Why Private Refineries Fail to Take Off

THE Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, has attributed the failure of private investors to build refineries in the country to lack of crude oil and absence of funding. The agency said most of the investors licensed in 2003, were not satisfied with the federal government’s position that they would …

New Gas Price Regime Soon

THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, have advised manufacturers using gas to prepare for a deregulated gas price mechanism. The new regime may be introduced before the implementation of the Nigerian Gas Transportation …

Fuel Scarcity Petering Out

For about a week, Nigerians across the country experienced fuel shortage which caused long queues at filling stations, but just as promised by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, coordinating minister of economy, the situation appears to be getting better as the week progresses …

NNPC Moves to End Diversion of Kerosene

THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and the Coalition of Grassroots Non-Governmental Organisation, CGN, have set up a 15-man team to monitor the sale of kerosene product. The development followed continued diversion of kerosene by the independent marketers of petroleum …

FG Owes Major Oil Marketers N250 Billion

THE Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, has decried the non-payment of an outstanding N250 billion subsidy claims for 2014. Obafemi Olawore, executive secretary, MOMAN, said the outstanding N250 billion claims include accumulated interest and foreign exchange differentials. He …

NNPC to Sanction Fuel Hoarders

THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and its downstream subsidiary, the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, PPMC, has blamed the sudden fuel queues experienced in filling stations in Lagos, to the ongoing construction of Apapa road and its associated traffic gridlock. The NNPC …

DPR Goes Digital in Granting Oil Permits

The Department of Petroleum Resources is to eliminate delays and ensure that granting of oil and gas licence or permit takes only 70 hours through its newly launched digital portal. It has also threatens to sanction marketers who sell kerosene above the official price of N50 …

The Rift that Never Was

– Ohi Alegbe, group general manager, group public affairs division, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, dismisses media reports insinuating that there […]

NNPC, Everybody’s Butt

– More organisations have joined in whistle-blowing against the failure of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to remit oil revenue […]