Nigeria’s gas producers threatened to declare force majeure over the inability of Generation Companies (Gencos) to settle outstanding arrears of over $630m for supplying gas to its power plants, reported Nigeria...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) announced it has received 128 bids from companies that are interested in swapping processed fuel for 800,000b/d of unrefined crude in 2017, reported Ecofin Agency. NN...
African Development Bank’s (AfDB) energy expert, Usman Gor Mohammed, was appointed to run Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), owned by Nigeria’s Power Ministry, in attempts to enhance the current power situat...
Newly built Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) vessels, MT Africa Gas and MT Sahara Gas, are set to commence operations that will see them berth in Houston, US, to convey their first ever consignment of gas expected to be ...
The price of Nigeria’s Bonny Light crude oil increased to $53.91 per barrel in December 2016, up from $42.20 in November, a difference of $11.71. This is the second highest among the Organization of the Petroleum Expo...
Eland Oil & Gas finalized its export option for the Opuama field in Nigeria; the crude will be exported by ships. Production from the field has restarted into the main storage vessel and the shuttle vessel will sh...
Nigeria’s Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, said that the country is capable of producing 3mb/d of crude from the Niger Delta region. In line with that, he also added: “It is important we cont...
West African oil producers, led by Nigeria and Angola, are expected to send the most crude to Asia in January in at least five years, the latest sign of how refineries in the world’s biggest demand region are scouring...
Nigeria has shipped a 141,000cm liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo to REN’s Sines LNG import terminal on Portugal’s Atlantic coast, reported LNG World News. The Portuguese LNG terminal located in the industrial area of...
Nigeria’s Trans Forcados pipeline, which feeds Shell’s 400,000b/d export terminal and was shut down for most of 2016, is likely to be reopened around the end of the second quarter of 2017, according to Seplat Pe...