African Refinery Group (ARG), a midstream oil and gas company in Nigeria, has commenced the revamping of the Bonny Export Terminal (BET) facilities located in the Port Harcourt Refinery. Bonny Export Terminal (BET) comprises the onshore facilities adjourning the Port Harcourt Refining Company, a Nigerian oil and gas company that refines crude oil into petroleum…
Nigeria’s cost of producing crude oil has risen to about $40 per barrel, a report by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission has said. This is 300 per cent higher than the cost of producing the same crude in Saudi Arabia, which is $10 per barrel. According to the NUPRC, rising production costs, coupled with…
Two cargoes of jet fuel, averaging about 130 million litres, have been exported from Nigeria to Saudi Arabia by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery. Coming on the backdrop of projection by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) that the 650,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery would disrupt the global crude and product market, President of…
The West African Gas Pipeline Company Limited (WAPCo), owner and operator of the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) is scheduled to undertake major pipeline maintenance activities from February 5 to March 2, 2025. These activities include the pigging and the in-line inspection of the 569 km offshore pipeline infrastructure, from Ajido, Lagos State, Nigeria to…
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has sealed 19 illegal Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) and category D cooking gas outlets in Delta State. The Coordinator, NMDPRA in Delta, Victor Ohwodiasa, told journalists that the illegal gas outlets were sealed within the past two weeks. He said the illegal gas outlets were shut…
. Even though the Dangote refinery just lowered its fuel prices, drivers might not see cheaper petrol right away due to existing stock. This is the position of the Petroleum Products Retail Outlet Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN) According to the Chairman of PETROAN, Billy Gillis-Harris, though Dangote refinery has reduced its wholesale petrol price…
The Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), which ushered in the full deregulation of the nation’s oil & gas sector conferred on NNPC the critical role of the supplier of the last resort. In practical terms, what this means is that at any point in time when there are discrepancies in the supply chain of petroleum products,…
In a bold move to drive economic relief for Nigerians, Dangote Petroleum Refinery has reduced the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, from N950 to N890 per litre, effective from Saturday This price adjustment is in response to favourable developments in the global energy sector and a significant decline in…
The Petroleum Products Retail Outlet Owners Association of Nigeria says its members are now loading petroleum products from the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries. This is contrary to previous doubts that the refineries owned by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited were not fully operational. spokesman for the association, Joseph Obele, disclosed this in a…
A leading gas and power portfolio company in sub-Saharan Africa, Axxela Limited, has received gas distribution licences for its subsidiary companies, Gaslink Nigeria Limited, and Central Horizon Gas Company Limited, from the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) to support expansion opportunities and deepen domestic gas utilisation in the country. The licences, awarded…
