Foundation links kidney failure to gas flaring, soot

Mkpoikana Udoma 01 November 2018, Sweetcrude, Port Harcourt — Contaminated air arising from hydrocarbon exploitation and processing, such as gas flaring and soot, has been identified as parts of the contributors to increasing rate of kidney failures in the country. A non-governmental organisation known as Rekiff Kidney Support Foundation, made this known recently at a … More »

Libya adds 10,000 bpd by restarting three small eastern fields: NOC

01 November 2018, News Wires — Libya has reopened three small eastern oilfields closed since June due to fighting, adding some 10,000 barrels a day (bpd) of crude production, a spokesman for state oil firm NOC said on Wednesday. The fields were closed in June when an armed group attacked the eastern ports of Es Sider … More »

Wärtsilä divests its pumps business to Scandinavia’s Solix Group

01 November 2018, Sweetcrude, Lagos — The technology group Wärtsilä has divested its pumps business to Solix Group, a Scandinavian investment company with offices in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmö, Sweden. Wärtsilä Pumps has belonged to the Wärtsilä Marine Solutions organisation and became part of the company along with the acquisition of Hamworthy in 2012. The Wärtsilä … More »

Ogoni youths give oil firms ultimatum over unemployment

Mkpoikana Udoma 01 November 2018, Sweetcrude, Port Harcourt — A youth group known as Ogoni Youth Development Initiatives, says it gives companies operating in the area a one-month ultimatum to review their employment policy for the benefit of youths in Ogoniland or face mass protest. Ogoniland, which comprises of four Local Government Areas in Rivers … More »

Nigeria loses over N500bn to unremitted funds from 1999-2015

OpeOluwani Akintayo 01 November 2018, Sweetcrude, Lagos — Statistics from the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, have shown that Nigeria lost over N500 billion to unremitted oil funds from 1999 to 2015. A breakdown shows that $22.06 billion and N481.75 billion are yet to be remitted by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and Nigerian … More »

Cargo clearance: NPA urges agencies to play roles seamlessly

Sam Ikotuonye 01 November 2018, Sweetcrude, Lagos — The Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, says the greatest challenge to speedy cargo clearance at the nation’s seaports is to have agencies that are directly involved in cargo clearance play their respective roles seamlessly. Usman also said NPA should not be solely blamed for … More »

NSCDC liaising with DPR to contain fuel diversion

Mkpoikana Udoma 01 November 2018, Sweetcrude, Port Harcourt — The Rivers State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has stated that is liaising with the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, to contain fuel diversion and hoarding. Specifically, the state NSCDC commandant, Mohammed Haruna, said the cooperation between the two Federal Government … More »