State governors have turned down moves by the International Oil Companies to prevail on them to influence the National Assembly not to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill. Our correspondents gathered on Sunday that the IOCs had stepped up pressure on the governors to reach out to the National Assembly on the need not to pass…
Read MoreThe Managing Director of all associated companies of Shell in Nigeria, Mutiu Sunmonu, said on Thursday that oil spillages recorded by Shell companies’ in the country reduced by 173 occurrences in 2012. He told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that Shell’s activities, especially about crude oil spillages in 2012, were better when compared…
Read MoreThe ownership structure adopted for the Power Holding Company of Nigeria’s distribution companies (Discos) under the power sector privatisation may result in conflict of interest, in-fighting and eventual collapse of the joint venture, Energy analyst and Principal Partner at KayafasKonsult Ltd, a regulatory consulting firm, Mr. S. A. Bello has said. Bello said the ownership…
Read MoreThe Federal Government has sought the support of the Islamic Development Bank for the provision of about $450m to expand the power transmission system to wheel up to 20,000 megawatts of electricity. A statement on Sunday quoted Vice-President Namadi Sambo as making the request on behalf of the government in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, when he…
Read MoreA report by Ecobank Group warned last week that Nigeria’s debt situation would remain vulnerable to any unexpected large drop in oil prices. The report also pointed out that Nigeria’s debt would remain susceptible to other macroeconomic shocks, even as it urged the federal government to properly manage the situation. The Ecobank report said: “Nigeria’s…
Read MoreIndigenes of Ogoniland, an oil rich area in Rivers State, have urged the Federal Government to implement the recommendations of the United Nations Environmental Programme on their community. They decried the government’s neglect of the report two years after it was published, and stressed that nothing had been done to clean up the environmental pollution…
Read MoreMainstream Energy Solutions Limited has signed a $170m medium-term syndicated acquisition facility to part-finance the concession of the Jebba Power Station and Kainji Power Station, both of which are owned by Kainji Hydro Electric Plc. The syndication, which was carried out on Friday, was fully underwritten by GTBank, which also acted as the Mandated Lead…
Read MoreChevron’s second-quarter earnings were cut by 25% year on year as lower prices and production as well as higher operating costs dented the bottom line of the US giant. The company reported quarterly earnings of $5.4 billion on Friday, compared with $7.2 billion a year earlier, as revenue dropped to $55 billion from $60 billion…
Read MoreExxonMobil has reported a 57% drop year-on-year in second quarter profits. The US supermajor posted net incomes of $6.9 billion for the past three months, compared to $15.91 billion during the same period last year. ExxonMobil said that when the prior-year divestment earnings of $7.5 billion – led by a $5.3 billion profit on a…
Read MoreShell companies in Nigeria, SCiN, have raked in revenues worth $69 billion into Federal Government’s coffer in four years, the Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, and country chair of Shell Companies in Nigeria, Mr Mutiu Sunmonu, has said. Sunmonu, who disclosed this, Thursday in Lagos, said the money represents taxes and royalties…
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