The Rivers State government and energy company, the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), in Port Harcourt on Thursday, inaugurated the Egi/Igburu Cluster Development Board (CDB) for pipeline communities to SPDC’s Assa North Gas project. The SPDC’s Assa North Gas project has a capacity for 300 million standardRead More

Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) have ordered an immediate halt of lifting and distribution of petroleum products from Lagos to the northern part of the country until further notice. In a statement by its National Chairman, Otunba Salimon Oladiti, PTD said the action became necessary following the decision of the NigerRead More

The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) says it has grown its oil output to an average of 514,000 barrels per day (bpd) and developed an additional capacity to produce more. Mr. Osagie Okunbor, the Chairman of Shell Companies in Nigeria disclosed the production data in the oil firm’s 2020 briefingRead More

The Nigeria LP Gas Association (NLPGA), has asked its members and operators to ignore the directive of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), on the levy and administrative fee imposed on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or cooking gas despite the product being deregulated. The Association had argued that imposingRead More

By next month, the Federal Government will commence the conversion of cars and generating plants for gas fuelling. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, spoke on NTA’s “Good Morning Nigeria” which our Abuja correspondent monitored on Monday. Shortly after his assumption of office, he had vowed to provideRead More

Rivers youths threaten to shutdown Afam power station over supply   Mkpoikana Udoma   Port Harcourt — Youths in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State, have issued a fresh 72 hours ultimatum to the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHEDC, to restore power to the area or risk totalRead More

The Federal Government said it will not reverse the new approach of selling petroleum according to prevailing global market as it does not bhave the financial capacity to subsidize the cost of premium motor spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, disclosedRead More