WHO’S WHO IN THE NIGERIAN OIL & GAS INDUSTRY

WHO’S WHO IN THE NIGERIAN OIL & GAS INDUSTRY

Who’s Who in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry makes available within one source, comprehensive information on Nigerian professionals and entrepreneurs who have and are making significant contribution to the growth and development of the industry.
Nigerian professionals have been contributing significantly to the development of the Nigerian industry since its modest beginnings to its present [...]

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Exploration Drops In Nigerian Deepwater

Exploration Drops In Nigerian Deepwater

Unlike Nigeria’s deepwater sector which has been hampered by a significant dip in the flow of investments, the volume of new oil reserves coming from the global industry has been on an upward trend since the 1990s and has become particularly significant in recent years.
From 2006 to 2009, yearly global deepwater discoveries in over 600ft [...]

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Six Cos Bidding for O&G Licenses Deutsche Presse-Agentur

At least six foreign companies have shown interest in obtaining licenses to explore and develop oil and gas fields in Mozambique, the National Petroleum Institute, said.
INP in a statement said it had just closed the fourth tender for the concession of potential areas for exploration and production of hydrocarbons in various regions of the country. [...]

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Egypt Mulls Reducing Rigs in Gulf of Suez after Spill

Egypt is studying reducing the number of oil rigs in the Gulf of Suez after a recent oil spill near the shores of the Red Sea city of Hurghada, a major international tourism destination.
“We are currently studying reducing the number of oil platforms in the Gulf of Suez,” Egyptian Oil Minister Sameh Fahmy said in [...]

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WHO’S WHO IN THE NIGERIAN OIL & GAS INDUSTRY

WHO’S WHO IN THE NIGERIAN OIL & GAS INDUSTRY

Who’s Who in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry makes available within one source, comprehensive information on Nigerian professionals and entrepreneurs who have and are making significant contribution to the growth and development of the industry.
Nigerian professionals have been contributing significantly to the development of the Nigerian industry since its modest beginnings to its present [...]

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Foster Wheeler Awarded  Contract for Cameroon LNG  Project Foster Wheeler AG

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for Cameroon LNG Project Foster Wheeler AG

Offshore CamroonFoster Wheeler announced that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by GDF SUEZ to carry out the pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) for the development of an onshore LNG plant and offshore gas gathering infrastructure.
The project seeks to establish a national gas transportation network linking Cameroon’s offshore gas resources with [...]

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Africa Oil Enters JV to Acquire South Omo Block Africa Oil Corp.

Ethiopia, Africa Oil has signed a Farmout Agreement and Joint Venture Agreement with Agriterra (formerly White Nile Ltd.) to acquire an 80% participating interest and operatorship of the South Omo Block in Ethiopia.
South Omo represents a new opportunity for Africa Oil to secure a highly prospective block in the Omo Rift Valley of south-western Ethiopia. [...]

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Congo Declines to Ratify Key Tullow Oil Licenses

Congo’s government has declined to ratify U.K.-listed Tullow Oil’s licenses for two key oil exploration blocks, instead awarding them to companies owned by a relative of South African President Jacob Zuma.
The presidential decree from Kinshasa confirmed long-stalled licenses for some U.K. and African oil companies, but replaced Tullow and its partners with Caprikat Ltd. and [...]

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Kosmos, Tullow Continue Success Near Jubilee Field

Kosmos has completed appraisal drilling of Ghana’s southeast area of the Jubilee field. Gathered data from the Mahogany-5 appraisal well indicates it penetrated a total net oil pay of 23 meters in sandstone reservoirs over a gross interval of 51 meters. Reservoir fluid samples recovered 28 to 32 degree API oil, while pressure data confirms [...]

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NNPC-Chinese Refinery  Project for Lagos

NNPC-Chinese Refinery Project for Lagos

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in collaboration with a consortium of Chinese investors known as China State Engineering Construction Corporation, CSECC, has concluded plans to establish the first crude oil refinery and hydrocarbon industrial park in Lagos State with Lekki Greenfield Refinery as the flagship project.
Billy Agha, NNPC’s Group Executive Director, Engineering and Technical Services, [...]

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Court Awards N15.4 billion Damages Against Shell

A Federal High Court in Asaba, Delta State, has awarded N15.4 billion as special and punitive damages against Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, SPDC for an oil spill in Ejama-Ebubu community of Rivers State in 1970. The spill which affected an area of 255.369 hectares occurred in 1970, the suit was instituted in 2001.
The [...]

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CWC Group Launches NCI, a Nigerian Company

The CWC Group, experts in energy and infrastructure, has established a Nigerian Company based in Lagos  Nigeria CWC Investments, NCI.
NCI will look after CWC’s operations in Nigeria including Conferences, Exhibitions and School for Energy courses.
Nigeria Content has always been a priority for CWC. Having held ten editions of the Nigeria Oil & Gas (NOG), described [...]

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