•Bayo OjuÂlari The Group Chief Executive OffiÂcer of NNPC Limited, Bayo OjuÂlari, has given the current output of oil and gas production in the country to be in the threshold of 1.7 million barrels per day, with a possibility to increase further by 2026. Ojulari, who met with PresÂident Bola Tinubu, yesterday, shortly before he […]...
•Oil rigs/platforms President Bola Tinubu has directed all holders of dormant oil assets across the country to immediately reactivate them to ramp up dwindling crude oil production and crude oil revenue. The directive was conveyed to oil and gas operators by the Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, yesterday, at the...
•Deji Adeyanju A human rights lawyer and activist, Comrade Deji Adeyanju, has raised concerns over the killings of personnel and officers of Tantita Security Services Ltd, a private security firm dedicated to safeguarding Nigeria’s vital oil pipelines and critical infrastructure. Adeyanju, who spoke yesterday in Abuja, noted that these acts no...
•Police Tensions in Rivers State have escalated as a militant group, the Niger Delta Rescue Movement, threatened to attack oil installations in response to the ongoing political crisis and the alleged withholding of the state’s federal allocation. The group also issued a warning to non-indigenes in the state, urging them to leave for their saf...
Youths from Ogoniland in Rivers State have expressed willingness to accept the proposed resumption of oil production in their area, provided that all stakeholders are included in the negotiation process. Under the National Youth Council of Ogoni People (NYCOP), the youths also urged the federal government to exonerate the late Ken Saro-Wiwa an...
Concerned civil society organisations in the Niger Delta have described as insensitive the intention of the government to resume oil production in Ogoniland. The CSOs met at the Port Harcourt office of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria to deliberate on the recent invitation by the office of the National Security Adviser ...
•Niger Delta ex-militants Communities in the Niger Delta have threatened to cripple oil production in the region if the federal government continues to remain adamant over the growing clamour for the release of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu has remained in a solitary confinement at the [&h...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) and FIRST Exploration and Petroleum Development Company Limited (FIRST E&P) Joint Venture has announced the commencement of oil production from the Madu Field in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 85. OML 85 is in the shallow waters offshore Bayelsa State (Nigeria), with FIRST E&P as opera...

