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Kyari decries theft, vandalism as threats to Nigeria’s energy sufficiency
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has tasked educational institutions in the country to join forces with the petroleum industry in evolving solutions to challenges that threaten the nation’s energy security. The Group Chief Executive Officer, Mallam Mele…
Maersk braves through Red Sea with 2 US-flagged ships
Maersk has sent two container ships through the Red Sea carrying goods for the United States military and government, according to the Danish company and ship tracking data. Maersk and other large shipping lines have instructed hundreds of commercial vessels…
Over 52,000 Nigerian Christians killed, 14 million forced into exile
Sopuruchi Onwuka International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has declared that unrestrained Islamic insurgency and banditry in Nigeria have led to killing of over 52,000 Christians across the country. The Nigeria-based nonprofit group also stated more…
Shell cashes out from SPDC JV with $2.4 bn
Sopuruchi Onwuka Shell has finally pulled a foot from the Nigerian conventional petroleum play after selling off the combined interest of multinational private entities in the NNPC/Shell/TotalEnergies/Eni exploration and production Joint venture for a total of $2.4 billion. Shell stated…
Iran stokes Middle East tension with strikes on Iraq, Syria
Iran fired missiles late Monday at what it claimed were Israeli “spy headquarters” near the U.S. Consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, and at targets linked to the extremist group Islamic State in northern Syria. Four civilians were…
Iran seizes oil tanker in Gulf of Oman
Sopuruchi Onwuka Iran declared on Thursday that its navy seized an oil tanker in the waters between Iran and Oman, according to foreign media sources. Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA confirming the seizure after the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations…
US, Britain hit Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen
The U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Thursday, in a massive retaliatory strike using warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, U.S. officials said. According to various…
Jim Swartz picks the reins at Chevron Nigeria
American oil multinational, Chevron Corporation, has a designated Jim Swartz the new Chairman and Managing Director to oversee it its business interests in Nigeria. Chevron Nigeria Limited which operates a joint venture between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited stated…
NCDMB proffers deepened collaboration with NUPRC, NIACOM
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB is seeking robust collaboration among government agencies in realizing the prime economic aspirations in the Nigerian petroleum industry, insurance and other linkage sectors. Executive Secretary, Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe, who…
