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NNPC GMD bags Forbes Oil & Gas Man of the Year award
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru has added a major laurel to his growing list of honours since assumption of office following his recent nomination as the Forbes Best of Africa Oil and Gas Man of the Year 2017 Award by the New York based Internationally reputable…
Hungary eyes Nigerian crude oil, LNG …As NNPC collaborate on medicine, manpower development
At a time that international crude oil market is getting more competitive, the Hungarian Government has indicated interest to purchase crude oil and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Nigeria. The Hungarian Ambassador to Nigeria, Professor Gabor Ternak, who disclosed this during a courtesy call on the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation…
Oil snoozes through Saudi-Iran spat, imminent OPEC meeting
With tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran ratcheting up and OPEC about to announce its plans for global crude supply, investors would be forgiven for anticipating a few gyrations in oil prices. The opposite has happened: the market is the calmest it’s been for almost nine months. Implied volatility, a gauge of expected price moves,…
Shell restores full cash dividend as it emerges from slump
Royal Dutch Shell Plc will pay its entire dividend in cash for the first time in more than two years as Europe’s biggest oil company seeks to demonstrate it has left the worst of the crude slump behind. From this quarter, Shell will no longer offer shareholders the option to take the payout in stock, it…
Total commences operation in Brazil’s giant Libra Field
An international oil giant, Total has announced its first oil from the Libra mega-field, located in ultra-deep waters 180 kilometers offshore Rio de Janeiro, in the pre-salt Santos Basin in Brazil. The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit Pioneiro de Libra has a capacity of 50,000 barrels of oil. This start-up of the early…
Total commences operation in Brazil’s giant Libra Field
An international oil giant, Total has announced its first oil from the Libra mega-field, located in ultra-deep waters 180 kilometers offshore Rio de Janeiro, in the pre-salt Santos Basin in Brazil. The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit Pioneiro de Libra has a capacity of 50,000 barrels of oil. This start-up of the early…
CNOOC announces Weizhou 12-2 oil field Phase II project …Commences production
CNOOC Limited has announced the Weizhou 12-2 oil field phase II project has already commenced production. The Weizhou 12-2 oil field phase II project is located in Beibu Gulf in the South China Sea with an average water depth of approximately 35.7 meters. In addition to fully utilizing the existing facilities of Weizhou 12-2 oil…
ExxonMobil begins production at Hebron Field
ExxonMobil has announced that the Hebron project started production safely and ahead of schedule. At its peak, the project will produce up to 150,000 barrels of oil per day. Discovered in 1980, the Hebron field is estimated to contain more than 700 million barrels of recoverable resources. The Hebron platform consists of a stand-alone gravity-based…
ExxonMobil begins production at Hebron Field
ExxonMobil has announced that the Hebron project started production safely and ahead of schedule. At its peak, the project will produce up to 150,000 barrels of oil per day. Discovered in 1980, the Hebron field is estimated to contain more than 700 million barrels of recoverable resources. The Hebron platform consists of a stand-alone gravity-based…
AEDC denies issuing force majeure over direct electricity purchase
By Oke Peter THE Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), has disassociated itself from notice of force majeure served Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, by the Electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs, over the new Eligible Customer Policy in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). It will be recalled that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, (NERC), recently declared…