Eyesan Urges Global Investors to Seize Opportunities in 2025 Licensing Round
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), has urged global investors to capitalise on opportunities…
Key players in the oil and gas industry reaffirm commitment to indigenous capacity
The Group Managing Director of NNPC Ltd., Mr Bayo Ojulari, has reaffirmed the company’s commitment to strengthening partnerships, building indigenous capacity, and promoting gas as a key driver of Africa’s industrialisation. Ojulari gave the assurance on Tuesday in Lagos at the 10th Sub-Saharan Africa International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (SAIPEC 2026). The conference, with the…
Eyesan Urges Global Investors to Seize Opportunities in 2025 Licensing Round
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), has urged global investors to capitalise on opportunities in Nigeria’s 2025 licensing round, emphasising that recent reforms under the Petroleum Industry Act 2021 provide a predictable, transparent, and investor-friendly framework for upstream development. The Commission Chief Executive, Mrs. Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, made this known at the opening of the…
Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo) Gets Award of Best Oil Development Project
The award highlights the company’s leadership in Nigeria’s deep-water sector, having commenced production in 2005 at Bonga field, Nigeria’s first development in water depths of more than 1,000 meters. There have been further developments in the field including the Bonga Northwest project which came on stream in 2015. The NIES award comes as work progresses…
Energy Expert Calls for Strategic Plan for Nigeria’s 3m bopd Oil Production Target*
An energy communication researcher, Dr. Adeola Yusuf, has called on President Bola Tinubu to demand strategic communication plans from oil producers and contractors, detailing phase-by-phase progress on the 3 million barrels oil production target set for 2030. Yusuf, who doubles as the Team Lead of Platforms Africa, made this call during a plenary session at…
NMDPRA condemns low pace of power generation in 20 years
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has condemned the slow progress made in the country’s electricity generation in the last 20 years, lamenting that it has only increased from 4,500MW to 5,000MW in two decades. In his regulatory address on the “National Gas Day: Unlocking Nigeria’s Gas Advantage for Power, Industry and…
NCDMB webinar unlocks AfCFTA market access for energy sector.
provides roadmap to $3.4tn continental market The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board has outlined a practical framework for positioning Nigeria’s energy sector to access the African Continental Free Trade Area, following a strategic webinar focused on meeting rules-of-origin requirements for continental trade. The Board held a pre-conference webinar on Wednesday ahead of the Nigeria…
NUPRC Boss identifies inconsistent regulations as bane of the oil and gas
The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, has emphasized the need for consistent and harmonized regulatory policies as a critical tool for attracting investments into the petroleum industry. According to Eyesan, investors are not deterred by African geology, but by inconsistent rules. Eyesan who was represented by Edu…
NNPCL Boss under fire over comment on Nation’s Refineries
The Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN) has criticised Bayo Ojulari, the group chief executive officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, over his comments about the Port Harcourt refinery. PETROAN asked the NNPC executive not to use the failure of the state-owned asset as a basis for praising…
State to bear cost of Electricity along with Federal govt -FG
State governments are now to bear the cost of electricity subsidy, along with the Federal Government, President Bola Tinubu, has directed. Vanguard gathered that funding for payment of the subsidy will now come from Power Assistance Consumers Fund, PCAF. PCAF is a government-backed financial pool designed to subsidise electricity bills for low-income and vulnerable households…
Dangote Group signs gas supply agreement with NNPC subsidiaries
Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) has signed gas supply agreements with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited for three of its subsidiaries. The move is said to be part of efforts to meet the growing energy needs of DIL’s expansion projects. The agreements, according to a statement on Sunday, were signed during the unveiling of…
