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Russian war: EU forays Nigeria, OPEC for new oil and gas supply
Sopuruchi Onwuka With the coordinated Western response against the war in Ukraine, diplomats are mounting pressure on key petroleum producing countries to create new channels of supplies to the European countries which traditionally form the biggest customers of Russian oil…
Strong oil prices to accelerate Nigeria’s economic recovery _OPEC
Inflation remains a challenge Sopuruchi Onwuka Nigerian economy which is currently suffering galloping inflation, high unemployment rate and harsh business environment will find relief from anticipated investments in the hydrocarbon industry and improved oil revenue within the year. The Organization…
Ukraine war: 22m Nigerians, Sahel Africans starving
WFP seeks $777m for 6 month intervention programme Sopuruchi Onwuka Millions of people facing starvation in Sahel Africa and Nigeria will need urgent supply to avert mass undernourishment as the prices for food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached…
Why OPEC+ stuck to scheduled output for May
Sopuruchi Onwuka With unabated Russian oil exports going rogue and the United States pouring over 180 million barrels of crude into the oil market, a boost in the collective output of the coalition of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries…
Would artisanal refiners accept NUPRC’s invite to legitimate business?
Sopuruchi Onwuka The threats and admonition by power packed government inspection team that visited scenes of pipeline vandalism and destroyed illegal artisanal refining facilities in the Niger Delta signal a fresh start in the vain repetition of treating symptoms instead…
No, OPEC+ builds oil value to 2008 levels
Sopuruchi Onwuka The taunt by international media outlet, Reuters, that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ coalition members (OPEC+) lose money by not flooding the market with oil at a time high prices might be based on very wrong assumptions…
The economic war in energy transition, climate change
Sopuruchi Onwuka The prevailing movement for energy transition and the associated stringent measures to quicken the process hold up a flip side which reflects a silent economic war in which the world’s richest and most industrialized countries fight vehemently to…
Energy transition: Africa to host 2 bn cars by 2040
Sopuruchi Onwuka Nigeria and other developing economies of the world must brace to host about two billion vehicles that are fired with petroleum fuels as the industrialized nations that currently champion the global movement for energy transition plan total switch…
Climate change: Key factors COP26 ignored at Glasgow
By Dr Emmanuel Okoroafor The turnout at the recently concluded climate summit was impressive and loaded with declarations and pledges for net zero emissions. However, whether (and how fast) countries redeem their pledges has nothing to do with what their…
2021: Crude oil ruled commodity markets
Sopuruchi Onwuka Despite the vigorous push by the advanced industrial nations and environmental activists in 2021 to accelerate transition of demand from fossil fuels to greener renewable energy, petroleum commodities maintained strong market resilience in both demand and price. In…
