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Daily Archives: Aug 18, 2016

MP urges players in extractive sector to initiate safety bill

By Gilbert Boyefio The Member of Parliament for Takoradi, Hon. Kwabena Otchere-Darko, has urged players in the extractive industry sin Ghana to rally together to...

TEN Project Remains on Budget, Scheduled For First Oil Early August

The 2016 half year results by Tullow Oil Plc indicate that the TEN Project is on schedule and on budget to deliver first oil...

Stakeholders Jubilate Over Passage Of E&P Law

By Gilbert Boyefio Accra, Ghana Many of the major actors in Ghana’s oil and gas industry have expressed joy over the passage of the Petroleum (Exploration...

Oil Companies Owe Ghana over $700,000; Think-Tanks Worried

By Prince Appiah Nine out of 16 oil companies failed to pay a total of $721,000 in surface rentals to government last year, according to...

Ghana’s New Petroleum Law Will Open Up Investments

Ghana’s Petroleum Minister, Emmanuel Armah Kofi-Buah, has described as ‘good news’ the passage of the Petroleum and Exploration Bill, which he believes will attract...

Govt Urged To Encourage Women In Maritime, Oil And Gas Businesses

Managing Director, Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics base (LADOL), Dr. Amy Jadesimi has called on government at all levels to evolve policies that would encourage...

$600m Local Content Investment would address Industrialization Gap-Stakeholders

For the Nigerian Local Content Policy to impact positively on the oil and gas industry, more funds must be provided to act as intervening...

How I will run NPA-Hadiza Bala Usman

Ms Hadiza Usman, the new Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has revealed that the new management will strive for enhanced operational efficiency...

FG Orders Fresh Probe of NIMASA, NPA, Others

Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi has ordered fresh audit of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). The...

Group Plans Holding Bay for 1,000 Trucks along Mile 2 Expressway

To ease traffic between the Mile 12 and Tin-Can/Apapa port access roads, in Lagos, the Partner Government Agencies and Stakeholders Forum (PGASF) plans to...

Nigeria Loses $5.9 billion to Oil Theft

Waziri Adio, the Executive Secretary, Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), has revealed that Nigeria has lost over USD5.9billion in 2013 to oil theft. According...

Nigeria, others seek WTO, UNCTAD interventions on illegal shipping charges

Following the flurry of illegal shipping charges in developed and developing nations, Nigeria has joined the Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF) to seek the intervention...

Oilserv Group Limited Partners UNN to Promote the Application of Nanotechnology in Energy, Health, Safety and Environment

By Patrick Egwu, Oilserv Limited, an oil and gas service company with expertise in pipelines and flowlines, has organized a 4-day International African Conference on...

Flexible Software Licensing Model Offers New Opportunities for Smaller Engineering Companies

Opportunities for Smaller Engineering Companies Project Design Group Ltd benefit from AVEVA Client Activated License Management As the industry comes to terms with the “lower for...

Government Needs a Multi-Dimensional Approach To Curb Pipeline Vandalism -Emeka Okwuosa

Recent attacks on oil and gas pipelines have cost Nigeria almost half of its daily crude oil production, in addition to denying power generating...

‘Marginal Field Companies Should be Restructured as E & P Companies to Attract Investors’ – Amieyeofori

Since the emergence of marginal fields in Nigeria after they were awarded in March 2003, some operators have not been finding it easy owing...

Amaechi Calls for Investment in CNG Infrastructure

  Mr. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, Nigeria’s minister of Transport. Amaechi made the appeal at a stakeholders’ workshop on Road Transport Management and Mass Transit Operations in...

MG Vowgas Receives Five Years Waiver Tenement Rate

By Vivian Osuji Israel, Port Harcourt MG Vowgas Nigeria Limited, an indigenous company has recently received five years waiver for tenement rate from Obio/Akpor local...

Review the Gas Master Plan, Frontier Oil boss tells FG

By Margaret Nongo-Okojokwu   Chief Executive officer of Frontier Oil Limited, Mr. Dada Thomas has called for a review of Nigeria’s Gas Master Plan so as...

PMB Ordered NNPC to Launch Hydrocarbon Exploration in Benue State

By Prince Okafor President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday, directed the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to commence hydrocarbon exploratory activities in the Benue Trough. This is coming...

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