Category: Oil & Gas

By Energy Worth The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, has ordered the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru; the Director, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Modecai Ladan; and Executive Secretary, Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Saidu Abdulkadir, to provide the information being sought by a human…

The Group Managing Director of the Nigeria’s National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru said Nigeria’s participation at the annual Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas, United States of America, had grown from mere jamboree-like activity in the 1990’s to a fully-fledged engagement where indigenous oil services companies parade their competencies and proven job…

The Big Oil playbook has been straightforward for decades: Higher prices mean offshore projects that are further, deeper, more complex than ever before. It’s different this time, according to Royal Dutch Shell Plc. Deepwater projects need to break even at $40/bbl, or preferably lower, said Harry Brekelmans, Shell’s project and technology director, in an interview…

SABIC and ExxonMobil announced today that they have created a new joint venture to advance development of the Gulf Coast Growth Ventures project, a 1.8 million tonne ethane cracker currently planned for construction in San Patricio County, Texas. The facility will also include a monoethylene glycol unit and two polyethylene units. “We are very pleased…

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru, has said that the target of the corporation is to make its foremost upstream subsidiary, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), the number one exploration and production company in Nigeria. Dr. Baru, who spoke on the sidelines of the 18th Annual…

By Energy Worth The Federal Government has said that two of the 38 modular refineries granted licences to operate in the Niger Delta region will be completed and ready for inauguration by December this year. It noted that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s resolve to establish modular refineries was part of the long-term plan to…

By Oke Peter The Senate has declared as illegal the current payments by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to augment the differentials between the landing cost of the Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) and the pump price. The legislature asked the corporation to stop further payment of subsidy, but should clear the arrears owed marketers…

Oil prices rose on Thursday, fuelled by expectations the United States will re-impose sanctions against Iran, a decline in output in Venezuela and ongoing strong demand. Brent crude oil futures were at 74.27 per barrel at 0643 GMT, up 27 cents, or 0.4 percent, from their last close. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures…

Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday, reported a 42 percent rise in first-quarter profit, its highest in over three years, boosted by higher oil prices and production. Expectations are high for Shell to continue to generate strong profits and cash flow after the Anglo-Dutch company beat larger rival Exxon Mobil on both fronts in 2017 thanks…

By Oke Peter There are strong indication that the expected open market price of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) being imported into Nigeria may have risen above N190 as crude oil price climbed towards a four-year high of $75 per barrel. As of March 20, 2018, when the international benchmark for oil prices, Brent, traded around…