Nigeria: Stakeholders Identify Challenges of Gas-to-Power Initiative

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The availability of power is an unavoidable catalyst to boost industrial activities for economic development.Nigeria’s electricity supply is dismal owing to institutional, legal, regulatory, gas pipeline vandalism and capital challenges. Despite having a gas reserve of over 190 Trillion Cubic Feet (TCF) with a proven reserve of 187 TCF, the abysmal generation of less than 4,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity … Read More

Amendment of NLNG Act Threatens $25b Prospective Investment

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Apart from the immediate relocation of investments in excess of $25 billion to other countries, Nigeria will also be opened to the risk of fines running into billions of dollars in International Courts if it amends the Nigeria LNG Acts, according to the Managing Director of Nigeria Liquiedfied Natural Gas (NLNG), Babs Omotowa. Omotowa said that Venezuela and Ecuador were … Read More

Key Stakeholders Target High Local Content in Zabazaba Project

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The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) and key stakeholders of the oil and gas industry have committed to achieving high Local Content levels in the Zabazaba development project. NAOC is developing the Zabazaba and Etan deep water integrated project in partnership with the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) on Oil … Read More

Gas Industry Must Invest in ‘New Energy Future’

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According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), regardless of the current bleak landscape of the Africa’s oil & gas industry, there is still hope for the sector to attract investors’ confidence. In the PwC Africa, oil & gas review, 2016 report the international advisory company states that in the face of global oil prices declining, the African continent still offers significant opportunities in the … Read More

Rethinking NNPC’s Oil Search in the North

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Having frittered away billions of naira of state funds in the search for crude oil in the north, the federal government (NNPC) should adopt the successful models used in the Niger Delta, Anambra and Dahomey Basins by incentivising oil companies to embark on exploratory activities in new frontiers. The Niger Delta, which largely dominates the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea, did … Read More

Crude Oil Price Gain Reversed on Nigeria, Iraq Supply Boost

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Oil retreated, halting the longest run of gains in four years as Iraq sought to increase exports amid a global oversupply and Nigerian militants called an end to hostilities.   Futures fell 3% in New York after climbing 16% the previous seven sessions. Iraq will boost crude shipments by about 5% in the next few days following an agreement to … Read More

Nigeria’s Oil Output Will Remain Low Into 2017 – U.S.

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Nigeria’s crude oil production is expected to remain depressed through 2017 as a result of militant attacks, the Energy International Administration, the statistical arm of the United States’ Energy Department, has said. The EIA, in a statement on its website, said the crude oil production disruptions in Nigeria reached 750,000 barrels per day in May 2016, the highest level since … Read More

Oil Production Drops by 29%, Against Projection – FG

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The Federal Government on Thursday revealed that the country’s crude oil production had dropped by 29 percent, as against the nation’s 2016 budget target of 2.2 million barrels per day, an indication that Nigeria’s current economic crisis might still linger for a longer time. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, who disclosed this at the national … Read More

OPEC’s Planned Oil Production Freeze Won’t be Potent

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Even if OPEC strikes a deal with Russia next month in Algiers to freeze oil production, success will mean a lot less than when they tried and failed four months ago. Oil has rallied more than 10% since the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said that it will hold an informal meeting in the Algerian capital, fanning speculation the group … Read More