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Fuel crisis: Marketers demand transparency, fair competition
Sopuruchi Onwuka As controversies and altercations mark the changing downstream petroleum industry after the Dangote Refinery roars to life, players in the retail end of the market want all anti-competition instruments dismantled in order to create a balanced playing ground….
Mistakes in divestment process come with consequences __NUPRC
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has called for patience of players in the industry over the pending divestment of commercial interest from international oil companies to mainly indigenous independent petroleum companies; warning that any mishap in…
NUPRC owes the petroleum industry a recovery plan __Avuru
The chairman of AA Holdings, Mr Austin Avuru, is arguably the boldest industry analyst in Africa, who confronts burning issues with fiery verve and also proffers viable, practicable and often tested solutions to toughest industry challenges. He was part of…
NNPC shops bigger demand for falling gas output
Sopuruchi Onwuka The federal government has activated global investment campaign that flaunts Nigeria’s huge gas supply potentials instead of available capacity for physical volumes; and this has raised concerns in the industry over the tendency to ignore pressing challenges in…
What has Austin Avuru become?
Sopuruchi Onwuka It is almost a bizarre struggle to attempt describing a phenomenon that is continuously amorphous because constant changes in such circumstances introduce new features that compel relentless modifications in interpretation, depiction and appellation. Such phenomenal dynamism, normally associated…
NCDMB to raise female quotient in oil industry training
Begins disbursement of $40m Women Fund Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) will formally require operating companies in the Nigerian petroleum industry to increase the proportion women in their regular human development programmes, including courses that…
PIA: Women must be positioned for oil crew change
Sopuruchi Onwuka Deliberate policy and structural measures should evolved to dismantle cultural norms that nurture gender bias in the technical and male dominated professions and workplace environments in order to allow the sectors harness the capacity and expertise of women…
