Category: Energy

By Inuwa Lawal.   Two years down the line after the engagement of Tantita Security Service, drastic reduction in crude oil theft , arrests and seizures as well as increase in crude oil production has been recorded.   This was the fall out of the end of year Award organised by the oil security outfit to engage stakeholders, security agencies and staff of the company held on Saturday.   In his address to mark the occasion, High Chief Keston Pondi praised Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative NEITI and Nigerian Upstream…

As reactions continue to thrill the announcement by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), that the Port Harcourt refinery has been activated for operation; a group of Civil Society Organisations has called for great caution.   The groups, under the aegis of Coalition for Accountability and Transparency in Energy Sector (CATES), said what the NNPCL was glorifying was not a full fledged refinery which Nigerians paid for.   In a statement on Wednesday by the Spokesperson of the Coalition, Dr. Linus Ikwur, the groups alluded that, despite the public…

Despite bickering between the Dangote Petrochemical Industry and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), a group of Nigerians in Diaspora has entertained fears that the leading regulatory agency might be secretly encouraging Dangote Refinery to be monopolistic in oil distribution in the country.   Dr. Donald Illiya, Global President of Nigerians in Diaspora Movement (NDM), in a statement signed Monday morning from London, United Kingdom, said the public faceoffs between the NNPCL and Dangote refinery is confusing, and might be to distract Nigerians, while the regulatory body encourages Dangote…