gas pipeline fire, restoration of line

*Dr Maikanti Baru and some top management members of the corporation.The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, has ordered an immediate assessment of the damage caused by a fire on the Escravos to Lagos Pipeline (ELP), a natural gas pipeline which supplies gas from Escravos region of the Niger Delta…

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NNPC distributes over 1.3 billion litres of petroleum products …Supplies over 252 billion Cubic Feet of Gas

 The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) through its Downstream subsidiary, the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), sold and distributed a total of 1.352.86 billion (one billion three hundred and fifty-two million and eight six thousand) litres of white products across the country in October, 2017. Details of the transactions contained in the October 2017 edition of…

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NNPC clears fuel queues in Abuja, Lagos

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has successfully cleared the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol queues in Abuja and Lagos with the commitment to increase truck-outs to other states to restore normalcy to the petrol supply and distribution across the country.Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru, made this disclosure…

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