Oil & Gas

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) Joint Venture (JV) has appealed to its host communities to continue to create the enabling environment for sustainable business growth. Mr Igo Weli, the SPDC General Manager, External Relations, made the appeal on Thursday at the inauguration of 34 community projects …

POORLY-equipped and generally underfunded, Nigeria’s dysfunctional health system is taking a further hit from a mass exodus of medical doctors. This has led to a considerable loss of confidence in the sector. In fact, if there was any hope of improvement in the immediate future, that hope is now looking …

The President, Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Youth Wing, Worldwide, Comrade Louis Anidi, has said that the decision of the Deputy Senate President (DSP), Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, to attend the thanksgiving service of the Chairman of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Michael Diden, popularly known as Ejele, …

…Commends Buhari for appointment A very vibrant and popular group in the Niger Delta, the Urhobo Political Movement, UPM, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to be wary and ignore a few vociferous and corrupt group of persons who are opposed to the appointment of Mr. Bernard Okumagba as MD …

Governor Nyesom Wike had disclosed that the Rivers State Government had acquired 45 per cent of Shell Petroleum Development Company’s (SPDC) stake in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 11 oilfields. The governor said he had directed the state Ministry of Finance Incorporated to bid for the facility with $150 million supported …

The President-General, Obolo Youth Coalition (OYC), Mr Mkpon Ijonama, has condemned resolution by the Rivers State House of Assembly on the suspension of AMNI International Petroleum Development Company in Rivers. AMNI, a Federal Government licensed Independent Oil Exploration Company, operating in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers, has within 16 …

Residents of Polobubo (Teskelewu) Community, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta, have called on the three tiers of government to prevail on oil companies operating in the community to dredge inland waterways. They made the call at a peaceful protest in Polobubo, saying that this would save them from …

Unscrupulous people, described as crude oil thieves have set fire on an oil pipeline, belonging to Italian oil giant Agip at Ubeta community in the Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the field is operated by Nigeria Agip Oil Company, a …

Residents of Ubeta community, in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers states are in state of panicking as fire gutted an oil facility belonging to the Nigerian Agip Company in the community. It was gathered that the fire outbreak on the oil installation started on Thursday, even as the …

Barely one week after it met with SEPLAT Oil Company Limited to discuss the development of host communities, the executive of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, DESOPADEC, has also met with the management of another oil giant operating in Delta State, Heritage Oil Company Ltd at its …