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By Fred Ojiegbe When the federal government approved the Nigerian Gas Master Plan on February 13, 2008, it was expected to position the country as a major international player in the international gas market. The plan was also…
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…As 40 more licenses await approval By Fred Ojiegbe Despite the dwindling capital to finance 2019 budget, the federal government is ready to raise funds through the renewal of oil blocks in the country. So far, the government has…
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–By Fred Ojiegbe This is an interesting time for the Nigerian oil and gas industry, as the country is witnessing improvement in crude oil production with the addition of 200,000 barrels per day from Egina Floating Production Storage…
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–By Gideon Osaka This question is more appropriate in no other time than now that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) appears to be grappling with internal crisis and lack of cohesion among its members,…
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By Yange Ikyaa in March 2013, during a push for the inclusion of the Host Community Development Fund in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ita Enang, then representing Akwa Ibom north-east Senatorial…
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Nigeria’s First Ethanol Refinery: Can the indigenous technology help lower the nation’s carbon footprint and better preserve its natural environment? –By Yange Ikyaa Bashir Umar Shehu, a graduate of petroleum engineering of…
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–By Gideon Osaka The much talked about final investment decision, FID, for the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, train 7 did not take place in 2018, after all. Valuechain gathered that the event may not take place until…
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–By Gideon Osaka The recent statement by the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, that the country’s refineries had not undergone turn around maintenance(TAM) for an aggregate…
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–By Yange Ikyaa After decades of spending hundreds of billions of naira each year on the importation of premium motor spirit (PMS) and automotive gas oil (AGO) or diesel, much of it going into use in electricity generators to power…
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–By Danlami Nasir Isah Abdulrazaq Isa is the Chairman/CEO of Waltersmith Petroman Oil Limited, an indigenous upstream oil and gas company incorporated in 1996 to carry out the business of exploration and production of oil and gas…
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