President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that ending crude oil theft and vandalism of pipeline infrastructure remains critical for the growth of the oil and gas sector in the country. Buhari, represented by the Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva said this while addressing Joint Task Force Operation Delta Safe, in
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The Earth’s ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades due to the implementation of the Montreal Protocol, an UN-backed panel of experts has said. The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible
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Popular social media platform, Instagram, has announced new changes on its home screen, starting from February 2023. The Meta-owned platform, in an update, revealed that part of the changes would involve the removal of the ‘Shop’ tab from its home screen. The ‘Shop’ option allows people to easily purchase items from business
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A team of international scientists have developed ‘DeepLandforms’, an open-source, artificial-intelligence tool for planetary mapping. The team is formed by researchers from Constructor University in Bremen, Germany, the University of Padua, and the University of Bologna. Their goal was to improve the way in which the mapping of planetary landforms is currently
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Bill Gates is looking to West Virginia as he plans for the next phase of his effort to reboot U.S. nuclear energy technology: powering the east coast. Microsoft co-founder Gates, who visited a closed down coal-fired plant in Glasgow, West Virginia on Monday, said he needs to see how his Natrium
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The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has announced 139 business entities as having qualified for the next round of the Nigerian Gas Flare Commercialisation Programme (NGFCP) 2022. In a statement signed by the Chief Executive of the Commission, Mr Gbenga Komolafe, the oil and gas regulator stated that 300 bidders
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Despite being one of the most volatile sectors in terms of maintaining good industrial relations, Minister of State, Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, has intervened in critical times to ensure harmony in the country’s oil and gas sector. HEAT AND HARMONY To start with, not a few Nigerians expected some kind of implosion
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Virgin Orbit’s Start Me Up mission is scheduled to lift off at 10:16 pm GMT on Monday from Spaceport Cornwall, marking a historic day for the UK’s space sector. The UK’s first rocket launch from British soil is expected to take place on Monday, a few hours before midnight GMT, with additional
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Nigeria’s oil production in the month of December 2022 grew by 4.2 per cent month-on-month to 1.23 million barrels per day but remained significantly short of the 1.8 million barrels per day allocated to the country by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC. Latest oil production data released by Nigerian
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Continued investment in fossil fuels could cause over 40 per cent of the glacial mass to disappear by 2100, a new projection has shown. Even if global emissions targets are met, much of the planet’s glacial mass would still vanish, according to an international study led by Pittsburgh’s College of Engineering. Assistant
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