Tag: Oil And Gas

Port-Harcourt Refinery misses another deadline to begin production

Aminu Imam

Barely three weeks after Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd., (NNPCL), gave a two-week ultimatum, the Port-Harcourt Refinery, in Rivers State, is yet to commence production. Recall that on March 15, Kyari met the Senate ad hoc committee investigating various turn-around maintenance (TAM) projects of Nigerian refineries and assured that the Port-Harcourt Refinery would begin production in two weeks. He said, In the next two weeks, production will start. We did mechanical completion of Port Harcourt; that was what we said…

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APC Group Commends President Buhari On Oil And Gas Sector Reforms

Ishaku Yohanna

Godwin Amunde The APC Legacy Awareness and Campaign, a voluntary think-tank group of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari for its unprecedented performance in the oil and gas sector. This according to the group, is not unexpected considering that Buhari, as military officer,was the pioneer Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), between 1977 and 1978, which he combined with his role as Federal Commissioner of Petroleum and Natural Resources – one of the first public offices he held. The group emphasised…

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