The Bayelsa State Government has allocated 595 hectares of land for the proposed Brass fertilizer company in Odioma Kingdom in Brass Local Government Area of the state. This was as the government also hinted that the bush clearing at the site of the said project has commenced in earnest. The …
Read More »NPA Intensifies Effort to Resolve PTOL, Importers’ Tariff ‘Crisis’
Management of the Rivers Port, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has intensified efforts to see an end to the face-off between the Port Terminal Operators Limited (PTOL), one of our terminal operators at the port, and importers and shipping agents using its services. This became known as the leadership of the …
Read More »Cluster Board Lauds SPDC, Knocks NAOC over Projects, GMoU
By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Kolo Creek Cluster Development Board, KCDB, an SPDC funded cluster in the Ogbia council area of Bayelsa State, have lauded the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, SPDC, on its execution of projects and implementation of terms entered in its GMoU with community members of …
Read More »Natural Gas: Nigeria’s Reserve Hits 206.53tcf, Targets 220tcf by 2030 ~ DPR
By Joel Anekwe Nigeria’s Natural Gas Reserve has risen to 206.53 trillion cubic feet (tcf), the Department of Petroleum Resources DPR has announced, describing it as a development showing that the country’s declaration of the gas decade is on course. Sarki Auwalu, managing director and CEO of the Department of …
Read More »NLNG Train 7 to Transform Nigeria to Gas, Industrialised Country ~ Buhari
By Joel Anekwe Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Train 7 project is a big enabler of his administration’s plan to transform Nigeria into a major gas and industrialised nation. The President stated this at the ground breaking of the Train 7 LNG project …
Read More »PMB Urges Cost Reduction to Keep Oil Sector Competitive Against Renewable Energy
By Joel Anekwe As the world forges ahead with energy transition to reduced dependence on fossil fuel, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has called for a cost reduction strategy to make the exploration and production of crude oil more competitive and attractive to investors. The President who was represented at the …
Read More »NLNG Signs GMoU with 3 Rivers Communities on Sustainable Development
By Joel Anekwe The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) has signed Global Memoranda of Understanding (GMoU) with three communities in Rivers State that would enable the communities “take ownership and drive sustainable community development” with the active support of the company. NLNG announced the first phase of the new …
Read More »NLNG Commissions New 126,060sqm Head Office in PH
By Joel Anekwe The new head office of the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) in Port Harcourt was officially opened for operations on Wednesday. This was as the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, dismissed as “conspiracy” the narrative that the region was not safe for business. Speaking at the occasion, …
Read More »Twon Brass Monarch, Diete-Spiff, ‘Flees’ as Community Continues Protest at Agip Premises
The Twon Brass community in Bayelsa, hosts to Agip’s Crude Export Terminal has continued ongoing protests against lingering power outage in the settlement, while shunning entreaties from their monarch, King Alfred Diete-Spiff. Our correspondent gathered that the people alleged that the monarch was complicit in several efforts by Agip to …
Read More »Federal Lawmaker Urges Bayelsans to Embrace Cooperative Societies
By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa The lawmaker representing Sagbama/Ekeremor Federal Constituency Hon. Fred Agbedi, has urged Bayelsans to embrace cooperative societies. Agbedi made the call at an event organized by the Alliance of South South States Cooperatives Financing Agencies of Nigeria (ASSSCOFAN) held in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. “This is a …
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