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By Gideon OsakaThe emergence of the new upstream regulator, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) from the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), was one of the biggest and profound upstream…
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By Gideon OsakaOn the faithful night of April 22, 2022, the entire 16 villages of Egbema in the oil-bearing area of Imo State were thrown into mourning over the death of family members in an explosion that rocked the communities.…
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As the global climate debate gets more intense, reaffirming the reality that the energy industry must decarbonize in order to save the earth from what may eventually become an irreversible catastrophe, meaning also that the…
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The Nigerian economy is set to suffer for another 18 months under the burden of fuel subsidy going by the postponement of full implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) which provided for the complete removal of subsidy on…
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For some time now, the Federal Government, through both the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, has promised to give Nigerians alternative fuel, Autogas. This alternative…
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By Gideon OsakaIt is no longer news that some far-reaching transformations are currently taking place in the Nigerian oil and gas industry following the commencement of the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) signed…
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The technical problems hampering Nigeria’s oil output have further heightened calls for genuine diversification of the nation’s oil-dependent economy, writes GIDEON OSAKAOn 10th December 2016, non-OPEC oil producing countries and…
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-By Sopuruchi OnwukaThe highly orchestrated global coalition on climate action to avert looming environmental catastrophe, and the related transition from fossil fuels to low carbon energy logically require the existing courses of…
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-By Sopuruchi OnwukaIt would prove difficult to find a Nigerian who has flown the most populous black nation’s national flag in the international arena as high, in the recent years, as the current Secretary General of the Organisation…
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-By Gideon OsakaThe gains recorded in the oil sector, with the soon-to-be-concluded marginal fields bid round, risk being eroded by the tactics of disgruntled interests to frustrate and discredit the entire exercise, Valuechain…
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