Chevron Nigeria spent $3.6 billion on Nigeria content in 2015 as part of its commitment to the Local Content Act which is aimed at developing local capacity, boosting local economies and creating job opportunities. The company said in its 2015 Corporate Responsibility Report that it consistently reserves significant portions of job scopes to benefit indigenous companies and community contractors from … Read More
Economic Recession and the Petroleum Industry
The Nigerian economy has slipped into recession. The evidence is showing up in all the usual ways: slowing output growth, slumping purchasing-manager indexes, widening credit spreads, declining corporate earnings, falling inflation expectations, receding capital investment and rising inventories. The economic recession in the country has been blamed on the decline in crude oil prices, which led to reduction in the … Read More
Oil Service Firms Face $110 Billion Debt
The worst may be yet to come for some strained oil services companies as $110 billion in debt, most of it junk rated, creeps closer to maturity. More than $21 billion of debt from oilfield services and drilling companies is estimated to be maturing in 2018, almost three times the total burden in 2017, according to a report from Moody’s … Read More
Ghana Pass Petroleum Industry Bill into Law
Ghana’s Parliament has given its approval to the Petroleum Production and Exploration Bill on. The law, which will regulate the nation’s oil sector, comes 9 years after Ghana discovered oil. Emmanuel Kofi Buah, Energy Minister, said that even though the PNDC Law 84 which had regulated the industry has been helpful, the new phase the nation has entered in terms … Read More
Transparency, Critical to Overcoming Oil and Gas Sector Challenges.
Nigeria heavily relies on revenue derived from the oil and gas sector. Currently, oil and gas provide the highest external income to the 36 states government that make up the federation but it contributes less than 40 per cent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). As vital as this sector is to the economy, it is constantly bedeviled … Read More
Oil & Gas Industry Records 26 Percent Job Cut Globally
Data obtained from the United States, US, Energy Information Administration, EIA, has put the continued decline of employment in the oil and natural gas production across the world at 26 percent between 2014 and 2016. The report, which captured between October 2014 and May 2016, stated that employment in oil and gas production reached a height of 538,000 jobs in … Read More