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Deputy Governor’s Wife To Boost Engineering Sector In Delta

Posted by admin on Tuesday, 30 June 2015 in Energy Today 2078 Reads

BY DAVID OBES THE wife of the Delta State Deputy Governor, Engr. (Mrs) Ebierin Otuaro has assured Deltans that they have been called to serve and move Delta State to the next and higher level, adding that she will use her profession as an engineer to boost the engineering sector in Delta State. Engr. Otuaro, who gave ...

WED 2015: Chevron Partners with Others to Supports Sustainable Environment

Posted by admin on Tuesday, 30 June 2015 in Energy Today 1561 Reads

In most part of Nigeria, June is the month of the rains. It is also the month when the world celebrates the World Environment Day (WED). This June, as the world celebrated another WED, I decided to visit the Lekki Conservation Center (LCC) - 78 hectares of pristine forest in the heart of the concrete ...

Adebawo Receives Integrity Award, Speaks on CNL Social Investments

Posted by admin on Tuesday, 30 June 2015 in Energy Today 2119 Reads

By Tejiri Ebikeme, Chevron Nigeria Limited’s (CNL) corporate value of integrity was celebrated recently when the organizers of the Emerging African Leaders Integrity Award (EALA), a non-governmental organization, honoured Mr. Sola Adebawo, CNL’s Communications Manager with the Emerging African Leaders Pinnacle Award on account of what the organizers described as his “impeccable achievements towards the development ...

MARITIME WORKERS CRIPPLE SAIPEM OPERATIONS IN WARRI

Posted by admin on Friday, 26 June 2015 in Energy Today 1632 Reads

By Tejiri Ebikeme Hundreds of workers under the umbrella of Dock Workers and Seafarers of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) Delta Port Warri today crippled the operations of Saipem Contracting Nigeria Limited in the NPA Warri Port premises. The worker led by their Union executives barricaded the entrance to the company yard as early as ...

WARRI REFINERY BEGINS PRODUCTION IN TWO WEEKS … To Produce 4.6m Litres Per Day Of Petrol, As 11 Ships With Fuel Arrive Lagos, Others Expected

Posted by admin on Thursday, 18 June 2015 in Energy Today 957 Reads

By Our Correspondent Succour may finally have come for Nigerians, after months of harrowing experiences occasioned by the ongoing scarcity of petroleum products, particularly petrol across the country. Strong indications emerged Tuesday, that the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) would within a fortnight begin production at 50 per cent installed capacity. Our investigation revealed that the first ...

Senate President prioritises Petroleum Industry Bill passage

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 17 June 2015 in Energy Today 837 Reads

By Our Correspondent, Nigerian Senate President Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has reassured Nigerians that the eight Senate will work towards ensuring the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). Saraki made the promise today, Wednesday, June 17, while hosting the Managing Director, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Osagie Okunbor and his team in his office in Abuja. He ...

Shell sells Warri airport to indigenous oil firm

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 17 June 2015 in Energy Today 957 Reads

Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria has sold the multibillion naira Warri airport to an indigenous energy and infrastructure company, Shoreline Energy International Limited, it has been learnt. Shoreline Energy International took full possession of the facility in April, sources at the Warri airport confirmed. The sale of the airport was said to be part of ...

FUEL SCARCITY: Etoromi Blames Nation’s Woes On Cabals…Calls for Removal of Subsidy

Posted by admin on Monday, 15 June 2015 in Energy Today 924 Reads

Francis Sadhere/Christopher Odamah As the nation continue to groan under the pervasive fuel crisis that has brought economic activities into a standstill, a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief (Col.) Etoromi Satchie (Rtd) has blamed the nation’s woo on the activities of some few ‘cabals’ who he said are trying to frustrate the good ...

OIL FIRM IN DELTA ACCUSED OF INCITING VIOLENCE AMONG HOST COMMUNITIES

Posted by admin on Tuesday, 19 May 2015 in Energy Today 1123 Reads

By Ovedhe Jerry YAYOROGBENE COMMUNITY has accused Tenoil Petroleum and EnergyServices Limited of inciting conflict among host communities in Ekorooil well OPL281 operations, saying that the company was adoptingdivide and rule in it ongoing negotiations and that may likely tocreate avoidable tension in the area. Addressing news conference in WARRI, A community leader Comr Austin Ozobo told newsmen ...

OIL SURVEILLANCE CONTRACTS: IJAW GROUP WANTS URHOBO EX-MILITANTS INCORPORATED’

Posted by admin on Tuesday, 19 May 2015 in Energy Today 1014 Reads

By Ovedhe Jerry AN Ijaw group, under the aegis of Ijaw People's Development Initiative ,IPDI, has called on the federal government to immediately approved the demand for inclusion of oil surveillance contracts by Urhobo ex-militants as same was currently enjoyed by their counterparts in the Niger Delta region. In a news briefing Comrade Austin Ozobo who is the president of the group ...

EMPLOYMENT OF WELDERS, FITTERS: PREVAIL ON CONTRACTORS TO AVOID CRISIS, COMMUNITIES TELL CHEVRON

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 13 May 2015 in Energy Today 1779 Reads

By Our Correspondent, Members of the Gbaramatu/Egbema Host Communities Welders and Fitters (Escravos) have implored Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) to prevail on its contractors to obey the Nigerian Local Content Law by engaging more local unemployed professionals in order to avoid crippling of its Escravos Tank Farm, flow stations and Offshore fields. In a letter dated May ...

ASFOGAPCOM CALLS FOR NEW POLCY FRAME WORK ON HOSTCOMS, DECENTRALISATION OF DESOPADEC

Posted by admin on Friday, 08 May 2015 in Energy Today 893 Reads

Oghenetejiri Nyerhovwo The Federal government ,multi -national oil/gas companies, stakeholders as well as government agencies responsible for the formulation of policies have been called upon to draw up a new policy frame work that would serve as guide for the effective administration/handling of host communities related issues in the country just as a call has been ...

CEPEJ Urges Buhari To Tackle Environmental Issues In Niger Delta Region

Posted by admin on Thursday, 07 May 2015 in Energy Today 1413 Reads

Francis Sadhere The Center For Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), a Niger Delta based Non-Governmental Organisation, today, urged the incoming government of the President-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd), to tackle environmental issues with all seriousness, saying successive governments have played lip services to issues of environment, especially in the oil rich Niger Delta region. Comrade Sheriff ...

Any One Caught Bypassing Electricity Meters Will Be Prosecuted – Gbiwen

Posted by admin on Tuesday, 05 May 2015 in Energy Today 1975 Reads

By Franics Sadhere Nigerians have be warned to refrain from the habit of illegally bypassing their meters as anybody caught will be made to face the full wrath of the law, says Mr. Edmond Gbiwen, Corporate Affairs Officer, Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), Warri, Delta State. Mr. Edmund Gbiwen Mr. Gbiwen who gave this warning in an ...

SPDC, Onobrakpeya Foundation Train 60 Young Niger Delta Artists

Posted by admin on Thursday, 30 April 2015 in Energy Today, Entertainment 2006 Reads

By Francis Sadhere As part of its efforts to bring succor to Niger Delta Youths, the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, in partnership with a Non- Governmental Foundation, Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation, have trained 60 Delta youths from six states of the region in various art skills. The graduating students in a group photograph with the three ...

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