BY NOSA AKENZUA Huge debts, operational barriers laced with poor investments, were critical Challenges that the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria ( PENGASSAN) insisted at the weekend in Asaba would hinder the improvement of power supply in Nigeria. Mr. Festus Osifo, President of the union who spoke to journalists said that […]
By Joy Obakeye The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, (PENGASSAN) has pleaded to President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently assent to the Energy Commission of Nigeria Amendment Bill, 2022 before handing over to the incoming administration on May 29, 2023. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the President of the […]
By Godwin Anyebe The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN has reported that their findings showed that the price of Premium Motor Spirit, commonly known as petrol, had increased as high as N650/litre in some places. It said this was due to the prolonged scarcity of the commodity, which grew worse […]
By Haruna Salami Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), declared Wednesday that the military should be held responsible for high rate of crude oil theft in the country. The theft as disclosed by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), is about 95.4million litres per day or 600,000 barrels, since a […]
Nosa Akenzua, Asaba The joint body of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has shut down OML 98 and OML 147 belonging to Pan-Ocean over unpaid severance allowance. It was gathered that Pan-Ocean Flow Station fields at Ovade-Oghara, Ethiope West Local […]
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has commenced nationwide strike, thus could make Nigeria face the scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, in coming days. Daily Times gathered that the Associations were ordered by the association to vacate their duty posts. The order was issued in a letter, […]
By Joy Obakeye Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has elected national officers to run its affairs in the next three years (2020- 2023) with Comrade Festus Osifo of Total Nigeria E&P Branch emerging as the 16th President of the Association. He has defeated his sole challenger, Comrade Roland Fredericks of […]
….urges workers to acquire relevant digital skills The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has said there is an urgent need for managers of the nation’s economy to make conscious and deliberate effort in creating a robust economy that will enhance the effective participation of all and improve the per capita […]
Oil workers under the auspices of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) have disrupted business activities at the headquarters of General Electric over non settlement of exit benefits of their ex-staff four years after disengagement from service. The main […]
…Says refineries are in a stage of comatose, need to be revived …NNPC a toothless dog that can only bark but can’t bite-Analyst The President, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Comrade Ndukaku Ohaeri, has revealed that N45.21 subsidy paid by the Federal Government on every litre of petrol consumed in […]
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has urged the federal government to look beyond politics and reconsider the passage of Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) as this bill will remove some of the barriers of efficiency. Speaking in a press conference with journalists in Lagos, the National President of the […]
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), on Thursday, called on the management of Chevron Nigeria Limited to respect the demands of its Nigerian workers. Mr. Ndukaku Ohaeri, PENGASSAN’s President, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that it was important for the management to “respectfully reconsider the protesting […]
Honourable Justice Simisola Adeniyi of the National Industrial Court, Abuja has struck out the suit of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) against Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPN) in an action to quash the Honourable Minister for Labour and Employment’s referral of an industrial dispute between the parties to the […]
PENGASSAN will continue to reiterate our commitment to the adoption and implementation of policies that promote gender equality in the oil and gas industry, our union and Nigeria as a whole. To this end, we will continue to support programmes that improve not only our members’ welfare, but also ensure more protective measures for our […]
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has called for rehabilitation of the refineries, depots and other oil and gas infrastructural facilities as the solutions to end the current rounds of fuel scarcity in the country. A statement signed by the National Public Relations Officer, PENGASSAN, Comrade Fortune Obi said that […]
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has advocated for local refining of crude oil to make fuel available and easily accessible to all Nigerians, saying every other measure to put an end to the recurring problem of fuel scarcity will work temporarily which he described as embarrassing. The Speaker made his position […]
Amidst biting fuel scarcity across the country, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has conferred a distinguished award on the Group Managing Director of the of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru, for promoting industrial harmony since assumption of office. The award, prepare by the NNPC Corporate Headquarters […]
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has called on Sinopec International Petroleum Company (SIPC), a subsidiary of Sinopec Group to, as a matter of urgency initiate discussions with its employees, who are also members of the union over employment contracts. This is in reaction to the on-going Global Assets Optimisation […]
Labour: Enough of orchestrated hardships Nigerians are now groaning in pains as fuel scarcity continues to bite harder, Nigerians are finding it extremely difficult to move from one city to another. Selling of fuel at black market continued unabated as a litre now goes for between N250 and N350 at petrol stations while four litre […]
• Fuel crisis crippled business activities nationwide • Minister’s intervention aborted strike Nigerians on Monday heaved a sigh of relief as the planned strike by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, (PENGASSAN) was suspended by the masterminds of the industrial strike. The decision to call off the industrial action by the […]