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NNPC/CHEVRON DEWORMS 80,000 CHILDREN IN DELTA

Posted by admin on Tuesday, 28 October 2014 in Energy Today 1732 Reads

Tejiri Ebikeme The NNPC/Chevron Joint Venture on today flagged off its mass de-worming program for children in Delta State targeted at over 80,000 under-12 school children with a ceremony that took place at State School Cavegina Primary School Warri. Govt and Chevron Reps administering the drugs to children First lady of the State, Mrs. Roli Sheila Uduaghan, ...

NNPC/CHEVRON GMoU Lifts Rivers Community With N530m Projects

Posted by admin on Friday, 24 October 2014 in Energy Today 1866 Reads

Tejiri Ebikeme Kula Regional Development Committee (KRDC) under the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) with the NNPC/Chevron Joint Venture in Rivers State, on Friday October 24, 2014 commissioned 30 housing units worth over 530 million naira, executed by the RDC in Kula communities, Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State. The project incorporates distribution of low-tension electricity ...

Chevron Wins CIPM Awards

Posted by admin on Monday, 20 October 2014 in Energy Today 2177 Reads

By Tejiri Ebikeme Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the NNPC/Chevron Joint Venture, has won the 2014 edition of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) of Nigeria’s Human Resources (HR) Best Practice Awards in the Oil & Gas category and the Overall category. L-R: Mr. Deji Haastrup, General Manager, Policy, Government & Public Affairs, Chevron ...

PERSISTANT KEROSENE SCARCITY – WHAT HOPE FOR THE MASSES

Posted by admin on Monday, 13 October 2014 in Energy Today 1794 Reads

Zik Gbemre With all the present administration’s effort to make kerosene available to Nigerians, the product seems to be beyond the ordinary people. For over a decade now, Nigerians have been grappling with the problems of shortage of kerosene (also known as Dual Purpose Kerosene-DPK), and the high cost of the product when available. The same ...

REVIVAL OF STEEL INDUSTRY – PANACEA FOR NIGERIA’S UNEMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIALIZATION PROBLEMS

Posted by admin on Thursday, 09 October 2014 in Energy Today 4757 Reads

Zik Gbemre When it was reported recently that the Iron and Steel Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ISSSAN) said that the “death” of the steel industry in the country, aggravated the nation’s unemployment rate, we could not help but totally agree with this statement because Nigeria’s economy, which has been driven by oil and gas wealth ...

AYIRI TAKES KEROSENE TO RIVERINE COMMUNITIES IN DELTA AT 50K PER LITRE …subsidized product with over #60m

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 08 October 2014 in Energy Today 1569 Reads

By Our Correspondent A Niger Delta youth activist, Chief Ayiri Emami has commenced his one-week programme of the sales of kerosene to some Itsekiri and Ijaw riverine communities in Delta State, saying that he did it to alleviate the suffering of his people. The social crusader who said he has subsidized the product to the tune of ...

Welders, Fitters Set for Showdown with Chevron

Posted by admin on Monday, 06 October 2014 in Energy Today 1297 Reads

By Our Correspondent MEMBERS of the Gbaramatu/Egbema Host Communities Welders and Fitters (ESCRAVOS) have threatened a total show down with Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) over ten of their colleagues laid off by the Company. In a letter dated October 2, 2014 to the Warri Area Manager of CNL, the chairman of the Gbaramatu/Egbema Host Communities Welders and ...

CHEVRON MD COMMENDS PARTNERSHIP EFFORTS FOR NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT

Posted by admin on Friday, 03 October 2014 in Energy Today 1621 Reads

By Tejiri Ebikeme Chairman/Managing Director, Chevron Nigeria Limited, Mr. Clay Neff has commended the Foundation for Partnership Initiative for Niger Delta (PIND) for its commitment to establishing and encouraging innovative multi-stakeholder partnerships that support programs for community empowerment, economic growth and peaceful co-existence in the region. Mr. Clay, who is also the Chairman, Board of Trustees of ...

SHELL AND ITS TRAIL OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA

Posted by admin on Monday, 22 September 2014 in Energy Today 1655 Reads

Zik Gbemre When it comes to the very lucrative extractive industry of oil and gas exploration and production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, which Royal Dutch Shell has spear-headed in Nigeria for over 50 years now, nothing has been more devastating and disturbingly-pronounced than the adverse environmental degradation often left behind by this economic venture. The environmental degradation ...

DSC MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO RUST AWAY FOREVER – ONUESOKE

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 10 September 2014 in Energy Today 1977 Reads

Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in 2007 and Country Director of Network for Good Governance (N4GG), Chief Sunny Onuesoke is vexed over the rustic nature of the Delta Steel Company (DSC), Ovwian-Aladja and in this interview he grated to the crew of National Reformer Newspaper of Tejiri Ebikeme and Francis Sadhere, he ...

DESOPADEC COMMISSIONS DREDGER, GAMES VILLAGE,OXYGEN GENERATING PLANT, OTHERS IN KOKO

Posted by admin on Monday, 08 September 2014 in Energy Today 1248 Reads

Nyerhovwho Oghenetejiri Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) has commissioned multi-billion naira completed projects in Koko, headquarters of Warri North Local Government Area under the Dr. Emmanuel Uduagha led administration. Hon. Michael Diden a.k.a Ejele, Commissioner representing Itsekiri Ethnic nationality on the Board of the Commission did the inauguration on behalf of Mr. Oritsuwa Kpogho, ...

IPMAN Directs Members to Open Filling Stations, Says They are Not Part of NUPENG Strike

Posted by admin on Friday, 05 September 2014 in Energy Today 1000 Reads

By Francis Sadhere The Independent Petroleum Markets of Nigeria (IPMAN), Warri Chapter, has directed its members to open their filling stations for sales of fuel, saying that its members were not part of the strike by the Independent Petroleum Markets of Nigeria (IPMAN), Warri Chapter. Chairman of IPMAN, Warri Chapter, Chief Akpos Edafevwotu told our reporter that ...

SHELL TO SELL FOUR MORE OIL FIELDS IN NIGERIA – THE NEED TO ENGAGE INDIGENOUS HOST LOCALS AS PARTNERS OF ASSETS SOLD

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 03 September 2014 in Energy Today 1964 Reads

By Zik Gbemre Now that it has become public that SHELL Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria has concluded plans to sell four of its oil fields in Nigeria (OMLs 18, 24, 25, 29 and the Nembe Creek Trunk Line), precisely in SPDC’s Eastern Operations of Rivers and Bayelsa States Nigeria, as part of its $15 ...

OROGUN COMMUNITIES SHUT ERHOIKE FLOWSTATION, NPDC LOSING ESTIMATED 44,880BPD

Posted by admin on Thursday, 28 August 2014 in Energy Today 2607 Reads

Nyerhovwo Oghenetejiri Protesting Oil and Gas Orogun Communities at Erhoike Flowstation, they shut in 44,880barrel per day production Protesting Oil and Gas people of Orogun Communities numbering well over 2000 made up of men, women, youths, chiefs, leaders among others have shut down production on Oil Mining Lease, OML, 30 grounding activities at the flow station ...

COAL IMPORTATION FROM SOUTH AFRICA: STOP THAT MOVE NOW, NIGERIANS TELL FG

Posted by admin on Monday, 25 August 2014 in Energy Today 1648 Reads

By Our Correspondent NIGERIANS have urged the Federal Government to stop move by some Nigerian firms and others to import coal from South Africa for power generation in the country. Indications had emerged that some Nigerian firms and others had concluded plans to import coal from South Africa for power generation. ZIK GBEMRE But a human Rights Activist ...

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