An Indigenous player in the energy sector, Mr Victor Ekpenyong, has urged the federal government and oil firms to leverage on the expertise of Nigerian firms to check oil theft and increase oil production. Ekpenyong, who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
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BY JOY ADARA, Abuja – The group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPC) Malam Mele Kyari, has said the NNPC has nothing to hide and will comply with the request of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts. The disclosure by the NNPC CEO came in...
The weekly activities of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) started with a move by President Muhammadu Buhari to end crude oil theft in the country. To this end, Buhari ordered the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva and the Group Managing Director (GMD)...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPC) says there is over 1.6 billion litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) available for nationwide distribution. Malam Mele Kyari, NNPC Group Managing Director, made this known at the official unveiling of the Association of Distributors and Transporters of Petroleum Products (ADITOP) on...
The Federal Government says it is determined to stop the economic devastation occasioned by the activities of illegal refiners, pipeline vandalism and crude oil theft in the country. The Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, said this on Wednesday at Bonny Island, Rivers, while addressing officers of...
Aviation jet A1 fuel is to be sold at N500 within the next three days to prevent airlines from shutting down. This is according to the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari after a meeting with marketers, regulators and operators in the...
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipre Sylva, on Wednesday in Abuja updated the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on the availability of 1.9 billion litres of petrol. He said the quantity was enough to last the country for 32 days. Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mr Mele...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), formerly Nigerian National Corporation (NNPC) has expressed interest to participate in the acquisition of the power plants put up for sale by the Federal Government through the Nigeria Integrated Power Plants (NIPPs). Managing Director of NNPCL, Mallam Mele...
The scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, has refused to abate despite claims by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited that it has been releasing hundreds of millions of litres of petrol to address the situation. In its latest weekly national PMS evacuation report for February...
The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, says the Federal Government and regulatory authorities are making efforts to address fuel scarcity by ensuring that supply disruption is overcome. The minister made this known to newsmen on Thursday in Abuja after a meeting with some key leaders in...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NNPC) on Wednesday sealed a deal with partners on gas aggregation to increase local production of fertiliser in the country. The Gas Aggregation Agreement was signed in Abuja on the sideline of the ongoing fifth Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES 2022) with the...
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (NNPC) has commenced loading of trucks at all depots to clear current scarcity experienced across the country. It added that there was availability of 1.7 billion litres of petrol currently in stock. The NNPC, Group Managing Director, Malam Mele Kyari, made this known...
The Group Managing Director, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPC) Malam Mele Kyari, says the corporation is being transformed to be the fifth Gas producing company in the world. Kyari noted that NNPC was currently working on a platform that would create a hub of gas industries that would...
The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari, has said International oil companies are leaving Nigeria and shifting their portfolios to where they can add value to the journey towards carbon net-zero commitment, Mr Kyari said this in a speech at the 2022 Nigerian International...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) gave Nigerians especially those in the Niger Delta cheering news that it had achieved a 30 per cent reduction in gas flares across its operational areas over the last five years. The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, NNPC Ltd., Malam Mele...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited started its week with an assurance to Nigerians that the distribution of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) would soon normalise after it recalled the bad product imported into the country last week. The NNPC Group Executive Director (GED) Downstream, Adetunji Adeyemi, gave the...
…As NNPC CEO assures fuel queues will vanish in few days By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Hon. Abdullahi Mahmud Gaya has assured Nigerians that his Committee will handle companies who imported methanol-blended Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) into the country. The...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has reassured Nigerians of its capacity to restore sanity in the supply and distribution of quality Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol across the country within a short period. The Chief Executive Officer/ Group Managing...
Members of the House of Representatives have called on the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to suspend the four companies which recently imported adulterated fuel into the country. The lawmakers also mandated its committee on petroleum downstream to investigate the release and sale of the off-spec Premium Motor...