The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has challenged professionals in the Nigerian Petroleum sector to come up with solutions to tackle current challenges facing the industry. The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, gave the charge while playing host to the Executive members of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Nigerian Council, in […]
Over the years, the Benchmarking Exercise Report (BER) has recorded Nigeria’s continuous poor performance against precept five and six on local impacts of extraction and the management of Nigeria’s petroleum sector respectively. Tengi George-Ikoli, program Coordinator, Nigeria Natural Resource Charter (NNRC), made this known at the launch of the 2019 NNRC’s BER with the theme: […]
Petroleum Sector Curb oil theft to improve economic diversification, Experts tell FG Despite holding the 10th largest oil reserves in the world at 37 billion, standing as the second largest in Africa after Libya, the petroleum sector in Nigeria contributes less than 10 per cent to the economy. According to a research carried out by […]
Philip Clement African Energy Chamber has expressed confidence that the newly appointed Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva will perform well in driving the nation’s petroleum sector. The chamber in a release on Thursday believes that as a former governor of Bayelsa state and someone from the Niger Delta region, Sylva understands the […]