The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, yesterday said Nigeria was working towards meeting its Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) crude oil production quota of 1.8 million bpd by the end of May 2023. A statement released by the Senior Adviser, Media and Communications to the minister, Horatius
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has been called upon to publish the traded volumes, payments received by government and status of outstanding liabilities owed the federation from its oil-for-product swap deals with oil and gas commodity trading companies particularly between 2010 and 2014. Policy Alert, a civil society organisation
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The observations could illuminate how supermassive black holes feed and grow. Earlier this year, astronomers were keeping tabs on data from the Zwicky Transient Facility, an all-sky survey based at the Palomar Observatory in California, when they detected an extraordinary flash in a part of the sky where no such light
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Researchers at Princeton and Rice universities have combined iron, copper, and a simple LED light to demonstrate a low-cost technique that could be key to distributing hydrogen, a fuel that packs high amounts of energy with no carbon pollution. The researchers used experiments and advanced computation to develop a technique using
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For something that emits no light that we can detect, black holes just love to cloak themselves in radiance. Some of the brightest light in the Universe comes from supermassive black holes, in fact. Well, not actually the black holes themselves; it's the material around them as they actively slurp down
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In furtherance of their corporate social responsibilities to communities, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, TotalEnergies Upstream Nigeria Limited, operator of OML 130, and partners have built and handed over a mammography centre to the General Hospital, Onitsha, Anambra State. The mammography centre will provide patients access to effective technologically
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The UK government has blocked the sale of British chip manufacturer Newport Water Fab to a Chinese-owned company on national security grounds. UK Business Secretary Grant Shapps has ordered Nexperia to sell its majority stake in Newport Wafer Fab, the Welsh semiconductor firm it acquired for £63m. Nexperia is based in the
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In the race to achieve net zero by 2050, green hydrogen could be a game changer for transport. As the global aviation industry reeled from the impact of Covid-19, with thousands of jets grounded and passenger numbers down by 60 per cent, a bold initiative began at the Aerospace Technology Institute
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The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited has confirmed improvement in key crude oil transportation pipelines, insisting that its production has not been impacted by the massive flooding in the Niger Delta. NLNG spokesperson, Andy Odeh, confirmed that the success was recorded after the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited increased
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Dangote Cement said it launched a circular economy programme, called ‘DangCi rcular’. The new initiative aims to promote recycling and reuse of scarce resources in society to decrease land filling and generate wealth as a donation to environmental sustainability. A statement issued by the cement company stated that DangCircular was rolled
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