Senegal’s government has given the go-ahead to the development at its first oil project, the Sangomar offshore field, operated by Australia’s Woodside Petroleum. The start of production from the $4.2-billion Continue Reading
Paulin Bolumbu thought his family lived a safe distance from the Congo River, but in November the water overran its banks by more than half a kilometer, inundating his corrugated Continue Reading
Lower amounts of revenue might be available for sharing by the three tiers of government through the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) in the coming months as the cost borne Continue Reading
Nigeria’s oil sector may not get a much-needed revamp in 2020 as President Muhammadu Buhari’s state-led economic model will likely throttle reform and blunt efforts to increase oil production in Continue Reading
Nigeria, like the rest of the world, enters a new decade this new year, 2020; it’s the decade of the twenties!How Nigeria starts the new decade, that is, how it Continue Reading
One of the most spectacular stories of 2019 started off in the first days of the outgoing year. Some 150 kilometers off the Nigerian coast, the oil major Total and Continue Reading
The partners in Nigeria LNG (NLNG)—Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) (49%), Shell (25.6%), Total (15%) and Eni (10.4%)— have taken the final investment decision (FID) for the expansion project of Continue Reading
Nigeria’s planned Train-7 project, part of its expansion at the Bonny LNG plant, has received a full investment decision, operator Nigeria LNG said Friday. The project, expected to start up Continue Reading
The anti-graft agency, EFCC, says it now has a former justice minister, Mohammed Adoke, in its custody. Mr Adoke returned to Nigeria on Thursday from Dubai, where he was arrested, Continue Reading
Nigerian Environment Minister Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar poses for a picture in front of his country’s office at the U.N. climate conference in Madrid, December 11, 2019. Madrid — “If the Continue Reading
