A complaint against TotalEnergies by two associations for “war crimes complicity” for allegedly helping produce fuel for Russian warplanes that have bombed Ukraine has been shelved by prosecutors. The France-based Darwin Climax Coalition and Ukrainian group Razom We Stand filed the complaint in October, faulting TotalEnergies for a stake in a firm
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The Chairman of the Special Investigative Panel on Crude Oil Theft/Losses, Maj Gen Barry Ndiomu (rtd), has said that the panel will not be afraid to identify and expose those involved in the economic sabotage. He stated this when he led the members of the panel on a courtesy visit to
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The Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has announced plans to drill the first oil well in Nassarawa State in March 2023 in continuation of its oil exploration activities in the country’s inland basins. Group chief executive officer of the company, Mallam Mele Kyari, who disclosed this when the governor of
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The federal government has put seven deep offshore oil blocks on offer, calling on investors globally to bid for them. The Commission Chief Executive, Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, NUPRC, Engr. Gbenga Komolafe, announced this on Wednesday during a press briefing in Abuja. Engr. Komolafe said, this is the first time a
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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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Kogi State has received its first derivation allocation as an oil-producing state. Governor Yahaya Bello disclosed this during the State Executive Council meeting on Thursday, assuring the people of the determination of his administration to continue to record more wins for Kogites. He said his administration had recorded many giant strides in the
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The Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has backed the decision of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to cut two million barrels of crude oil production, saying that it was a unanimous one. The decision taken by OPEC and its partners in their last meeting at the
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The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has disclosed that the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, upon which the hope of the nation rests for fuel sufficiency is now 97 percent completed. The agency has also commended the work done in the project. The refinery, with 650,000 barrels per-day installed capacity
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The Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has said feedgas and market constraints remained an impediment toward Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) popularly called cooking gas supply into the domestic market. This was as it said the company was committed to supply 100 percent of all its LPG production (butane and propane) to the
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Experts in the public policy think-tank – Nextier SPD – has declared that the biggest culprits responsible for the financial losses incurred by Nigeria due to crude oil theft, are the nation’s political and economic elite. The experts also said that the award of pipeline protection contracts to non-state actors is
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